From "Two Poems on Qujiang" by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty: "Drinking debts are commonplace, but rare in seventy years of life."

The original text of "Two Poems on Qujiang" is:

I wear spring clothes every day when I return to the dynasty, and I return drunk from the river head every day.

Drinking debts are commonplace, but rare in seventy years of life.

You can see the butterflies deeply through the flowers, and the dragonflies are flying in the water.

The scenery of the legend is constantly changing, and for the time being, mutual appreciation should not be violated.

Translation: When I came back from the previous court, I pawned my spring clothes every day. The money I got in exchange went to Jiangtou to buy wine every day, and I didn't come back until I was drunk. Drinking debts are common everywhere. It is a common and trivial matter. It is rare in ancient times for people to live to be seventy years old. But I saw butterflies shuttling back and forth in the depths of the flowers, and dragonflies flying across the water, tapping the water from time to time. Send a message to Chunguang, let me stay with Chunguang. Although we are temporarily complimentary, don't break it!

Creative background:

This poem was written in the first year of Qianyuan (758). Although the capital was recovered, the war was still going on. The author saw that the Tang Dynasty was declining due to political corruption. The chaos caused was very confusing. The trip to Qujiang coincided with late spring, so the poem was very sentimental about spring. The poet wrote about the desolation and decay of the scenery in Qujiang to mourn the time.

Appreciation of works:

The general characteristics of these two poems, in traditional Chinese aesthetic terms, are "implicit" and "charm". The so-called "implicitness" and the so-called "charm" mean leaving room for something. When describing emotions and scenes, we should try to avoid being overwhelming, but should describe the most typical and characteristic things, so that readers can ponder the unexpressed feelings and imagine the unwritten scenes through the expressed feelings and the written scenes. "Flowers fly" and "the wind blows thousands of spots", the description of the scene is not meticulous. However, "a piece of flower flying" is the best way to express the decline of spring; "the wind is blowing thousands of points" is also the best way to express the twilight of spring. All the scenery related to the decline of spring and the sunset of spring can be meditated on from the "flying flowers" and "thousands of points floating in the wind". For example, from the falling flowers, we can think of birds flying, from the red and thin, we can think of green manure... In the couplet "through flowers", the description of the scene can be described as meticulous; but there are no carving marks, and the details are not exhaustive. For example, it only says "wearing flowers" without describing the flowers in detail. It only says "pointing with water" without describing the water in detail. However, the appearance of the flowers, the state of the water and all the related scenery can be imagined.

As far as lyricism is concerned, "Why use glory to tie this body up?" But how and why the ambition is not achieved is kept secret. It only expresses the feeling of cherishing and staying in spring by describing the scenery of late spring; and the expression of cherishing and staying in spring is just eating wine, admiring flowers and scenery, and just enjoying the time. The lyrical protagonist in the poem "returns drunkenly from the head of the river every day". From "a flower flying" to "the wind blowing thousands of points", he has witnessed and felt the whole process of spring decline and spring twilight, and also "passed on the scenery** *Flow around, let’s reward each other for the time being and don’t violate each other.” I really enjoy it! However, after careful exploration, we found that there is meaning behind the words, there is flavor outside the taste, there is sound outside the strings, there is scenery outside the scene, and there is emotion beyond the emotion. "Measuring it will make you deeper, and studying it will make you gain more", which truly embodies the "remaining image of the spirit" "Outside" artistic characteristics.