<<Seven Rhymes. Duanwu >> (Tang) Yin Yao Fan What does this poem mean?

1. "Seven Melodies.

The sideburns are getting whiter and whiter every day, and the durian brocade is illuminating the eyes every year.

2. The wise and the foolish are the same as the wise and the foolish in a thousand years, and a few people have lost a few of their names.

The translation of the poem, "Seven Meters - Dragon Boat Festival", is as follows:

When a person is young, he or she will always have all kinds of emotions when it comes to festivals, and when he or she grows old, he or she will not be able to feel a lot of emotions for no reason.

Won't follow the custom in the Dragon Boat Festival will be hanging in the portal, only pray to drink a cup of bushels of wine, *** words of peace in the world.

The gray hairs on the temples increase with each passing day, and the pomegranate blossoms like red brocade shoots the eye, but still year after year, the festival is open.

Throughout the ages, both sages and fools have been equally brief, who knows how many have fallen into obscurity and how many have gone down in history.

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1, Notes

Ai Fu: Ancient custom, the Dragon Boat Festival hanging Artemisia absinthium in the portal, and sticking talismans to get rid of evil.

Pu Wine: Refers to calamus wine, a famous traditional health wine produced in Yuanqu County, Shanxi Province, a form of prepared wine, orange-yellow slightly emerald-green in color, bright and transparent, aromatic in odor, and brewed with a thick wine aroma

Pomegranate: pomegranate flower.

Instantaneous breath: instantaneous, in the blink of an eye; breath, breathing. The word "instantaneous" refers to a blink of an eye, describing a very short period of time.

Hanging Name: to leave a reputation.

2. Appreciation

In this poem, the author laments that life is easy to grow old and years are easy to pass. Selected a specific time - Dragon Boat Festival to say things, can be seen at that time of the Dragon Boat Festival is very lively, very festive atmosphere: hanging wormwood, hanging bushel sword, drink bushel wine, rowing dragon boats ...... but the author is already high, life has passed most of the time, in the heart of such a good festival I'm not sure how much festive cheer I can muster, and I don't even have the heart to follow the crowd and hang up the moxa charms.

The last two lines, the poet will yearly blooming pomegranate flowers and their own increasingly gray hair contrast, sentimental feelings overflowing. Life is passing by day by day, and under such sadness, the reputation of the wise and the foolish seem insignificant.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Duanwu Day (Ancient Poem by Yin Yaofan)