The word "rise" is full of dynamics and vividly describes the scene of the night rain in Bashan having been falling for a long time and the pond water gradually filling up. The louder the rain outside the window adds to the silence of the night, the more it touches the poet's longing for distant relatives and friends.
"Night Rain Sends to the North" ?
Author: Li Shangyin
Creation Year: Late Tang Dynasty
Jun Wen’s return date has not yet been announced, Bashan The night rain swells the autumn pond.
Why should I cut off the candles from the west window and talk about the rainy night in Bashan?
Vernacular interpretation: You ask me when I will go home, but I really can’t decide on a date! The only thing I can tell you at this time is that the continuous night rain in Bashan is filling the autumn pond. If one day we sit under the window at home, cut candle flowers together, and talk to each other about our longing for each other in the rainy night in Bashan tonight, that would be a wonderful thing.
In "Bashan night rain rises in the autumn pond", it is the poet's real background, which tells the poet's time and space location at that time. It is also a portrayal of the poet's sadness of traveling alone in a foreign land as a stranger.
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Creative background:
This poem is selected from the third volume of "Poems from Yuxi". It was written by Li Shangyin in memory of his relatives and friends when he was stranded in Bashu. work. Since Chang'an is located in the north of Bayu, the title is "Night Rain Sends to the North".
In "Ten Thousand Tang Dynasty Quatrains" compiled by Hong Mai of the Southern Song Dynasty, the title of this poem is "Sent in the Night Rain", which means that the poem was given to his wife. They believe that Li Shangyin went to Dongchuan Jiedushi in July of the fifth year of Dazhong (851). Wang died of illness at the turn of summer and autumn of that year, and Li Shangyin found out a few months later that his wife had passed away.
It is now said that each volume of Li's poems is titled "Night Rain Sends to the North". "North" refers to people from the north, which can refer to wives or friends. After research, some people believe that it was written after the death of the author's wife Wang, so it was not a poem "sent inwardly" but a poem written for friends in Chang'an.
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