Original text:
In the early spring, I became a member of the Ministry of Water Affairs (Part I)
Author Han Yu Dynasty Tang Dynasty
There are many silk in the sky above the main avenue, it is like the butter - like fine and moist, the overlook grass is vaguely connected, but it appears to be sparse in close range.
This is the most beautiful season of the year, far more than the late spring of green willows.
Translation:?
The streets of Beijing are showered with rain, which is as fine and moist as milk. The grass is drilled out of the ground, and the grass color is faintly connected in the distance, but it looks sparse and sporadic when you look closely. The most beautiful scenery in a year is this early spring scenery, which is far better than the late spring in the city of Lvyang.
Notes:
(1) Present: Give it respectfully. Member Zhang Eighteen of the Ministry of Water Resources: refers to Zhang Ji (766-830) who was born in the Tang Dynasty. Ranked 18 th among brothers of the same family, and served as a foreign minister of the Ministry of Water Affairs.
(2) Tianjie: the street in Beijing. Moist as crisp: delicate as crisp. Crisp, the oil of animals, describes the delicacy of spring rain here.
(2) the most is: exactly. Place: time.
(4) Absolute victory: far superior. Huangdu: Imperial Capital, here refers to Chang 'an.
The author introduces:
Han Yu (768 ~ 824), a writer, philosopher and thinker of the Tang Dynasty, was born in Heyang, Henan Province (now mengzhou city, Jiaozuo, Henan Province). He claimed to be the Han family of Changli, one of the three counties of Han surname. Changli County is in Yixian, Liaoning Province today. In his later years, he served as an assistant minister of the official department, also known as the Korean official department, and posthumous title was also known as Han Wengong, one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties.
After 792, he successively promoted officials for our time and supervised the imperial history. De Zongmo was demoted because of the disadvantages of writing a letter about current politics. In Tang Xianzong, he was a doctor of Guozi, a historian, and a Chinese calligrapher. In 8 19 (the 14th year of Yuanhe), he was demoted as the secretariat of Chaozhou because he dissuaded Xian Zong from welcoming Buddha bones. Mu Zongshi served as a national son offering wine, an assistant minister of the Ministry of War, an assistant minister of the Ministry of Official Affairs, and Jing Zhaoyin as an imperial historian.