"I am a stranger in a foreign land, but I miss my relatives even more during the festive season" is written about the Double Ninth Festival, and comes from the poem "Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9th" written by Wang Wei, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. The full poem is as follows:
Remembering the Shandong Brothers on September 9th
Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty
Lonely as a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my family even more during the festive season.
I know from afar that my brothers have climbed to a high place, and there is one less person planting dogwood trees everywhere.
Analysis of the whole poem:
Wang Wei writes about the homesickness of the wanderer in the whole poem. The poet urgently gets to the point at the beginning, writing about the loneliness and desolation of life in a foreign land. Therefore, he is always nostalgic for his hometown and misses his people. When he encounters a good festival, his missing is doubled. Then the poet jumped to write about his brothers far away in his hometown. When he climbed up according to the custom of Double Ninth Festival, he also missed himself. The poetic meaning of the whole poem jumps repeatedly, is implicit and deep, is simple and natural, and has twists and turns. The poem "I miss my relatives even more during the festive season" has become a famous saying among wanderers for thousands of years, and it has touched the hearts of many wanderers.