The official army of Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, received my songs from Henan and Hebei and drank my poems deeply.

Recover the north and south of the Yellow River

Author Du Fu, Tang Dynasty,

The news of this distant western station! The north has been recovered! At first, I couldn't stop crying on my coat.

Where are my wife and son? There is not a trace of sadness on their faces. However, I packed my books and poems crazily.

On a green spring day, I began to go home, singing my songs loudly and drinking my wine.

Come back from this mountain, pass another mountain, go up from the south and then go north-to my own town! .

Translation annotation

Outside the sword gate, the good news came suddenly, and the loyalists recovered the northern part of Hebei. When I am happy, tears are all over my clothes. Looking back on his wife and children, he has also swept away the gloom and rolled up his poems, which made the whole family ecstatic. I want to drink and sing and go back to my hometown together in spring. My soul has already soared, so I went from the dam to Wuxia, then to Xiangyang and went straight to Luoyang.

1. Smell: I heard. Official army: refers to the army of the Tang Dynasty.

2. Outside the sword gate: south of the sword gate, which refers to Sichuan.

3. Northern Hebei: It generally refers to the Youzhou and Jizhou areas in the Tang Dynasty. Now the northern part of Hebei Province is the base of the Anshi Rebellion.

4. Snuff: tears.

5. But look: look back.

6. Wife: wife and children.

7. What is there to worry about? Where is the sadness? Worry has disappeared without a trace.

8. Juan Juan's poems are ecstatic: roll them up at will. In other words, Du Fu can't wait to pack up and go home.

9. ecstatic: I am ecstatic.

10. Singing: Singing loudly.

1 1. X: You should. Indulge in drinking: drink to the fullest.

12. Youth refers to the scenery in spring. The author imagines going home in spring with pleasant scenery.

13. Company: Take wife and children.

14. Wuxia: One of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, named after crossing Wushan.

15. Then: it means justice.

16. Xiangyang: This belongs to Hubei.

17. Luoyang: This is an ancient city in Henan.