"Lovesickness".

Author Wang Wei

Dynasty Tang Dynasty

Red beans grow in the southern country, and a few branches will appear in spring.

I hope you will pick more of them, this is the most loved thing.

Translation:

The bright red and round red beans grow in the sunny south. In the spring season, how many more are produced?

I hope those who miss me will collect more. The little red beans will make people miss me.

Creative background:

"Lovesickness" is a poem written by Wang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, who expresses his longing for lovesickness by chanting objects. This poem describes the feeling of lovesickness, but the whole poem is inseparable from Hongdou. It uses the name of lovesickness son to relate to the feeling of lovesickness.

This is a poem that expresses lovesickness by chanting objects, and is a work written to cherish friends. The mood of the whole poem is healthy and elegant, the thoughts are full and unrestrained, the language is simple and unpretentious, and the rhythm is harmonious and soft. It can be said to be a masterpiece of quatrains.

The whole poem is filled with youthful enthusiasm and youthful atmosphere, full of feelings that are never expressed directly. Every sentence is inseparable from Hongdou, and it "transcends the outside of the image and captures the inner circle", conveying the feeling of lovesickness. The emotion is expressed so deeply.

According to records, during the Anshi Rebellion in the last years of Tianbao, Li Guinian sang this poem while living in the south of the Yangtze River, which proves that this poem was written during the Tianbao period.