[Interpretation]
This poem expresses the author's tastes and tendencies. It is natural for poets to miss their hometown; Another example is plum blossom, which is beyond words. This poem is faithful and natural.
The lyric hero in the poem ("I", not necessarily the author) is a person who has lived in a foreign land for a long time. Suddenly, he met an old friend from his hometown. The first thing that aroused him was a strong homesickness, eager to know the scenery and personnel of his hometown. The first two sentences vividly express this feeling of "I" in a form close to the natural state of life without modification. The word "hometown" appears repeatedly, showing homesickness: "You should know" and so on. However, it shows a desire to know the countryside, revealing a childlike innocence and kindness. Simply describing my feelings, psychology, demeanor and tone in a specific situation is actually a very frugal pen and ink.
There are a long list of questions about "things in my hometown". In the early Tang Dynasty, Wang Ji wrote an article "Seeing the Villagers in the Hometown of Meditation", from the old son of a friend, the nephew of a clan brother, the new trees in the old garden, the width of Mao Zhai and the density of willows to the flowers in the garden, which has not been completed so far. But the "I" in this poem put aside these things and asked alone: When you passed my silk window, did the plum blossom bloom the first cold flower? ? As if the hometown is memorable, it is the cold plum in front of the window. This is very unnatural. But this is not a pose.
A person's nostalgia for his hometown is always associated with people, events and things closely related to his previous life. The so-called "homesickness" is completely a kind of "thinking in images", and all the people who are homesick come up with concrete images or pictures. Old friends in my hometown, mountains and rivers, local conditions and customs are all worth remembering. However, it is often some seemingly ordinary trivial events, which cause cordial nostalgia, such as Han Mei at this window. It may contain intimate and interesting events in family life in those days. Therefore, this cold plum is no longer an ordinary natural thing, but a symbol of hometown. It's poetic and typical. So this cold plum naturally became the concentrated sustenance of my homesickness. In this sense, asking "the first cold flower that blooms it" is completely in line with the logic of life. One person.
There are often such unpretentious and poetic works in ancient poetry. It seems so simple that it doesn't need any skills, but it actually contains the most advanced skills. A poem like Han Mei, through special embodiment, is a typical skill, but this skill embodies a plain and homely form. This is the so-called combination of cleverness and simplicity. Wang Ji's poem "Ask a Villager who Meditates His Hometown" may be simpler than this poem, but its series of questions are far less artistic than Wang Wei's. Isn't news worth pondering?