Who says waves are just a piece of water, and mountains and rivers are two townships?

The translation and appreciation of Two Farewells to Qiu Jiang by Wang Bo, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, are as follows:

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Being a guest in a foreign country for a long time, I don't know when I will drift. At this time, it is early autumn and July. I bid farewell to my friends in the small pavilion by the river and watched the dim moonlight flowing with the sparkling river.

I feel time passing in front of the rolling river. I have been sad for the frequent parting in my life, and now I see the boat you left parked in the shade of the ferry.

Secondly,

Ships coming and going home on the river seem to be lined up, cars and horses coming home on the river seem to be lined up, and missing people on both sides of the river look at each other in the distance.

At the moment of parting, who can say that this turbulent river is just a stream of water? Being cut off by rivers, I feel that the mountains and rivers on both sides of the strait belong to different people's hometowns.

works appreciation

The repetition of words in these two poems is very interesting, showing the beauty of repetition: the first word and the sixth word in the first two sentences are the same, and the first word and the third word in the last two sentences are the same. Wang Bo's opposition between land and water is one of his most common and lasting duality.

The first poem wrote the poet's inner sadness when he was at home, and showed the poet's feelings for friendship. The poet has always been sentimental about the river and its practical and symbolic significance to parting, but he finds it particularly unbearable that the trees on the land block his sight and make it difficult for him to see his friends who have left. The words "early" and "general" are used in the first sentence and the second sentence in an overlapping way, which has aesthetic feeling and compact rhythm. Compare the following two sentences, the rhythm changes, and the rhythm changes from tension to relaxation, which coincides with the sadness of parting and the melancholy after parting. The third and fourth sentence says that seeing the river that never returns adds to the sadness of parting, not to mention seeing a friend's boat disappear into the Woods at the ferry. In this further way, Li Ying, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote the sentence "I hate the blue mountains, and the blue mountains are still covered by twilight clouds" in Nostalgia. Here, a sentence in The Analects of Confucius, Zi Han, "Zi is preaching: the deceased is like a husband, staying up all night" shows that Wang Bo is good at using the poems of his predecessors.

The second poem is also very affectionate. In the poem, the poet used a very common court metonymy method to skillfully demonstrate: "Who says A is true (in fact, A is true) because B (ingenious conception) contradicts A." Because of parting, the river is no longer a small area, but the dividing line between two different worlds. In the last two sentences, the poet further describes his deep love for friendship, and also makes people feel the sincerity of the poet's heart.

This is a set of seven-character quatrains. There are few quatrains in the poems handed down from ancient times by the "four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty". Judging from this group of poems, the author's mastery of the creative skills of seven-character quatrains is obviously not proficient enough. ?

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Jilin Ancient Books Publishing House, Selected Poems of Four Masters in Early Tang Dynasty: The first sentence points out the word "autumn" and the second sentence points out the word "river". These two sentences write out the time and place of farewell. The word "morning market" has a distinct subjective feeling and highlights the sensitivity to the arrival of early autumn. Hakka's worries and feelings of parting are all hidden in it. Soap Market, Early Autumn, Jiangting and Liujiang all use heavy words in the same position (the first and sixth words), creating a circular charm. The third sentence, a counter-measure, restores the usual injury. The fourth sentence only says today's farewell, which pushes this farewell sadness to a higher level. The author's brushwork is really clever.

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Qiu Jiang's Two Farewells-Wang Bo

original text

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Other places are early autumn, and Jiangting Yue Ming brings rivers.

I already feel that I have lost Sichuan, and I feel sorry for it. I saw Jin Shu hiding behind the boat.

Secondly,

Return to the boat and ride, facing each other in the south and north of the Yangtze River.

Who said that waves are just a piece of water, and mountains and rivers are two townships?

Keyword annotation

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Morning: Already. Early autumn: The first month of autumn, formerly known as Qiu Meng, is the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

The bright moon flows with the river: refers to the moonlight flowing with the river. Use, use, use.

Chuanchuan: This refers to the passing river.

Tianjin: Ferry.

Secondly,

Yan: It seems so.

Wave: Wave.

Creation background

Tang Gaozong was blocked for three years (668), and Wang Bo was expelled from Chang 'an for writing A Chicken Written by Ba Wang, and then went south to Shu. Judging from the two aspects of "Qiu Jiang" in the title of the group poem and "different places" in the second poem, this group of poems may have been written in the middle of Shu.

Brief introduction of the author

Wang Bo (649-676), a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Longmen, Jiangzhou (now Hejin, Shanxi). At the beginning of his career, Linde joined the army in Zhouguo. Later, he went to Hainan to visit his father and drowned and died of shock. He showed his talent when he was young, and he was as famous as Yang Jiong, Lu and Lu in words, and he was also called "four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty". Both he and Lu tried to change the poetic style of "striving for exquisiteness and carving" at that time (see Yang Jiong's Preface). His poems tend to describe personal life, and a few of his works express political feelings and cover up his dissatisfaction with powerful families. The style is fresh, but some poems are superficial. His prose "Preface to Wang Tengting" is quite famous. The original collection of books has been lost, and The Collection of Wang Zian was compiled in the Ming Dynasty.