Introduction to the work
The author of "The Bird in the Empty City" is Li Bai, and it was selected into the 45th volume of Volume 164 of "The Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty". This is a Yuefu poem, which belongs to "Miscellaneous Songs and Songs".
Original text
The Bird in the Empty City
Author: Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty
The bird in the empty city howls, how can one’s body be so busy?
Ben and the Wrens do not follow the Phoenix clan.
With four yellow mouths, drinking milk is not enough.
If you eat the chaff left by you, you will be afraid of being chased by black kites.
It is shameful to be involved in the dangers of Taixing, and it is shameful to overturn the car and millet.
The destiny is determined, and you must stick to it and never do what you want.
Notes
①The Bird in the Empty City: the old title of Yuefu's "Miscellaneous Songs and Songs".
② Wren: The name of the bird, which looks like a yellow bird and is small.
③Yellow mouth: young bird.
④Kite: Eagle raptor. By: Compilation of the whole poem: "One is pecked."
⑤ Covering the car millet: Volume 922 of "Taiping Yulan" quotes "Old Biography of Yidu Qi" which says: "Yang Xuan was the prefect of Hanoi, and he traveled In the county, there were a group of birds singing on a mulberry tree, and they announced to the officials: "There is a cart of millet in front of me, and these birds are following each other to eat it." points, positions.
Translation
The sparrows on the empty city tower are so poor.
Ben is in a flock with wrens and other small birds, and does not follow the phoenix family.
I support four yellow mouths that are waiting to be fed. They are not satisfied with drinking milk.
What I eat is chaff and residue, and I am afraid of being chased by black kites.
I am ashamed to set foot in the precipitous Taihang Mountains, and I am even more ashamed to snatch the grain from the overturned car.
Wealth has its own destiny, keep one's integrity and keep oneself, and be pure in heart and have few desires.
Appreciation
This is a Yuefu poem, which belongs to "Miscellaneous Songs and Songs".
Author introduction
Li Bai (February 28, 701 - 762), courtesy name Taibai, Qinglian Jushi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, known as the "Poetry Immortal", the greatest Romantic poet. Han nationality, born in Suiye City in the Western Regions (today's Tokmak, Kyrgyzstan). At the age of 5, he moved with his father to Changlong County, Mianzhou (Brazil County), Jiannan Road (renamed Changming County in 712, now Qinglian, Jiangyou City, Mianyang, Sichuan). Township), his ancestral home is Chengji County, Longxi County (now south of Jingning County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province). His father, Li Ke, raised two sons (Boqin and Tianran) and one daughter (Pingyang). There are more than a thousand poems and essays in existence, and his representative works include "The Road to Shu is Difficult", "The Road is Difficult to Travel", "Sleepwalking Tianmu Says Farewell", "About to Enter the Wine" and other poems. There is also "The Collection of Li Taibai" handed down to the world. He died of illness in Dangtu, Anhui in 762 at the age of 61.
Li Bai's poetry creation has a strong subjective color, which mainly focuses on expressing heroic spirit and passionate feelings, and rarely gives detailed descriptions of objective things and specific times. The free and uninhibited temperament, the arrogant and independent personality, and the strong emotions that are easy to be touched and explode form the distinctive characteristics of Li Bai's lyrical style of poetry. He tends to be eruptive. Once his emotions are aroused, they rush out without restraint, like a violent surge in the sky and an erupting volcano. His imagination is strange, often has unusual connections, and changes with the flow of emotions.