inaction: no need, no need. Qí road: a fork in the road. The ancients often bid farewell to each other at the fork of the road. These two poems mean never to break up at a fork in the road, like a little child who is sad and wet with tears. Farewell to vice-prefect du setting out for his official post in shu by Wang Bo in the Tang Dynasty.
farewell to vice-prefect du setting out for his official post in shu
Wang Bo
by this wall that surrounds the three Qin districts, through a mist that makes five rivers one.
we bid each other a sad farewell, we two officials going opposite ways.
and yet, while China holds our friendship, and heaven remains our neighbourhood.
why should you linger at the fork of the road, children * * * with towels. Vernacular translation
The majestic Chang 'an City is guarded by the land of Sanqin, looking at Wujin through the clouds and smog.
I feel infinite affection when I leave you, because we are both floating and sinking in the official sea.
as long as there is your confidant in the world, even if you are far away, you are close to your neighbor.
Never break up at a fork in the road, weeping like a little child. Creation background
farewell to vice-prefect du setting out for his official post in shu was written by the author when he was in Chang 'an. "Shaofu" is a general term for county commandant in Tang Dynasty. Du Shaofu will go to Sichuan to be an official, and Wang Bo will send him a farewell poem in Chang 'an. Introduction of Tang Dynasty poet Wang Bo
Wang Bo (about 65-676), Zi Zi 'an, Han nationality, was a Tang Dynasty poet. A native of Longmen (now Hejin, Shanxi) in Gujiang Prefecture, he was born in a Confucian family, and was called "four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty" together with Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin and Luo Binwang, with Wang Bo as the first of the four outstanding men. Wang Bo is good at five laws and five verses in poetry genre, and his representative works are farewell to vice-prefect du setting out for his official post in shu, and his main literary achievement is parallel prose, which is excellent in both quantity and quality, and his representative works are Preface to Tengwang Pavilion, etc.