The meaning of the poem "Thinking in Japan"

The meaning of this poem is: it has been seven days since spring, and it has been two years since I left home. The day of going home will fall behind the geese flying north in spring, but the idea of going home exists before the spring flowers bloom.

The original poem is as follows:

"Homecoming" Xue Daoheng in the Southern and Northern Dynasties

It has been seven days in spring, and I have been away from home for two years.

The day of returning home is behind the bird's return to the earth, but the idea of returning home has existed before the spring flowers bloom.

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Brief introduction of the author

Xue Daoheng (539-609) was born in Fenyin, Hedong (now northeast of Ronghe County, Shaanxi Province). Shi Li lived in Northern Zhou Dynasty and Northern Qi Dynasty. When I entered the Sui Dynasty, I was a doctor from official to official. He was very famous and was feared by Emperor Yang (). Later, he died because of current politics.

He is a northerner, and his poetic style is greatly influenced by the south. His sweet words are beautiful and tactful. He once wrote "Salt of Yesterday", in which there is a sentence "An empty beam falls into the mud", which is about time. Poems of Sui Dynasty recorded more than twenty of his poems.

Creation background

This poem was written by Xue in Jiangnan. Chen Neishi was hired at the beginning of Sui Dynasty, and this poem may have been written at this time.

works appreciation

This is a homesick poem. At the beginning of this poem, the season and the time of leaving home are explained in neat antithesis.

This five-character poem describes the general psychology of wanderers who are far away from home and eager to go home and reunite with their relatives during the Spring Festival. The poet expressed his profound and delicate emotional experience with plain, natural and delicate euphemism, and integrated homesickness and yearning into nine songs, which were full of emotion, scenery and scenery.

In contrast, the narrative expresses the author's desire to return home. The author puts "return" and "thinking" in two contrasting sentences, which echo the theme from a distance and have their own characteristics.