When welcoming an envoy to the capital.
Don Cen Can
Hometown is a long way to the east, double-sleeved dragon bells and tears.
Meet immediately without pen and paper, and ⑤ Jun Chuan Yu ⑤ report peace.
Ambassador to Beijing: Special envoy to Beijing.
② Hometown: refers to Chang 'an and his home in Chang 'an.
3 long: describe the long way.
Dragon bell: describes the appearance of tears, indicating that it is wet here.
5 rely on: rely on.
6 message: leave a message.
Poetry translation
Looking back at the East, my hometown is thousands of miles away, and the road is long and Xiu Yuan is awkward;
With a dragon bell on his face and dripping sleeves, tears still don't work.
On the way, I met you at once, but there was no pen and paper to repair the book;
I can only ask you to take a message and go home to report peace.
Creation background
In the eighth year of Tianbao (749), Cen Can made his first mission to the Western Regions and served as the secretary of the shogunate of Gao Xianzhi. He bid farewell to his wife in Chang 'an and strutted on a long journey. This year, Cen Can joined the army for the first time, left Yangguan in the west and went to Anxi. There are two spiritual pillars in Cen Can's thought of joining the army: one pillar is the ideal of making contributions to the frontier, which inspires him. He once said to himself, "fame should only be taken at once. The real hero is the husband." Another pillar is that he believes that joining the army is to serve the motherland and to serve the country urgently. He once confessed: "Wan Li served the King with nothing to ask for, and knew the hardships of the fortress. Is it for his wife? " Based on these two points, most of his frontier poems are high-spirited and optimistic, showing Tang Jun's high morale and prestige that shocked the earth. But when soldiers embark on a journey, they can't miss home, and they can't miss their parents and wives. Gao Shi's "Ge Yanxing" goes: "The iron clothes are far away, and the hard work is long, and my wife is crying here. Still in this southern city, the young wife's heart is broken, while the soldiers on the northern border are looking forward to going home in vain. " Cen Can's On Receiving the Envoys from the Capital shows his yearning for his hometown and family, which is a sincere and healthy feeling, although the tone is not very high. But it can't be considered negative and pessimistic, although he shed tears of homesickness. I don't know how many days I walked, but on my way to the western regions, he suddenly met an old acquaintance. I immediately talked about each other and exchanged cold feelings. Knowing that the other party was going back to Beijing to report on his work, I suddenly thought of asking him to send a letter back to his hometown in Chang 'an. This poem describes the scene.
Poetry appreciation
"Far East of Hometown" is about the actual feelings in front of us. The poet has left his hometown for many days and is on his way to the western regions. Looking back at Chang' an, the hometown of the East, it is of course a long way, and the feeling of missing can't help but attack my heart, and the feeling of homesickness is hard to recover. "Hometown" refers to my home in Chang 'an. "Looking east" means pointing out the location of Chang 'an.
"The tears of the two sleeves are dry" means that the tears of homesickness can't be wiped away, so that both sleeves are wet, but the tears just can't stop. This sentence expresses the feelings of missing relatives with exaggerated rhetoric, and also lays a high foundation for the following writing to bring a book home to "report peace".
"There is no pen and paper when we meet, and there is news from you when we report peace." These two sentences are about the situation that you met an emissary in Beijing and wanted to take a book home to report peace, but there was no pen and paper. They were completely anxious to see the traveler at once, and they behaved very vividly. When we meet, we can't write letters without pen and paper. Please send me a safe message to my home! Cen Can came here with the ambition of "fame and fortune". At this time, the mood is complicated. On the one hand, he has tenderness and homesickness for the imperial city, on the other hand, he also shows the poet's open and heroic mind.
