From Ouyang Xiu's "Waves of Sand", the translation of this poem is: Time is like waves of sand, and all the people who left their names in history are outstanding talents.
Full text: Drink the east wind and be calm. The weeping Yang Donglin Luocheng always walked hand in hand through the fragrant flowers. Time is like a wave of sand, and talents come forth in large numbers in the long river of history. The flowers this year are better than those last year. It's a pity that the flowers will be better next year. Who do you know?
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Langtaosha was originally the name of Don Jiao Fang, and was later used as a epigraph name. Yan Yue flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and scholars were good at writing poems. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Liu Yuxi and Bai Juyi wrote the Yuefu song Langtaosha in tune with the minor Langtaosha. In the lyrics of "All Tang Poems", it is said that "Yuefu in Tang Dynasty originally used rhymes, harmonics and other poems, whose harmonics were content words, and long and short sentences were written by composers".
In the atmosphere of the great era when poetry and music blended together, Liu and Bai studied folk songs, and created a seven-character quatrain "Singing Langtaosha" according to the popular ballad tunes at that time, which was included in Modern Quci by Yuefu Poetry Collection. It was originally a miscellaneous song of some scattered or damaged folk tunes, which was collated and preserved by Yuefu institutions, and its contents were mostly lyrical works by poets.
Li Yuyan, Queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, wrote the poem "Langtaosha", also known as "Langtaosha Order". In the Northern Song Dynasty, Liu Yong wrote a long tune "Langtaosha", also known as "Langtaosha Slow". Different from the original.