Author: Liu Yuxi
There are some weeds blooming by the Suzaku Bridge, and there is only sunset at the corner of Wuyi Lane.
Swallows under the eaves of Wang Dao and Xie An have now flown into the homes of ordinary people.
Annotation translation
They will now fly to relatively humble homes to nest and mate.
Suzaku Bridge is outside Jinling, and Wuyi Lane is beside the bridge.
Wuyi Lane was the imperial palace during the period of Wu Dong in the Three Kingdoms. Because the imperial guards at that time were all wearing black uniforms, there was a saying here called Wuyi Lane. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, two families, represented by Wang Dao and Xie An, and other wealthy families all lived in Wuyi Lane. At that time, Wuyi Lane represented wealthy families and called their children Wuyi Lang.
Wang Dao, Xie An, Jin Xiang, aristocratic families, talented people, all lived in the alley, wearing tassels, and were the giant rooms of the Six Dynasties (Wu, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Song Qi and Chen Liang all built their capitals in succession, which is now Nanjing). By the time of the Tang Dynasty, everyone had fallen into an unknown situation.
Full text translation
Some weeds are in full bloom by the Suzaku Bridge, and only the sunset hangs at the entrance of Wuyi Lane. Swallows under the eaves of the giants have now flown into the homes of ordinary people [1].
Wuyi Lane is located on the south bank of Qinhuai River in Nanjing. During the Three Kingdoms period, this was the location of the military camp where the Kingdom of Wu defended Stone Town. At that time, the officers and men were all wearing black uniforms, so they took "May Day" as the lane name. Later, it was the residential area of aristocratic families in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, where Wang Dao, the founding father of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Xie An, who commanded the Battle of Surabaya, lived. From 65438 to 0997, the People's Government of Qinhuai District restored Wuyi Lane and rebuilt Wang Xie's ancient house with national style. This is a famous poem. The poet hides his feelings, but he doesn't show them. It is one of the poems in Five Questions of Jinling. It should be noted that the pronunciation of the word "Xie" in the second sentence should be "Xia", which comes from the pronunciation of ancient Chinese, so that the whole poem rhymes.
They will now fly to relatively humble homes to nest and mate.
correlation analysis
In the old society, Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people.
This is a nostalgic poem. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhuque Bridge on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing and Wuyi Lane on the south bank were prosperous, but now they are overgrown with weeds and desolate. Feel the vicissitudes of life, life is changeable. Arouse people's imagination with Yan Qi's lair, which contains but does not show; Painting the background with "wild flowers" and "sunset oblique" is beautiful but not vulgar. Although the language is extremely shallow, it is full of interest. Shi Buhua's Poem on Servant has three or four comments on this poem: "If you are a swallow, he will stay. Cover the swallow is still in this hall, and Xie Wang has dispersed and become an ordinary person. If you do this, you will feel infinite and your pen will be extremely curved. " This poem is said to have won Bai Juyi's "Turn around and lament for a long time." Has its own meaning.
At the beginning of the poem, there are two sentences: "Weeds are in full bloom by the Suzaku Bridge, and the sun is setting at the corner of Wuyi Lane".
This is the second poem in Liu Yuxi's Five Topics of Jinling. Through the description of sunset weeds and swallows changing hands, the poet profoundly shows the great changes in the past and present, implying that there is no undefeated flower and no eternal prosperity.