Yi Han
Famous sentence: flowers are flying all over the sky in the spring city, and the cold food is slanting.
Guide reading
Han Miao (hónɡ), born in Nanyang (now dengzhou city, Henan Province), whose date of birth and death is unknown. Poets in Tang Dynasty. In the 13th year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (725), he was a scholar and one of the "Ten Talents in Dali". He is the author of The Collection of Han Junping.
Cold Food Festival is a traditional festival in ancient China, usually in the first two days of Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to custom, every household must ban fire on this day and can only eat ready-made food, hence the name cold food. This poem, with the theme of "cold food", exposes and satirizes the increasingly corrupt social reality in the Tang Dynasty from the side, and is the author's masterpiece.
Original poem
There are flowers everywhere in the spring city, and the cold food is easterly and willows are oblique.
At dusk, candles were passed in the Han Palace, and light smoke was scattered into Wuhou House.
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① Cold Food: Two days ago in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it was the Cold Food Festival. According to legend, it is a custom formed to commemorate Jin people who were burned to death in the Spring and Autumn Period. There is no fire on this day, so we can only eat cold food. ② Imperial Willow: Willow in the court. 3 "Sunset" sentence: Fire is forbidden because of cold food, but candles are given to those favored by the emperor. Han Palace: This refers to the Tang Dynasty. (4) Wuhou: generally refers to the ministers who are close to the son of heaven. The Biography of Han Dynasty named Wang Tan and Wang Shang brothers "Five Marquis" on the same day. Five eunuchs, such as Shan Chao and Huang Xu, were named "Five Emperors" in The Biography of Officials in the Later Han Dynasty.
Translate poetry
In spring, Chang 'an is full of colorful flowers.
The warm spring breeze blows willow branches at the Cold Food Festival.
In the evening, the palace is busy distributing royal candles.
Smoke drifted slowly into the noble mansion favored by the king.
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This poem depicts the Chang 'an Cold Food Festival in Tang Dynasty.
The first sentence of the poem, "Flowers are flying everywhere in the spring city", vividly shows the charming scenery of Chang 'an in the Cold Food Festival. Chang 'an in spring is called "Spring City", which is novel and full of beauty. It not only writes colorful spring scenery, but also points out the characteristics of late spring season. Here, instead of "flying all over the sky", "flying all over the sky" is expressed in a double negative tone of affirmation and emphasis, which is more effective. After the first sentence wrote the scenery of Chang 'an, the second sentence specifically wrote the scenery of the imperial city. The spring breeze is gentle, the willow branches are swaying, and the scenery is infinite. The last two narratives describe the scene where the emperor exchanged fire, and the privileged princes and slaves made an exception by using fire and lighting candles.
Literally, this poem seems to describe the scene of Chang 'an on the day of the Cold Food Festival, but if you read it carefully, you will find that this scene is different during the day and at sunset. From the daytime, it is really the spring scenery in the city, but at night it is very different: "Light smoke scattered into Wuhou's house" is not like "Spring City is everywhere", only Wuhou's house can see the light smoke curling up. It satirizes the feudal emperor's partiality to the upper nobility and the close ministers by revealing the phenomenon that the upper nobility enjoys privileges and social injustice, which is the ideological value of this poem.