Original text:
The distance from the east home is very long, and the tears are wet and the sleeves are still flowing.
Translation:
Looking east at my hometown, the road is long and long, and tears are still flowing on my sleeves.
Appreciation of works:
In the eighth year of Tianbao (749), Cen Can made his first mission to the Western Regions and served as the secretary of the shogunate of Gao Xianzhi. He bid farewell to his wife in Chang 'an and strutted on a long journey. On his way to his post, the poet met a man who went to Beijing and immediately had a good talk, asking him to take a message home. The simple description reveals the poet's deep homesickness. The language of the whole poem is simple, but concise and profound, cordial and touching, and naturally deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Brief introduction to the author of "Meeting the Messenger of Beijing";
Cen Can, the great-grandson of Cen Wenben, the hero of Emperor Taizong, was a frontier poet in Tang Dynasty, and was also called "Gao Cen" with Gao Shi. His frontier poems are well written, and his masterpiece is Song of Snow to Send Tian Shuji Wu Home. He grew up alone, learning from his brother and reading historical records. In the third year of Tianbao (744), he was a scholar. At first, he led a government soldier Cao, and later he joined the army twice. First he was the secretary of the Gao Xianzhi shogunate, and then he was the judge of the Feng Changqing shogunate in the last years of Tianbao.
The theme of Cen Can's poems involves narrative, questions and answers, landscapes and travels, among which frontier poems are the most outstanding, and "grandeur" is its outstanding feature. Cen Can went to frontier fortress twice and wrote more than 70 frontier fortress poems. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he wrote the most frontier poems and made the most outstanding achievements.