I live in Junnanhai, Beihai, and I can't send geese to deliver books. Peach and plum spring breeze, a glass of wine, ten years of night rain.
Housekeeping, but with four vertical walls, does not cure diseases. I think my reading head turned white, and the ape across the stream cried.
Translation:
I live on the northern seashore and you live on the southern seashore. I want to send a book to Hongyan, but it can't fly to Hengyang. The spring breeze sees peaches and plums drinking wine, and the rivers and lakes are down and out. I have been away for ten years, and I often miss you in the autumn rain.
You only have four empty walls to support your livelihood. It's hard. The ancients made a good doctor by folding their elbows three times. I hope you don't. I miss you, I am poor and study hard, and now my hair is white. Through the miasma-filled mountain stream, the apes wailed and climbed the ivy deep in the forest.
Extended data
Creative background:
This poem was written in the eighth year of Yuanfeng in Song Shenzong (1085), when Huang Tingjian was in charge of Deping Town in Dezhou (now Shandong). Huang Jifu and young Huang Tingjian have made friends and have a deep friendship. Huang Tingjian copied many poems for Huang Ji. At this time, Huang Ji knew Sihui County (now Sihui County, Guangdong Province). At that time, the two were far apart, and Huang Tingjian thought of his friend and wrote this poem.
Theme appreciation:
This poem praises Huang Jifu's integrity, ability and eagerness to learn, but deeply regrets his old age and sinking situation, expresses his warm feelings of missing his friends, and expresses his grievances and indignation at his friends' lack of talent. The whole poem is sincere and touching. However, it shows the characteristics of Huang Tingjian's poems in making good use of books, taking the old as the new, inheriting the ancient as the law, and twists and turns, which can be called Huang Tingjian's masterpiece.
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