What does it mean to "miss your relatives more during the festive season"?

The whole poem of "I miss my family more during the festive season" is: Being a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my family more during the festive season. When I think of my brothers' bodies climbing high, I will feel a little regret for not being able to reach me.

"I miss my relatives more in the festive season" comes from the famous poem "I miss my Shandong brothers in the mountain festival" written by Wang Wei, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. The original text is:

I am a lonely stranger in a strange land, and I miss my family more often during the holidays.

When I think of my brothers' bodies climbing high, I will feel a little regret for not being able to reach me.

Translation into modern literature can be explained as follows:

Being alone is always a bit bleak, and I miss my distant relatives every time I go to the Double Ninth Festival.

Far away, I feel sorry for myself when I think of my brothers climbing high with dogwood.

To annotate ...

1. September 9th: Double Ninth Festival. In ancient times, nine was the number of yang, so it was called Chongyang.

2. Memory: nostalgia.

3. Shandong: Wang Weiqian moved to Puxian (now Yongji County, Shanxi Province), east of Hanguguan and Huashan, so it was called Shandong.

4. Foreign land: foreign land, foreign land.

5. Being a stranger: Being a guest in another country.

6. Festival: a beautiful festival.

7. Mountain climbing: There is an ancient custom of mountain climbing on the Double Ninth Festival.

8. Cornus officinalis (zhūyú): A kind of vanilla, namely cassia. In ancient times, people thought that wearing dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival could avoid disasters and ward off evil spirits.

Author Wang Wei (70 1-76 1, 699-76 1) was born in Zhou Pu (now Yuncheng, Shanxi) on the east side of the Tang Dynasty. Born in Qixian County, Shanxi Province, he was a famous poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty. In the 19th year of Kaiyuan (73 1), Wang Wei was the first scholar. Li Guan right gleaned, supervised the remonstrance, and made our time in Hexi.

Wang Weixiang