This poem comes from Bai Juyi's Farewell to Ancient Grass in Tang Dynasty.
First, the original text and translation of the whole poem are attached to facilitate our interpretation of this poem.
original text
The long grass is so lush that the withered grass will thicken the color of the grass every autumn and winter.
Wildfire can't burn it out, but the spring breeze can revive it.
Weeds and wild flowers are all over the ancient road, and the end of the grass in the sun is your journey.
I once again sent my bosom friend, and the thick grass represented my deep affection.
translate
The Yuan Ye is covered with lush grass, which turns yellow in autumn and winter every year and thickens in spring.
Wildfire can't burn all the weeds on the ground. When the spring breeze blows, the earth turns green.
The fragrant weeds in the distance are covered with ancient roads, and Greentown is even deserted under the sunshine.
Today, I have come to bid farewell to my old friend. Even the lush grass is full of feelings of parting.
Second, what is the main point of this poem?
We learned this poem in primary school. The title of the poem is Grass, which is an excerpt from the first four sentences in Farewell to Ancient Grass. The first four sentences are relatively simple, mainly to express the tenacious vitality of ancient grass. Even if there is a fire burning, the roots of grass can't be burned. When spring comes, roots can sprout and grow a green grassland.
The last four sentences are different, mainly to express farewell to friends. Although the first four sentences seem to have nothing to do with the last four sentences, this is the genius of Bai Juyi. He set off the sadness of parting with lush vegetation. The "separation" at the beginning echoes the "separation" at the end. Bai Juyi expressed this sadness of parting in this way from the moment he started writing.
3. When was this poem written?
This poem was written by Bai Juyi in Zhenyuan three years, when he was only sixteen years old. However, this poem was originally an exercise for the exam. At that time, the requirements for assigning questions to the exam were very strict. It is necessary to have something to say, to be neat and ethereal, so there are few particularly good works, and Bai Juyi's poems are rare masterpieces.
There is also a short story about this poem: Bai Juyi wrote a post with this poem when he visited the famous Gu Kuang when he first entered Beijing. At first, Gu Kuang saw Bai Juyi's name and said with a smile, It's expensive in Chang 'an, so it's not easy to live in the White House. It may be because he is young, just like the leaders of big companies look at fresh graduates now. It is not so easy for a rookie to make a living. However, when he read this poem by Bai Juyi, he greatly lamented that such a sentence is not difficult to make. This shows how talented Bai Juyi is.
4. Who is Bai Juyi?
Bai Juyi, a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province, was originally from Taiyuan. His great-grandfather moved to Shimonoseki. He was a great realistic poet in Tang Dynasty, and he also had another name about poetry: Poet Magic. Like Li Bai and Du Fu, they are all poets and saints. Why is Bai Juyi a poet?
The thing is, Bai Juyi especially likes poetry and prose, and his favorite degree has reached the extreme. Usually, he reads and writes from morning till night. In the long run, his tongue is sore from over-reading and his fingers are callused from over-writing, which shows his enthusiasm for poetry and prose. He also laughed at himself and said: "The meaning of drunkenness is not in wine, which leads the poet to send it, and laments the Western Heaven in the afternoon." Thus, his name as a poet came into being.