The Significance of Weng's Ancient Poetry in Ximen Restaurant

Weng wrote an ancient poem in the opera Culture Gate Restaurant, which means:

The old man is still selling wine at the age of seventy, and there are countless flagons and jars at the entrance of Huamen Building.

The elm pods on the roadside are like strings of copper coins. I picked it to buy old people's wine. Can old people do it?

The poem of Weng Quan's opera "Culture Gate Restaurant" is:

The old man, who is 70 years old, is still selling wine, putting thousands of flagons and jars in his flower mouth.

Elm pods on the roadside are as smart as money. Will you pick them to sell wine?

Precautions:

Sell: buy or sell. The "selling" in the first sentence means selling, and the "selling" in the last sentence means buying.

Huamen: that is, Huamen Building, the name of Liangzhou (now Wuwei, Gansu). Huamenkou: refers to the entrance of Huamen Loukou.

Elm fruit: The fruit of the elm tree. In spring, elm pods are born among the branches, which are as small as money and strung into white, commonly known as elm money.

75 1 year (ten years of Tianbao of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty), Gao Xianzhi was transferred to Hexi Province. Cen Can, a shogun in Anxi (now Kuqa, Xinjiang) for nearly two years, followed Gao Xianzhi and other aides to Liangzhou City. I wrote this poem when I saw an old man selling wine.

Cen Can (7 18-769), a native of Jiangling, Jingzhou (now jiangling county, Hubei Province) or Jiyang, Nanyang (now Nanyang, Henan Province), was a poet in the Tang Dynasty and was also called Gao Cen with Gao Shi. In the third year of Tianbao (744), he won the top prize, and was awarded the military power of Cao Can, the leader of the government, three years later. After that, he joined the army twice, first as the secretary of Anxi Gao Xianzhi shogunate, and then as the judge of Anxi Feng Changqing shogunate at the end of Tianbao.

Appreciation of Weng Quan's Poetry in Xi Wenhuamen Restaurant

The first two lines of the poem are written by pure line drawing from the hotel in front of Huamen Building, which truthfully describes the scene of the old man entertaining guests and the smell of wine. It can be called a vivid and touching genre painting in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which sets off the atmosphere of the times with a stable border and a calm face and paves the way for the following poems.

This poem uses colloquial poetic language to describe the scene before us. The characters' voices and smiles are lifelike, and their styles are humorous. The poet's excitement and intoxication of the early spring scenery in Liangzhou, like a trickle, echoed between the lines. In writing, the combination of simple sketch and vivid imagination shows both ordinary and cordial interest in the contrast between reality and reality.