From: Two Poems of Zhang Hu Palace Style in Tang Dynasty
Original poem:
Two court poems
one
A maid-in-waiting lived 1000 miles away from home for twenty years.
However, ask her for this song and use the first few words of this song to see how she tries to hold back her tears.
Secondly,
Since relying on energy to sing the sky, the first emperor has had pity on his palm.
A new voice sings, Broken-hearted Li Yannian.
Meaning:
one
My hometown and relatives are thousands of miles away, and I have been claustrophobic in this deep palace for twenty years.
Hearing He Manzi's music, I couldn't help crying.
Secondly,
By being able to sing and dance, he won the infinite favor of the first emperor.
Wherever the new voice sings, it makes the singers in the palace mourn like heartbroken.
Extended data
These two poems are mainly about the sadness of imperial secretary. The first poem is about a folk woman who lives in seclusion in the deep palace, which ruined her life in vain and objectively exposed the cruelty of the maid-in-waiting system. The second song points out the words "where to sing a new voice" and "heartbroken", and expresses the grief of the imperial secretary through the new voice.
In the first half of the first poem, the author condensed all the experiences of a claustrophobic imperial secretary who was far away from home in just ten words.
The first sentence "A Thousand Miles from Home" is written from the perspective of space, which is far from home; The second sentence, "A maid-in-waiting has lived here for twenty years", has been written in the palace for a long time since the time. These two poems have a high degree of generality, which embodies the heroine's sorrow at one time and expresses her sorrow in a double progressive way.
In the four poems, the distance is represented by "three thousand Li", the time by "twenty years", the singing by "one sound", the weeping by "double tears", and every sentence is written by numbers. These two artistic features of this poem complement each other with its content.
Zhang Hu has a distinguished family background, and is known as Zhang Gongzi, and has the reputation of "a celebrity in the world". Throughout Zhang Hu's life, he has made remarkable achievements in poetry creation. "Thousands of miles away, a maid-in-waiting lived here for twenty years" was named after Zhang Hu, and 349 of his poems were included in The Whole Tang Poetry.