Sending Du to Shu is the work of a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem is to comfort friends not to be sad when they leave. The first pair of couplets depicts the scene and style of parting places and friends' parting places, implying the feeling of parting and strictly confronting each other; Couplets are words of relief, pointing out the inevitability of parting, inheriting with scattered sounds, turning reality into emptiness, ups and downs of literature and feelings; The sudden peak of the neck joint highly summarizes the scene of "deep friendship, which sublimates friendship to a higher aesthetic realm"; The couplet points out the theme of "seeing off" and continues to encourage and remind friends, which is also an emotional confession. The beginning and end of this poem are depressing, with flowing atmosphere and broad-minded artistic conception. It is an unparalleled classic in farewell poems. The whole poem is only forty words, but it is full of changes, as if on a small picture scroll, it contains countless mountains and valleys, with endless scenery, which has been widely circulated so far.
Original text:
Farewell to the viceroy and go to Shu for his post.
Across the wall of Sanqin, across a layer of fog, across a river.
We said goodbye sadly, and our two officials went in opposite directions.
After all, the world is just a small place.
Why are you wandering at the fork in the road? The child is holding a towel.
Translation:
The majestic Chang 'an guards the land of Sanqin and sees Wujin through the clouds.
When I left you, I had infinite affection in my heart, because we were all floating in the sea of officials.
As long as there is your confidant in the world, even if you are far away, you are like a close neighbor.
Never break up at a fork in the road, like a child, sad and wet with tears.
Author:
Wang Bo (649 ~ 676), a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Longmen, Jiangzhou (now Hejin, Shanxi). At the beginning of his career, Linde joined the army in Zhouguo. Later, he went to Hainan to visit his father and drowned and died of shock. He showed his talent when he was young, and he was as famous as Yang Jiong, Lu and Lu in words, and he was also called "four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty". Both he and Lu tried to change the poetic style of "striving for exquisiteness and carving" at that time (see Yang Jiong's Preface). His poems tend to describe personal life, and a few of his works express political feelings and cover up his dissatisfaction with powerful families. The style is fresh, but some poems are superficial. His prose "Preface to Wang Tengting" is quite famous. The original collection of books has been lost, and The Collection of Wang Zian was compiled in the Ming Dynasty.