As a foreign guest leaving home alone, I miss my loved ones, especially when the festival is coming.
It's a pity that at least I was alone when my brothers climbed the mountain today.
Original text:
Vacation in the mountains reminds me of my brothers in Shandong (1)
A stranger in a foreign land misses his family twice every holiday.
If you know where your brother is crawling from a distance (4), you will lose a person if you stick Cornus officinalis all over your body (5).
Comment on words and phrases:
(1) September 9th: Double Ninth Festival. In ancient times, nine was the number of yang, so it was called Chongyang. Memory: nostalgia. Shandong: Wang Weiqian moved to Puxian County (now Yongji County, Shanxi Province), east of Hanguguan and Huashan, so it was called Shandong.
⑵ Foreign land: foreign land, foreign land. Become a stranger: become a guest of another country.
(3) Festival: a beautiful festival.
(4) Climbing: There was a custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival in ancient times.
5. Cornus officinalis (zhūyú): a kind of herbal medicine, namely cassia obtusifolia. In ancient times, people thought that wearing dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival could avoid disasters and ward off evil spirits.
Extended data
One of the famous poems of Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei, Shanjiesi Shandong Brothers, is a seven-character quatrain. This poem describes the homesickness of a wanderer.
At the beginning of the poem, I cut into the theme and wrote about the loneliness and sadness of living in a foreign land. Therefore, I always miss my hometown and people, and I miss them even more when I meet a festive occasion. Then the poem jumps to writing a brother who is far away from home. When they climbed the mountain according to the custom of the Double Ninth Festival, they also missed themselves. Poetry jumps repeatedly, implicative and deep, simple and natural, tortuous and changeable. Among them, "I miss my relatives twice during the festive season" is a famous sentence throughout the ages.
Wang Wei is a precocious writer. He wrote many excellent poems when he was young. This poem was written when he was seventeen. Different from his later landscape poems, which are rich in painting and exquisite in composition and color, this lyric poem is very simple. But for thousands of years, people read this poem when they left their hometown, but they strongly felt its power.
Wang Wei, a poet in Tang Dynasty. The word stroke. His father was originally from Qi (now Shanxi) and later moved to Yongji West, Shanxi, becoming a Hedong native. Kaiyuan (year number of Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, 713-741) was a scholar. In the early stage, I wrote some frontier poems, but the most important one was landscape poems, which promoted hermit life and Buddhism through the description of pastoral landscapes. Exquisite objects, vivid descriptions and unique achievements.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Thoughts on Shandong Brothers' Mountain Vacation