However, when China maintains our friendship, heaven is still our neighbor. What does this mean?

Meaning: As long as there are intimate friends in the four seas, even if they are far away, they seem to be close at hand.

Origin: It is a farewell poem "Farewell to Deputy DuDu's appointment in Sichuan" written by poets in the early Tang Dynasty when they presented a Shaofu named Du to Sichuan in Chang 'an.

The whole poem is as follows:

Across the wall of Sanqin, across a layer of fog, across a river.

We said goodbye sadly, and our two officials went in opposite directions.

After all, the world is just a small place.

If you don't do anything wrong, the child will get wet with towels.

Translation:

In the ancient country of Sanqin, the palace of Chang 'an city wall was arched. The wind and smoke are rolling, and Wujin, Minjiang River, Zhou Shu can't be seen.

When I shook hands with you to say goodbye, we were soul mates. You and I are both people who are far away from home and go out to be officials.

As long as there is you, friends from all over the world, friends. No matter how far apart we are, we are like together.

Please don't cry on the way to leave. Like affectionate young men and women, they shed tears for each other.

Extended data:

Creative background:

When writing this poem, the author was working as an editor in Peiren, Chang 'an, Beijing. It was written from the first year of Ganfeng to the first year of Zhang Zong (666-668). At this time, the core of Wang Bo thought is full of heroism, positive, and strive to be an official. Du Shaofu, a good friend of Wang Bo, whose name is unknown. Shaofu was a general term for county commandant at that time. The county magistrate in the Tang Dynasty was called Mingfu, and the county commandant was an assistant to the county magistrate, so it was called Shaofu.

At this time, Du is about to go to (also known as Shuchuan, now Chongqing County, Sichuan Province). There was no "Zhou Shu" in the early Tang Dynasty, which lasted for two years, that is, Zhou Shu was established in 686 AD, when Wang Bo was already dead. So this poem is also called "Send Du Shaofu as Ren Shuchuan"). Wang Bo gave a banquet to see him off and wrote this poem as a parting message.

Sending away relatives and friends who left home, even if the other party's future is bright, both sides are uncomfortable, including nostalgia, sadness and melancholy.

Poetry appreciation:

The early Tang Dynasty was the beginning of a powerful dynasty in ancient China. Poetry in the Tang Dynasty reached the peak in the history of China literature. The great innovation and development of poetry, which lasted about 200 years, began in the early Tang Dynasty. Wang, Yang, Lu, Luo and other great poets at that time were pioneers who appeared earlier. First of all, they opposed the gaudy poetic style inherited from the early Tang and Six Dynasties.

Yang Jiong said that Wang Bo "tasted the early years of Longshuo, and the literary field was a variant: fighting for slim structure and carving; Golden jade, dragon and phoenix, chaotic purple and yellow; The video is called Eccentricity and False Beauty. I am exhausted, I am strong and ignorant, I think of its disadvantages, and I want to use my career. " It can be seen that he consciously reformed the disadvantages of poetry and advocated a vigorous and upward poetic style.

Take this poem by Wang Bo as an example. It was simple, vigorous and unrestrained, which once made readers feel refreshed at that time. Since then, this poetic style has been greatly developed and has become the dominant style of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Secondly, they made their own contribution to the formation of the new poetic style. Taking five-character poems as an example, this new poetic style, which gradually matured and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, was tried and formed in the works of Wang Bo and others.

This poem by Wang Bo is two mature five-character poems. Read the five laws of Wang and Meng again, and then read the five laws of Li and Du, and you will find that the development of this new poetic style in the Tang Dynasty is like a big river, which comes down in one continuous line and grows more magnificent as it moves forward.