"Yellow Crane Tower" Don Cui Hao (Grade 8 Volume 1)

The people of the past have gone by the Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is empty here.

The yellow crane is gone, and the white clouds are long in the air.

Harukawa calendar Hanyang tree, yerba buena parrot island.

Where is Nippori Pass? The Smoke Wave River is sad.

Excerpted from Quan Tang Poems, vol. 130 (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1986). The Yellow Crane Tower, formerly located on the Yellow Crane Hú Ji jī in present-day Snake Mountain, Wuhan, Hubei Province. "Taiping Huan Huán Yuji": "Xi Fei Yi yī Dengxian, every time the Yellow Crane rides here, it is called the Yellow Crane Tower." "The building has been built and destroyed many times, and the current Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt in 1985. Choi Hao hào(?) –754), a native of Biàn Prefecture (汴比àn州, in modern Kaifeng, Henan), was a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

Former Man: Refers to the legendary immortal who flew away riding a crane.

Yo-Yo: Fluttering look.

Harukawa: A wilderness on a sunny day. Chuan, Hirakawa, Wilderness.

Calendar: The look of clarity.

Hanyang: Place name, Hanyang District in present-day Wuhan, Hubei Province, across the river from the Yellow Crane Tower.

Tsubasa: Lush looks.

Parrot Island: A small island in the Yangtze River, northeast of the Yellow Crane Tower.

Xiangguan: Hometown.

This poem is a masterpiece of nostalgia. The poet depicts what he sees and feels when he climbs the tower and overlooks, and expresses the sadness and homesickness of the poet wandering in a foreign land.

Translations

The immortals of the past have driven the Yellow Crane away, leaving only an empty Yellow Crane Tower. The yellow crane never returned, and for thousands of years only saw the gentle white clouds. "A thousand years" makes people see the length of time, and "empty and leisurely" makes people see the vastness of space. The combination of time and space produces a sense of historical depth and a sense of openness in space, expressing the poet's sense of emptiness about the difficulty of time and the confusion of the world, and giving birth to homesickness. The trees of Hanyang in the sun are clear and countable, and the parrot island is covered with turquoise herbs. Writing about the scene that the poet saw when he ascended the stairs, he painted an empty and distant picture, paving the way for the poet's nostalgia. Rhetoric: Duality. It's dusk but I don't know where my house is? Only to see a mist covering the river surface, bringing people a deep melancholy. The end of the article with the word "melancholy" accurately expresses the mood of the poet who climbed the Yellow Crane Tower at dusk, and corresponds to the opening paragraph, showing the lingering nostalgia in his heart.