The meaning of the whole poem is, don't say that gossip can't get rid of people like evil flow, and don't say that the relegated people will sink forever like mud. Gold panning needs to be filtered thousands of times. Although it is hard, only when the precipitation is exhausted will the shining gold be revealed. The poet has been demoted many times, but he is persistent in fighting spirit, optimistic, broad-minded and heroic. Although he has gone through hardships in the remote relegation office, he can finally show that he is not useless waste sand, but bright gold.
Through concrete images, this poem summarizes the profound feelings gained from self-experience and gives people philosophical enlightenment. For example, although an innocent and upright person has been framed by a villain for a period of time, his value will still be discovered after all his efforts.
Langtaosha is one of the works of Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The first is about myths and legends, the second is about the sufferings of love by symbolic means, the third is about the changes of the world, the fourth is about the feelings of wanderers, the fifth is about the customs of Jinjiang, the sixth is about the injustice of work and enjoyment, the seventh is about the tides of Qiantang River, the eighth is about the feelings of touching guests, and the ninth is about the changes of the world. This is a folk poem, which is both easy to understand and pure, without flashy words.
Original works:
Langtaosha qiba
Rachel? Tang dynasty
Mo Tao's slanderers are as deep as waves, and Mo Yan's guests are as heavy as sand.
Although it is hard, it is difficult to blow out crazy sand when it is not golden.
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Slander: slander.
Transfer: an official who has been demoted and transferred to a remote place.
Infiltration: Water slowly permeates downward.
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After Liu Yuxi was demoted, he was able to face real life bravely. "Nine Poems on the Waves" Part VIII: "Mo Tao's slanderers are as deep as waves, and Mo Yan's guests are as heavy as sand. Although the effort is hard, it still needs a lot of sand to nugget. " Sixth: "Rizhao Chengzhou River is foggy, and gold diggers are full of rivers. After the beautiful jewels, Wang Yin is full of waves of sand. " Rumors are as deep as waves, and moving guests is as heavy as sand. Gold panning is a local custom and folk labor in Kuizhou. Langtaosha is a natural landscape. Laborers search for gold in the river, and hard-working people live in the court. People who have been demoted have no guilt from high to low, and they have grievances because they have been treated unfairly. However, natural phenomena are different. "In August, the waves roared, and the head was several feet high, touching the mountain. After a while, I arrived at Haimen, and the rolled sand was like a snowdrift. "
Translation of works
Don't say that slanders are like stormy waves, and don't say that people who have been demoted are buried underwater like mud.
After thousands of times of filtration and hardships, we can finally wash out all the sediment and get glittering gold.
Creation background
Since the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the momentum has declined. Governors are independent, eunuchs are authoritarian. When talented people are released and angered, resentful works are produced. After Liu Yuxi was transferred from Beijing official to local official, he also wrote famous works, such as Nine Poems of Langtaosha. This group of poems should be Liu Yuxi's later works, not created at one time and one place. According to the Yellow River, Luoshui, Bianshui, Qinghuai, Nautilus Island, Zhuo Jinjiang, etc. Poems, or works for activities in Kuizhou, Hezhou and Luoyang, were later compiled into a group. Some scholars believe that this group of poems was written in the late Kuizhou period, that is, in the spring of the second year of Changqing (AD 822). This poem is the eighth in a series.
Brief introduction of the author
Liu Yuxi (772-842), Han nationality, was born in Pengcheng (now Xuzhou) in China in the Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home was Luoyang, a writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty. He claimed to be a descendant of the King of Mountain Scenery in Hanzhong. He used to be a censor and a member of the Wang Reform School. A famous poet in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, he is known as the "great poet". His family is a scholarly family handed down from generation to generation by Confucianism. Advocating political innovation is one of the core figures of the Wang school's political innovation activities. Later, Yongzhen failed in innovation and was demoted to Sima Langzhou (now Changde, Hunan). According to the textual research of Mr. Zhou, a historian and collector in Changde, Hunan Province, Liu Yuxi was demoted to Sima Langzhou, during which he wrote the famous "Han Shou Chun Wang".