The language of this poem is simple and natural, as if it appeared casually, especially in the scene where the last two sentences met immediately. Full of rich frontier life breath, the lens is clearly focused, just like a close-up of a film and television. It is not only interesting in life, but also human, fresh and lively, memorable, unadorned and sincere. Poets are good at refining and summarizing the thoughts and words of many people by artistic means, making them typical. Liu Xizai, a Qing Dynasty man, once said, "Poetry can be seen in a convenient place, so it feels kind and tasteful." (See "Art Outline". Poetry has a rich charm among the people and can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for a long time. Cen Can's poems have this feature. Zhong Xing commented on this poem: "It is true." Tan said, "Everyone has this story, and it has never been written, so future generations can't attack it. So it can last for a long time "("The Return of Tang Poetry ",Volume XIII). Shen Deqian said, "Everyone speaks Chinese in his heart, but he becomes a swan song" (Collection of Tang Poems, Volume 19).
Cen Can (7 15-770), a native of Jiangling, Jingzhou (now Jiangling, Hubei), was lonely since childhood and was familiar with history. Cen, a famous frontier poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, was well-known for his participation in Gao Shi and was known as the "Gao Cen". His poems are bold, imaginative and colorful, especially the seven-character poems.
Cen Can was born in a bureaucratic family, and his great-grandfather, great-uncle and uncle were all prime ministers. My father was also a secretary of state twice. But my father died young and my family fortune declined. I accepted my brother's books and read the history of classics since I was a child. At the age of twenty, I went to Chang 'an to present a book for an official position. Later, I went north to Heshuo. At the age of 30, he was promoted to Jinshi, and Cao joined the army. For eight years, Tianbao served as the shogunate secretary of Gao Xianzhi, our ambassador to Anxi, and went to Anxi for ten years, then returned to Chang 'an. In thirteen years, he was appointed as Judge Feng Changqing, our time envoy of Northwest Hospital of An 'an, and went to the frontier again. After the Anshi Rebellion, he stayed in Germany for two years before returning to North Korea. Twice in the frontier for six years. His poem says, "Wan Li served the king with nothing to ask for. I also know that the border is bitter, and I am begging my wife. " ("Judge Yuwen on the first trip to Longshan Road") He also said: "Side by side, assist the curtain and take charge of the frontier. I have been waiting for a long time, so I also wear a short coat. I have been able to walk fast recently, and I am not calm. " (Dr. Feng Hou in the western suburb of Beiting surrendered and returned to the army.) It can be seen that his two trips to the fortress were quite ambitious. After he returned to Korea, Du Fu and others recommended him to fill the vacancy. Later, he was transferred to other official positions such as Scheeren, and in the first year of Dali, he went to the secretariat of history. After the break, the guests died in Chengdu Guest House.
Cen Can's poems have a wide range of themes. In addition to generally lamenting his life experience and giving answers to his friends, he also wrote many landscape poems before going to the frontier. The poetic style is quite similar to that of Xie Tiao and He Xun, but it is characterized by novel artistic conception. Poems such as "Mountain breeze blows the empty forest, whispering like people" ("Walking in Late Autumn"), "Long wind blows the cogongrass, and wild fire burns the mulberries" ("To the Girder, I will send it to the Lord of Kuangcheng") are all examples of poetic wonders. Du Fu also said that "Cen Can brothers are all curious" ("A trip to the United States"), and the so-called "curiosity" is the hobby of novelty.
Since the frontier fortress, in the new world of Anxi and Beiting, and in the fighting life of pommel horse, his poetic realm has been expanded unprecedentedly, and his love for novelty has been further developed in his creation, and the magnificent romantic color has become the main style of his frontier fortress poems.
Cen Can's poems are characterized by heroic spirit of serving the country generously and optimistic spirit of not being afraid of hardship, which is consistent with Gao Shi. The difference is that he describes the richness of frontier life more than the sympathy for foot soldiers in Gao Shi's poems. This is mainly because his background and early experience are different from Gao Shi's.
Cen Can's poems are full of romantic features: majestic, imaginative, colorful, passionate and unrestrained, and his curious ideological character make his frontier poems present strange artistic charm. His poems have various forms, but he is best at seven-character poems. Sometimes two sentences turn, sometimes three sentences and four sentences turn, constantly rushing and jumping, full of images everywhere.