What kind of poem is Xixi Chuzhou?

"Xixi Chuzhou" is a beautiful poem. Seven-character quatrains are a genre of China's traditional poetry, which belongs to the category of modern poetry. There are four poems in this style, each with seven words, and there are strict metrical requirements in rhyme and adhesion.

Xixi Chuzhou is a poem written by Wei, a poet in Tang Dynasty, who visited Xixi Chuzhou when he was making history in Chuzhou.

The original text is as follows:

Alone, grass grows by the stream, and orioles sing on the trees.

The spring tide brought the rain late and urgent, and there was no boat on the wild crossing.

The translation is as follows:

I like the quiet grass growing by the stream and the orioles singing in the deep forest.

The spring tide is accompanied by the rapidity of the late rain, and only unmanned boats cross the river.

Sentence annotation

(1) Chuzhou: It's in the west of Chuzhou City, Anhui Province. Xijiang River: In the west of Chuzhou, commonly known as Shangma River.

(2) Solitude: I only like it. Excellent grass: grass in the valley. Quiet, a square. Health: a "line".

(3) Deep trees: trees with dense branches and leaves. Deep, "just assembled" means "far" Tree, "The Whole Tang Poetry" notes that "there is a book called Chu".

Extended data:

Xixi Chuzhou Poetry is generally believed to have been written by Wei when he was the secretariat of Chuzhou in the second year of Jian Zhong (78 1). He often walks alone in the country, and Chuzhou on Xixi is his frequent place. The author loves the quiet scenery of Xijian. One day he visited Chuzhou (in the western suburbs of Chuzhou) on Xixi and wrote this poetic poem.

This is a poem about scenery, which describes the scenery of Chuzhou in Xixi spring water and the crazy crossing of rain at low tide. The first two sentences are spring scenery, love the quiet grass, despise the oriole, which is a metaphor for celebration and avoid flattery; The last two sentences describe the urgency of spring tide with rain and the scene of water rushing over the boat, which contains a kind of helpless sadness that is not in place and cannot be used. The whole poem reveals a calm mind and sad feelings.

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