As the picture shows,

on the mountain holiday thinking of my brothers in shandong

is one of the famous works of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei. This poem describes the homesickness and affection of a wanderer. At the beginning of the poem, I cut to the topic and wrote about the loneliness and sadness of life in a foreign land. Therefore, I always miss my hometown and miss people, and when I meet a festive occasion, I miss them doubly. Then the poem jumped to write about the brothers who were far away from home. When they climbed the mountain according to the custom of the Double Ninth Festival, they also missed themselves. Poetry jumps repeatedly, implicative and deep, simple and natural, and tortuous. Among them, "I miss my relatives twice during the festive season" is a famous sentence throughout the ages.

Translation

Being a stranger in a foreign land alone, I miss my loved ones more when the festive season comes. My relatives in my hometown are climbing mountains today, and I am the only one who is missing when I am planting dogwood all over the place.

Appreciation

Wang Wei's poem "on the mountain holiday thinking of my brothers in shandong" is contained in Volume 128 of Complete Tang Poetry. The following is the appreciation of this poem by Mr. Liu Xuekai, executive director of the Tang Dynasty Literature Research Association.

Wang Wei is a precocious writer. He wrote many excellent poems when he was a teenager. This poem was written when he was seventeen. Different from his later landscape poems, which are rich in painting and exquisite in composition and color, this lyric poem is very simple. But for thousands of years, people have read this poem when they are away from home, but they have strongly felt its power. This power comes from its simplicity, profundity and high generalization.

The poem is written because I miss my relatives in my hometown on the Double Ninth Festival. Wang Wei lives in Puzhou, east of Huashan Mountain, so the title is "Recalling Shandong Brothers". He was probably seeking fame in Chang 'an when he wrote this poem. Although the bustling imperial city was very attractive to young scholars who were enthusiastic about official career at that time, it was a "foreign land" for a young wanderer after all. And the more bustling and lively, the more lonely and friendless the wanderer is in the vast sea of people. The first sentence uses a word "unique" and two words "different", which is very sufficient. Http://www.slkj.org/b/81.html's thoughts about his loved ones and feelings about his lonely situation are all condensed in the word "independence". "Being a stranger in a foreign land" only means being a guest in another country, but the artistic effect caused by the word "different" is much stronger than that caused by general narration of being a guest in another country.

In the feudal era, where the natural economy dominated, there were great differences in customs, customs, languages and living habits between different regions. When you leave your hometown where you have lived for many years and go to a different place, you will feel that everything is strange and unaccustomed, and you will feel like a duckweed floating in a different place. "Foreign land" and "stranger" are just plain and true expressions of this feeling. The homesickness of a stranger in another country naturally exists on weekdays, but sometimes it is not necessarily revealed, but once it encounters some kind of catalyst-the most common one is the "festival"-it is easy to burst out, or even uncontrollable. This is the so-called "I miss my relatives twice during the festive season". Festivals are often a time for family reunion, and they are often associated with many beautiful memories of hometown scenery, so it is very natural to "miss your family more often during festivals". This kind of experience can be said that everyone has it, but before Wang Wei, no poet has successfully expressed it with such plain and highly summarized poems. Once the poet tells it, it becomes an aphorism that can best express the homesickness of the guests.

the first two sentences can be said to be the "direct method" of artistic creation. Almost without any detour, but directly into the core, quickly forming a climax, there are epigrams. However, this writing often makes the last two sentences unsustainable, resulting in insufficient stamina. If the last two sentences of this poem are extended in a straight line along the line of "I miss my relatives more during the festive season", it will inevitably be a snake's foot; It is also difficult to turn out new ideas and form a new climax. The author takes another approach: following the torrent of emotion, a rippling lake appears, seemingly calm, but actually deeper.

There is a custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival. It is said that you can avoid disasters by wearing cornus bags when climbing. Cornus, also known as Yuejiao, is a fragrant plant. Three or four sentences, if we just think about how brothers climb mountains and wear cornus on Chongyang Day, but they are alone in a foreign land and can't participate, although they write about their homesickness during the festive season, they will appear straight and lack novelty and affection. What the poet thinks in the distance is: "There is one less person in the dogwood." It means that brothers who are far away from home all wore cornus when they climbed the mountain today, only to find that one brother was missing ── he was not included. It seems that it is not a pity that I failed to spend the holiday with my brothers in my hometown, but that my brothers failed to reunite completely during the holiday; It seems that the situation of being a stranger alone in a foreign land is not worth telling, but the shortcomings of brothers need to be considerate. This is tortuous and unnatural. And this unusual place is precisely its deep place and new police place. Du Fu's Moonlit Night: "for our boy and girl, poor little babes, are too young to know where the Capital is" is similar to these two sentences, but Wang Shi seems to be less focused.