(Tang) Li Shangyin
In the evening, I was unhappy and drove to Gu.
Sunset, infinitely beautiful, only near dusk.
Quatrains, also called truncated sentences, broken sentences and quatrains, are short and pithy. It is a popular genre of Chinese poetry in the Tang Dynasty and belongs to a form of modern poetry. The word quatrains first appeared in the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties. There are four five-character and four-sentence poems in Chen's Poem on Yutai. I don't know the author's name, and the topic is "Ancient Jueju". At this time, quatrains refer to small poems with five words, four sentences and two rhymes, and do not require balance and harmony. Jue means "cut off", and the ancients used four poems with four quatrains to complete an ideological concept. There are two types of quatrains: quatrains and archaic styles. Rhythm only needs to be refined after the rise of rhythmic poetry. Ancient times existed long before the appearance of metrical poems.
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I was very depressed at night, so I drove to Leyou Garden Scenic Area in the southeast of Chang 'an, Kyoto. I saw the sunset emitting a charming afterglow, but all these beautiful scenery will be fleeting and will soon be shrouded by that night.
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This is a poem that looks high and looks far, lyrical. In the first two sentences, the writing reason why I drove forward in Leyou tombs was "the shadow of twilight in my heart". The last two sentences are written on the ancient plain, touching the scene and getting a kind of enjoyment and satisfaction in spirit. The sentence "to see the sun, for all his glory, buried in the coming night" is thought to mean: "Although the evening scenery is good, it's a pity that you can't stay long." Modern people think that the sentence "gang" is "the poet's passion for life, his persistence in the world and his persistence in his ideals." Although this view is innovative, it does not conform to the poet's life experience and mood at that time.