The second sentence I said when I went to Shangdu in Quanzhou to say goodbye to my brother and old friends was: I am like a flying peng and a water ping.
The author Ouyang Zhan? The Tang Dynasty "Quanzhou went to Shangdu to say goodbye to his brother and old friends" The sky is vast and the earth is wide and there are many roads, and the body is like flying pods and water pods. How easy is it to drive a horse away? Brothers and sisters leave the pavilion full of relatives.
Annotation translation: Quanzhou: A prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, also known as Licheng, Citongcheng and Wenling. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and the ancestral home of Taiwanese compatriots in my country. Located in the southeastern part of Fujian, across the sea from Taiwan, it is the starting point of the ancient "Maritime Silk Road". During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Quanzhou Port was known as "the largest port in the East", as famous as Alexandria in Egypt.
Shedi: A brother calls his younger brother "Shedi". Wu Zeng (Volume 2 of "Neng Gai Zhai Man Lu") wrote to Emperor Wen of Wei and Zhong Yao: "It was built by his disciples because Xun Zhongmao was calm at the time." Qi (qí) Road: a metaphor for the dangers in officialdom. An unpredictable future.
About the author: Ouyang Zhan (755-800 AD), courtesy name Xingzhou, was born in Oucuo, Panhu, Jinjiang, Fujian. His grandfather Ouyang Yanwen was the governor of Wen (grandmother Fan Shi'an and sister Fan Shibao) and his father Ouyang Changboluo County Cheng (his mother was Huang Changjing, the younger sister of Huang Changchao, who was a regular attendant of Jinshi Sanqi in the Tang Dynasty), his wife Lin Ping (Lin Yunmei), and Ouyang Zhan wrote eight volumes of "Collected Works of Ouyang Xingzhou".
Ouyang Zhan lived in the mid-Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion, and never left the official position of assistant teacher of the Fourth Gate of the Imperial College throughout his life. Ouyang Zhan's ancestors moved from Jiangxi to Jinjiang in the early Tang Dynasty, and passed down to Ouyang Zhan as his sixth descendant. Ouyang Zhan's grandfather, father, and two eldest brothers were all local officials in Minyue during the Tang Dynasty.