Liu Yuxi compared himself to a sunken ship and a sick tree. Although he is disappointed, he is quite philosophical. On the side of the sunken ship, Qian Fan is competing; Before a sick tree, everything is spring. He excavated these two sentences from Bai Juyi's poems, but encouraged Bai Juyi not to grieve for his loneliness and waste, showing his open mind about the changes of the world and the rise and fall of his official career. Twenty-three years of relegation did not make him depressed. As he wrote in another poem: "Sang Yu is late because the sky is still full of summer." His sick tree needs to be refreshed to welcome spring. Because these two poems are vivid, they are still often quoted and given new meanings, which shows that new things will replace old things.
This poem is from Liu Yuxi's Appreciating Lotte in Yangzhou.
The whole poem is as follows:
The mountains were desolate and silent for twenty-three years.
People come back. Like people in Michelle, I can only play the flute, and I am disappointed.
On one side of the boat, Qian Fan races; At the head of the sick tree, every year is a spring shower.
Today, listen to you sing a song, drink a glass of wine and cheer up.
Translation:
I spent twenty-three years in the desolate places of Bashan and Chushui.
Missing an old friend, reciting Xiao Fu in vain, and returning home for a long time is not the past.
There are thousands of ships passing by the sunken ship, but there is also a struggle for spring in front of the sick tree.
After listening to the poem you recited to me today, I will cheer up with this glass of wine for the time being.
About the author:
Liu Yuxi (AD 772-842), born in Luoyang, was a philosopher and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty. In the ninth year of Zhenyuan, Liu Yuxi was a scholar and a scholar of macro characters. In the eleventh year of Zhenyuan, the official department took the scholar department and awarded the prince a school book; In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan, he served as the secretariat of Xuzhou; Two years later, he was transferred to the main book of Jingzhao Weinan; In the nineteenth year of Zhenyuan, he was promoted to suggestion. In the third year, Liu Yuxi was appointed as a guest of honor of the Prince and was divided into the East Capital. A year later, he was added to the history of the school, and he was called Liu Bin. Tang Wuzong died in July of the second year of Huichang (AD 842) at the age of 7 1 year. Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan have a profound friendship and are called "Liu Liu". He sang a lot with Bai Juyi and called him "Bai Liu". Liu Yuxi is good at writing and poetry. Liu Yuxi's poems are vigorous and bright, with clean and bright language and harmonious rhythm. He is especially good at metrical poems and quatrains. There are 40 volumes of Liu Mengde's collected works, and there are 30 existing volumes. There is also an external collection of 10 volume, which was collected during the Northern Song Dynasty, with 407 poems and 22 essays.