Notes on the way to send Meng Haoran to Yangzhou by the Yellow Crane Tower

Yellow Crane Tower —— Meng Haoran's farewell on his way to Yangzhou

li po

Gulen sichuang helu

Therefore, people left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west.

Lady Yang

Fireworks show off in Yangzhou in March.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Lonely sails and distant shadows are blue and empty,

This is a good example.

I only saw the long river flowing in the sky.

1, Yellow Crane Tower: The former site is in Huangyiji, Wuchang, Hubei Province, with its back against the Snake Mountain and overlooking the Yangtze River.

2. One: Go, go.

3. Guangling: the old name of Yangzhou.

4. Old friends: old friends. (refers to Meng Haoran)

5. Western Ci: The Yellow Crane Tower is in the west of Guangling, so it is called "Western Ci".

6. Fireworks: refers to the beautiful spring scenery and flowers in Ruyan Liu.

7. Go downstream.

8. Do: disappear.

9. Look only: Look only.

10, horizon: horizon.

Translation:

The spring is bright, the confidant sails, and the poet stands upstairs, staring at the lonely sail drifting away until it is completely hidden in the blue sky and green water. Finally, I saw the rolling river flowing to the horizon, and the poet's feelings also fluctuated with the river.

The famous sentence "The old friend resigned from the West Yellow Crane Tower, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March."

These two sentences describe a friend's trip to Yangzhou along the river. The word "fireworks" highlights the spring scenery of Ruyan Liu and flowers, and the poet's melancholy mood when he bid farewell to his friends is completely revealed. The last two sentences deliberately describe friends' "western words", a lonely sail, accompanied by the poet's friends drifting to the distant place connected by water and sky, until the sail shadow disappeared at the end of the blue sky, but the poet still stood on the roof, staring at the distance, unwilling to leave. There is not a word in the poem to say goodbye, but between the lines, it clearly reveals the melancholy and nostalgia for distant friends. In the poet's works, deep feelings are contained in the touching scenery description, and the feelings and scenery have reached a highly perfect fusion.

Meng Haoran is a famous poet highly respected by Li Bai. He was once praised as "Master, I sincerely salute you, and your fame has risen to the sky". Roaming around the world famous mountains and cities is the fashion and open personality of the literati in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, a young man living in Anlu, Hubei Province, has long had the travel experience of "serving the country with his sword, leaving his relatives behind to travel far and wide, and going to the sea in the south and the east". So he bid farewell to Meng Haoran, a famous poet in Wuchang, and went to Yangzhou, a famous city in Jiangzuo (called Guangling in ancient times). In the face of "three talents" linking famous buildings, celebrities and famous cities, he is full of poetry, and his feeling of the world is bright and beautiful, without any sadness. The first two sentences should have explained the time, place and destination of farewell, but this explanation was perceptual by the vivid image of "Fireworks March". Didn't Li Bai have a story of "dream pen gives birth to flowers"? Unexpectedly, as a symbol of his genius, flowers were born in his dream, and March fireworks were generated when he said goodbye. The editor who won the "300 Tang poems" called this sentence "the eternal quatrain". The sky was also moved by the feeling of bright and beautiful world and became as empty as a shower. Beneath it, the popular Lonely Sail Far Shadow has a sense of loneliness and desolation. It draws the yearning for life in the vast sky. Life is like running water, parting is like running water. The eyes of infinite attachment, following the distant shadow of the solitary sail that disappeared out of sight, have become the great stream of the Yangtze River that lasts forever. The instant and eternal scene of sending a famous building to a famous city has become a poetic symbol of the prosperous tourism of poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

