Traveling to Longyan, Jiazhou Author: Su Xun of the Song Dynasty Translation and analysis: Shi Hongbo The boat was tied to the long embankment, and the southern expedition was carried out day and night.

The thoughts of the past are changing so quickly, the empty rock is quiet and self-evident.

If you take pity on the distant guests, you will have lingering feelings for them.

How can I drink wine? I will be surprised when I go to my hometown.

The mountains and rivers are vast, and the climate is clear and frosty.

The good days are gone, when will we stop traveling?

Translation: The boat is tied to this long embankment. Recently, we have been busy traveling southward from morning to night.

Don't be so impatient to move forward, look at how beautiful the quiet Longyan scenery is.

Master Zhizhou took pity on us distant guests and held a grand banquet to welcome us and wash away our dust. He was very affectionate.

After drinking too much wine, my heart was filled with sadness. Who knows the sadness of leaving my hometown?

The view of the mountains and rivers is very open, the weather has already been frosty, and the sky is clear and clear.

The mountains and rivers of our hometown are getting further and further away. When can we stop traveling?

Note: Jiazhou: present-day Leshan, Sichuan.

Longyan, four miles northeast of the city, has Jiulong Mountain, also known as Longyan Mountain.

"The stone walls on the mountain are carved with dragons and nines. It is said that they were carved during the Ming Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty. They are strong and half-molu, and the ones who survive are really powerful. The mountain is the deepest and deepest, and it is called Xiaotaoyuan" ("Mountains and Rivers", Volume 4 of "Jiading Prefecture").

Zheng: Journey far away.

Past intention: the intention of moving forward.

Shijun: It is said that Jiazhou knows the state.

In the Han Dynasty, it referred to the governor, and after the Han Dynasty, it was used as an honorific title for the governor of a state or county.

This sentence means that the magistrate of Jiazhou entertained Sansu and his son with a feast.

Gaohui: grand meeting, refers to the grand banquet held for them by the magistrate of Jiazhou.

Yuqing (yú): full of emotion.

Analysis: In 1056 (the first year of Jiayou), due to the recommendation and praise of literary leader Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun became famous in the capital, but he failed to seek an official position.

In April of the next year, his wife Cheng died in Meishan, and Su Xun and his son hurriedly returned to Shu.

It was not until November of 1058 (the third year of Jiayou's reign) that the imperial court responded to Ouyang Xiu's recommendation and decided to summon Su Xun to try out the strategy in Sherenyuan.

Su Xun refused to take the exam. In June of 1059 (the fourth year of Jiayou), the court summoned him again. Mei Shengyu sent another poem "Inscribed on the Old Man's Spring to Su Mingyun" to persuade him to come to Beijing. In addition, his two sons had expired to mourn their mother, so Su Xun was admitted.

Reluctantly decided to enter Beijing.

In October of the same year, Su Xun and his son traveled south by boat along the Minjiang and Yangtze rivers to Jiangling, and then traveled north by land to Beijing.

The three fathers and sons explored the secluded places along the way, "promoted from chanting", and composed 173 poems and essays, which were compiled into "The First Collection of South Journey" and "The Second Collection".

The popular version of "Jiayou Collection" of Su Xun's poems on his journey to the south has been lost. The fragmentary version of "Leibian Zengguang Lao Su's Complete Works of Mr. Su" from the Song Dynasty contains more than ten poems, and this poem is one of them.

Because Su Xun entered Beijing very reluctantly this time, the whole poem seems emotionally depressing and complicated.