The first period of spring rain in Lin' an
Author: Lu You
In recent years, officials are interested in a thin layer of gauze. Who will let me take a bus to Kyoto to visit this bustling city? ?
Living in a small building and listening to the falling spring rain, you will hear the sound of selling apricots in the depths of the alley early in the morning. ?
Slowly spread out small pieces of paper sideways, every word is organized, carefully boil water and tea under the sun window, skim it and try to taste famous tea. ?
Oh, don't sigh that the dust in Kyoto will stain the white clothes, and there is still time to return to the mirror house in Lake Ubak.
Spring Rain in Lin 'an is a seven-character poem written by Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, in his later years. Lu You was sixty-two years old when he wrote this song "The Beginning of Spring Rain in Lin 'an". He stayed in his hometown of Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) for five years. The poet's high spirits and frivolity in his youth are gone forever with the passage of time. Although his ambition to recover the Central Plains has not diminished, he is increasingly aware of the weakness and darkness of the small court in the Southern Song Dynasty.
After Wang Yan was transferred from Sichuan to Shaanxi, Lu You returned to eastern Sichuan in the fifth year of Xichun (A.D. 1 178) and worked as a junior official in Fujian, Jiangxi and Zhejiang. The situation of "I want to lie on my couch for a few times, but my sword is hard to drink" is quite different from the situation in which Wang Yan's men are reused. In the thirteenth year of Xichun (A.D. 1 186), the author was called to Beijing and accepted the position of Yanzhou Zhizhou. Before his appointment, he went to Lin 'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) to see the emperor, lived in an inn by the West Lake and was summoned. In boredom, he wrote this well-known masterpiece.
References:
Lin' an Chunyu First Century Baidu Encyclopedia