What do you mean by "meeting your bosom friend after a long drought"?

During the drought, it rained cats and dogs, and people reunited with their former friends in a foreign land.

A child prodigy poem written by Wang Zhu in Song Dynasty.

Excerpts are as follows:

A long drought meets rain, so an old friend meets a foreign country.

Wedding night, for the first time.

According to legend, a scholar failed in the provincial examination, and it was raining lightly on his way home. When staying at a hotel at night, there were waves of suona and firecrackers in the yard next to the store. It turned out that someone in the neighboring hospital was getting married.

At night, the scholar can't sleep. He remembered Wang Zhu's poem "Four Happiness", and then thought of his own situation and experience. He added eight words to the poem, which became: a long drought brings rain, an old friend in another country, a creditor. Wedding night-dream, be the first-namesake. Such a change, in sharp contrast, is that the four great pleasures of life mentioned in Wang Zhu's poems have become a kind of empty joy, and the meaning of sadness is quite surprising.

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Working background

Later generations compiled "prodigy poems" based on some poems by Wang Zhu and other people's poems. In fact, the prodigy poems handed down from generation to generation are not all the works of young prodigies, nor are they all written by Wang Zhu alone, but have been revised and supplemented by the poems of Sui and Tang Dynasties and even the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Most titles are added separately. Poetry is a five-character quatrain, with neat meter and easy-to-understand words, which is a model for teenagers to learn poetry.

Brief introduction of the author

Wang Zhu was born in Yinxian (now Yinzhou District, Ningbo). Fu Yuan was a scholar for three years (1 100), with a bachelor's degree in official literature hall. He is young and clever, and he can write poems at the age of nine, so he is called a prodigy of Wang. Father Wang Yuanji is the county magistrate of Yinxian County. When Wang Anshi was the magistrate of Yinxian County, Wang Yuanji was recommended to transfer history because of his personal character, and was asked to be in charge of the legal affairs of Mingzhou Prefecture (judicial participation in the army).

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