A gift for Wang Lun.
Author Li Bai? the Tang Dynasty
Li Bai was just about to leave when he heard a farewell song from the shore.
Even if the Peach Blossom Pond is deep, it is not as deep as Wang Lun's sending away my love.
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I was getting on the boat when I was about to untie the cable and set off when I heard melodious singing from the shore.
Look at Taohuatan. Even though thousands of feet is deep, how can I be as grateful as Wang Lun?
China's traditional ideas are implicit. Yan Yu, a poetic theorist in the Song Dynasty, put forward four taboos in writing poetry: "The language should be straight and the meaning should be shallow. Avoid dew in the pulse, and the taste is short. " Shi Buhua, a poet in A Qing, also said that poetry "should not be expensive". The characteristics of Li Bai's "A Gift to Wang Lun" are: frankness, directness and less implicature. Its "language is straight" and its "pulse is dew", but its "meaning" is not shallow and its taste is stronger.
When the ancients wrote poems, they generally avoided calling them by their names, thinking that they had no taste. But To Wang Lun begins with the poet calling his own name and ends with calling the other person's name. On the contrary, he is honest, kind, free and easy, and very affectionate.
Combined with the situation here and now, these two poems seem to blurt out and have natural feelings. Poets often use the depth of water to compare the depth of people's feelings. For example, Wang Lun's friendship is really as deep as a pool of stagnant water, but it is generalized and smacks of poetry.
The current writing is like two friends saying goodbye by the boat. One is "I advise you to have another glass of wine" and the other is "one glass after another".
Li Baijiu, with strong feelings and flying posture, raised his glass to the running water at his feet and said, "Peach Blossom Pond, don't say how deep you are, not as deep as Wang Lun's friendship!" There is a naive and natural interest in the prospect of spoken language and eyes, which vaguely shows the great poet's uninhibited personality. Therefore, Shen Deqian of A Qing Dynasty said, "The love of Wang Lun is a common language, if compared with the love of thousands of feet. Wonderland is just a transition. "