Author Liu Yuxi? the Tang Dynasty

The mountains are still the same, surrounded by abandoned ancient capitals, and the tide is beating against the lonely empty city as in the past.

On the east bank of Huaihe River, the ancient cold moon, midnight, peep at the old palace.

Translation:

The mountains still surround the abandoned old capital, and the tide, as always, beats the lonely empty city.

In the east of Huaishui, an ancient and cold full moon peeped at this former palace at midnight.

Content tasting:

This poem is dedicated to Stone City. On the surface, it looks like a scene, but in fact it is lyrical. The poet wrote desolate scenery such as mountains, water, bright moon and city walls. In the description of scenery, the poet deeply lamented the rise and fall of the Six Dynasties, personnel changes, and sadness enveloped the whole poem.

At the beginning of the poem, the reader is placed in a desolate atmosphere. The first two sentences say that the mountains and rivers are still old and the city has been abandoned. The old country is surrounded by mountains, and the first sentence is mountains. The old country is surrounded by mountains, and it is the old city and the stone city. There are mountains standing by the river outside the city and surrounded by city walls, so the old country is surrounded by mountains. Surround, surround. The tide hits the empty city and returns to loneliness.

Tide hits the empty city, the Yangtze River flows in the northwest of the stone city, and the river tide hits the stone wall. But the city has been abandoned and become a monument, so it is said that the tide hits the empty city. These two sentences always say that the mountains and rivers are still old, the stone city is barren, and the mood is sad and deeply touched.

Creative background:

This is a seven-character quatrain about Stone City. Stone City is Jinling City. Liang Qingshan, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. Nanjing is the capital of Dongwu, Dongjin, Song, Qi and Lianghe, and is called "Dragon Pan Tiger". The Six Dynasties were extravagant and extravagant, drunk and dreamy, and pursued pleasure, which the poet called "the Six Dynasties of Gold Powder".

However, due to the country's indiscretion, this dynasty soon perished, and "sorrow and hatred continued." This luxurious capital of the Six Dynasties, surrounded by tigers and dragons, will be desolate.

In the second year of Emperor Taizong's reign in Jing Zong (826), Liu Yuxi returned to Luoyang and passed by Jinling. Seeing that the former luxury resort had become an "empty city", he wrote this nostalgic poem.