Use one or two sentences to briefly describe the meaning of this ancient poem.

Li Bai

The sound of someone’s jade flute flies silently,

and spreads into the spring breeze throughout Luo City.

In this nocturne, I heard the willows breaking,

Who can't help but feel the love of hometown?

Selected from lt;lt;The Collection of Li Taibaigt;gt;(Zhonghua Book Company 1977 edition) Volume 25. Luo City. Luoyang (now Luoyang, Henan).

Translation

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Type 1: Whose house is the melodious flute sound coming from?

As the spring breeze blows, it spreads throughout the city of Luoyang.

Just tonight, listening to the sad "Breaking Willows",

Can I not feel homesick?

The second type: At night when the lights were gradually extinguished, someone heard the sound of a jade flute. The sound of the flute followed the spring breeze and filled the entire Luo City. Hearing the tune of "Folding Willows" at night like this, who wouldn't feel longing for his hometown!

Notes

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1. Luo City: Luoyang (now Luoyang, Henan).

2. Broken willows : That is, the flute song "Folding Willows" is named after Yuefu's "Drum and Horn Horizontal Blowing Music", and the content is mostly about the emotions of separation. Hu Zai's "Tiaoxi Yuyincong Huahou Collection" Volume 4: ""Yuefu Miscellaneous Records" says: 'The flute player is also Qiang music. The classical ones include "Folding Willows" and "Falling Plum Blossoms"'. Therefore, the banished immortal "Spring Night Luo" "City Hears the Flute"... Du Shaoling's poem "Blow the Flute": "The willows in my hometown are falling now, why should I worry about the music?" Wang Zhihuan said: "Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows, the spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass". "Quye." The song expresses the sad feelings when saying goodbye.

3. Jade flute: an exquisite flute.

4. Hometown: refers to hometown, hometown.

This poem was written by Li Bai when he visited Luoyang in the 23rd year of Kaiyuan (735). It describes the feeling of homesickness caused by hearing the sound of the flute in the dead of night. Wang Yaoqu's "Combined Interpretations of Tang Poems": "Suddenly I heard the flute, and I didn't know who was playing it. Because it was night, the sound was flying in the dark. The sound of the flute was blown away by the sound of the wind, and the sound of the wind was carried far away by the sound of the flute. So on Luochun Night The sound of the wind is everywhere, and the sound of the flute is heard everywhere. The reason why I say goodbye is because of the song "Breaking Willows". "Who can't afford it?" Does anyone have any feelings for it? Just for "spreading into the spring breeze", the whole city can hear it. "

Creative background

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In the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan (735), Li Baike traveled to Dongdu (Luoyang). The poem "Listening to the Flute in Luocheng on a Spring Night" was written immediately after this visit to Dongdu.

One night when the poet was staying in Luoyang, he heard the tune of "Folding Willows" played on the flute. Hearing this song here and now, who can not miss his hometown or relatives? The poem "Hearing the Flute in Luo City on a Spring Night" was written in Luo City, that is, Luoyang, which was the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty. "The sound of someone's jade flute flew darkly, spreading into the spring breeze and filling Luo City." It was noisy for a day. The hustle and bustle in the city has now calmed down, the lights in thousands of households, large and small, have gradually been extinguished, and the huge city has fallen asleep. However, at this moment of complete silence and dim lights, the sound of a jade flute suddenly came from somewhere. The flute was originally a musical instrument of the Qiang people. By the Tang Dynasty, it had become very popular in the vast Central Plains area. What the poet deliberately depicts here is the word "hear" in the title. At the beginning, the poet did not notice what tune the flute was playing, but slowly and carefully, the melodious flute sound became clearer and clearer in the night with the spring breeze. It turned out to be a song of homesickness and homesickness. "Breaking Willows" by "The Broken Willows" in this nocturne, "Who can not feel the love of hometown!" Hometown is hometown.

This is the derivation of subjective emotions. It does not say "I", but it shows the deep feeling of "I" and the deep nostalgia.

This short seven-character quatrain can quite show the characteristics of Li Taibai's style, that is, his subjective tendency in artistic expression.

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Luocheng is now Luoyang in Henan Province. It was a very prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty and was called the Eastern Capital. On a spring night, the lights of thousands of houses were gradually extinguished, and the hustle and bustle of the day had long since calmed down. Suddenly there was a loud flute sound, and the melodious tune flew with the spring breeze, flying all over Luo City. At this time, there was a poet far away from his hometown who had not yet fallen asleep. He leaned against the window and looked at the bright moon like a "white jade plate", listened to the sound of the flute in the distance, and fell into deep thought. The flute is playing the song "Breaking Willows", which is an ancient Yuefu song of the Han Dynasty and expresses the pain of farewell and travel. In ancient times, when parting, people often broke willow branches from the roadside to send each other off; the willow tree was used to express the feeling of reluctance. On such a spring evening, who can not help but feel homesick while listening to such a piece of music that is full of feelings of separation? Therefore, the poet couldn't help but chanted this poem Qijue.

This poem is full of the word "hear" to express my feelings about listening to the flute. I don’t know whose house this flute sound came from. The unseen flute player only played to himself and did not intend to let others know about him. However, he unexpectedly moved many listeners. This is " The meaning of the word "an" in "Whose jade flute is flying darkly". "Spreading into the spring breeze and filling Luo City" is an artistic exaggeration. In the poet's imagination, this beautiful flute sound flew all over Luo City, as if everyone in the city heard it. The poet's exaggeration is not without basis in life. The sound of the flute is originally high-pitched, and when people are deeper and quieter, coupled with the help of the spring breeze, it is not an exaggeration to say that it flies all over Luo City.

The sound of the flute came, and I didn’t know what the music was at first. After listening carefully for a while, I realized that it was a song called "Folding Willows". That's why it was written in the third sentence that "I heard the willows breaking in this nocturne". The rhetoric of this sentence is very particular. It does not say that I heard a piece of willow-breaking music, but that I heard the willow-breaking music in the music. The word "Zheliu" refers to both the title of the song and not only the title of the song. Folding willows represents a custom, a scene, and an emotion. Folding willows is almost a synonym for farewell. It can evoke a series of specific memories and rekindle the nostalgia hidden in people's hearts. "Who can't afford the feeling of hometown" seems to be talking about others and everyone, but wasn't it Li Bai himself who was the first to have the feeling of hometown?

Love for hometown is a noble emotion, which is connected with patriotism. I was born and raised in my hometown here. As a part of my motherland, her image is particularly unforgettable. Li Bai's poem is about listening to the flute, but its significance is not limited to describing music, it also expresses longing for his hometown. This is what makes it touching.