Cui Hu (Tang Dynasty)
Original text
Last year today, peach blossoms set each other off in this door.
I don't know where people are going, but peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze.
translation
Last spring, in this family's home, I saw that beautiful face and peach blossoms set off each other, which made them look particularly rosy. When I come here again today, the girl doesn't know where to go. Only the peach blossoms are still blooming in the spring breeze with a smile.
Extended information:
The whole poem uses "human face" and "peach blossom" as the running clues, and through the contrast of "last year" and "today", the poet's feelings caused by these two different encounters are reflected. Contrast and reflection play an extremely important role in this poem.
Because the lost beautiful things are written in the memory, the memory is particularly precious, beautiful and full of emotion, and this is the vivid description of "Peach Blossoms in Face Set each other off"; It is precisely because of such beautiful memories that I feel particularly disappointed to lose good things, so I have the feeling that "people don't know where to go, but peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze".
judging from the storyline, this is an impromptu poem, which seems to give people only two simple pictures-a face with peach blossoms in contrast and a peach blossom after the face is gone.
However, because the characters' activities run through it, and because of the contrast and contrast between pictures, pictures (peach blossoms) and outside pictures (poets), the occurrence, development and ups and downs of the characters' feelings are subtly displayed, such as the first encounter, the lovesickness after parting, the affectionate revisit, the unexpected disappointment, etc., which are all expressed implicitly or explicitly.
the whole poem is naturally muddy, just like a clear spring pouring out from the bottom of my heart, clear and mellow, which makes people endless aftertaste. "Looking for spring and encountering beauty" and "looking for nothing again" can be written as narrative poems. The author didn't write this way, which just shows that Tang people are more accustomed to feeling the events in life with the eyes and feelings of lyric poets.