original work
When welcoming an envoy to the capital.
[1] The old garden has a long way to go east, and the tears of the double-sleeved dragon bell are not dry. Meet immediately without pen and paper, and spread peace with your message. [2]
Annotation translation
Note ① Ambassador to Beijing: Ambassador to Beijing. ② Hometown: refers to Chang 'an and his home in Chang 'an. L: It's a long way. Dragon bell: the way tears drop down. Bian He's Song of Revenge: "The empty mountain is full of tears." It means to get wet here. 4 rely on: support. Message: Please leave a message. Looking east, I can only feel the long road, tears dripping from my sleeves, but still spewing. On my way back to Beijing, I met an emissary on horseback and couldn't spread paper to write. I can only ask you to tell my family and friends that I am all right. [3]
Creation background
According to Liu Kaiyang's Notes on Chronology of Cen Can Poems and Chronology of Cen Can, this poem was written in 749 AD (Tianbao eight years), and the poet was on his way to Anxi. This is Cen Can's first trip to the Western Regions as the secretary of the Gao Xianzhi shogunate. At this time, the poet was 34 years old, and he gained fame and fortune in the first half of his life, which was not satisfactory. In desperation, he went out to work. He said goodbye to his wife in Chang 'an, went on a long journey, went out of Yangguan in the west and went to Anxi. There are two spiritual pillars in Cen Can's thought of joining the army: one pillar is the ideal of making contributions to the frontier, which inspires him. He once said to himself, "fame should only be taken at once. The real hero is the husband." Another pillar is that he believes that joining the army is to serve the motherland and to serve the country urgently. He once confessed: "Wan Li served the King with nothing to ask for, and knew the hardships of the fortress. Is it for his wife? " Based on these two points, most of his frontier poems are high-spirited and optimistic, showing Tang Jun's high morale and prestige that shocked the earth. But when soldiers embark on a journey, they can't miss home, and they can't miss their parents and wives. Gao Shi's "Ge Yanxing" goes: "The iron clothes are far away, and the hard work is long, and my wife is crying here. Still in this southern city, the young wife's heart is broken, while the soldiers on the northern border are looking forward to going home in vain. " Cen Can's On Receiving the Envoys from the Capital shows his yearning for his hometown and family, which is a sincere and healthy feeling, although the tone is not very high. But it can't be considered negative and pessimistic, although he shed tears of homesickness. I don't know how many days later, on the way to the western regions, he suddenly met an old acquaintance. I immediately talked about each other and exchanged cold feelings. Knowing that the other party was going back to Beijing to report on his work, I suddenly thought of asking him to send a letter back to his hometown in Chang 'an. This poem describes the scene. [4]
works appreciation
"Far East of Hometown" is about the actual feelings in front of us. The poet has left his hometown for many days and is on his way to the western regions. Looking back at Chang' an, the hometown of the East, it is of course a long way, and the feeling of missing can't help but attack my heart, and the feeling of homesickness is hard to recover. "Hometown" refers to my home in Chang 'an. "Looking east" means pointing out the location of Chang 'an. "The tears of the two sleeves are dry" means that the tears of homesickness can't be wiped away, so that both sleeves are wet, but the tears just can't stop. This sentence expresses the feelings of missing relatives with exaggerated rhetoric, and also lays a high foundation for the following writing to bring a book home to "report peace". "There is no pen and paper when we meet, and there is news from you when we report peace." These two sentences are about the situation that you met an emissary in Beijing and wanted to take a book home to report peace, but there was no pen and paper. They were completely anxious to see the traveler at once, and they behaved very vividly. The word "meet" points out the topic. On the way to Anxi, I met an old friend, who was the messenger to Beijing. They all rode on horseback, arms crossed. One went west, the other went east to Chang 'an, and his wife was in Chang 'an. He just asked his old friend to bring back a letter of peace, but there was no pen and paper and no letter, so he had to ask his old friend to take a message. This last poem is very concise and neat, but it contains the poet's deep affection, faint taste and charm in simplicity. Cen Can came here with the ambition of "fame and fortune". At this time, the mood is complicated. On the one hand, he has tenderness and homesickness for the imperial city, on the other hand, he also shows the poet's open and heroic mind. The language of this poem is simple and natural, full of rich frontier life flavor, with both life interest and humanistic feelings, fresh and lively, with profound aftertaste, and sincere feelings. Poets are good at refining and summarizing the thoughts and words of many people by artistic means, making them typical. Liu Xizai, a Qing Dynasty man, once said, "Poetry can be seen in a convenient place, so it feels kind and tasteful." Zhong Xing commented on this poem: "It is true." Tan said, "Everyone has it, and it has not been written, so future generations cannot attack it. So it can last for a long time. " Shen Deqian said, "Everyone speaks Chinese in his heart, but he has become a swan song." (Collection of Tang Poems, Volume 19) It is well-known and shows rich charm, which can be deeply rooted in people's hearts and won't be forgotten for a long time. Cen Can's poems have this feature. [2]
Brief introduction of the author
[5] Cen Can (7 15 ~ 770) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Jingzhou Jiangling (now Jiangling, Hubei) people. Born in a bureaucratic family, my great-grandfather, great-uncle and uncle are all officials of the prime minister. My father was Secretary of State twice. But my father died young and my family fortune declined. I accepted my brother's books and read the history of classics since I was a child. At the age of twenty, I went to Chang 'an, but I couldn't get an official position. I went to Luo Jing, and I went to Heshuo in the north. At the age of 30, he was promoted to Jinshi, and Cao joined the army. During the Tianbao period (742 ~ 756), he went out to the frontier twice and stayed there for six years, which was quite ambitious. After the Anshi Rebellion, he returned to North Korea, and Du Fu and others recommended him to fill the vacancy and transfer to other posts, such as risking his life and forgetting his death. During the period of Dali (766 ~ 779), he was an official of history, known as Cen Jiazhou. After the break, the guests died in Chengdu Guest House. Cen Can's "Gao Shi" also said that both of them were representatives of frontier poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. His poems cover a wide range of topics, except for lamenting his life experiences and giving answers to friends. Before he went abroad, he wrote many landscape poems, which are quite similar to those of Xie Tiao and He Xun, but have the characteristics of novel artistic conception. There is a collection of cenjiazhou. [5]