"Miscellaneous Songs·Langtaosha"
Original text:
In August, the waves roared to the ground, and the head was several feet high and touched the mountain.
After a while, he entered the sea gate, rolling up piles of sand like snowdrifts.
Vernacular translation:
The sound of waves in August comes like thousands of horses galloping and roaring loudly, and the waves several feet high rush towards the rocks on the shore and are then knocked back. In a moment, it retreated to the confluence of the river and the sea and returned to the sea. The piles of sand it rolled up looked like white snowdrifts in the sunlight.
This article comes from the extended information of Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty
Writing background:
"Miscellaneous Songs and Songs·Langtaosha" is a composition composed by Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty one. The first song interprets myths and legends, the second song uses symbolic techniques to express the sufferings of love, the third song describes the changing principles of world affairs, the fourth song describes the feelings of wanderers, the fifth song depicts the style of Jinjiang, and the sixth song reveals the concept of labor and enjoyment. Unjust, the seventh song describes the tide of the Qiantang River, the eighth song describes the feelings of immigrants, and the ninth song describes the changing principles of world affairs. This is a folk song style poem, which is easy to understand and very pure, without any flashy words.
Since the Anshi Rebellion, the momentum of the Tang Dynasty declined suddenly. The vassal towns were divided and the eunuchs had exclusive power. When talented people are released and angered, works of resentment emerge as the times require. After Liu Yuxi was transferred from a Beijing official to a local official, he also made famous works, such as "Miscellaneous Songs and Songs·Langtaosha". This group of poems should be Liu Yuxi's later works, and they were not created at one time or place.
According to the Yellow River, Luoshui, Bianshui, Qinghuai, Yingyingzhou, Zhuojinjiang, etc. mentioned in the poem, it may have been written in Kuizhou, Hezhou, Luoyang and other places, and was later compiled into one Group. Some scholars believe that this group of poems was written in the late Kuizhou period, that is, in the spring of the second year of Changqing (822 AD), when Kuizhou was demoted.