Anding Tower
Li Shangyin
Passing a hundred-foot tower in the high city, the green poplar branches are outside Tingzhou.
Jia Sheng shed tears when he was young, but Wang Can traveled further in spring.
I always remember that the rivers and lakes are white-haired, and I want to go back to heaven and earth and get into a boat.
I don't know what a rotten mouse tastes like, but I guess the young has not stopped.
2. Translation:
There are towers 1 feet high on the tall city wall, and outside the poplar forest is a sandbar in the water.
Jia Yi, who was young and promising, shed tears in vain, and Wang Can, who went upstairs in spring, went on a long trip again.
I often yearn for my old age to retire to the Jianghu freely, and I want to go boating freely after turning around Gan Kun.
I didn't know that the rotten dead mouse became delicious, but I was suspicious of the hobby of the young.
3. Notes:
(1) Anding: the name of the county, namely Jingzhou (now north of Jingchuan County, Gansu Province), was the seat of Jingyuan's governor in the Tang Dynasty.
(2) Tiaodi: This describes the building as high and continuous. Xie Tiao's "Preaching with the King": "Take the green water and lift the Zhulou."
(3) Outside the branch: one is "on the branch". Ting Zhou: Ting refers to the land near the water, and Zhou is a continent in the water. This sentence writes what you see when you go upstairs.
(4) Jia Sheng: refers to Jia Yi, a native of the Western Han Dynasty. Biography of Jia Sheng in Historical Records: "Jia Sheng ... was young and quite familiar with the book of hundred schools of thought. Emperor Wen called him a doctor ... a doctor at the age of one. " In the biography of Han Jia Yi, Jia Yi believes that "current events can be one for those who cry, two for those who cry, and six for those who breathe too much. "Therefore," I wrote several books on Chen's political affairs and wanted to build more. " But Wendi didn't take his advice. Later, he vomited blood and died at the age of 33. Li Shangyin is 27 years old at this time, comparing himself with Jia Sheng.
(5) Wang Can, a native of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, was one of the seven sons of Jian 'an. Biography of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu and Wang Can shows that Wang Can once lived in Jingzhou when he was young, and attached himself to Liu Biao, but he was unsuccessful. He once wrote "Ode to the Building" in spring, in which there is a saying: "Although I believe in beauty rather than my soil, how can I stay less?" Li Shangyin compared himself with Wang Can who was under the patronage of others.
[6] always remember: always yearn for it. Rivers and lakes return to white hair: retire in old age.
⑺ Want to go back to heaven and earth and enter the boat: Biography of Historical Records of Huo Zhi: In the Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li assisted Gou Jian, the king of Yue, to destroy Wu, and then took a boat to the Five Lakes. Li Shangyin used this story to say that he always wanted to retire to the Jianghu when he was old, but he had to wait until he had completed the cause of governing the country and made a name for himself.
⑻ "I don't know" sentence: The young is a phoenix-like bird in ancient legend. Zhuangzi Qiushui: "Keiko looks at each other, and Zhuangzi goes to see it. Or Keiko said,' Zhuangzi came to take the place of the son.' So Hui Shi was very frightened and searched the country for three days and three nights. Zhuangzi went to see it and said,' There is a bird in the south, and its name is an old hen. ..... Originated in the South China Sea and flew to the North Sea, it was not a phoenix tree, it was not a practice, it was not a food, and it was not a drink. So the owl got the rotten mouse, and the young one passed it, and looked up and said, scare! This son wants to frighten me with his Liang Guo?' "Li Shangyin compared himself with Zhuangzi and Gu Xiao, saying that he has lofty aspirations, and he is not drawn to the generation of official positions and rich wealth, but he is arrogant with the mind of a villain.
4. Brief introduction of the poet:
Li Shangyin, whose name is Yishan, whose name is Yuxi Sheng and Fan Nansheng, is a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home is Qinyang in Hanoi (now Jiaozuo City, Henan Province) and he was born in Xingyang, Zhengzhou. He is good at poetry writing, and his parallel prose is also of high literary value. He is one of the most outstanding poets in the late Tang Dynasty. Together with Du Mu, he is called "Little Li Du", and together with Wen Tingyun, he is called "Wen Li". Because his poems and essays are similar to those of Duan Chengshi and Wen Tingyun in the same period, and all three of them rank sixteenth in the family, they are also called "Thirty-six Style". His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems are touching, beautiful and moving, and are widely read. However, some poems are too obscure and confusing to be solved, and there is even a saying that "poets always love Xikun and hate no one to write Zheng Jian". Being in the middle of the struggle between Niu and Li, I was frustrated all my life. After his death, he was buried in his hometown Qinyang (now the junction of Qinyang and Boai County in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province). His works are included in Li Yishan's Poems.