Tang Bai Juyi
Every winter solstice, I am accompanied by the shadow in front of the knee lamp.
If you want to sit at home late at night, you should also talk about travelers.
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There is no exquisite rhetoric or fancy in Winter in Handan, but a narrative style is used to describe the feelings of distant guests. One of its advantages is that it tells a common life experience in straightforward and plain language, and its feelings are sincere and touching. Second, the idea is exquisite and unique: first of all, there is no word "thinking" in the poem, but it is dull, but it contains "thinking" everywhere; Secondly, I write homesickness, but from the opposite side.
The first two sentences are documentary, with "homesickness" written on the side. The first sentence "moderate hospitality" has taken root in "homesickness". In the Tang Dynasty, on the solstice of winter, people should celebrate with their relatives at home. But now the author meets this festival in Handan Inn, and I don't know what to do. The second sentence is about the writer's holiday in Handan Inn. The word "tuck" vividly describes a sitting posture. The word "in front of the lamp" not only dyes the environment, but also points "night" to show "shadow". A word "companion" connects "body" with "shadow" and gives "shadow" human feelings. Only the shadow of kneeling is accompanied by the kneeling body. The author's loneliness and homesickness are beyond words.
The last two sentences use imagination to write "homesickness" on the front. In the last two sentences, I changed my tune, instead of writing directly about how I miss home, I imagined my family sitting around the lamp at night from the winter solstice, talking about myself as a long-distance traveler, so as to show my homesickness and make it more real and touching. What is touching is that the scene he imagined when he was homesick was the family's yearning for himself. This winter solstice, my family must be very unhappy because I am far from home. When I put my knees in front of the lamp and miss my family until late at night, my family is still awake and sitting in front of the lamp, "talking about travelers." The author didn't specify what he "said", which left a broad imagination space for readers. Everyone who has enjoyed family happiness and had similar experiences can think a lot according to their own life experiences. The author didn't use flowery rhetoric or play with too many artistic skills, but expressed homesickness incisively and vividly in plain and simple language.
Bai Juyi's poems are often known for their simple and unpretentious language and artistic conception. This poem is unpretentious, ingenious and unique, and between the lines reveals a touch of homesickness and a deep homesickness.