(Tang) Liu Yuxi
Jiuqu Yellow River and Wan Li Sand,
Waves and storms come from the end of the world.
Now go straight to the galaxy,
Go to Penny and Weaver's house.
Translation:
The winding Yellow River is very long, carrying a lot of yellow sand. The Yellow River is choppy and comes from the horizon. Now I'm heading straight for the Milky Way against the wind and waves, towards the gate of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
Appreciate:
This poem, written in Kuizhou, is a political lyric poem in folk song style, and it is the first poem in Nine Poems of Langtaosha. The first two sentences of the poem describe the magnificent picture from the horizon and gallop thousands of miles in a simple way. Jiuqu describes the twists and turns of the Yellow River in an exaggerated way. "From the ends of the earth" vividly depicts the long history of the Yellow River, which is similar to the sentence "How the water of the Yellow River moves out of heaven and into the ocean, and never returns" in Li Bai's "Into the Wine". The last two sentences use Zhang Qian's allusions to find the source of the river for Emperor Wu and the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid across the Milky Way, and express his imagination that he will face the stormy waves and yellow sand in Wan Li until he reaches the home of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid, which shows the poet's heroic spirit.