A gift for Wang Lun.
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Li Bai was just about to leave when he heard a farewell song from the shore.
Even if the Peach Blossom Pond is deep, it is not as deep as Wang Lun's sending away my love.
To Wang Lun is a farewell poem written by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, to Wang Lun, a local friend, when he was traveling in Jingxian County (now southern Anhui Province).
This poem describes the scene of Wang Lun seeing Bai off when he was about to leave by boat, and expresses Wang Lun's simple and sincere feelings for Li Bai very simply and naturally. Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, but not as good as Wang Lun. Li Bai began to praise the profundity of the Peach Blossom Pond with "deep thousands of feet", and then turned the intangible friendship into tangible thousands of feet Pond by contrast, vividly expressing Wang Lun's sincere and profound friendship for Li Bai. The language of the whole poem is fresh and natural, and the imagination is rich and strange. Although there are only four sentences and twenty-eight characters, it is a household name and one of the most widely circulated masterpieces in Li Bai's poems.
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I was getting on the boat when I was about to untie the cable and set off when I heard melodious singing from the shore.
Look at Taohuatan. Even though thousands of feet is deep, how can I be as grateful as Wang Lun?
To annotate ...
1. Wang Lun: Li Bai's friend.
2. Treading: a popular folk song and dance form in the Tang Dynasty. When singing, you can beat the time with your feet and sing while walking.
3. Taohuatan: It is one hundred miles southwest of Jingxian County, Anhui Province. The unified yearbook calls it unfathomable.
4. Deep thousands of feet: People use a pool of water deep in thousands of feet to compare the friendship between Wang Lun and him, which is exaggerated (the pool deep in thousands of feet is not real).
5. How about:
Creation background
When Li Bai was visiting Taohuatan in Jingxian County (now Anhui Province), Wang Lun in nearby Jia Cun often entertained Li Bai with his own brewed wine, and they forged a deep friendship. Collected Notes of Li Bai, 300 Poems of Tang Poetry and Complete Poems of Tang Poetry published in past dynasties all recognized that Wang Lun was an ordinary villager that Li Bai met when he traveled in Jingxian County. This view continues to this day. Today, Wang Guangze, an Anhui scholar, has studied Wang's genealogy, Wang's genealogy and Wang's continuous branch tree in Jingxian County, and confirmed that "Wang Lun, also known as, is a native of the Tang Dynasty. During the Tianbao reign of Kaiyuan, Wang Lun was the magistrate of Jingxian County, and Li Bai "waited for him, but could not bear to leave him" (see "About Wang Lun" by Li See Zilong in the second series of Li Bai's Diary). According to this poem or when visiting for Li Bai, Wang Lun lived in Taohuatan. Li Bai Tianbao traveled from Guangling and Jinling to Xuancheng in the 13th year (754), so this poem should not be earlier than before.
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The first half of the poem is narrative: first write about the people who are leaving, and then write about the people who are seeing them off, showing a picture of parting. The first sentence "by boat" means by water. "Will want to go" means that the canoe is ready to go. This sentence makes the reader seem to be saying goodbye to the people on a ship that is about to leave the shore.
"Suddenly I heard the song on the shore", and then I wrote goodbye. The second sentence is not as direct as the first sentence, but with a curved pen, just saying that I heard the song. A group of villagers walked and sang to the beat to see me off. This seems to be beyond Li Bai's expectation, so he said "suddenly smell" instead of "far smell". Although this poem is more subtle, I only hear its voice, but people who have not seen it are already coming out. Wang Lun's arrival was really unexpected. Smell it before people arrive. This farewell shows that Li Bai and Wang Lun are both informal, happy and free people.
The second half of this poem is lyrical. The third sentence is connected from a distance, which further shows that the ship is placed in Taohuatan. "Deep thousands of feet" not only describes the characteristics of the pool, but also indicates the conclusion. The Peach Blossom Pond is so deep that it touches people's hearts and unforgettable Wang Lun's deep affection. The water depth is naturally connected with affection. At the end of the sentence, "not as good as Wang Lun's" broke out. By comparing things, it vividly expressed sincere and pure affection. The pool is "deep in thousands of feet", and the friendship between Wang Lun and Li Bai is bound to be deeper. This sentence is intriguing. The beauty here lies in the word "less than", and the beauty lies in replacing metaphor with concrete means, turning intangible friendship into vivid image, ethereal and memorable, natural and true. The poet was very moved, so he praised Wang Lun's admiration and love for the poet with two lines of "Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, and Wang Lun loves me less", and also expressed Li Bai's deep affection for Wang Lun.
Brief introduction of the author
Li Bai (70 1 ~ 762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "Poet Fairy" and is called "Da Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language is natural and fluent, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.