Li Bai's farewell poems in Jingmen

Seeing Friends Off at Jingmen Ferry is a five-character poem written by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, when he was wandering in Sichuan when he was young. This poem begins with the topic of distant travel, followed by experiences and impressions along the way, and finally thoughts. The whole poem has lofty artistic conception, rich style, magnificent image and magnificent imagination. It wins with its excellent landscape painting, and the scene is magnificent, which shows the author's long journey, charming personality and deep homesickness.

Farewell friends at Jingmen Ferry.

Year: Tang Dynasty

Author: Li Bai

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Sail from Jingmen Ferry, and soon you will be with southerners.

At the end of the mountain range and the beginning of the plain, the river winds through the wilderness.

The moon rises like a mirror, and the sea clouds twinkle like palaces.

The water brings you the feeling of home and makes your boat travel 300 miles.

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I crossed the river by boat to Jingmen, far away, and visited the territory of Chu State during the Warring States Period.

With the emergence of the flat and vast Yuan Ye, the mountains gradually disappeared and rivers flowed in the endless Yuan Ye.

The moon on the river flies from the sky like a mirror, and the clouds form a mirage outside the city.

I still cherish the water from my hometown and the boat that came to see me off in the east not far away.

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This poem was written by Li Bai when he left Sichuan. Jingmen, or Jingmen Mountain, is located in the northwest of Yidu County, Hubei Province, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, across the river from Huya Mountain on the north bank. The situation is dangerous, which has been called the throat of Chu and Shu since ancient times.

Li Bai went out of Shu this time by boat and waterway, crossed Bayu, left the Three Gorges and sailed straight outside Jingmen Mountain, with the purpose of visiting the hometown of Chu in Hubei and Hunan. "Sail to Jingmen Ferry, and soon you will be with people in the south" refers to this kind of intense tour. At this time, the young poets were in high spirits, sitting on the boat and enjoying the towering mountains on both sides of Wushan. Along the way, the scenery in front of me gradually changed. After the boat passed Jingmen, it was already a plain wilderness, and the horizon was suddenly broadened, especially a scene: "The mountains are flat and the rivers are winding in the wilderness."

The first sentence vividly describes the unique scenery on both sides of the Yangtze River after the ship left the Three Gorges and crossed Jingmen Mountain: the mountains gradually disappeared and the endless low plains were in front of us. Just like a moving picture taken with a set of focal planes, it gives people a sense of movement and space, depicting the movement trend of static mountains.

"And the river winds through the wilderness" describes the momentum of the fast-flowing river. Looking from the distance of Jingmen, it seems that it flows into the desert' Yuan Ye', which looks crisp and lofty. The last sentence is written as "Ru", which permeates the back of the paper and the language is appropriate. This scene contains the poet's cheerful mood and youthful vitality.

After describing the landscape, the poet described the close-up and prospect of the Yangtze River from different angles by changing the scenery: "The moon rises like a mirror and the sea clouds twinkle like a palace."

The Yangtze River flows below Jingmen, and the river twists and turns, and the flow rate slows down. At night, when the river is calm, look down at the reflection of the moon in the water, like a mirror falling from the sky; During the day, looking up at the sky, the clouds rise and change endlessly, forming a mirage-like spectacle. This is a wonderful view from Jingmen's vast plains and calm rivers. For example, in the Three Gorges of the mountains, because the pavilion is at midnight, there is no sunrise, the water is fragrant in summer, and the water on the river is rushing, it is difficult to see the underwater image of "the moon is like a mirror"; In the secret space of the Three Gorges, there is no wonder of "sea clouds flashing like palaces". This couplet takes the moon in the water as a round mirror, which sets off the calm of the river, and the clouds in the sky form a mirage, setting off the vast and high sky on the river bank, which has a strong artistic effect. The couplets of chin and neck vividly describe the fresh feelings of people living in Shu when they first walked out of the canyon and saw the vast plain. While enjoying the scenery around Jingmen, Li Bai couldn't help but feel homesick when facing the surging river flowing through his hometown: "The water has brought you a feeling of home and rowed your boat for 300 miles."

From reciting Liu Jia at the age of five to passing Jingmen at the age of twenty-five, the poet has been living in Sichuan, studying in Daitian Mountain, visiting Emei and living in seclusion in Qingcheng Mountain. He has deep feelings for the mountains and rivers in his hometown of Sichuan, where rivers flow, and once raised him. How can you not be reluctant to part with him for the first time? But the poet did not say that he missed his hometown, but that the water in his hometown reluctantly sent me on a long journey. With deep feelings, he rowed your boat for three hundred miles and wrote from the opposite side, which showed his special homesickness. The poem ends with a deep nostalgia and farewell feeling, and the words and feelings are inexhaustible. "Farewell" in the poem title should be farewell to hometown rather than friends, and there is no farewell to friends in the poem. In the Qing Dynasty, Shen Deqian thought that "there is no farewell in the poem, and the words in the title can be deleted" (Tang Poetry) was not unreasonable.

This poem has lofty artistic conception, vigorous style, fantastic image and magnificent imagination. "The mountain is flat and primitive, and the river winds in the wilderness" is vividly written, just like the long-axis landscape map of the Yangtze River crossing Jingmen, and it has become a famous sentence. If the excellent landscape painting "Wan Li should talk about it", then the five laws of this magnificent image can also be said to be able to see the big from the small, treat one as ten, with rich capacity, covering tens of thousands of miles of landscape scenery in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, with highly concentrated artistic generalization.