Li Bai

"Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, and it's not as good as Wang Lun's" is a sentence in the poem "To Wang Lun", which was written by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem is a farewell poem written by Li Bai to his local friend Wang Lun when he visited Taohuatan in Jingxian County (now southern Anhui Province). The first two sentences of the poem describe the scene that Wang Lun came to see Li Bai off when he was about to leave by boat, which simply and naturally expresses Wang Lun's simple and sincere feelings for Li Bai. The last two sentences first praise the profundity of the Peach Blossom Pond with "deep thousands of feet", and then the word "less than" turns the invisible friendship into tangible thousands of feet Pond with the method of foil, vividly expressing Wang Lun's sincere and profound friendship with Li Bai. The language of the whole poem is fresh and natural, and the imagination is rich and strange. Although it is only four sentences and twenty-eight characters, it is one of the most widely circulated masterpieces in Li Bai's poems.

the original

Li Bai was about to go by boat when he heard the singing on the shore.

Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, which is not as good as Wang Lun's.

translation

Li Bai was about to leave by boat when he heard the sound of singing on the shore.

Even if the Peach Blossom Pond is as deep as thousands of feet, it can't compare with Wang Lun's kindness to me.

Creation background

This poem was written by Li Bai when he visited Taohuatan in Jingxian County (now Anhui Province) from Qiupu in the 14th year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (755). When Li Bai visited Taohuatan in Jingxian County (now Anhui Province), he forged a deep friendship with Wang Lun. During the reign of Tianbao in Kaiyuan, Wang Lun made an order for Jingxian County, and Li Bai "waited for it, and the money could not bear to be parted". According to this poem or for Li Bai's visit when Wang Lun was living in Taohuatan.

Author's brief introduction

Li Bai (71-762), with the word Taibai, was also called "violet layman" and "fallen immortal", a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty, and was called "Poet Fairy" by later generations and "Li Du" with Du Fu. In order to distinguish himself from the other two poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Li Du" According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was the ninth grandson of Emperor Xing Sheng (King Li _ of Liang Wu Zhao), and he was the same clan as the kings of Li Tang. He is cheerful and generous, loves to drink and write poems, and likes to make friends. Li Bai was deeply influenced by Huang Lao's thoughts of arranging villages. Li Taibai's Collection was handed down from generation to generation, and most of his poems were written when he was drunk. His representative works include Looking at Lushan Waterfall, it is hard to go, Difficult Road to Shu, Going into Wine, Fu to Mingtang, and Early Making Baidicheng.