I am a lonely stranger in a strange land, and I miss my family more often during the holidays.
When I think of my brothers' bodies climbing high, I will feel a little regret for not being able to reach me.
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A person who is a stranger in a foreign land misses his relatives twice every festive season.
Imagine that I was the only one with dogwood on my head when my brothers climbed the mountain and looked far today.
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1. September 9th: Double Ninth Festival. In ancient times, nine was the number of yang, so it was called Chongyang.
2. Memory: nostalgia.
3. Shandong: Wang Weiqian moved to Puxian (now yongji city, Shanxi), east of Hanguguan and Huashan, so it was called Shandong.
4. Foreign land: foreign land, foreign land.
5. Being a stranger: Being a guest in another country.
6. Festival: a beautiful festival.
7. Mountain climbing: There is an ancient custom of mountain climbing on the Double Ninth Festival.
8. Cornus officinalis (zhyú): refers to Evodia rutaecarpa. It is a nearly ripe fruit of rutaceae plant Evodia rutaecarpa. Cornus officinalis in Wang Wei's poems refers to Evodia rutaecarpa.
It originated from Wang Wei's "Mountain Residence in memory of Shandong Brothers" in the Tang Dynasty.
Creation background
This poem was written by a poet in Chang 'an at the age of seventeen. This is written by a teenager who can get rid of superficial carving and point to real feelings. He really knows the knack of writing poetry. The poet's hometown, Zhou Pu (now Yongji, Shanxi), is in the east of Huashan Mountain, hence the name "Recalling Shandong Brothers".
Brief introduction of the author
Author Wang Wei (70 1-76 1, 699-76 1) was born in Zhou Pu (now Yuncheng, Shanxi) on the east side of the Tang Dynasty. Born in Qixian County, Shanxi Province, he was a famous poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty. In the 19th year of Kaiyuan (73 1), Wang Wei was the first scholar. Li Guan right gleaned, supervised the remonstrance, and made our time in Hexi.
Wang Wei, who is proficient in poetry, calligraphy, sound and painting, is famous for his poems, especially his five words, which praise the landscape and countryside. Together with Meng Haoran, he was called "Wang Meng" and was called "Shi Fo" because of his devout belief in Buddhism. Calligraphy and painting are particularly wonderful, and later generations promoted it to the ancestor of Nanzong landscape painting.
Personal realization
Wang Wei is the author of Wang Youcheng Collection and The Secret of Painting, with about 400 poems. Su Shi commented on the Northern Song Dynasty cloud: "There are pictures in poetry, which are fascinating; Look at the picture. There are poems in it.