What scenery does the poem Cold Food depict?

Tang Dynasty: Han Yi

In late spring, Chang 'an city is full of songs and dances, and countless flowers fall. The east wind of the Cold Food Festival blows on the willow trees in the royal garden. ?

As night fell, the palace was busy lighting candles, and smoke drifted to the house of the prince and the marquis.

Translation:

At the end of spring, Liu Xufei is everywhere in Chang 'an, and the east wind blows willow in the imperial city during the Cold Food Festival.

In the evening, the Han Palace sent candles to the princes and ministers, and the light smoke drifted to the emperor's favorite home.

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Writing background:

In the Tang Dynasty, on Qingming Day, the emperor announced that he would reward his nearest minister with the fire of elm willow. This ceremony has two purposes: first, it marks the end of the Cold Food Festival, and fire can be used; The second is to remind courtiers and officials, so that everyone can learn from mesons who have made meritorious deeds.

After the mid-Tang Dynasty, several bad emperors favored eunuchs, so that they were in power, corrupted the state affairs and crowded out courtiers. Some people think that this poem was written for this purpose.

Cold food is a traditional festival in ancient China. Two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day, according to legend, it was the Spring and Autumn Period, which was decided by Jin Wengong to commemorate the meson tui who burned to death with firewood. This poem is good at selecting typical themes, quoting appropriate allusions and satirizing eunuch spoil and autocratic corruption.

This is a satirical poem, but the poet's brushwork is clever and subtle. On the surface, it seems that it only depicts an emotional genre painting in Chang 'an, the Cold Food Festival. In fact, between the lines, we can feel the author's deep dissatisfaction and irony with the powerful eunuch at that time.

Han Yi, a poet in Tang Dynasty. The word Junping was born in Nanyang (now Nanyang, Henan). He is one of the "Top Ten Talents in Dali". Tianbao 13 (754) was admitted as a scholar. Baoying once served in the shogunate, our ambassador to Ziqing, and then Hou returned to Korea and lived in Chang 'an for ten years.