Du Fu wrote it in the Caodang of Sichuan.

Du Fu wrote this poem in the late spring of the second year of Guangde's reign (764), when he was in Sichuan's Caotang.

I. The original text

The late sun and the rivers and mountains are beautiful, and the spring breeze is fragrant with flowers and grass.

The mud melts and the swallows fly, the sand is warm and the mandarin ducks sleep.

Translation

The rivers and mountains are bathed in the spring light, how beautiful they are, and the spring breeze sends the fragrance of flowers and grasses.

The swallows are busy building their nests in the wet mud, and pairs of mandarin ducks are sleeping on the warm sand.

3. Author's Dynasty

Tang Dynasty

4. Notes on the Words and Phrases

1. Late Day: The spring days are getting longer, so it is said that the day is late.

2, mud melt: here refers to the mud moist and wet.

3, mandarin ducks: a kind of water bird, the male and female birds often double.

I. Appreciation

The poem begins with a big ink, depicting a clear and gorgeous spring scene along Runnion Stream under the bright sunlight in early spring, with simple strokes and rich colors. The phrase "late sun" means spring, which is derived from the phrase "late spring" in the poem "Bin Feng - July".

Here, the sunshine of early spring is used to emphasize the whole piece. At the same time, the word "Li" is used to color the "rivers and mountains", showing the beautiful scenery of spring sunshine, green fields and streams reflecting the sun.

The poet further uses the warm spring wind, the blossoming flowers, the grass, and the rich fragrance to show the beautiful spring scenery. Because the poet put the spring wind, flowers and grass and their fragrance organically organized together, so through the association, can have the wind and smooth, hundreds of flowers bloom, the wind to send the fragrance of the feeling of flowers, to receive the artistic effect of being there.

Second, the author

Du Fu (712-770 years), the word Zimei, the self-named Shaoling wild old man, the great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Bai, known as "Li Du". He was originally from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, but later moved to Gong County, Henan Province. In order to distinguish himself from the other two poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, who were known as "Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai were also known as "Li Du", and Du Fu was often referred to as "Lao Du".

The personalization of poetic imagery in Du poetry is the basis of the language of Du poetry. Images that often appear in Du's poems include natural landscapes such as the ancient fortress, autumn clouds, apes' whistles, broken torches, fast gorges, dangerous cities, lonely boats, falling flowers, and the setting sun, as well as ordinary people such as weavers, old women, old farmers, and widows, as well as powerful people such as officials, generals, and evil young men.

All of them show Du Fu's eagerness to "revitalize the world, his rebuke of the confusion and chaos, his indignation at the tyranny of the world, his sadness at the wandering and displacement, his compassion for the suffering of the people, his regret at the exhaustion of the material resources, and his praise for the charity of the people".

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