Author: Wang Wei (Tang)
You have just come from our hometown, and we must understand the world.
When you passed my window, did the plum blossom bloom its first cold flower? .
Vernacular translation
You have just come out of our hometown, so you must know the situation in your hometown.
Excuse me, when you came to my window, did wintersweet bloom?
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Creation background
Wang Wei has lived in Jin Meng for more than ten years and has lived in a foreign land for a long time. Suddenly, he met an old friend in a foreign land, which aroused the author's strong homesickness. Therefore, he wrote this poem to express his strong homesickness. The most famous is the third poem of Miscellaneous Poems.
Comments by famous critics
Wang Yongqiang: In the history of ancient poetry in China, there are countless works with the theme of "Homesickness for Wanderers", and Wang Wei's Miscellaneous Poems (Part Two) is one of them.
Ancient Group, Institute of Literature, China Academy of Social Sciences: This poem depicts an unusual image of a wanderer. Despite the vicissitudes of life, it still maintains the spirit of freedom beyond the world. In this way, the poet's purpose in writing this poem is obvious: he is praising a life style that has gone through many vicissitudes, but has never been sophisticated and always maintained a free mind.