Release the Fish (this poem was written in Jiangzhou since then)
Author: Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty
At dawn, the boy is carrying a bamboo basket and buying spring vegetables.
Under the green celery fern, two white fish lie stacked on top of each other.
There is no sound, but the air is moist.
Left the basket and write on the ground, stabbing for more than a foot.
I only worry about the knife and machine, sitting there and seeing the picture of ants.
Although you have been out of the spring for a long time, you can still recover after getting water.
Put it in a small pond and save it from drying up.
The water pool is narrow and the tail touches all four corners.
If you live happily for a while, what will happen in the long run.
It was pity that he had no place to live, so he was moved to Nanhu.
The Nanhu Lake is connected to the Xijiang River, so don’t hesitate when you go there.
If you show kindness, you will be rewarded. I am not a disciple of this kind.
There is no need to search for pearls in the sandy bottom.
Notes
① This poem was written in the eleventh year of Yuanhe (816). Jiangzhou: The administrative seat is now Jiujiang, Jiangxi. Bai Juyi was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima in the tenth year of Yuanhe.
②Yeah: open your mouth.
③Xu Wen: spitting foam to help each other. "Zhuangzi Tianyun": "The spring dries up, and the fish are on the land. They are wet with wetness and wet with foam. It is not as good as forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes."
④ Write: Tongxie, pour.
⑤ Dial: The sound made by the fish when it jumps.
⑥"Laozi": "A fish cannot escape from the abyss, and the sharp weapon of the country cannot be made into a human being." To avoid this, Li Yuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, changed the abyss into a spring.
⑦ Nanhu: refers to Poyang Lake. Poyang Lake is divided into South Lake and North Lake.
⑧Xijiang: People in the Tang Dynasty called the section of the Yangtze River from the gorge to Yangzhou.
⑨The Marquis of Sui Dynasty saw that the big snake was injured and applied medicine to it. Later, the snake held a big pearl in the river to repay it, so it was called the Sui Marquis' Pearl, and also called the Bright Moon Pearl. See Volume 2 of "Sou Shen Ji".
Introduction to the author
Bai Juyi (772-846), whose courtesy name was Letian. In his later years, he called himself Xiangshan Jushi. He was later known as Bai Xiangshan, Bai Fu, and Bai Taifu. He was originally from Taiyuan and later moved to Taiyuan. Xiagui (now Weinan, Shaanxi). He was an outstanding poet and writer in the Tang Dynasty. His poems had a wide range of themes, diverse forms, and simple and popular language. Bai Juyi was called "Poetry Demon", "Poetry King", "Poetry Hero", "History of Poetry", etc., and Japanese academic circles called him Bai Juyi is the "God of Poetry". In fact, in the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi was called the "Poetry Immortal". Please read Tang Xuanzong's poem: "For sixty years, who taught me to become a Poet Immortal in the dark road? The floating clouds are not named Juyi, and the good fortune has done nothing." The word is Lotte. The boy recited the song of Everlasting Sorrow, and Hu'er was able to sing the pipa. The article has become popular, and once I thought of Qing, I felt sad. . During this period, he was concerned about the government affairs, wrote many letters to express his opinions, and wrote many satirical poems, calling for the eradication of bad government. As a result, he was hated by the powerful and was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. After that, he successively served as governor of Zhongzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou and other places. After his official death, he became the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. For more articles on ancient poetry appreciation, please pay attention to the column of Bai Juyi's complete poems on the "Xi Gu Tang Chinese Studies Network".
Bai Juyi advocated that "articles are combined to form a period, and songs and poems are combined to form an event" ("Jiu Shu of the Yuan Dynasty"). Together with Yuan Zhen, he advocated the "New Yuefu Movement" aimed at exposing current ills, and wrote ten poems of "Qin Zhongyin" and fifty poems of "New Yuefu", which deeply criticized the dark reality of society at that time. In terms of art, Bai Juyi's poems are famous for being easy to understand and were widely circulated at that time. There is "Bai's Changqing Collection", which contains nearly 3,000 poems. The largest number of poems is the highest among the Tang Dynasty people.