Tonight is a rare event * * * This candlelight is a description of friendship, which comes from Du Fu's "Give Shu Wei Zen Eight Chu Shi".
Original text:
To Wei Ba Chu Shi.
Don du fu
It is almost as difficult for friends to meet each other as the stars in the morning and evening.
Tonight is a rare event, and this lamp is candlelight.
Two men who were young not long ago had gray sideburns and hand stools.
It shocked us to find that half of our friends had died, which made us sad.
We didn't expect that it would be twenty years before I could come to see you again.
You were unmarried when I left, but now these boys and girls are in a row.
Their father's old friends were very kind to me. They asked me where I had been during my trip.
Then, when we talked for a while, they brought me wine and dishes.
In spring, leeks are in the night rain, and brown rice is cooked fresh in a special way.
My host announced that it was a festival, and he urged me to drink ten cups.
But what kind of ten glasses of wine can make me so drunk, because your love is always in my heart. .
The mountains will separate us tomorrow. Who can say for sure after tomorrow? .
Translation:
Life can't always be separated, just like the stars in the west and the stars in the east. What day is it tonight, and I am so lucky to tell you the truth?
How young and energetic the young years can be. In a blink of an eye, you and I are as cold as ice.
Most of my former friends have passed away, so I have to sigh repeatedly.
I didn't expect to visit again after 20 years. When we broke up, you got married before you got married, and suddenly your children became a mess.
They greeted their father's best friend with a polite smile and enthusiastically asked me where I came from.
Before you could tell all the past, you urged your children to set the table and drinks quickly. In the rain at night, I cut fresh leeks and served me freshly cooked yellow rice to taste.
You said it was rare to meet, and you drank a dozen cups in a row.
It's hard for me not to get drunk after drinking more than a dozen glasses of wine, but I feel the deep friendship of my old friends. After leaving tomorrow, we will be far away from Qian Shan, and the vast world is really sad.
About the author:
Du Fu (Du Shaoling, 7 12 -770), with beautiful words, was a realistic poet in Tang and Qing Dynasties. Together with Li Bai, he was called "Du Li" and later "Poet Saint", and his poems were called "History of Poetry".
As a teenager, Du Fu traveled to wuyue and Zhao Qi successively, during which he also visited Luoyang. After thirty-five, I came first and last in Chang 'an. Later, he presented gifts to the emperor and presented them to the nobles.
The frustration of officialdom witnessed the extravagance and social crisis of the upper class in the Tang Dynasty. In the 14th year of Tianbao (755), the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Tongguan fell, and Du Fu moved to many places. In the second year of Gan Yuan (759), Du Fu abandoned his official position and went to Sichuan. Although he fled the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the whole life and the affairs of the country. Du Fu wrote such famous works as Climbing to the Top and Looking at Spring, Northern Expedition, Three Officials and Three Farewells.
The core of Du Fu's thought is benevolent government, and he has the great ambition of "making the monarch Yao and Shun superior, and then making the customs pure". Although Du Fu was not famous when he was alive, his fame spread widely, which had a far-reaching impact on China literature and Japanese literature. About 65,438+0,500 poems of Du Fu have been preserved, most of which are collected by Du Gongbu.