The meaning of this sentence is: Going to Yangzhou for a long trip in March, when the willows are like smoke and the flowers are like blossoms.
The source of this sentence is: Tang Dynasty - Li Bai "The Yellow Crane Tower Sends Meng Haoran to Guangling"
The original text of this work is as follows:?
The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and went down to Yangzhou in March.
Lone sail in the distant sky, only see the Yangtze River flowing in the sky.
Translated into vernacular, it reads as follows:
My friend said goodbye to me at the Yellow Crane Tower, and went to Yangzhou for a long trip in March, when the willows were like smoke and the flowers were like blossoms.
The sail of the lone ship gradually disappeared into the end of the blue sky, and all that could be seen was the rolling Yangtze River running toward the sky.
When the author wrote this work, what was the background? Understand the background to better appreciate this poem:
While living in Anlu, Li Bai met Meng Haoran, who was twelve years older than him, and soon became a close friend. In March of 730 AD, Li Bai learned that Meng Haoran was going to Guangling (present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province), and asked him to meet him in Jiangxia (present-day Wuchang District, Wuhan City). A few days later, Meng Haoran traveled east by boat, and Li Bai personally sent him to the river. He wrote this song "The Yellow Crane Tower Sends Meng Haoran to Guangling" during his farewell.
Finally, let's enjoy the work:
This poem is different from Wang Bo's "Sending Du Shaofu to Shuzhou", which is the kind of juvenile parting, or Wang Wei's "Weicheng Qu", which is the kind of affectionate and considerate parting. Instead, it expresses a kind of poetic parting. The reason why it is so, because this is the parting of the two dashing poets, but also because of this parting with a prosperous era, prosperous season, prosperous region linked, in the pleasant breakup also carries the poet's yearning, which makes this parting more poetic, less sad.
Li Bai's dealings with Meng Haoran were when he was young and fastidious, so what he saw in his eyes was good and pleasant. This parting is the Kaiyuan era, peace and prosperity, the season is the March fireworks, spring time, from the Yellow Crane Tower down the Yangtze River, all the way down, this is a blossom. Li Bai is such a romantic, love of excursions, so this parting is completely in a very rich atmosphere of the best thoughts and lyric poetry. Li Bai's heart is not sad and unpleasant, on the contrary, think Meng Haoran this trip is very happy, he longed for Yangzhou area, and longed for Meng Haoran, so while sending off, while the heart will follow the flight, the chest has endless poetry with the river ripples.
"The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west", this sentence is not only to point out the title, but also because the Yellow Crane Tower is the world's most famous attractions, may be the two poets often linger in the meeting place. Therefore, the mention of the Yellow Crane Tower brings out all kinds of poetic life content related to this place. And the Yellow Crane Tower itself, and the legend of the immortals flying up to the sky to go to the place, which and Li Bai's mind this time Meng Haoran happily went to Guangling, and constitute a kind of association, adding that pleasant, rhapsodic atmosphere.
The word "fireworks" is added to the word "March" to color the atmosphere of the poem in the farewell setting. The word "fireworks" refers to the misty, colorful flowers. To the reader's feeling is not a piece of land, a flower, but a large area of the Yangchun smoke can not be seen, can not be seen through. March is the time of fireworks, and the prosperous lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Kaiyuan era, and it is the place of fireworks. The phrase "March Fireworks" not only reproduces the charming scenery of the prosperous place in the late spring, but also reveals the atmosphere of the times. This line has a beautiful mood and beautiful words, and Sun Su, a Qing scholar, regarded it as "a beautiful line of a thousand years". Li Bai was eager to go to Yangzhou.
The last two lines of the poem seem to be about scenery, but there is a poetic detail in the scenery. "Li Bai has been sending his friend to the boat, which has already set sail, while he is still on the river's edge watching the distant sails. Li Bai's eyes looked at the shadow of the sail, and he kept seeing the shadow of the sail gradually blurring and disappearing at the end of the blue sky, which shows the long time of eye-watching. The shadow of the sail has faded away, but Li Bai is still gazing at it, and only then did he notice that the spring water of the river, in the vast and majestic flow far away from where the water and the sky meet.
The last sentence is a scene in front of him, but it is not simply a scene. Li Bai's deep love for his friend, Li Bai's yearning, is reflected in this poetic God's attention. The ebb and flow of the poet's heart is like a river of spring water rolling east. In short, this is a very poetic, the two poets of the parting, Li Bai, and with a piece of yearning for the parting, by the poet with a gorgeous March scenery, the boat will be the Yangtze River, the broad picture, will be sent to the details of the distant shadow of the sails, extremely evocative of the performance.