About Yellow Crane Tower

The Yellow Crane Tower, towering above the Snake Mountain in Wuchang, enjoys the reputation of "the best scenery in the world", and is also called "the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River" with Yueyang Tower in Hunan and Wangtengting Pavilion in Jiangxi. The Yellow Crane Tower was built in the Three Kingdoms Period in the second year of Wu (AD 223). Legend has it that it was built for military purposes. Sun Quan built a city to defend himself, and looked forward to "ruling the country by force" (hence the name of Wuchang). By the Tang Dynasty, its military nature had gradually evolved into a famous scenic spot, which was visited by literati of all dynasties, leaving many well-known poems. Cui Hao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote: "In ancient times, yellow cranes carried saints to heaven, but today there is no yellow crane tower. The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years. Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass. But I looked home, the twilight was getting thicker, and the river waves were filled with sad mist. " Becoming a swan song throughout the ages has also made the Yellow Crane Tower famous. The Yellow Crane Tower, known as one of the three major buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, was originally located in Fantou of Yellow Crane in Sheshan, Wuchang, Hubei. According to legend, it was built in the second year of Wu in the Three Kingdoms (AD 223), and it was built and destroyed repeatedly for more than 700 years, and was finally destroyed by a fire in the tenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1884). This famous building is full of legends, which makes it even more magical. According to Lu, the Yellow Crane Tower was originally a hotel opened by the Xin family. Before leaving, a Taoist drew a crane on the wall to thank her for her thousand cups and told her that it could come down and dance for fun. From then on, the guests were full and the business was booming. 10 years later, the Taoist priest came back and played with a flute. The Taoist priest set foot on the yellow crane and went straight to the sky. In memory of the fairy who helped her get rich, Xin's family built a building in her place and named it "Yellow Crane Tower". This beautiful fairy tale has had three different versions over the years. The first version thinks this fairy is Huang Zi 'an, the second version thinks it is Fei Yi, and the third version has no fairy name.

During the Three Kingdoms period, this hilltop building built by the river was originally for military needs, and later it gradually became a tourist attraction for literati to meet, entertain guests, make friends, recite poems and enjoy the scenery. Celebrities of past dynasties, such as Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Jia Dao, Xia Song, Lu You, etc. , has been here, poetry as fu. Cui Hao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, climbed the Yellow Crane Tower to enjoy the scenery and wrote a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation. A long time ago, the place where the Yellow Crane carried the saints to heaven is now only the Yellow Crane Tower. The yellow crane does not return to the world, and the clouds are empty. Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass. But I looked at my hometown, and the twilight was getting thicker, and the mist of sadness was filled on the river waves. "Later, Li Bai also boarded the Yellow Crane Tower and looked at Chutian, with an open mind and great poetic interest. When he was about to start writing poems, he saw Cui Hao's poems. He felt ashamed and had to say, "There is no road in front of him, and Cui Hao wrote a poem on it. "Cui Hao wrote a poem, and Li Bai put pen to paper. Since then, he has gained great fame.

