"This song should only be in the sky, but rarely heard on earth." Where did it come from?

"This song should only exist in the sky, and it is rare for people to listen to it several times" comes from Du Fu's work "Giving Flowers" in the Tang Dynasty.

Original works:

Flowers for Qing

The city music under the overpass is soft and melodious, half of it goes with the river wind and the other half floats into the clouds.

This song should only exist in the sky. How many times can the world listen to it?

Vernacular translation:

Melodious music floats over Jincheng all day, rippling on Jinjiang waves and between white clouds.

Such wonderful music should only be enjoyed by immortals. How many times can an ordinary person listen to it in his life?

Du Fu (7 12-770), a native of Xiangyang, Hubei Province, is a child beauty and a Han nationality. Realistic poet in Tang Dynasty, who claimed to be young and old at night, was called "Du Li" with Li Bai and was called "Poet Saint" by later generations.

The core of Du Fu's thought is the Confucian thought of benevolent government, and he has the great wish of "making the monarch Yao and Shun superior, and then making the customs pure". Although Du Fu was not famous when he was alive, his fame spread far and wide. Du Gongbu Collection contains about 1500 poems by Du Fu.

Extended data:

Creation background

This poem was written in Tang Suzong in the second year of last year (76 1). Hua once made great contributions to the counter-insurgency, taking credit for himself and being arrogant, and conniving at foot soldiers plundering East Shu. And beyond the court, arrogating the joy of the son of heaven. Du Fu presents this poem with euphemistic irony.

In the feudal society of China, the etiquette system was extremely strict, and even music had an unusually clear hierarchy. According to the book of the Old Tang Dynasty, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the great-grandfather Li Yuan ordered the great-grandfather to research the elegant music of the Tang Dynasty, "The emperor is in the Xuan, playing Taihe; The princes went in and out, playing books and; The crown prince announced that he would hang out and play; ..... "These fragmentary music systems are all established laws of the dynasty, and a slight violation is chaos and rebellion.

Reference link: Gift Flower Green-Baidu Encyclopedia