Langtao Sha

Liu Yuxi

The Yellow River has thousands of miles of sand,

Langtao is blown by the wind from the end of the world.

Now we go straight to the Milky Way,

Together we arrive at the home of the Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl.

Explanation of the poem

The Yellow River winds and carries sand and sand, and the waves roll like huge winds from the end of the world. Now we can go straight up the Yellow River to the Milky Way, and let's go together to find the home of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Annotation and explanation

Langtaosha: the title of Tang Jiaofang's song. Created by Liu Yuxi and Bai Juyi, its form is seven character quatrains. Later it was used as the name of the word brand.

Nine Bends: It has been said since ancient times that the Yellow River has nine bends. Describes many twists and turns.

Langtao: Wave washing.

To overturn: to overturn.

Morning Glory and Weaver Girl: the names of two constellations in the Milky Way. According to legend since ancient times, the Weaver Girl was a fairy from heaven who descended to earth and married the Cowherd. Later, the Queen Mother of the West recalled the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd to the sky. The Queen Mother of the West punished them to face each other across the river, and they were only allowed to meet once a year on the night of July 7th.

Appreciation

This poem was written in Kuizhou. It is a political lyric poem in the folk song style. It is the first of "Nine Poems on Langtaosha". The first two sentences of the poem use the technique of line drawing to depict the magnificent picture coming from the horizon and galloping thousands of miles. "Nine Bends" uses an exaggerated technique to describe the twists and turns of the Yellow River. "From the End of the World" describes the long history of the Yellow River in a superb way, which is similar to the sentence "The water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky, rushes to the sea and never returns" in Li Bai's "Jinjinjiu". The last two sentences use the allusion of Zhang Qian looking for the source of the river for Emperor Wu and the Milky Way separating the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. They gallop their imagination and express their desire to face the strong winds and huge waves, against the thousands of miles of yellow sand, and swim upstream to the home of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, which expresses the heroic spirit of the poet. .

Appreciation of famous lines - "Now we go straight up the Milky Way to the home of the Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl."

This quatrain uses the tone of gold diggers to express their yearning for a better life. They both live by the river. The Tianhe where the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl live is quiet and beautiful, but the gold diggers by the Yellow River rush about in the wind, waves and sand all day long. Going straight to the Milky Way and going to the Cowherd and Weaver's home together expressed their longing for a peaceful pastoral life. This romantic ideal, poured out in heroic spoken language, is a kind of simple and straightforward beauty.