Thinking of Shandong Brothers in the Mountain Festival is a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei. This poem describes the homesickness of a wanderer. At the beginning of the poem, I cut into the theme and wrote about the loneliness and sadness of living in a foreign land. Therefore, I always miss my hometown and people, and I miss them even more when I meet a festive occasion. Then the poem jumps to writing a brother who is far away from home. When they climbed the mountain according to the custom of the Double Ninth Festival, they also missed themselves. The poetry of the whole poem jumps repeatedly, implicative and deep, simple and natural, full of twists and turns. Among them, "I miss my relatives twice during the festive season" is a famous sentence throughout the ages.
The original note of this poem: "That was seventeen years old." This shows that this poem was written by Wang Wei when he was seventeen years old, because he missed his relatives in his hometown on the Double Ninth Festival. Wang Wei wandered between Luoyang and Chang 'an alone. September 9th is the Double Ninth Festival, and some places in China have the custom of climbing mountains. The thirty-second volume of "Peaceful Magnolia" quoted a local custom story and said: On this day, Cornus officinalis was full of vigor and maturity, but on this day, the Cornus officinalis house was blocked to keep out the cold.
This lyric poem written by Wang Wei as a teenager is very simple, which is different from his later landscape poems, which are very picturesque and pay attention to composition and color. But this poem has a strong touching power, especially for people who are away from home. This power comes from its simplicity, profundity and high generalization.