Source: Tang Yuxi's "Langtaosha"

In August, the waves roared, and the head was several feet high, touching the back of the mountain.

In a blink of an eye, I arrived at Haimen, and the rolled sand was like a snowdrift.

Bianshui flows east with tiger's eyes, and the duck's head is clear and sorrowful.

Look at the sand scouring place at the ferry, but how many people have crossed the world.

Interpretation of vernacular:

On August 18, the tidal bore of Qiantang River roared and Malik galloped, and waves several feet high rushed to the rocks on the shore and were knocked back, making a deafening noise.

It seems that in an instant, the tide retreated to the intersection of the river and the sea, but the sand pile it rolled up stayed behind and piled up on the river bank like a snowdrift in the sun. Bianshui flows eastward, with fine water ripples on the river surface, and the clear Huaihe River presents duck's head in the early morning. You see how many people have crossed the world at the place where the water washes the sand at the ferry.

Extended data writing background:

This poem should be Liu Yuxi's later work, and it was not created at one time. 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. Compared with Zhuzhi Ci, the folk songs in this group of poems are less sentimental and more literati.

Advocating political innovation is one of the core figures of the Wang school's political innovation activities. Later, Yongzhen failed to innovate and was demoted to Langzhou Sima. 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".

Liu Yuxi and his poetic style are quite unique. He is resolute and heroic. During his years in exile, he felt heavy psychological depression and sang a lamentation for lonely ministers.

But he never despaired, he has the soul of a fighter; He wrote poems such as Yuan He was summoned to Beijing Opera by Langzhou in the Ten Years, An Interview with Du Xuanguan Jueju, The White Snake and On Hua Tuo, and satirized and attacked political opponents many times.

This led to political repression and attacks again and again, but this repression and attack aroused his stronger resentment and resistance, and strengthened his poetic temperament from different aspects.

Liu Yuxi lived in Jiaxing with his father in his early years and often went to Xing Wu to visit Jiao Ran and Che Ling, famous Zen monks and poets in the south of the Yangtze River. According to his "Collected Works of Che Masters", at that time, he "wrote inkstones and accompanied poems, all of which were called obedience". This early experience has a great influence on later poetry creation.

About 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 supervisor and 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.