Source: Bai Juyi, author of Full Moon? the Tang Dynasty
Since the Henan War, water transportation has been blocked, there has been famine everywhere, and our brothers have also been displaced, each in one place.
Because of the feeling of looking at the moon, I talked about my book and gave it to Brother Fuliang, Brother Yu Qian and Brother Wujiang, as well as to Liv and his siblings.
The family business is in a year of disaster, and the brothers are scattered.
After the war, the countryside was deserted and the flesh and blood fled to a foreign land.
The injured shadow is like a lonely wild goose, wandering like a broken-rooted autumn canopy.
* * * Looking at the bright moon and crying, for the heart, five places, all sick and willing.
Interpretation of vernacular:
Since the Henan War, the water transportation in the pass was blocked, which led to famine, and our brothers were displaced and separated, each in one place.
Because I felt something when I saw the moon, I wrote a poem to record my feelings, and gave it to the elder brother of Fuliang, the seventh brother of Qianshui, the fifteenth brother of Wujiang, and the brothers and sisters of Fuliang and Xiayi.
In the disaster year, the family business is exhausted and the brothers are separated.
After the war, the countryside was deserted, and the flesh and blood fled to foreign countries.
Hanging shadow injury is like a lonely goose, falling without a trace, like a broken root and autumn eaves.
Look at the bright moon and you should cry. You are homesick at night.
Extended data writing background:
This poem was written between the autumn of the 15th year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (799) and the spring of the 16th year of Zhenyuan (800). At that time, the poet went to Fuli (now Suzhou City, Anhui Province) and wrote the poem "Crossing Liugou Temple after the chaos", and Liugou Temple was in Fuli. The "brothers and sisters" mentioned in the title may be separated from the poet himself, so there are five places altogether.
In the spring and February of the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan, Xuanwu (now Kaifeng City, Henan Province) rescued Dong Jin's subordinates from rebellion after his death. In March, Zhang Yi (now runan county) made Wu Shaocheng rebel again. The Tang court sent sixteen military forces to attack, and the war took place in Henan. The counterinsurgency war is large in scale and long in time.
This is the "Henan Economic Chaos" mentioned in the exam. At that time, the southern grain transportation mainly passed through the pass of Henan Province, and the "Henan Rebellion" made the pass "hungry". At the time of man-made disasters and natural disasters, the countryside is deserted and the flesh and blood are separated. The poet can't help worrying about the country and the people, and his face is full of sadness.
This autumn, Bai Juyi was paid tribute by Xuanzhou secretariat. The following spring, he was admitted to Chang 'an and then returned to his hometown. This poem was written in this period. Seeing that the ancestral business is empty, my brothers and sisters are all unemployed, and they have all traveled and lived far away, so they have a feeling.
About the author:
Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan, and his ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu".
Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, various forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.
Bai Juyi was born in the first month of the seventh year of Tang Daizong Dali (772) in Xinzheng, Henan Province, a small and medium-sized bureaucratic family. Shortly after Bai Juyi was born, a war broke out in his hometown. Li Fanzhen is divided into more than ten states in Henan, and the people have suffered from war. When Bai Juyi was two years old, Ren Gongxian's grandfather died in Chang 'an, followed by his grandmother.
Bai Juyi's father, Bai, was first taught by Songzhou Division (780), a magistrate in Pengcheng County, Xuzhou. A year later, Bai and Li Yan, the secretariat of Xuzhou, insisted on Xuzhou's meritorious service and were promoted to Xuzhou special driving. In order to avoid the war in Xuzhou, he sent his family to Suzhou for a peaceful life.
Bai Juyi was able to spend his childhood in Suzhou R&F. Bai Juyi, on the other hand, was brilliant and studied so hard that his mouth was sore and his hands were calloused. Young, all white hair.