Han Yu's Early Spring was translated by Zhang of the Ministry of Water Resources.

The thin spring rain on Chang 'an Avenue is as smooth as crisp. From a distance, the grass colors are vaguely connected, but it looks sparse at close range.

The most beautiful scenery in a year is the early spring, far better than the late spring in the city of green willows.

Original text: "In the early spring, all 18 members of Zhang Shui Department were there."

Tang dynasty: Han Yu

There is a lot of silk in the sky above the avenue, which is as delicate and moist as butter. The grass is vaguely connected in the distance, but it looks sparse in the near future.

This is the most beautiful season of the year, far better than the late spring of the green willow.

Extended data

I. Appreciation

This poem is a seven-character quatrain for Zhang Ji, the Ministry of Water Resources, which describes and praises the beautiful scenery in early spring. Ranked eighteenth among the brothers, so he was called Zhang Eighteen. The style of poetry is fresh and natural, simple and colloquial. It seems dull, but it is by no means dull. Han Yu himself said, "Being poor is strange, and it becomes dull" ("Send a teacher to john young"). It turned out that his plainness was hard-won.

Second, the creative background

This poem was written in the early spring of 823 AD (the third year of Tang Muzong Changqing). At that time, Han Yu was 56 years old and served as assistant minister of the official department. This poem was written to Zhang Ji, a poet who worked in the Ministry of Water Resources at that time. Han Yu asked Zhang Ji to go for a spring outing. Zhang Ji refused because he was busy in his later years, so Han Yu wrote this poem as a gift.