Nine Poems on Waves of Waves on the Sand
Author: Liu Yuxi
1
The Yellow River has nine bends and thousands of miles of sand, and the waves and winds blow it from the end of the world.
Now we go straight up the Milky Way to the home of the Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl.
Two
The spring sun is slanting by the Luoshui Bridge 2, and the green sand is light and shallow in the blue stream.
There was an unexplained strong wind on the shore, causing the mandarin ducks to break out of the waves.
Three
The Bianshui River flows eastward with the tiger’s eye text 5, and the Qing Huai River dawns with duck-headed spring 6.
Look at the sandy place at the ferry, how many people are crossing the world.
Four
The waves and sand at the head of Parrot Island are 7, and the sun is about to set in spring at the brothel.
Swallows holding mud in their mouths fight to return to their homes, and a mad man alone does not remember his home. 9.
Five
There are 10 flowers on both sides of the Zhuojin River, and the spring breeze blows and the waves wash away the sand.
The girl cuts off the mandarin duck brocade 11, and the sunset will flow into the middle 12.
Saturday
The fog is blooming on the Chengzhou River in Rizhao13, and the gold-mining girls are snuggling all over the river14.
The beauties’ jewelry and royal seals all come from the bottom of the waves in the sand.
Seven
In August 15, the waves roared to the ground, touching the mountain back several feet high.
After a while, he entered the sea gate, rolling up piles of sand like snowdrifts.
Eight
Don’t slander people as deep as the waves; don’t drive away guests like sand sinking with words16.
Although it is hard work 17, you can only find gold after blowing all the sand.
Nine
The flowing water washes out the sand without pausing, and before the previous wave disappears, the next wave arises.
It makes people suddenly recall Xiaoxiangzhu18, and sing back and forth to welcome the gods.19.
1. Straight up the Milky Way: Ancient legend says that the Yellow River is connected with the Milky Way in the sky. According to "Records of the Years of Jingchu", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to Daxia to find the source of the Yellow River. Zhang Qian walked for more than a month and met Weaver Girl. Weaver Girl gave Zhang Qian the branch stone. Qian returns. The same book also contains: The Weaver Girl is the granddaughter of the Emperor of Heaven, and she has been weaving brocade for many years. Since marrying the Cowherd, I have stopped weaving brocade. The Emperor of Heaven was furious and ordered her and Cowherd to live separately on both sides of the Milky Way, facing each other across the river, and meet once a year on the seventh night of July.
2. Luoshui: a tributary of the Yellow River, in the western part of today's Henan Province. In the second year of Baoli (826), Emperor Jingzong of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Yuxi was transferred to Luoyang and served in the Shangshu Province of the Eastern Capital for about two years. In his later years, he served as a guest of the prince and was assigned to the Eastern Capital of Luoyang. He died of illness in Luoyang at the age of seventy-one. This first talk about Luoshui Bridge should have been written in Luo.
3. Qiongsha: jade-like gravel.
4. Unprovoked: for no reason, suddenly.
5. Bianshui River: It starts from present-day Xingyang County, Henan Province, flows east through Anhui, and reaches the Huaihe River in Jiangsu. Tiger eye text: Wentong pattern. Describes the water ripples as very thin.
6. Duck-headed spring: In the Tang Dynasty, a color was called duck-headed green, which describes the color of spring water. This poem talks about Bianshui and Qinghuai. Liu Yuxi once served as the governor of Hezhou during the Changqing period. Hezhou borders the Huaihe River Basin to the north.
7. Parrot Island: Originally located in the Yangtze River in Wuchang area. The poem "Yellow Crane Tower" by Cui Hao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, has the line "The grass is luxuriant and the Parrot Island is green".
8. Brothel: The place where singing girls and prostitutes lived was formerly known as brothel.
9. Crazy husband: A person who is out of touch with the times and is dissolute.
10. Zhuojin River: Also known as Huanhua River, it is located in the west of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. It was named after washing brocade in ancient times.
11. Yuanyang brocade: brocade embroidered with mandarin duck patterns.
12. Sunset: Comparable to sunset. Match: to rival. The old writing was "狋", so some versions mistakenly wrote it as "ding".
13. Chengzhou: A fresh and beautiful island in the middle of the river.
14. Jiangkuma: Jiangwan.
15. August Wave: The tide of the Qiantang River in Zhejiang Province is the largest on the eighteenth day of the eighth lunar month every year. The tide is standing on the wall and surging like thousands of horses galloping, which is a spectacular sight.
16. Migrant: A person who is relegated to a foreign country.
17. Roll: filter.
18. Xiaoxiang: The Xiaoshui River and the Xiangshui River meet in the north of Lingling County, Hunan Province today. This term Xiaoxiang generally refers to the Hunan area. Liu Yuxi was exiled to Langzhou for ten years. The words "suddenly recalled" indicate that this poem was written later.
19. Welcome the Gods: Welcome the Gods, a folk song to worship the gods in Hunan.
"Lang Tao Sha" was originally the name of a song in the Tang Dynasty Jiaofang. Later, Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi and others changed it into a poem title and word card. This group of poems should be the author's later works, and they do not belong to one time or place. According to the Yellow River, Luoshui, Bianshui, Qinghuai, Yingyouzhou, Zhuojinjiang, etc. mentioned in the poem, they may have been written in Kuizhou, Hezhou, Luoyang and other places, and were later compiled into a group. Compared with "Zhuzhi Ci", this group of poems has less folk songs and more literati flavor. The first song interprets myths and legends; the second song uses symbolic techniques to express the sufferings of love; the third and ninth songs describe the changing principles of world affairs; the fourth song describes the feelings of wanderers; the fifth song depicts the style of Jinjiang; the sixth song reveals labor and the injustice of enjoyment; the seventh song describes the tide of the Qiantang River; the eighth song writes about the feelings of immigrants.
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