Important cities and military towns on the north bank of the Yangtze River during Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu dug a ditch here to connect the Yangtze River and Huaihe River and compete for the hegemony of the Central Plains. Qin county, the western Han dynasty set Guangling country, the eastern Han dynasty changed Guangling county, and Guangling county was the governing place, so it is located in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province today. Cao Wei set the county and moved to Huaiyin. Wu set Guangling County in Yangzhou today. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Guangling County was set up along Wei, and it was placed under Xuzhou. First rule Huaiyin, then move to Sheyang, Eastern Jin Dynasty. Guangling County covers the area east of Hongze Lake and Liuhe at the junction of Jiangsu and Anhui, south of Siyang, Baoying and Guannan, west of Chuanchang River and north of the Yangtze River. There is Guazhou Town on the bank of the river forty miles south of the city. It is a moraine in the Yangtze River, named after it looks like a melon. The Yangtze River flows from Liuhe County in the northwest, and borders Jingkou County in Dantu County in the south. The two cities face each other across the river, and the north and south echo each other. * * * together constitute the important town of Kyoto Health in the upper reaches of Gong Wei. The river was 40 miles wide at first, then gradually narrowed, and it was only about 20 miles wide in the late Northern and Southern Dynasties. When Xie 'an Town in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in Guangling, a base area was built twenty miles east of the city, which was called New Town. There is a dam twenty miles north of the new town, which was built by Xie An on the edge of Shaobo Lake to keep water. Later generations compared Xie An to that of Yan State in Zhou Dynasty, and called this Dai Dai. In the sixth year of Huang Chu (225), Wei Wendi Cao Pi conquered Wu and moved the capital to Guangling, the old city. He sighed on the river and said, "the sky is limited to the north and the south." In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Guangling controlled Sanqi, and the secretariat of Qing and Yan was here. In the second year of Xianhe (327), the Soviet Union and Zuyue rebelled. At that time, Chi Jian led Guangling and Xuzhou Secretariat Town, and with the troops of Qingyan and Yanzhou Secretariat, he rose from Guangling to put down the rebellion. In the second year of Taiyuan (377), Xie Xuan was the secretariat of Southern Yanzhou, moved the military headquarters of Southern Yanzhou from Jingkou to Guangling, and recruited expatriates to form the northern government soldiers. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, due to the chaos in the Central Plains, refugees crossed the south, and the overseas Chinese county was permanently located in Guangling. In the eighth year of Song Yuanjia (43 1), it was located in Nanyanzhou, Guangling County, followed by Qi and Liang. Northern Qi Dynasty changed to East Guangzhou, and Chen Dynasty restored South Yanzhou. After the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was changed to Wuzhou, which was still a military center and was headed by the company commanders. At the beginning of Sui Dynasty, it was Yangzhou and general manager office, and later it was changed to Jiangdu County. The rank of governor is the same as that of mute. Emperor Yang Guang of Yang Di went to Jiangdu and wanted to move the capital here. In the Tang Dynasty, it was changed to Yanzhou, Yanzhou and Yangzhou, and later changed to Guangling County.

In the 13th year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 725), Li Bai sailed down the Yangtze River from Sichuan and visited many places all the way. In Xiangyang (now Xiangfan, Hubei), he heard that Meng Haoran, a former poet, lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain in the southeast of the city and went to visit him specially. Meng Haoran read Li Bai's poems and praised them greatly. They soon became close friends. Meng Haoran warmly hosted Li Bai and stayed with him for more than 10 days.

In the spring of 730 AD, Li Bai learned that Meng Haoran was going to Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu), so he sent a letter to meet Meng Haoran in Jiangxia (now Wuchang, Wuhan). On this day, they met at the Yellow Crane Tower in Jiangxia, had a good talk and expressed their opinions. A few days later, Meng Haoran took a boat to the east, and Li Bai personally sent it to the river. When the ship left, Li Bai stood on the riverbank, watching the lonely sail drifting away, and his feelings of melancholy came to life, so he waved the song "Yellow Crane Tower, Don't be Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou". The first sentence points out that the farewell place is the Yellow Crane Tower, and the second sentence points out that the farewell time is in the spring of March, which also implies that this beautiful fireworks will accompany friends all the way to Yangzhou. Yangzhou was a prosperous city at that time. It must be full of flowers and spring. The last two sentences convey feelings, and the poet entrusts the feeling of parting between the blue sky and the river. Although his writing is exhausted, it is memorable and can be called a farewell masterpiece.

Meng Haoran is a famous poet highly respected by Li Bai. 10 years later, Li Bai wrote a poem entitled "Master, I cheered you from my heart, and your reputation rose to the sky" to praise it. Roaming around the world famous mountains and cities is the fashion and open personality of the literati in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, a young man living in Anlu, Hubei Province, has long had the travel experience of "serving the country with his sword, leaving his relatives behind to travel far and wide, and going to the sea in the south and the east". So he bid farewell to Meng Haoran, a famous poet in Wuchang, and went to Yangzhou, a famous city in Jiangzuo (called Guangling in ancient times). In the face of "three talents" linking famous buildings, celebrities and famous cities, he is full of poetry, and his feeling of the world is bright and beautiful, without any sadness.