Where is the "Huamen" in "Ask the Huamen Restaurant"?

Huamen: Huamen Tower, the name of the building in Liangzhou (now Wuwei, Gansu). Huamen Gate: refers to the entrance of Huamen Tower

Playing with the Huamen Restaurant Master

The old man still sells wine in his seventies,

Thousands of pots and hundreds of urns are at Huamen Gate.

The elm pods beside the road look like money.

Will you pick them and sell them for wine?

Explanation of words

Gu: Buy or sell. The word "gu" in the first sentence means selling, and the word "gu" in the last sentence means buying.

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Huamen: Huamen Tower, the name of the building in Liangzhou (now Wuwei, Gansu). Huamenkou: refers to the entrance of Huamen Tower.

Elm pod: the fruit of the elm tree. In spring, elm pods grow between the branches of elm trees. They are shaped like money but small and white in color. They are commonly known as elm money.

Vernacular translation

This old man is still selling wine at the age of seventy.

Putting thousands of wine pots and wine jars in Huamen Tower mouth.

The elm pods beside the road also look like strings of copper coins.

I will pick them off and use them to buy wine. Can you sell them?

Literary Appreciation

This is a unique lyrical poem about life. After the poet experienced the long and hard journey across the vast sea, he suddenly appreciated the spring scenery and witnessed the first blooming of elms on the roadside. It was an alluring scene of an old man selling wine and entertaining guests. He stopped in the hotel for a while, letting the intoxicating aroma of wine dispel the fatigue of the journey and admiring the moving spring scenery.

The first two sentences of the poem are purely written in line drawing, starting from the hotel in front of the Huamen Tower, and faithfully describe the scene of the old man entertaining guests and the delicious wine. It can be called a vivid and touching picture of thousands of miles of Hexi in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The genre paintings of the poem highlight the atmosphere of the era when the frontier fortress was stable and peaceful, paving the way for the following poem titled "Playing Questions". In the three or four sentences, the poet did not describe the process of paying for wine in a boring way, but in the moment of seeing the spring scenery, he immediately grasped the moving poetic meaning from the coin-like appearance of the elm pod, and expressed it with ease and ease. In a humorous tone, he playfully asked the seventy-year-old man who sells wine: "Old man, would you like to pick a bunch of white elm coins to buy your wine?" The poet's rich imagination turns life into poetry. , readers can fully feel the optimism and open-mindedness of people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

This poem uses colloquial poetic language to describe the scenery in front of you. The characters' voices, faces, and smiles are lifelike, and the style is witty and humorous. The poet's mood, excited and intoxicated by the early spring scenery in Liangzhou, echoes between the lines like a trickle. In terms of writing, simple line drawings and vivid imagination are combined, showing an ordinary and friendly taste in the contrast between reality and reality. The language of this poem is rich in the charm of the ordinary but strange, which brings a light and humorous charm to the whole poem.

Comments from Famous Writers

Du Que's "Preface to the Collected Poems of Cen Jiazhou" said that "every last piece of Cen Shen's poetry has been passed down by everyone. Satirical chanting and chanting are practiced." This poem shows it.