"Autumn Thoughts" was written by Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The original text of the poem is as follows:
The autumn wind is seen in Luoyang City, and the desire to write is full of meaning.
I’m afraid I can’t say it all in a hurry, and the travelers have to open it again before leaving.
Vernacular interpretation: The annual autumn wind blows to Luoyang City again. The wanderers living in Luoyang City don’t know how their relatives in their hometown are doing. There are too many things to say when writing a letter from home to say hello. I don’t know where to start. After the letter was written, I was worried that I had not finished what I wanted to say in the rush; when the messenger set out, I opened the envelope again and returned it to him.
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Creative background: Creative background: Zhang Ji, courtesy name Wenchang, was originally from Wu County. He was living in Luoyang City when he wrote this poem. It was autumn, and the autumn wind evoked the poet's lonely feelings of being alone in a foreign land, and aroused his longing for his hometown and relatives, so he wrote this poem.
This song "Autumn Thoughts" embodies emotions and events. It uses an inclusive episode in daily life - the details of thoughts and actions when sending letters home, to express very truly and delicately the feelings of people who are visiting a foreign country about their hometown. Deeply missed by loved ones.
The first sentence explains the reason for the "writer's book" ("seeing the autumn wind"), saying that when I was a guest in Luoyang City, I saw the autumn wind again. When a wanderer visiting a foreign land sees all this desolate and crumbling scenery, it will inevitably evoke the feeling of loneliness and loneliness in a foreign land, and arouse long-term longing for his hometown and relatives. This plain but rich word "see" gives readers a lot of hints and associations.
The second sentence closely follows "seeing the autumn wind", with the word "thinking" written on the front. The author Zhang, whose ancestral home is in Wu County, was living in Luoyang at this time, so he had to write a letter home to convey his feelings of homesickness. What it expresses is exactly the poet's thoughts and moods when he laid down the paper and stretched out his pen: thousands of sorrows surged in his heart, and he felt that he had endless words to say and write, but for a while he didn't know where to start. I don’t know how to express it either.
The poet in the three or four sentences felt unable to write because of the "heavy meaning", and also had no time to think about it carefully because he asked "passers-by" to send the message. The deep and rich feelings and the contradictions that are difficult to express, Time was running out, and when the messenger was about to go on his way, he suddenly felt that he was afraid of missing something important in the letter due to his haste, so he hurriedly opened the envelope again.