Author: Bai Juyi's Age: Tang
Part one:
Full face of beard and beard, eyebrows selling and residual face selling red.
Sorrow, hard work and haggard, but now it seems like drawing a picture.
Secondly:
The Chinese envoy replied with a message, when will gold redeem the moth eyebrow?
if the king asks the color of his concubine, it's better than when he was in the palace.
translation
First, my face is stained with the dust from Alakazam, my hair is messed up by the wind, and the powder on my eyebrows and cheeks is faded. Being tortured by the hard work and sorrow of life here is just like what it was in the original portrait (because there is no money to bribe the painter, the portrait is ugly).
Secondly, ask an envoy to help me speak for the monarch, and when can I get gold to redeem me? If the monarch asks me what I look like now, be sure to say it's the same as when I was in the palace.
Appreciation
These two poems are called "Songs of Harmony". Xianghe Song is a kind of music formed by integrating the traditions of Chu Sheng in the pre-Qin period on the basis of "street ballads" in China Han Dynasty. It is mainly played on occasions such as banquets and entertainment of bureaucrats and tycoons, as well as court New Year's Day banquets, worship of gods and even folk customs.
The first one wrote that Zhao Jun was haggard after falling into Hu Chen, and the second one described her sad state of pleading with the Han envoy to hide the decay of her appearance.
The characteristics of Wang Zhaojun's two songs, which were seventeen years old, are good at portraying characters, and he is good at renovating old things and thinking differently. Poems in the Wine Garden holds that this poem was turned out from Guo Zhen's Wang Zhaojun, while "leaving a message" was Bai's idea, which not only "was in harmony with feelings", but also opened up a new artistic world for praising Wang Zhaojun.