Even if the Peach Blossom Pond is deep, it is not as deep as Wang Lun's sending away my love.
Translation:
Li Bai was about to travel by boat when he heard singing on the shore.
Even if the Peach Blossom Lake is as deep as thousands of feet, it can't compare with what Wang Lun did to me.
Precautions:
Wang Lun: Li Bai's friend.
Will want to travel: Dunhuang wrote a book "Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty" as "Desiring to Travel Far".
Tagge: A popular folk song and dance form in the Tang Dynasty, holding hands and touching the ground with two feet as the beat, singing while walking.
Taohuatan: It's 100 miles southwest of Jingxian County, Anhui Province. Unified Records called it unfathomable.
Deep thousands of feet: The poet used an exaggerated metaphor to describe the friendship between Wang Lun and thousands of feet.
Less than: less than.
Send: A "gift".
About the author:
Li Bai (70 1-762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.
Creative background:
This poem was written in Tianbao 13th year (754) or Tianbao 14th year (755) of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, when Li Bai wandered from Qiupu to Jingxian County (now Anhui Province). Wang Lun is a friend of Li Bai. Collected Notes of Li Bai, 300 Poems of Tang Poetry and Complete Poems of Tang Poetry published in past dynasties all recognized that Wang Lun was an ordinary villager that Li Bai met when he traveled to Jingxian County, and this view has continued to this day. Wang Guangze, an Anhui scholar, studied Wang's genealogy, Wang Xu's Jingxian branch and learned that "Wang Lun, also known as a celebrity in the Tang Dynasty". During the reign of Tianbao in Kaiyuan, Wang Lun was the magistrate of Jingxian County, and Li Bai "waited for him and could not bear to leave him" ("Li Zilong made an appointment with Wang Lun"). After Wang Lun resigned, he lived in Taohuatan, Jingxian County. According to this poem or when visiting for Li Bai, Wang Lun lived in Taohuatan.
Appreciate:
"To Wang Lun" is a farewell poem written by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, to Wang Lun, a local friend, when he visited Taohuatan in Jingxian (now southern Anhui). The first two sentences of this poem describe the scene of Wang Lun seeing Bai off when he was about to leave by boat, and simply and naturally express Wang Lun's 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 turn the intangible friendship into tangible thousands of feet Pond with a change of the word "less than", which vividly expresses Wang Lun's sincere and profound friendship for Li Bai. The language of the whole poem is fresh and natural, and the imagination is rich and strange. Although there are only four sentences and twenty-eight characters, it is one of the most widely circulated poems of Li.