Annotated translation of Bai Ju on the Chongyang Banquet

Tulip: The name of the flower, that is, golden cinnamon, here describes the golden chrysanthemum like tulip.

Lone bush: A lonely bush.

Pulsatilla: The poet calls himself. Bai Juyi's poem "White Chrysanthemum on the Chongyang Banquet" is novel and chic, and the words are rich in meaning. The whole poem expresses the poet's youthful interest despite his old age. It is interesting to use flowers as a metaphor for people.

Titled "Fu White Chrysanthemum", the beginning of the poem says that the chrysanthemums in the garden are all golden yellow. "The garden is full of golden chrysanthemums, and there are lonely bushes like frost. This is a foil technique to make the white "lonely bush" in the next sentence more prominent, just like "a little red in the green bush", and that little red is more conspicuous.

The contrast between "full", "depressed" and "lonely" is more eye-catching. The vivid metaphor of "color like frost" depicts the bright colors of white chrysanthemum.

What's even better is the last two sentences: "It's like today's song banquet, the pulsatilla people's youth field." "The poet associates from flowers to people, and to the scene at the banquet of songs, the metaphor is natural and appropriate, and it seems to be easy, but in fact, because the poet pays attention to life at any time, he can quickly select materials from real life and make specific and vivid metaphors.

This metaphor is close to the topic, surprising and reasonable. The concluding sentence "Pulsatilla Youth Field" is quite interesting. Although Bai Ju is a "lonely bush", like a "pulsatilla", but with all the "teenagers", he does not feel lonely and old, and is still full of youthful vitality.

Xie Siwei, a professor at Tsinghua University: "There are many poems about white chrysanthemum in the ancients, but it is rare to write such affectionate and interesting poems. ”

Author] Don Bai Juyi.

"The garden is full of golden chrysanthemums, and there are lonely bushes like frost. It's also like today's song banquet, and Pulsatilla enters the juvenile field.

This poem is a seven-character quatrain created by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, expressing the poet's youthful interest despite his old age, using flowers as a metaphor for people, full of interest, the general meaning of this poem is that the chrysanthemums in a yard are golden and yellow, and there is a cluster of white frost-like flowers in the middle is so lonely, just like today's banquet, the old man entered the place where the teenager went;

Let's take a look at this poem, this poem is the author's later years, in a Double Ninth Day and guests drinking and appreciating chrysanthemums, the title is [Fu White Chrysanthemum], the beginning of the poem first said that the chrysanthemums in the garden are golden, [the garden flowers are golden, and there are lonely bushes like frost], this is the use of foil, so that the white [lonely bush] in the next sentence is more prominent, just like [a little red in the green bush], that little red is more conspicuous, [full] [Yu] and [lonely] contrast, white chrysanthemum is more eye-catching, [color like frost] a vivid metaphor depicting the bright colors of white chrysanthemum;

What's even better is the last two sentences, [It's like today's song banquet, pulsatilla people's youth field], the poet thinks of people from flowers, and thinks of the scene at the song banquet, the metaphor is natural and appropriate, and it seems to be easy, but in fact, it is because the poet pays attention to observe life at any time, so he can quickly select materials from real life and make specific and vivid metaphors, which are closely related to the theme, unexpected and reasonable;

In the last sentence, [Pulsatilla enters the juvenile field] is quite interesting, although Bai Ju is [Lonely Congu], and the orange is like [Pulsatilla], but it is with [Youth], and he does not feel lonely and old, and is still full of youthful vitality;

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Chongyang mat endowed with white chrysanthemum.

Bai Juyi Tang Dynasty

The garden is full of chrysanthemums and golden flowers, and there are lonely socks like frost.

It is also like the song of the present dynasty wears out the banquet, and the white blind seeps the head into the juvenile field.