Poetry of Langtaosha

Liu Yuxi

Jiuqu Yellow River and Wan Li Sand,

Waves and strong winds swept from the horizon.

Now go straight to the galaxy,

Go to Penny and Weaver's house.

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Annotation explanation

Langtaosha: Tang's name. Created by Liu Yuxi and Bai Juyi, the form is seven-character quatrains. Later it was used as a epigraph name.

Jiuqu: According to legend, the Yellow River has nine bends since ancient times. There are many places to describe twists and turns.

Wave erosion: Wave erosion.

Blow: Turn over.

Morning glory and Vega: the names of two constellations in the Milky Way. According to the ancient legend, the weaver girl is a fairy girl in the sky, who descended to earth and married the cowherd. After the Queen Mother of the West recalled the Weaver Girl, the Cowherd chased after the sky, and the Queen Mother of the West punished them across the river, allowing them to meet only once a year on the evening of July 7.

Modern Translation of Ancient Poetry

The Yellow River in Wan Li twists and turns with sediment, and the waves are rolling, like a huge wind from the end of the world. Now we can go directly to the Milky Way along the Yellow River. Let's visit the home of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.

Appreciation of famous sentences-"Now go straight to the Milky Way and go to Petunia and Weaver's house."

This quatrain expresses their yearning for a better life in the tone of gold diggers. Living by the river, the Tianhe River where Cowherd and Weaver Girl live is quiet and beautiful, but the gold diggers along the Yellow River are busy all day in the wind, waves and sediment. Go straight to the Milky Way, walk with the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and place the yearning for a quiet pastoral life. This romantic ideal, expressed in heroic spoken language, is a simple and straightforward beauty.