Explanation of Remembering Jiangnan

1. Explanation

One of them

How wonderful the scenery of Jiangnan is, the landscape has been familiar for a long time. When spring comes, the sun rises from the river, illuminating the riverside flowers more than fiery red, and the turquoise river water greener than blue grass. How can one not miss Jiangnan?

The second

Jiangnan memories, the most evocative of the memorial is Hangzhou: touring the Tianzhu Temple in search of mid-autumn osmanthus, climbed the County Pavilion, pillows on which to enjoy the tide of the Qiantang River. When will I be able to visit again?

Third

Jiangnan memories, again is to recall the Wu Palace in Suzhou, drink a Wu Palace of wine spring bamboo leaves, see the Wu Palace of the songstresses double dance like a charming hibiscus. Early morning and night always meet again.

2, the original text

One of the

Jiangnan good, the scenery of the old once knew; sunrise river flowers red hot, spring river water green as blue. I can't help but remember the south of the river.

The second

Jiangnan memory, the most memory is Hangzhou; mountain temples in the moon in search of cinnamon, county pavilion on the pillow to see the tide. I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to do it again.

Third

Jiangnan memory, its second memory of the Wu Palace; Wu wine a cup of spring bamboo leaves, Wu Wa double dance drunken hibiscus. I will meet you again in the morning and in the evening.

3. Author

Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty?

Expanded Information

I. Background

Bai Juyi once served as the assassin of Hangzhou for two years, and then as the assassin of Suzhou for more than a year. In his youth, he had traveled to the south of the Yangtze River, living in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and he had a good understanding of the south of the river, so the south of the river left a deep impression in his mind. When he left his post as assassin of Suzhou due to illness and returned to Luoyang more than ten years later, he wrote these three songs "Remembering Jiangnan".

Two, Appreciation

The first of the three "Remembering the South of Jiangnan" is a reminiscence of the south of the Yangtze River, choosing the river flowers and spring water, lined with the sunrise and the background of the spring, which is very colorful and beautiful, and vividly depicts the beautiful scenery of spring in the south of the Yangtze River; the second depicts the beauty of Hangzhou, and verifies that the south of Jiangnan is good through the images of the mountain temples and temples looking for laurel and watching the tide at Qiantang, expressing the author's admiration for the beauty of Hangzhou.

The second song depicts the beauty of Hangzhou, verifying the "good south of the river" through the images of finding laurel in the mountain temples and watching the tide in Qiantang.

The third word depicts the beauty of Suzhou, the poet with a wonderful poetic pen, succinctly sketched out the charming flavor of Suzhou, expressed the author's memory of Suzhou and yearning. These three words are independent and complementary to each other, depicting the beauty of Jiangnan's scenery, the beauty of its scenery and the beauty of its women, with strong artistic generalization and a marvelous mood.

Third, the author

Bai Juyi (772-846), the word Lotte, the name of Xiangshan Jushi, also known as Mr. Drunken Yin, his ancestral home in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, to his great-grandfather when he moved to the lower part of the country, was born in Henan Xinzheng. He was a great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, one of the three great poets of the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi, together with Yuan Zhen***, advocated the new music movement, known as "Yuan Bai", and Liu Yuxi, known as "Liu Bai".

820 years in the winter, transferred to the main guest Langzhong, Zhi Zhi Guan. 821 years, plus Chao San Daifu, began to formally wear five scarlet court dress, (scarlet that is, vermilion, for the five or more officials to use the color of the dress). In 822, Bai Juyi wrote a letter on the military situation in Hebei, which was not adopted.

So he requested a posting in a foreign country, and was appointed assassin of Hangzhou in July, arriving in October.

So he asked for a foreign posting, and in July he was appointed assassin of Hangzhou, arriving in October, and in May 824 he was appointed dyke of the West Lake, dredging six wells, etc. In May 824, he was appointed prince of the left concubine son of the eastern capital, and in the fall he went to Luoyang, where he purchased a house in Cuidaoli, and in 825, he was appointed assassin of Suzhou, arriving in May, and in 826 he left his post because of illness, and then he traveled to the area of Yangzhou and Chuchu, in the company of Liu Yuxi.

During his tenure as assassin of Hangzhou, Liu Yuxi presided over the dredging of six ancient wells in Hangzhou to solve the drinking water problem of Hangzhou people. And see the West Lake silted up farmland drought, so repair dike storage lake water, in order to facilitate irrigation, soothing the harm caused by drought, and make "Qiantang Lake Stone Records", the policy of governance of the lake, the way and precautions, engraved stone placed in the lakeshore, for posterity to know.

This had a great impact on the governance of the lake in Hangzhou. Before leaving office, Bai Juyi left a sum of his official salary in the state treasury as a fund for the officials who later governed Hangzhou to turn over on official business, and then made up the original amount afterwards. When this fund has been operating until the Huang Chao chaos, when the Huang Chao arrived in Hangzhou, the paperwork more burned and lost, the fund is unknown.

West Lake has a white dike, both sides are planted with willows, later generations mistakenly rumored that this is the dike built by Bai Juyi, and called the White Causeway. In fact, this "white dike" existed before Bai Juyi came to Hangzhou, and it was called "white sand dike" at that time, and it was found in Bai Juyi's poems.

While Bai Juyi was in Hangzhou, Yuan Zhen was also transferred from the prime minister to the eastern part of Zhejiang Province, and the eastern part of Zhejiang Province and Hangzhou were not too far away from each other, so there were many exchanges of poems between the two of them. When Bai Juyi left Hangzhou at the end of his term, Yuan Zhen asked Bai Juyi to hand over all of his works and compile 50 volumes of Bai's Changqing Collection.

In Suzhou, during his tenure as assassin, Bai Juyi excavated a seven-mile-long Shantang River from Huqiu in the west to the Gate of Heaven in the east, and built a road on the north side of the river called "Seven Mile Shantang," or "Shantang Street" for short.

827 years, Bai Juyi to Chang'an as Secretary Supervisor, with purple and gold fish bag, change to wear purple court dress (three or more officials use the color of clothing). 828 years, transferred to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs Minister, sealed Jinyang County, male. 829 years in the spring of 829, due to illness and Prince Guest Division, back to Luoyang Cudao Li. 830 years in December, as Henan Yin. 831 years in July Yuan Zhen died.

832, for Yuan Zhen write epitaph, the Yuan family to Bai Juyi moist pen six hundred and seventy thousand money, Bai Juyi will give all the money in Luoyang Xiangshan Temple. 833, due to illness, Henan Yin, reappointed as the Prince of the guests of the division.

835 years, was appointed as assassin of the same state, resigned not to go to the office, and then appointed as the Prince of Fu division of the Eastern Capital, Feng Yi County Marquis, still stay in Luoyang. 839 years in October got wind disease. 841 years, removed the Prince of Fu, stop salary. 842 years, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to the Secretary, to receive a half-salary.

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