Weeds and flowers beside Suzaku Bridge,
The sun sets at the entrance of Wuyi Lane.
In the old society, Wang Xieyan,
Fly into the homes of ordinary people.
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Suzaku: Jinling outside the bridge, Wuyi Lane beside the bridge.
Wuyi: Swallow, the former residence of Xie Wang, has many swallows in the imperial court.
, Wang Dao, Xie An, Jin Xiang, aristocratic families, talented people, all live in the alley, wearing tassels, is a giant room of the Six Dynasties (Wu, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Song Qi, Liang Chen have successively built their capitals to build health, which is now Nanjing). In the Tang dynasty, they all declined, and they didn't know their position.
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This is the second poem in Liu Yuxi's Five Topics of Jinling. Through the description of the sunset weeds and swallows changing owners, the poet profoundly shows the great changes in the past and present, and implies ridicule and warning to the rich and powerful families.
At the beginning of the poem, there are two sentences: "Weeds are in full bloom by the Suzaku Bridge, and the sun is setting at the corner of Wuyi Lane". Wuyi Lane is in the southeast of Nanjing today, on the south bank of Qinhuai River. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao, Xie An and other rich people once lived here. "Suzaku Bridge" was near Wuyi Lane, which was the main traffic road at that time. It is conceivable that the traffic here is busy and prosperous. But now there are only "weeds and flowers" by the bridge. A word "wild" tells the decline and desolation of the scene. And "Wuyi Lane" is in the sunset. Under the "sunset", adding the word "oblique" effectively renders the bleak scene of the sunset. At the beginning of the poem, a neat antithesis sentence is used to describe today's decline scene, which is in sharp contrast with the prosperity of the past.
Three or four sentences: "In the old days, Xieyan Wang flew into the homes of ordinary people". Swallow is a migratory bird. Spring has come and autumn has gone. Swallows used to fly in and always built their nests in the spacious houses of Wang, Xie and other aristocratic families. Now there are no pavilions in the old clan, and ordinary people live here. Swallows can only "fly into the homes of ordinary people." At the beginning of the third sentence, the poet particularly emphasized the word "old times", cleverly giving Swallow the identity of a historical witness. The fourth sentence uses the word "ordinary" to emphasize that the residents in the past and now are completely different, thus effectively expressing the great changes that have taken place in the world. The decline of aristocratic families in the Jin Dynasty implies that contemporary nouveau riche will inevitably make the same mistakes. This poem describes the scenery throughout, without adding a comment. The poet put pen to paper from the side and expressed it by artistic means of seeing the big from the small. The language is implicit and intriguing.
Brief introduction of poet
Liu Yuxi (772-842), a writer and philosopher in Tang Dynasty, was born in Luoyang (now Henan). In the ninth year of Tang Zhenyuan (793), he was a scholar. His poems are popular and fresh, and he makes good use of metaphors to entrust political content. Poems such as Zhuzhi Ci, Liuzhi Ci, and Flower Arrangement Tian Ge are rich in folk songs and unique in Tang poetry. He also inherited the realistic tradition of Yuefu poetry, paying attention to reflecting the sufferings of people's livelihood and major events, and his style was vigorous and lively. Some of his nostalgic poems are also concise and implicit, with endless implications. There is Selected Works of Liu Mengde.