Memories of Shandong Brothers on September 9

(Tang) Wang Wei

Alone in a foreign land is a foreigner, every festive season doubly misses the relatives.

It is not easy to know where the brothers are climbing up the mountain, and there are fewer dogwoods to be found.

Analysis:

This is a poem of nostalgia for relatives. The author was only seventeen years old at that time, and he was living away from home, so he missed his hometown and relatives even more at the festival of Chung Yeung.

The main idea of the poem is: I am alone in another country as a strange guest, and I often miss my hometown, and every time when I celebrate the festival, I miss my relatives at home even more. I imagined in the distant foreign land that when my brothers climbed the mountain today, they all put on dogwoods, but I was missing.

The poem was originally about missing one's brother, but instead of saying what one thinks, one imagines that one's brothers are missing him as they ascend the mountain. This deepens the emotion of the poem and makes it more touching to read. "Every festive season is a time to think of one's relatives" has become a famous line that has been recited for thousands of years.

Customs of Chrysanthemum Festival:

Traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing up to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbs, setting up a banquet to honor the elderly, eating cakes of Chrysanthemum Festival, making medicinal wine to improve one's health, and drinking chrysanthemum wine. Chrysanthemum is "clear gas upward, turbid gas sinking" season, the terrain of the higher the gas gathered, so "Chrysanthemum climbed high to enjoy the clear gas" has become a folk matter. Autumn and September, the sky is high, this season can be achieved by climbing high and looking far away from the purpose of the heart.