Original text:
Drive to the east gate
Han Anonymous
Drive to the east gate overlooking Guo Bei's tomb. Poplar rustling, pine and cypress wide.
There are old and dead people, and there are long twilight years. Sleeping in a grave won't last a thousand years.
The vast yin and yang move, and life is like morning dew. Life is suddenly like sending, and life is not solid.
Long live and send more, saints can't do it. Seeking immortality by eating is mostly caused by medicine.
Why don't you drink some wine and wear tens of thousands of sous?
Translation:
Driving out of Shangdong Gate, looking back to the north of the city, I saw Mangshan Cemetery. Poplar trees in Mangshan cemetery, long wind swaying poplar branches, rustling leaves turning, pine and cypress growing on both sides of the tomb. Death is like falling into a long night, sleeping in the grave for a thousand years and never waking up. Spring, summer, autumn and winter are endless, but a person's life is like dew in the morning, which disappears as soon as the sun shines. Life is like a passenger boarding a plane, rushing out of the store for one night and never coming back. People's life span is not as strong as gold, and they can't stand many ups and downs. Since last year, more is replacement, which has been repeated for thousands of years; Even sages can't surpass them and live forever. Immortals are immortals, but they are often poisoned by drugs when they take medicine to seek immortality. It is better to drink some good wine and wear some good clothes just to be happy in front of them!
Precautions:
Shangdongmen: the northernmost of the three gates in the east of Luoyang City. Guo Bei: In the north of the city. Gu Duoling is on Mangshan Mountain in the north of Luoyang. Poplar, pine and cypress: In ancient times, trees such as poplar, pine and cypress were planted on graves as symbols. Chen is dead: someone who has been dead for a long time. Chen, JIU.
Apricot color: dark appearance. That is: yes, I still say "being there". Long dusk: a long night. Being buried in a grave after death is like being kept in the dark forever. Sleep: deep sleep.
Appreciation: This poem, in the form of the lyric hero's direct expression, shows the sad mentality of decadent thoughts of some intellectuals who were rich in life and could not find a way out politically during the great turmoil in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, has twelve gates. There are three doors in the east, and the door near the north is called "Upper East Gate". Guo, an out-of-town person. The Han Dynasty followed the old customs, and most of the dead were buried in Guo Bei. Beilashan, north of Luoyang, is just a burial place; "Guo Bei's Tomb" in the poem refers to Mangshan's tomb.
The hero drove out of the Upper East Gate and looked north. When he saw the trees in Mangshan cemetery, he couldn't help feeling sad. He wrote down what he saw and heard, and expressed his feelings in two sentences: "Poplar, He Xiaoxiao, White Pine, Guang Jia Road". Rustle, the sound of leaves. The hero stops outside Shangdong Gate, which is still a long way from Beijiang Cemetery. I can't hear the rustling of white sun on the tomb, but I can hear the reason why the leaves of poplar rustle.
It is the result of the long wind swaying; However, you can see the wind shaking the branches of poplar trees and turning the leaves from a distance. Look at its shape, think about its sound, form synaesthesia, and combine visual image and auditory image into one. There is another layer: this hero, who originally lived in Luoyang, had nothing to do, just wanted to get out of the city and then went out of the East Gate. As soon as he got out of the city gate, he "looked at Guo Bei's tomb".
It is sad to see him thinking about the destination of life from a negative perspective for a long time. So when he saw poplars and conifers, he moved into the scene first, and then he touched the scene.