Allusions can be traced back to how the Yellow River water flows out of heaven.

Allusions can be traced back to how the Yellow River water flows out of heaven.

Don? Li Bai's poem "Into the Wine": "Don't you see that the water of the Yellow River goes out of heaven and into the ocean, and it will never return."

Shi Li's sentence "How does the Yellow River water move out of heaven" is purely romantic, seemingly simple and plain, without any trace of allusions, and without any explanation in hundreds of annotations and dictionaries, but I think it is allusions. The statement that "heaven is coming" is not nonsense, but has practical basis.

Don? Bai Juyi's "Six Posts" Volume 2 cited the Six Dynasties? Song? Liu Yiqing's Forest Picking: "Once upon a time, there was a man looking for the source of the Yellow River. Seeing a woman washing gauze, she asked,' This Tianhe is here, too.' Is to come back with a stone. Asked Yan Junping, a famous fortune teller in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, who made a living by divination in the streets of Chengdu, Jun Ping said,' This Weaver Girl is also a stepping stone to support the loom'. "Song? Chen's "Guang Ji at the Age of Years" Volume Erqi is quoted from "Ji" (Southern Dynasties? Liang? Cases) also have this record, but directly said that the river seeker was Zhang Qian, the minister of the Western Regions when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went to the Western Regions. This story tells: In order to find the source of the Yellow River, Zhang Qian rode upstream, only to find the Tianhe River in the sky and meet the Weaver Girl. The Weaver Girl also gave him a stone to cushion the loom. He didn't know what stone it was, and he didn't know he was in Tianhe. When he came back, he asked Yan Junping who knew astronomy was very good, and said that this stone was the support stone for the Weaver Girl in the sky. Then Zhang Cai knew that he was going to the Milky Way in the sky. It can be seen that the water of the Yellow River on land comes from heaven.

In fact, this story was first recorded when Zhang Hua was pushed in the early Western Jin Dynasty. Zhang Hua has such a passage in his Natural History Volume 10 Miscellaneous Notes, which reads as follows:

As the old saying goes: Tianhe, Haitong. Those who live in Haizhu recently come and go every August, so there is no time to waste. People have strange aspirations, set up flying pavilions on forks, buy more food, and take forks. More than ten days later, ... I was chosen to a place with a wall and a strict family. Looking at the numerous weavers in the palace, I saw a husband, Penny Zhu Ji, drinking. The cow was surprised and asked, "How did you get here?" When the man saw the purpose, he asked, "You can return it, and you will know when you see it in Shu County." I didn't go ashore because it was still going as planned. Later, I went to Shu County to ask Junping and said,' One day, the guest star made a mistake. Calculate the years, that is, when this person arrived in Tianhe.

It is because of Zhang Hua's records that later allusions such as "Tianhe Floating Tea", "August Tea", "Xingyue Tea" and "Fairy Tea" came into being. This allusion is familiar to poets in the Tang Dynasty. For example, the poem Eight Poems in Autumn by Du Fu, a contemporary poet of Li Bai, contains the poem "Let the tea in August be vain", and "tea in August" is used together with this allusion. The poet Li Bai has used this code many times, such as the poem "Ancient Style": "Knowing the sky and being Han, the day will be brilliant." Haike has been gone for a long time, but who knows better? There is also a poem entitled "A Long History of Fighting for Jiang", which says, "When you sail on the Xijiang River, people doubt that there is a boat in the sky." This allusion is used for "passengers at sea" and "ships in the sky" in the poem. Therefore, as a learned poet in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai should not be ignorant of this allusion, but it is obscure rather than obvious when quoting it.