Original poem
wood thrush
Song? Ouyang Xiu
The cries of thousands of birds echo their own hearts, and thousands of purple flowers on the mountain are on the height of trees.
Only then did I understand that listening to the cry of the thrush locked in a golden cage is far less than singing leisurely in the forest.
translate freely
Hundreds of birds twittered and echoed at will, on colorful trees.
I realized (before) that hearing a thrush in a golden cage was far less than singing freely when I was swimming in the forest.
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In Ouyang Xiu's "Thrushcross Birds", the first two sentences describe the scenery: thrush birds call one after another, one high and one low, making the colorful mountain flowers more pleasing to the eye. The last two lyrical sentences: Seeing those birds in cages, I really envy thrush flying in the forest, free and unrestrained. What should also be known here is that Ouyang Xiu, the author, was banished to Chuzhou at this time because he was excluded from the DPRK, which shows the mood of writing this poem.