Meng Haoran admired Li Bai very much and they soon became close friends. In March of the 18th year of Kaiyuan (730), Li Bai learned that Meng Haoran was going to Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu), so he sent someone to Jiangxia (now Wuchang District, Wuhan) to meet Meng Haoran. A few days later, Meng Haoran took a boat to the east, and Li Bai personally sent it to the river. This song "The Yellow Crane Tower Farewell Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou" was written when I left.
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The phrase "an old friend said goodbye to the West Yellow Crane Tower" is not only for the sake of making a point, but also because the Yellow Crane Tower is a world-famous scenic spot, which may be the place where two poets often get together and hang out. So when it comes to the Yellow Crane Tower, it brings out various poetic life contents related to it. The Yellow Crane Tower itself is also the legendary place where immortals fly to the sky, which is associated with Li Bai's idea of Meng Haoran going to Guangling happily this time, adding that kind of pleasant and imaginative atmosphere.
"Fireworks descend in Yangzhou in March", and the word "fireworks" was added to "March", smearing the atmosphere of that poem in the farewell environment. Fireworks, refers to the misty, gorgeous. The reader's feeling is by no means a piece of land or a flower, but an invisible and impenetrable smoke cloud in spring. March is the season of fireworks, and the prosperous lower reaches of the Yangtze River in Kaiyuan era is the place of fireworks.
"Lonely sails sail in the blue sky, and only the Yangtze River flows in the sky." The last two sentences of the poem look like landscape writing, but there is a poetic detail in landscape writing. Li Bai has been sending his friends to the boat, and the boat has already left, while he is still watching the sails in the distance by the river.
Li Bai's eyes looked at the sail shadow until it gradually blurred and disappeared at the end of the blue sky, showing a long time to watch. The shadow of the sail has disappeared, but Li Bai still stared at it, and then he noticed that a river with spring water was flowing to the distant junction of water and sky.
"Just watching the Yangtze River flowing in the sky" is the scene in front of us, not just writing about the scenery. Li Bai's deep affection and yearning for his friends are all reflected in this poetic style. The poet's heart rises and falls, just like a stream of spring water rolling eastward.
In a word, this poetic parting of two romantic and chic poets is another yearning parting of Li Bai, which vividly shows the vast picture of boating on the Yangtze River and the details of lonely sails in the distance with the gorgeous scenery in March.
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