Translation:
The water flows eastward to bid farewell to friends. At dusk, I am suddenly filled with sadness.
I couldn’t bear to say goodbye to this temple in the wild for so long. When I walked out of the temple, I found that the setting sun was already shining on the lonely mountain.
Looking ahead, there are no cattails or barnyard grass for thousands of miles. The setting sun shines on the boat, and the water is clear and rippling.
As I said goodbye with a drink, the moon had already risen above the woods. Undress and fall asleep, water birds chirping on the beach. I am in Luoyang tonight, and I will meet you in Jinling City in my dream.
I sigh when I think of this separation, thinking of you traveling all the way and wandering in the long rivers and seas.
Extended information:
Li Qi, whose given name and nickname are unknown, Han nationality, a native of Wangzhao County (now Zhao County, Hebei Province) and Yingyang, Henan Province (now Dengfeng, Henan Province) , poet of the Tang Dynasty. In the 23rd year of Kaiyuan, he became a Jinshi and once served as a county captain in Xinxiang. He later resigned and retired to Dongchuan Villa in Yingyang.
Li Qi is good at seven-character songs. His poems are mainly about frontier themes. His style is bold, generous and sad. He has sung with Wang Wei, Gao Shi, Wang Changling and others.
Li Qi had contacts with famous poets such as Wang Wei, Gao Shi, Wang Changling, etc., and his poems were quite famous. The content of his poems covers a wide range of topics, and he is especially famous for his frontier fortress poems and music poems. He is good at five- and seven-character songs. A native of Yingyang, Henan, his ancestral home is Zhaojun (now Zhaoxian, Hebei), and he has a special business in Dongchuan. When he was young, his family was wealthy, but later he met the frivolous and frivolous son of a rich man, and he lost all his money and went bankrupt.
After that, I studied hard. He lived in seclusion in Yingyang (in today's Dengfeng, Henan Province) and studied hard for 10 years. In the 13th year of Kaiyuan of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (725), he passed the Jinshi examination and served as a county lieutenant in Xinxiang. After serving for many years, he was not promoted and continued to live a secluded life in his later years. He had many contacts throughout his life, and the famous poets Wang Changling, Gao Shi, and Wang Wei at that time were all closely related to him. Li Qi has a relaxed and detached personality and hates the world.
Of his poems, the frontier fortress poems are the most successful, which are unrestrained and bold, generous and desolate. The most famous ones include "Ancient Military March", "Ancient Meaning", "Fortress Song", etc. Li Qi is also good at using poetry to describe music and create characters. He is famous for his long songs and is also good at short poems. His seven-character rhymed poems are especially praised by later generations. Three volumes of Li Qi's poems are recorded in "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty", and later generations compiled "Collection of Li Qi's Poems".