The biggest feature of poetry is that it is full of poets' rich thoughts and feelings, and the one that can most touch our heartstrings is nostalgia. Gao Shi once said in "Except for the Night": "Hometown thinks about thousands of miles tonight, and the Frost Side Ming Dynasty has another year." Du Fu said in "The Moon and the Night Remembers Her Brother": "Lu is white from tonight, and the moon is the hometown of Ming." It can be seen that nostalgia is our deep attachment to our hometown. It can be as big as the bright moon in the hometown, and it can also be as small as the grass and trees in the hometown.
The nostalgia in the poem "Homecoming Doll Book Two · One" shared with you in this article is the nostalgia that cannot be changed when you are old, and it is the feeling and helplessness of things and people. This poem is a seven-sentence poem created by the famous Tang Dynasty poet He Zhizhang, written when he resigned and returned to his hometown in his later years. In fact, this poem, we have learned when we were students, but when we were young, we did not know the meaning of the poem, and now we are middle-aged when we read it.
"Homecoming Doll Book TWO Songs · Part 1"
The young man left home and returned to the old man, and the township voice did not change the sideburns.
Children don't know each other, laughing and asking where the guests come from.
The opening two sentences of the poem, "The young man left home and returned to the old man, and the hometown voice did not change and the sideburns declined", which means that I left my hometown since I was a child, and I did not come back until I was old. Although my country voice has never changed, the hair on my sideburns has become gray. From these two poems, we can feel the hurt and old feelings caused by He Zhizhang's long-term residence in another country. The change in appearance corresponds to the ruthlessness of the years, and also sets off the richness of He Zhizhang's nostalgia.
In fact, He Zhizhang wrote this poem in the third year of Emperor Xuanzong's Tianbao Dynasty (744), when he resigned from his official position in the imperial court and returned to his hometown of Yongxing, Yuezhou (present-day Xiaoshan, Hangzhou, Zhejiang), at the age of eighty-six. Nearly fifty years have passed since He Zhizhang left his hometown at the age of thirty-seven. Therefore, he uses the sentences "little left home" and "the old man returned" to summarize the fact that he has lived in a foreign country for so many years.
The last two sentences, "Children don't know each other, laugh and ask where the guests come from", which means that after the children in my hometown saw me, none of them knew me, and they laughed and asked me, where did you come from this guest? At first glance, these two poems are bland, but in fact, they are the peak of this poem, a stroke of a different realm. A child's innocent and rambling question was a heavy blow to He Zhizhang, which undoubtedly aroused his endless emotions.
He has not returned to his hometown for fifty years, and it is not only the children in his hometown who do not know him. It can be said that the people, things, and things that were once familiar will change. It reveals He Zhizhang's feelings and helplessness about the changes in life, the vicissitudes of the years, and the fact that things are not human. This poem is simple and unpretentious, but it is in line with Lu You's statement that "the article is natural, and the clever hand is even obtained".
For us as readers, although it is only 4 short sentences, it summarizes the nostalgia that we have in middle age. Although our age is not as late as He Zhizhang's, people have actually been able to deeply appreciate what is said in this poem, that life changes, the vicissitudes of time, and the sense that things are not human. Even the situation of "children don't know each other, laughing and asking where the guests come from" will appear.
In general, He Zhizhang's poem is a moving masterpiece of eternity, and it is also a poem that we are most afraid to read, because reading is already middle-aged.
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