Liu Yuxi, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a pinyin version of Wuyi Lane: II.
Knowledge expansion:
Wuyi Xiang is one of the representative works of Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, and the second poem of Five Topics of Jinling in nostalgia. This poem praises the prosperity of Zhuque Bridge on Qinhuai River and Wuyi Lane on the south bank of Nanjing in the past. Now the weeds are overgrown and desolate, which makes people feel that things are different and life is changeable.
It is a common phenomenon that the author chooses the host family where Swallow lives, instead of the master of the old days, which makes people realize that wealth and splendor are hard to maintain, and those high-ranking officials and nobles who once enjoyed the scenery are a thing of the past.
There is no comment in the whole poem, but through the description of weeds and sunset, taking swallows as witnesses of ups and downs, it skillfully links history with reality and guides people to think about the development of the times and the changes of society, which contains profound implications. Although the language is extremely shallow, it is full of interest.
Mosquito gathering ballad
Collecting Mosquito Ballads is a political satire poem written by Liu Yuxi, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. This poem compares those insidious bureaucrats to noisy and harmful mosquitoes in the dark, vividly describes their ugliness and firmly believes that they will be eliminated one day, thus showing the poet's indomitable character in political struggle.
And contempt and hatred for corrupt bureaucrats. There are fourteen sentences in the whole poem, and the first twelve and four sentences rhyme, level and jump. The whole language is relatively simple, but some sentences are full of literary color, with aesthetic feeling in simplicity, which embodies Liu Shi's unique style.
Vernacular translation
Suzaku Bridge is covered with overgrown weeds and small wild flowers; Broken wall, Wuyi alley, is the sunset.
Swallows that once built their nests in front of the Xie Wang lobby came back and flew into the homes of ordinary people.
Creation background
In the second year of Tang Jingzong Baoli (826), Liu Yuxi returned to Luoyang from Hezhou (now Hexian County, Anhui Province) and passed through Jinling (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) to write down this group of poems praising historical sites. The total name is Jinling Five Topics, and the second one is Wuyi Lane.