I'm the only one with cornus all over my head.

original:

on the mountain holiday thinking of my brothers in shandong

Tang? Wang Wei

is a stranger in a foreign land, and he misses his relatives every festive season.

I know from a distance where my brother climbs, and there is one less person in the dogwood.

Translation:

When a person is a guest in a foreign land alone, he misses his distant relatives doubly every holiday.

I know from a distance where my brother climbs, and there is one less person in the dogwood. Imagine that when my brothers climbed high and looked far today, I was the only one with cornus on my head.

Extended information:

This poem was written when he was seventeen. Different from his later landscape poems, which are rich in painting and exquisite in composition and color, this lyric poem is very simple. But for thousands of years, people have read this poem when they are away from home, but they have strongly felt its power. This power comes from its simplicity, profundity and high generalization.

"Being a stranger alone in a foreign land", the first sentence describes the poet's loneliness in a foreign land. The poet used one word "independence" and two words "difference" in this short sentence, which shows that the poet has a strong sense of being a guest in a different place. The more lonely he is outside, the stronger he misses his relatives in his hometown.

In the feudal society at that time, the traffic was blocked, people lived a self-sufficient life, and there were few exchanges between regions, so people in different places had great differences in customs, living habits and languages.

Therefore, when a poet leaves his hometown where he has lived for many years and lives in a foreign land, he naturally feels strange and lonely. The poet described himself in a foreign land flatly, but it contained the poet's simple thoughts and feelings.

If the feeling of homesickness may not be so strong on weekdays, then the poet "misses his relatives twice every festive season". "Festival" is a day for relatives to get together and talk and laugh together. Now, the poet lives alone in a different place. In the festival representing reunion, he can't help thinking about the people and things in his hometown, mountains and water, and other good memories of the poet when he was in his hometown. All kinds of memories trigger the poet's infinite homesickness, and the more he thinks about it, the more he misses it, so that it is out of control.

This sentence is natural and simple, and it is very representative, as it is eloquent, and it also writes many true feelings of wandering outside.