Bai Juyi
Series: 300 Tang poems
Since the chaos in Henan Province, there has been hunger and cold in Shanhaiguan Pass.
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.
To annotate ...
1. World industry: industry passed down from generation to generation.
2, travel: still drifting.
3, sparse: cold.
4. Fighting: These are two kinds of weapons, which refer to war here.
5. Root: Yu Brothers.
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The world is difficult, the war is chaotic, and the family business is empty;
Brothers fled and lived in different places, each in the west and each in the east.
After the war, it was deserted everywhere, and the countryside was deserted;
The flesh and blood are separated and wandering, and the two places are separated.
Lonely geese are thousands of miles apart and inseparable;
Brothers with the same roots go with the wind, just like the canopy in autumn.
The ends of the earth * * * see the bright moon, all tears;
Homesickness tonight, you and I are United, and the five places are the same.
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This is a lyric poem written in the autumn of the 16th year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong (800). At that time, the poet went to Fuli (Su County, Anhui Province), and there was a poem "Crossing Liugou Temple after the Chaos", and Liugou Temple was in Fuli. The "sister in law" mentioned in the title may be separate from the poet himself, so there are five places altogether. In the spring of the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan (799), Xuanwu made Dong Jin's subordinates rebel after his death, and then Wu Shaocheng rebelled in China, Guangdong and Cai. The Tang court sent sixteen military forces to attack, and the war took place in Henan. At that time, the southern water transport mainly passed through Henan Pass. Because of the "chaos in Henan", it caused "hunger in Guanzhong". Full of poetry, I miss your brothers and sisters after writing the mess. Poetry expresses what people have in simple and plain language, but not everyone can express their true feelings. The words are clear and beautiful, without carving, and each sentence is closely related to the theme, with profound meaning and touching charm.