Author Li Bai? the Tang Dynasty
Li Bai was just about to leave when he heard a farewell song from the shore.
Even if the Peach Blossom Pond is deep, it is not as deep as Wang Lun's sending away my love.
Translation:
I was getting on the boat when I was about to untie the cable and set off when I heard melodious singing from the shore. Look at Taohuatan. Even though thousands of feet is deep, how can I be as grateful as Wang Lun?
Content reading:
China's traditional ideas are implicit. Yan Yu, a poetic theorist in the Song Dynasty, put forward four taboos in writing poetry: "The language should be straight and the meaning should be shallow. Avoid dew in the pulse, and the taste is short. " Shi Buhua, a poet in A Qing, also said that poetry "should not be expensive".
The characteristics of Li Bai's "A Gift to Wang Lun" are: frankness, directness and less implicature. Its "language is straight" and its "pulse is dew", but its "meaning" is not shallow and its taste is stronger. When the ancients wrote poems, they generally avoided calling them by their names, thinking that they had no taste. But To Wang Lun begins with the poet calling his own name and ends with calling the other person's name. On the contrary, he is honest, kind, free and easy, and very affectionate.
Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a farewell poem for his local friend Wang Lun when he visited Taohuatan in Jingxian (now southern Anhui). The first two sentences of this poem describe Wang Lun's seeing Bai off while sailing, and simply and naturally express Wang Lun's sincere feelings for Li Bai.
The last two sentences first praise the profundity of the Peach Blossom Pond with "deep thousands of feet", and then turn the intangible friendship into tangible thousands of feet Pond with a change of the word "less than", which vividly expresses Wang Lun's sincere and profound friendship for Li Bai. The language of the whole poem is fresh and natural, and the imagination is rich and strange. Although there are only four sentences and twenty-eight characters, it is one of the most widely circulated poems of Li.