Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou from Yellow Crane Tower.
Old friends frequently waved to me, bid farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower, and traveled to Yangzhou in this beautiful spring filled with catkins and flowers.
My friend's sail shadow faded away and disappeared at the end of the blue sky, only seeing the first line of the Yangtze River and heading for the distant horizon.
My old friend said goodbye to me at the Yellow Crane Tower and went to Yangzhou in March when the flowers were blooming. The shadow of the solitary sail went away and disappeared in the blue sky, only to see the mighty Yangtze River flowing to the horizon.
In the famous sentence "Fireworks descend to Yangzhou in March", "Fireworks" is also synonymous with ancient and modern times. The poem refers to the beautiful scenery in spring, not the fireworks that are set off now. Moreover, the ancient "fireworks" is not a proper term, and the mainstream view is that it refers to two kinds of beautiful scenery: willow and Qionghua. So the main idea of the poem is: Go to Yangzhou in March, catkins are like smoke and flowers are like flowers.
Tobacco willow is a willow forest with willow catkins like smoke, which can also refer to willow forest and willow. Every year in March and April, when the willow leaves grow slightly and have not completely turned green, they look like light smoke, which is the legendary "smoke willow".
"Smoke willow" is a very beautiful artistic conception, so literati in past dynasties like to describe this beautiful scenery. For example, Han Yu's "Never Win the Imperial Capital with Smoke and Willow" and Zhang's "Smoke and willow fly lightly, and the wind and elm drop small money".
Appreciation of ancient poetry:
This farewell poem has its special flavor. It is different from "Farewell to Deputy DuDu's Official Service" and "Deep Parting" in "Weicheng Qu" by Wang Wei. This poem shows a poetic parting.
This is because this is the separation of two romantic and chic poets, and because this separation is linked with a prosperous time, a prosperous time and a prosperous region, and the poet Li Bai's yearning has also brought it into a happy separation, which makes this separation very poetic.