The south, who was exiled to Lingnan, cut off contact with relatives, survived the winter and experienced a new year. The closer I get to my hometown, the more timid I am, afraid to inquire about people from home.
Crossing the Han River is the most popular five-character poem in Song Wenzhi's poems. It is moving because of its uniqueness. Song Wenzhi was exiled twice in his life. The first exile in Lingnan was in the spring of the first year of Shenlong (705), and he was exiled to Longzhou (now Luoding County, Guangdong Province) to join the army. The next year, he fled to Luoyang and lived in the home of his friend Zhang Zhongzhi. He wrote this little poem on his way home.
Luoding County, Guangdong Province borders Cenxi County, Guangxi Province, and is located in remote mountainous areas, western mountainous areas and eastern mountainous areas. In ancient times, the traffic was extremely inconvenient and books were difficult to reach. At the beginning of the poem, it is "the sound is broken outside the ridge", which means that the poet cut off his family after relegating Luo Ding. However, the next sentence says, "after winter, spring will come back." From the cold winter to the Spring Festival, I haven't heard from my family for so long. Can you not care? This seems to justify his escape to the north. The third sentence says, "Now, near my village, meet people". Not only crossing the Han River, but also near towns and villages. This place must be Xiangyang. Xiangyang is the only thoroughfare between East and West Beijing, Jiangnan and Lingnan in Tang Dynasty. Crossing Xiangyang to the north is the territory of Henan. As the saying goes, "come up from the south, then go north-to my own town!" " . In the southern suburbs of Luoyang, there is the Lu Soul Villa of Song Dynasty. When Luoyang reached the sun, the poet naturally felt "close to the countryside". After all the hardships, I finally got close to my hometown. I should be very excited. The word "fear" perfectly expresses the poet's mentality, modality and form at that time. He is too timid to ask people in his hometown for fear of hearing unfortunate or terrible news. At the same time, because of his special status of being relegated to exile, he is more complicated and afraid to meet his fellow villagers.