I am a lonely stranger in a strange land, and I miss my family more often during the holidays.
When I think of my brothers' bodies climbing high, I will feel a little regret for not being able to reach me.
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Wang Wei is a precocious poet. This article had a name before it weakened. He began to write poetry at the age of fifteen, and before the age of twenty, he wrote excellent works such as Song of Luoyang Girls and Journey to Taoyuan. This song "I miss my brothers in Shandong on vacation in the mountains" was written when he was seventeen years old, and it immediately became a masterpiece and was widely read by people. There are five brothers, Wang Wei is the eldest, and there are two sisters. When writing this poem, he left his hometown for the first time, and the poem expressed his deep affection for his loved ones.
Poetry begins with a direct expression of homesickness. "Alone in a foreign land" implies a lonely environment, which is especially sensitive for teenagers who leave home for the first time. "Stranger" emphasizes the feeling of stranger. The combination of "uniqueness" and "two differences" in a poem greatly deepens the degree of subjective feelings. The second sentence, "I miss my relatives more often during the festive season", is a reasonable development of my previous emotions, which shows that I usually have the pain of missing my loved ones, and this kind of missing will get deeper and stronger during the festive season. The clever use of the word "time" is the key to connect the upper and lower emotions. These two sentences constitute a level of the whole poem, expressing homesickness from the subjective feelings of the lyric hero.
A Qing poet Shen Deqian thinks that the last two sentences of this poem are "poetic" (Collection of Tang Poems, Volume 19). Indeed, there are quite similarities in expression between the two. In the last chapter of The Book of Songs, Feng Wei said, "I look forward to Gorkon and him. Brothers go to work for their brothers and get together at night. " Dreaming of relatives, not letting them miss themselves. This expression method is also used in Wang Wei's poems, which makes the development of poetry take a sharp turn from "knowing each other from a distance" and deepens the expression of love between the two places from the perspective of relatives. "Knowing from a distance" is all imagination. I imagine that when the Double Ninth Festival comes, relatives will get up and drink as usual. This closely follows the theme of the poem and points out the specific meaning of the "festival" mentioned in the second sentence. The author expects that when relatives get together to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival, they will remember him as a wanderer in a foreign land. At the end of the sentence, the emotion of the whole poem is pushed to a climax, not to say out loud what you miss your loved ones, but to leave room for imagination.
Wang Wei's poems are characterized by meticulous wording, natural beauty and beautiful tone, which has been slightly revealed in his short works. Zhu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said: "There are sentences in ancient poetry, but there are no sentences in modern poetry. It keeps saying. You can get hundreds of such poems in one day "(Zhuzi Genre Collection, Volume 8). Although his view of despising Song poetry is biased, his appreciation of "ancient poetry has a sentence" is reasonable. The so-called poem has a sentence, which is the whole poem. The excellent sentence is unique and can be circulated separately. Wang Wei's short poem belongs to a poem, and its first two sentences have become the general summary of people's homesickness in people's chanting. So whenever people miss their loved ones at festivals, they will naturally recite these two poems.
[1] Huan Jing went up the mountain according to his words, and sure enough, he avoided disaster. After that, climbing on the 9th became a custom.
[2] Cornus officinalis (Yu Yu): A Vietnamese pepper, also known as Evodia rutaecarpa, is an aromatic plant. The ancients regarded September 9 as the ninth festival, also known as the Double Ninth Festival. At this time, Cornus officinalis is really fragrant and red as pepper. According to legend, it can be folded and inserted on the head to avoid foul air and keep out the cold.
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival in China. There are roughly three views on the origin of the Double Ninth Festival.
1. According to "The Sum of Continuation of Qi", Huan Jingshi studied with Fei Changfang, a master of Yi Studies in Han Dynasty, for many years. One day, Master Fei told his disciples that cornus was going to climb the mountain on September 9, and Huan Jing and his family survived because they listened to the master's words. All the livestock that didn't evacuate died of the plague. So on September 9 every year, I go out to climb mountains to avoid disasters and get used to each other.
2. Taoism originated in Han Dynasty. In the Book of Changes, which is regarded as a classic by Taoism, odd numbers are regarded as positive numbers, even numbers as negative numbers, and "nine" in positive numbers as "extreme yang". September 9 is the meeting of the two poles, so it is called "Chongyang". Yang also means steel, and Chongyang is regarded as "the second day" because it is "the meeting of two steels". The purpose of climbing mountains and joining dogwood is to "solve problems", from which the custom of Chongyang comes.
3. Originated in Qi Jinggong during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the 5th century BC. On the ninth day of September, he took a lot of people to climb mountains and walls, feeling crisp in autumn, so he decided it was an auspicious day. Since then, he will go out to climb mountains on this day every year. Later generations imitated it and formed customs.
However, historians and folklorists have not yet come to a conclusion as to which of these three statements is correct.