Liu Changqing ②
Sunset ③ Cangshan ④ is far away,
Cold weather, white houses and poverty.
Chai Men smells dogs barking,
People go home at night in a snowstorm.
[translation]
As dusk falls, I feel more and more distant.
The thatched cottage looks more shabby in cold weather.
Suddenly there was a dog barking outside Chai Men.
Snowy night came to me, a tenant.
[Solution]
① Owner of Su Furong Mountain: Stay at the owner's house of Furong Mountain for the night. (2) Liu Changqing (AD 709-780), a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Hejian (now Hejian County, Hebei Province) has been a local official for many years and is famous for writing five-character poems. 3 Sunset: Evening. Cangshan: A blue-black mountain. ⑤ White House: A thatched cottage for the poor. Poverty: poverty. Chai Men: The door of the farmhouse is made of firewood. ⑦ Barking: Dogs bark. ⑧ Returning at night: refers to the poet himself.
[Appreciation]
This poem describes what the poet saw and heard when he stayed in his master's house in the mountains at night.
Poetry is written in chronological order. The first is the feeling of the poet walking on the mountain road in the snowy evening. Because it was getting late, the poet was a little anxious, so he felt that the road was farther away, so that the opposite castle peak was getting farther and farther. Then, he wrote down what the poet saw when he was going to live in his master's house in the mountains. From the thatched cottage, he knew that his master's family was poor and even poorer because of the cold weather. The above description seems to follow the footsteps of travelers from far to near. Then the poet's accommodation. Knocking on the door when staying indoors causes barking, which has the characteristics of mountain people living; Being able to stay on a snowy night really feels special and warm like going home, so there is a saying that "people go home at night". As for everything after moving in, the poet will not write anything, leaving it to the reader to imagine. The poet wrote about staying overnight on a snowy night, not about "staying overnight", but about the mood on the way on a snowy night and knocking at the door to stay overnight. This kind of tailoring is clever and worth savoring.