Appreciation of the full-text translation notes of Bai Juyi's "A Winter Night in Handan Homesickness"

Night Thinkers of Bai Juyi's "Handan Winter Solstice" Series: Ancient Poems about Winter; "Night Thinker in Winter in Handan" to the day; Every winter from the solstice, I tuck my knees in front of the lamp. If you want to sit at home late at night, you should also talk about travelers. Note 1 Handan: Tangxian County, now Handan City, Hebei Province. Post station: Post station, inn, ancient place where official documents were delivered, official goods were transported or business officials rested on the way. Winter solstice: one of the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar. 1late February, with the shortest day and the longest night. There is a custom of family reunion in the ancient winter solstice. When I stayed at Handan Inn, it happened to be the winter solstice of the lunar calendar. At night, I sit in front of the lamp with my knees in my arms, and only the shadow is with me. I believe my family got together late at night today, and I should also talk about my "passer-by". This poem was written at the end of the twentieth year of Zhenyuan (804). The author is a secretary of a provincial school, aged 33. Handan now belongs to Hebei. "Winter solstice" is one of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar, which is equivalent to1February 22nd or 23rd in the solar calendar. In the Tang Dynasty, the solstice winter was very important. On this day, the court will have a holiday and the people will be more lively. Everyone put on new clothes, gave each other food and drink, congratulated each other, and it was a festive scene. Bai Juyi was on a business trip when he wrote this poem. He lived in a guest house in Handan. It's fun to celebrate the winter solstice at home with your loved ones. How will you pass the law in the inn in Handan now? I can only sit in front of the lonely lamp with my knees in my arms. In the quiet night, only shadows accompany me. The first sentence "moderate hospitality" has taken root in homesickness. The word "tuck" in the second sentence vividly describes a sitting posture. The word "in front of the lamp" not only dyes the environment, but also points out "night", which naturally leads to "shadow". The word "companion" connects "body" and "shadow" and endows it with human feelings. Both "shadow" and "body" are kneeling, and loneliness and homesickness are beyond words. The "post station", that is, the post station, is the place where ancient officials stopped on their way to deliver official documents or on business trips. If you want to sit at home late at night, you should also talk about the winter solstice for travelers. Your family must be unhappy because they are away from home. When I miss my family with my knees in front of the lamp until late at night, my family is probably still awake, sitting in front of the lamp and talking about me as a "passer-by"! Three or four sentences are very touching and intriguing: the scene imagined by the poet when he is homesick is how his family misses himself. As for what is said, it leaves readers with a broad imagination world. Everyone can make up for it according to their own life experience. Appreciate Bai Juyi's five-character quatrains or seven-character quatrains, a total of 765, accounting for about 27% of all poems. This poem is one of the early masterpieces, which reflects the homesickness of the wanderer and reveals deep homesickness between the lines. One of its advantages is that it tells a common life experience in straightforward and simple language, and its feelings are sincere and touching. Second, the idea is exquisite and unique: first of all, there is no word "thinking" in the poem, but it is plain and faint, but it contains "thinking" everywhere; Secondly, I write homesickness from the opposite side, which is similar to Wang Wei's Thinking of Shandong Brothers on a Mountain Holiday, "Knowing where brothers climb, there is a lack of one everywhere" and Du Fu's Moonlight Night, "Far away in Fuzhou, she watches the moonlight from the boudoir window alone". Fan, a poet in Song Dynasty, said in Sleeping Night Talk: "If Bai Letian wants to sit at home late at night, he should also talk about people who travel far away", which is quite straightforward. It's not as tortuous as Wang Jian's saying that "watching the moon at home is the time to miss home". "This statement is not exact. Both have their own characteristics, and there is no need to suppress one side and promote the other.