What festival is it for a person to be a stranger in a foreign land? I miss my family twice every festival.

Being a stranger alone in a foreign land is the Double Ninth Festival.

This poem is Wang Wei's "Mountain Residence and Holiday Thinking of Shandong Brothers". As the title, the date is September 9, and September 9 is the Double Ninth Festival.

Shanju Holiday Thinking of Shandong Brothers is one of the masterpieces of Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei. This poem describes the homesickness of a wanderer. At the beginning of the poem, I cut into the theme and wrote about the loneliness and sadness of living in a foreign land. Therefore, I always miss my hometown and people, and I miss them even more when I meet a festive occasion.

Then the poem jumps to writing a brother who is far away from home. When they climbed the mountain according to the custom of the Double Ninth Festival, they also missed themselves. Poetry jumps repeatedly, implicative and deep, simple and natural, tortuous and changeable. Among them, "I miss my relatives twice during the festive season" is a famous sentence throughout the ages.

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I am a lonely stranger in a strange land, and I miss my family more often during the holidays.

I know from a distance where my brother climbed, and there is one person missing from the dogwood.

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A person can't reunite with his family when he is far away from home, and he misses his distant relatives every Double Ninth Festival.

Far away, I feel sorry for myself when I think of my brothers climbing high with dogwood.

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The first two sentences can be said to be the direct method of artistic creation. There is almost no detour, but directly into the core, quickly forming a climax, with epigrams. However, this kind of writing often makes the last two sentences unsustainable, resulting in insufficient stamina.

If the last two sentences of this poem extend in a straight line along the line of "I miss my relatives more during the festive season", it must be a snake's foot; It is also difficult to find new ideas and form a new climax. The author takes another approach: with the torrent of emotion, a rippling lake appears, which seems calm, but it is actually deeper.

Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. In the Book of Changes, "nine" is defined as yang number, and September 9 and 29 are important, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine. Returning to the truth of 1999, the ancients thought that 1999 Chongyang was an auspicious day.

In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and holding birthday banquets. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly. Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival.

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Wang Wei, a poet in Tang Dynasty. The word stroke. His father was originally from Qi (now Shanxi) and later moved to Yongji West, Shanxi, becoming a Hedong native. Kaiyuan (year number of Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, 713-741) was a scholar. Tired officials give things. An Lushan rebels were hired when they were trapped in Chang 'an. After the chaos, they were demoted to Prince Zhongyun.

After the official to ministers right cheng, so also known as Wang Youcheng. In his later years, he lived in Wangchuan, Lantian, and lived an honest and secluded life. Poetry is as famous as Meng Haoran and is called "Wang Meng".

In the early stage, I wrote some frontier poems, but the most important one was landscape poems, which promoted hermit life and Buddhism through the description of pastoral landscapes. Exquisite objects, vivid descriptions and unique achievements. He is also proficient in music, painting and calligraphy. This is Wang Youcheng.

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