Source: "The Sad Pulsatilla" by Liu Xiyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
Translation: "The flowers are the same every year, but the people are different every year" means that the flowers are the same every year, but the people who look at the flowers are different every year.
"I woke up and realized that it was not a dream, and the wrinkles between my eyebrows were heavy again." These two sentences are not ancient poems, but were written by later generations with emotion, expressing their longing for the people they miss. It means that after waking up, I suddenly found that it was a dream, and there were more wrinkles between my eyebrows.
Original text:
The peach and plum blossoms in the east of Luoyang City are flying around, whose home is falling? The daughter of Luoyang cherishes the color and sighs when she sees the falling flowers.
The colors of the flowers will change this year, but who will be there next year when they bloom again? I have seen the pines and cypresses destroyed for wages, and I have even heard that the mulberry fields have turned into the sea.
The ancients never recovered the east side of Luocheng, but today people still face the wind of falling flowers. The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year.
A beautiful woman in full bloom should pity the half-dead white-headed man. This old man is so pitiful with his white head, he is such a beautiful young man in the past.
Under the tree of Prince Wang Sunfang, he sang and danced in front of the fallen flowers. The Guanglu Pond is decorated with beautiful paintings, and the general's pavilion is decorated with immortals.
When I am sick and have no acquaintance, who can I have fun with? How long can I turn my eyebrows? For a moment, the crane's hair was as messy as silk.
But looking at the ancient singing and dancing place, only the birds at dusk are sad.
Extended information
1. Appreciation of the work
"The peach and plum blossoms in the east of Luoyang City fly around and fall into someone's house." The first two lines of the poem describe Late spring scenery in the east of Luoyang City. These two lines are the beginning of the poem. The longing and nostalgia for the beautiful spring days and young beauties expressed in the following text, as well as the sentiment and regret for the falling peach and plum blossoms and the perishable youth, are all derived from this.
The following ten sentences of "Luoyang daughter is so beautiful" describe the young Luoyang daughter's infinite emotion when faced with the falling peanuts flying all over the sky. What Luoyang's daughter is sentimental about is actually the change in nature that reminds her of the transience of beauty and the finiteness of human life.
"If the flowers fall and change color this year, who will be there next year when they bloom again?" It expresses the mentality of lamenting that beauty ages easily and life is impermanent because of the passage of spring. "The pines and cypresses were destroyed as firewood" and "The mulberry field turned into the sea", these two sentences use metaphors to vividly express the great changes in the world.
"The ancients never returned to Luochengdong, but today's people still love the wind of falling flowers" reveals the objective law of the perishability of life and the eternity of the universe. The two sentences "flowers are similar every year, but people are different every year" use beautiful, smooth and neat couplets to express the sigh of youth and the impermanence of the world. They are full of poetic artistic conception and philosophical. They have always been Recited widely.
The following ten sentences of "A message to the prosperous beauty" summarize the life experience of Pulsatilla. The white-headed old man was once a beautiful young man. In the past, he often sang, danced and had fun under the trees and in front of the flowers with his sons, princes and grandsons. The two sentences "Guangluchi Taiwen Jinxiu" use the luxury and luxury of powerful officials and relatives in history to express the wealthy life that the white-headed man once experienced.
However, once you get sick and grow old, no one will care about you, and you have to give it to others.
By describing the life of the white-headed man from beauty to old age and illness, from recreation to loneliness, this paragraph not only expresses the poet's attachment and yearning for youthful beauty, singing and dancing, but also expresses the poet's pity and sympathy for the old white-headed man. At the same time, it further expresses the emotion about the transience of beauty and the limitation of life, thereby enhancing the artistic appeal and philosophical nature of the poem.
The last four sentences point out the main idea and wrap up the whole poem. "How long can the eyebrows turn like a moth? In a moment, the crane's hair will be as messy as silk." The beautiful girl will turn into an old woman with white hair in the blink of an eye. It is a pity that youth can never stay.
"But looking at the ancient singing and dancing place, only the birds are sad at dusk", everything is like a passing cloud, disappearing quickly! In the past, a bustling amusement park, now there are only a few stray birds emitting a few pitiful calls in the cold dusk. The last word "sad" in the last sentence is the tone of this poem.
2. Introduction to the author
Liu Xiyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The name is Tingzhi, the courtesy name is Yanzhi, and he is from Ruzhou. Jinshi of Shangyuan Dynasty, good at playing pipa. His poems are famous for their song lines, mostly about love affairs, and their words are soft and gorgeous, with many sentimental sentiments. There is a sentence in "Dai Bei Pulsatilla" that "the flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year". It is said that his uncle Song Zhiwen wanted to take it as his own, but the barbarians refused. Zhiwen actually sent someone to crush him with a bag of earth. die. He had little culture and was unconventional. He was later victimized by others and died under the age of thirty. The original collection has been lost. His representative works include "Walking in the Army", "Picking Mulberry", "Spring Song", "Spring Women's Walk", "Pounding Clothes", "Reminiscences of the Past in Luochuan" and "The White-headed Man in the Age of Sadness", etc.