As a stranger in a foreign land,
Please think twice about your relatives during the festival.
Know where the brothers climb,
There is one person missing from the dogwood.
This poem by Wang Wei was written when he was seventeen years old, probably when he was seeking work in Chang 'an. This poem has infected readers for thousands of years with powerful artistic power.
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival, which is today. Since ancient times, there has been a folk custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival in China. It is said that wearing dogwood bags on the Double Ninth Festival and drinking chrysanthemum wine when climbing mountains can avoid disasters.
The poem "Miss My Shandong Brothers on a Mountain Holiday" has been told by people for thousands of years with simple language and deep feelings. The first two sentences of this poem adopt the method of direct lyric, and successfully express the homesickness of the wanderer in plain language, which makes the poem form a lyric climax at the beginning.
"Being alone in a foreign land is a stranger", a word of "independence" and "difference" shows the poet's loneliness of living in a foreign land to the fullest. When Wang Wei sought fame in Chang 'an, most of his friends were dignitaries, and he saw more prosperity in Chang 'an, but even so, Wang Wei, who was only 17 years old, felt lonely in the bustling place.
This kind of homesickness may not be shown at ordinary times, but it is particularly prominent during festivals. This is probably why we in China have the custom of returning leaves to our roots.
"I miss my family more often during the festive season" is an emotional desire that everyone has outside, but it has never been expressed as accurately as the author. This poem can best express people's homesickness in a foreign land, and it is also a day for family reunion. Therefore, this poem can become an aphorism and famous saying that wanderers miss home and their loved ones. For thousands of years, it touched the hearts of countless wanderers.
Who doesn't want to reunite with their families who work outside in peacetime? Most of us are forced by life and gradually get used to being alone, but when it comes to holidays, we still can't help but miss our relatives in our hometown.
These two poems are an imagination of Wang Wei. They are written about brothers in their hometown climbing the mountain today. Everyone put on dogwood bags and found themselves missing. Wang Wei didn't write that he couldn't reunite with his brother, but he wrote that his brother couldn't reunite. Thinking of this, Wang Wei couldn't help feeling sad.
In the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Qianyi said in "Poems on Zhai Zhai Zhai": "It is doubly bleak not to say that I miss him, but to say that he misses me."
Wang Wei is versatile and proficient in poetry, books, paintings and music. Most of Wang Wei's poems in the early period of "An Shi Rebellion" reflected reality and had a relatively progressive political tendency, which was mainly reflected in his frontier poems and resentment poems. For example, "the desert is lonely and straight, and the long river sets the yen" and other poems. The description of rural scenery in his later period reflects his negative mood of escaping from reality.
Wang Wei was an outstanding poet in the Tang Dynasty, with many artistic talents. He is good at painting, proficient in music, and can combine painting with music.