Repaying the spring sunshine is worth knowing, and you should send your life with fine wine. What does it mean?

It means: I have a place to repay the kindness of spring, and the oars in the hotel can send my years away.

From "Seven Quatrains of Looking for Flowers Alone by the River (Part 3)" by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, the original text is:

The river is deep and the bamboos are quiet for two or three houses, and the red flowers reflect the white flowers.

To repay the spring sunshine, you should send good wine to your life.

Translation:

There are two or three families living in the quiet bamboo forest on the bank of the Shenjiang River. The provocative red flowers stand out against the white flowers.

I have a place to repay the kindness of spring. The oars in the hotel can send my years away.

Extended information

Creative background:

In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (760), after experiencing chaos, Du Fu settled in a thatched cottage on the outskirts of Chengdu and temporarily found a place to live. place and feel very satisfied. Therefore, it is spring and the flowers are blooming, which is more enjoyable. This is the life and emotional basis for him to write this series of poems. In the second year (some say the third year), when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, he walked alone by the Jinjiang River to enjoy the flowers, and wrote a series of poems called "Seven Quatrains Walking Alone by the River Looking for Flowers."

Appreciation:

This poem talks about some people’s flowers, which are dazzling red and white, and are overwhelming.

"The river is deep and the bamboos are quiet for two or three families, and the troubled red flowers reflect the white flowers." These two sentences reduce the large range to a small range. When the range is reduced, the flowers become busy. The beginning of the poem is static, and red and white flowers are common. Adding the word "noisy" makes it very lively.

The last two sentences are lyrical and personify spring. "There is a way to repay the spring sunshine, and you should send your life with fine wine." It seems that there is some wonderful enlightenment, and there seems to be some relief, but the deep feeling should still be the love of flowers.

About the author:

Du Fu (712-770), named Zimei, also known as Shaoling Yelao, was a realist poet in the Tang Dynasty. Together with Li Bai, he was known as "Li Du" . In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, known as "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du".

His poems are good at ancient style and rhythmic poetry, with various styles. The four words "depressed and frustrated" accurately summarize the style of his own works, and the main style is melancholy. His works mostly involve social turmoil, political darkness, and people's suffering, recording the great historical changes in the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and expressing the lofty Confucian spirit of benevolence and strong sense of hardship, so they are known as "the history of poetry."

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