Alone in a foreign land for a foreign guestFull Poem:

Alone in a foreign land for a foreign guest, every festive season doubly think of relatives.

It is not easy to know where the brothers are climbing up to the top of the mountain, and there are fewer dogwoods sticking out all over the place.

Translation: Alone in a foreign land as a guest from a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice as much at festivals. I think of the place where my brothers climbed to the top of the mountain today, and I think of the fewer people who are wearing Cornus officinalis.

This poem expresses the feeling of homesickness and nostalgia of a traveler. The poem begins with the title, writing about the loneliness of living in a foreign land, and thus the nostalgia for the countryside at all times, and when it comes to the festive season, the longing is doubled.

Background

The original note of this poem reads, "He was seventeen years old." This indicates that the poem was written when Wang Wei was seventeen years old, and that the poem was composed because he missed his relatives in his hometown during the Chongyang Festival. At that time, Wang Wei was drifting alone between Luoyang and Chang'an.

September 9 is the Chongyang Festival, and in some parts of China it is customary to ascend the heights. The Taiping Yuban" Volume 32 cited "Fengduji" cloud: "common on this day, to cornelian cherry gas strong maturity, Shang this day, fold cornelian cherry room to plug, the word to open the hot gas and the first cold."