Reminiscing about our Shandong brothers on September 9th

We are strangers in a foreign land,

We miss our loved ones even more during the festive season.

I know from afar that my brothers have climbed to a high place.

There is one less person planting dogwood trees everywhere.

This poem by Wang Wei was written when he was seventeen years old, probably when he was seeking fame in Chang'an. This poem has infected readers for thousands of years with its strong artistic power. .

The ninth day of September in the lunar calendar is the Double Ninth Festival, which is today. Our country's folk custom has been the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival since ancient times. It is said that wearing dogwood bags on the Double Ninth Festival and drinking chrysanthemum wine when climbing can avoid disasters.

The poem "Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9th" has been recited by people for thousands of years with its simple language and deep emotions. The first two sentences of this poem adopt a direct lyrical method, using simple and unpretentious language to successfully express the wanderer's homesickness, allowing the poem to reach a lyrical climax at the beginning.

"A stranger in a foreign land", the word "alone" and "different", vividly express the poet's loneliness as a guest in a foreign land. When Wang Wei was seeking fame in Chang'an, most of the people he met were high-ranking officials and he saw a lot of the prosperity of Chang'an City. However, even then, the seventeen-year-old Wang Wei felt lonely in a prosperous place.

This kind of homesickness may not necessarily be expressed in normal times, but it becomes particularly prominent during festivals. This is probably why we Chinese people have the custom of returning fallen leaves to their roots.

"I miss my loved ones even more during the festive season." This experience is an emotional desire that everyone outside has, but it has never been expressed as accurately as the author. This poem best expresses people's homesickness in a foreign country, and it is also a day for family reunion. That's why this poem can become an aphorism and a famous saying for wanderers who miss their hometown and relatives. It has touched the hearts of countless wanderers for thousands of years.

Which person who usually works outside doesn’t want to reunite with his family? Most of us are forced by life and gradually get used to being alone, but when holidays come, we still can't help but miss our relatives in our hometown.

"I know from afar that when brothers climb high, there will be one less person planted with dogwood trees." These two lines of poetry are a kind of imagination developed by Wang Wei. They wrote about the brothers who are far away in their hometown when they are climbing high today. Everyone wears dogwood bags on their bodies, but they find that only they are missing. Wang Wei did not write that he could not be reunited with his brothers, but he wrote about the regret that the brothers could not reunite. Wang Wei couldn't help but feel a little sad when he thought about this.

Zhang Qianyi of the Qing Dynasty said in "Jie Zhai Poetry Talk": "Don't say that I miss him, but say that he misses me, which is twice as miserable."

Wang Wei is versatile. He is good at poetry, calligraphy, painting and music. Most of Wang Wei's poems in the early period of the "An-Shi Rebellion" reflected reality and had a more progressive political tendency, which was mainly reflected in his frontier fortress poems and indignant poems. For example, poems such as "The solitary smoke in the desert is straight, the sun is setting in the long river". In his later period, he mostly described pastoral landscapes, reflecting his negative emotions of escaping reality.

Wang Wei was an outstanding poet with various artistic talents in the Tang Dynasty. He was good at poetry and painting, proficient in music, and could combine painting and music