Yang Liuzhi ci
The spring breeze swayed the willow branches in the wind, and the tender buds gave off a light yellow softer than silk.
In the wild garden in the west corner of Yongfeng, no one has ever belonged to that person.
Vernacular translation:
The spring breeze blows the willow branches and dances with the wind, blooming pale yellow buds softer than silk.
In the barren garden where Yongfengfang washed his feet, there was no one all day. Whose is this willow branch?
Creative background:
As for this poem, there was a poem about harmony in Yinlu Town, south of Henan Province, which wrote a preface: "There is a weeping willow in the southwest corner garden of Yongfeng Square, which is very elastic. Bai Shangshu once wrote poems, which were introduced into Yuefu and spread all over Kyoto. Recently, there was an imperial edict to plant two branches in the forbidden garden. I know that ten times the price increase is not empty talk. " Bai Juyi lived in Luoyang in the second year of Huichang in Wuzong (842) and died in Huichang in the sixth year. In July of the fourth year of Huichang, Lu Zhen was appointed as Henan Yin. It will take some time for the white poems to be written and spread to Kyoto, and then issued to Luoyang and Lu Zhen in the form of letters. Accordingly, Bai Juyi wrote this poem between three and five years in Huichang. After transplanting Yongfeng willow, he also wrote a poem "Requiring Yongfeng willow species to be forbidden in the garden".
Yang Liuzhi Ci is a seven-character quatrain written by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This is a poem about scenery. The first two sentences describe the scenery and the beauty of willows. The poet focuses on willow, writing about dynamics, shapes and colors, and expressing the beauty of its materials. The last two sentences are the poet's own evaluation of the willow, because the place where the willow was born was not in its proper position and could not be appreciated by people, which meant that people were dissatisfied with its talents and implicitly attacked the talent selection mechanism and relevant government officials at that time.
Bai Juyi (772-846), a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province, was born in Taigu, a lay man in Xiangshan, and was the most secluded gentleman. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu".
Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, various forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.