Name of Xiajiangling: Xiajiangling
Author: Li Bai
Introduction
Li Bai
（701～762 ), whose courtesy name was Taibai and whose name was Qinglian Jushi. His ancestral home was Chengji, Longxi (near today's Tianshui, Gansu Province). He spent a little time in Shu, studying and learning Taoism. At the age of twenty-five, he traveled to Sichuan and lived in Lu County. He traveled to Chang'an in search of fame, but returned east frustrated. At the beginning of Tianbao, he was ordered to go to Beijing and worship Hanlin. Soon he was slandered out of Beijing and wandered around the country. The Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Yongwang Li Lin entered the army; and Yongwang was killed by Suzong, and because of his implication, he was imprisoned and Yelang was exiled. When he was pardoned and returned eastward, he died at the command of Tu ordered Li Yangbing. Bai Juyi, another poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem: "But the worst fate of a poet is to fall into poverty like a king." This is a portrayal of his lonely and miserable life experience. However, he reflected reality, described mountains and rivers, expressed ambitions and chanted heroic sentiments with his romantic poetry, and thus became a great poet who has illuminated the ages.
Topic
Topic words or keywords: Tang Poems
Column keywords: Three Hundred Tang Poems
Video materials
Video materials
Xiajiangneung Local Network
Category: Seven-Character Quatrains
Genre: Poetry
Era: Tang Dynasty Content Introduction
Original text
Xiajiangling [also known as Zaobei Baidi City]
Li Bai
Chao Ci Baidi ① Among the colorful clouds, A thousand miles to Jiangling can be returned in one day.
The apes on both sides of the strait can’t stop crying, and the boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains.
Notes
[Notes]
①Baidi City: On Baidi Mountain in the East of Fengjie County, Chongqing City.
②Jiangling: the capital of Chu Ying. Today's Jiangling County, Hubei Province.
We set off from Baidi City in the early morning and sailed among the beautiful scenery. We reached the very distant Jiangling in one day. The screams of apes on the mountains on both sides of the bank are endless, but the boat has already traveled a long way.
[Appreciation]
The poem mainly writes about the one-day trip back to Gangneung and the scenery he saw on the way, expressing the poet's innermost joy. The poem is natural, without any ornamentation. Critics of the past dynasties have spoken highly of this poem, calling it "the best among the seven masterpieces of the past dynasties."
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