The setting sun melts gold, the dusk clouds merge together, where are the people? What does it mean?

It means: The afterglow of the setting sun is like molten gold, and the evening clouds are like the surrounding bright moon. Where am I now?

1. Original text

The setting sun melts gold, the dusk clouds merge together, where are the people? The willows are dyed with thick smoke, and the plum flute is played with resentment, and I know how much spring is coming. During the Lantern Festival, the weather is harmonious and there is no wind or rain. Come to greet him, bring him a car and a BMW, and thank him for his wine, friends, and poets.

It is a prosperous day in Zhongzhou, and there is a lot of free time for the boudoir, so remember to focus on the three or five. Paved with emerald crowns, twisted with golden snow willows, and clustered with ribbons to help Chu. Now I am haggard, my hair is covered with frost, and I am afraid of going out at night. It's better to go under the curtain and listen to people's laughter.

2. Translation

The afterglow of the setting sun is like molten gold, and the evening clouds are like the surrounding bright moon. Where am I now? The smoke that renders the willow color gradually thickens, and the flute is still playing the resentful song "Plum Blossoms Fall". Who knows how much spring there is left? Just as the Lantern Festival is warm and the weather is warm, won't there be sudden wind and rain in the blink of an eye? Someone came to invite me to such a banquet and drove a BMW to pick me up, but I declined.

I can’t forget those days when Bianjing was prosperous. Women in the boudoir had many leisure games. I remember that I particularly liked the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, wearing hats with kingfisher feathers on their heads, and using beautiful The snow willows made of gold thread are neatly dressed up. Nowadays, my appearance is very haggard, my hair is as messy as the wind and mist, and I don’t bother to comb it. I’m afraid that people will see me, so I go out at night. It's better to stay secretly under the curtain and listen to the laughter and laughter of other people outside.

3. Source

(Song Dynasty) Li Qingzhao's "Yong Yu Le·Sunset Melting Gold"

Extended information:

1. Creation Background

This poem was written by Li Qingzhao when he lived in the south of the Yangtze River in his later years. The writing took place in Lin'an (now Hangzhou), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, around 1150 AD (the 20th year of Shaoxing, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty).

2. Appreciation

In addition to using the technique of contrasting the present and the past with the sadness of the beautiful scenery, this poem also consciously combines simple and expressive spoken language with The sophisticated written language is intertwined and fused, forming a special language style that combines elegance and vulgarity, sees elegance in vulgarity, and avoids elegance while avoiding vulgarity. The artistic appeal of this poem is so strong that Liu Chenwenghui, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, would "cry tears" every time he recited this poem.

3. Introduction to the author

Li Qingzhao, a female poet in the Song Dynasty. No. Yi'an Jushi, a native of Zhangqiu, Qizhou (now part of Shandong). In his early days, he lived a prosperous life, and together with his husband Zhao Mingcheng, he devoted himself to the collection and arrangement of calligraphy, painting and inscriptions. Jin soldiers invaded the Central Plains and lived in the south. Mingcheng died of illness and was left alone. In the early stage of his poems, he mostly wrote about his leisurely life, and in the later stage, he mostly lamented his life experience, with a sentimental mood and also revealed his longing for the Central Plains.