It means that autumn has come, but there is no sorrow or joy.
From: "The Collection of Flowers" by Wen Tingyun of the Tang Dynasty
Original text:
Falling leaves know autumn, friendship is like wine, and there is no joy when the wind gets cooler. worry.
Translation:
The leaves have fallen, and the friendship between you and me is like wine. The longer the time, the better. When the weather gets cooler, there is no joy or sorrow.
Extended information:
Creative background:
Wen Tingyun’s poems are rich in content and have extensive exposure to war, love, life, history, politics, and women’s themes. , in-depth thinking, and the artistic expression techniques are flexible and diverse. There are not only exquisite diction and tireless descriptions, but also aphorisms with high style and fresh language. The writing is clear and elegant, and is highly praised by people at the time.
From the perspective of poetry style, he is best at Yuefu poetry and modern rhythm poetry. In the Qing Dynasty, father and son Gu Yuxian and Gu Sili re-annotated Wen Feiqing's poems. After the father's death, his son succeeded him, and finally compiled "Annotations to Wen Feiqing's Collected Poems". There are about one-sixth of the Yuefu poems in Wen Tingyun's collection of poems, which are gorgeous and beautiful, and mostly write about the themes of boudoir and banquets.
Among his Yuefu poems, the ones with higher achievements are mainly those that describe history, nostalgia for the past, love and style, and travel descriptions (including visits to frontier fortresses). However, there are also excellent works about banquets and music. Wen Tingyun's Yuefu poems use historical events to satirize the current ills. They are the inheritance of the new Yuefu poems of the Yuan and Bai Dynasties, and at the same time they also have great development and changes.
The subject matter focuses on style, the image tends to be sad, the artistic conception tends to be obscure, and the technique is graceful and tortuous, showing a style similar to the style of poetry. Among the authors of Yuefu poems in the Tang Dynasty, Wen Tingyun is an important one. Some researchers even rank him as one of the four Yuefu poets in the Tang Dynasty along with Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi.