Appreciation of the poetic theme of the first couplet

5. What is the meaning of "China Year" in the first couplet? What does it have to do with the theme of the poem?

A: The years in the first couplet refer to beautiful years, generally referring to youth. This poem belongs to a memory of his later years, and the years in the first couplet express the author's nostalgia for his lost youth.

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Inlaid harp

Author: Li Shangyin (Tang Dynasty)

I want to know why my Jinse has fifty strings, and each string has a youthful interval. Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, was bewitched by butterflies, and cuckoo crowed in the imperial spring.

Mermaids shed pearl-like tears on the moon-green sea, and the blue fields breathed their jade to the sun. A moment that should last forever? Before I knew it, it had come and gone.