How to read ancient poems in Jiangnan is as follows:
qí wáng zhái lǐ xún cháng jiàn. cuī jiǔ táng qián jǐ dù wén.
It is common in Prince Qi’s house. Cui Jiutang heard about it several times before.
zhèng shì jiāng nán hǎo fēng jǐng. luò huā shí jié yòu féng jūn.
It is the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan. See you again in the season of falling flowers.
Appreciation of ancient poems:
1. "In the Year of Li Gui in the South of the Yangtze River" is a poem by Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem recalls the present and the past, and is filled with emotion. The first two sentences recall the past contact with Li Guinian, expressing the poet's nostalgia for the prosperous age of Kaiyuan. The last two sentences are a reflection on the decline of the country and the displacement of artists after the Anshi Rebellion.
2. The language of the whole poem is very simple, but the meaning is very far-reaching and the connotation is very rich. It contains very rich content of social life and expresses the sense of decay and chaos of the times and the desolation and drifting of life. This poem is the most emotional and richest of Du Fu's quatrains. It has only twenty-eight characters, but it contains rich content about the life of the times. The poem is sentimental about the harshness of the world.
Introduction to Du Fu:
1. Du Fu (February 12, 712 - 770), also known as Shaoling Yelao, was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home is Xiangyang (now part of Hubei Province), and he moved to Gong County (now southwest of Gongyi, Henan Province) during the time of his great-grandfather. Together with Li Bai, he is called "Li Du".
2. In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, known as "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Thatched Cottage. When Du Fu was a boy, he traveled to Wuyue, Qi and Zhao successively, during which time he went to Luoyang to fail in the examination.
3. After the age of thirty-five, he first took the examination in Chang'an and failed; later he presented gifts to the emperor and nobles. Unable to achieve his goals in officialdom, he witnessed the extravagance and social crisis of the upper class society in the Tang Dynasty. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), the Anshi Rebellion broke out and Tongguan fell. Du Fu traveled to many places.
4. In the second year of Qianyuan (759), Du Fu abandoned his official position and went to Sichuan. Although he escaped the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the people and national affairs.
5. Du Fu created famous works such as "Ascend the High", "Spring View", "Northern Expedition", "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells". Although Du Fu is a realist poet, he also has a wild and uninhibited side. It is not difficult to see Du Fu's heroic spirit from his famous work "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking". In the winter of the fifth year of the Dali calendar (770), he died of illness at the age of fifty-nine.
6. Du Fu had a profound influence on Chinese classical poetry. He was honored as the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems were called "History of Poetry". The core of Du Fu's thoughts is the thought of benevolent government. He has the grand ambition of "bringing the emperors Yao and Shun to the throne, and then making the customs pure."
7. Although Du Fu was not famous when he was alive, he later became famous and had a profound impact on both Chinese literature and Japanese literature. About 1,500 poems by Du Fu have been preserved, most of which are collected in "Du Gongbu Collection".