"Wild Hope" Tang Wang Ji (8th Grade, Volume 1)

Donggao gāo thin bó twilight, migrating to desire Heyi.

The trees are all autumn colors, and the mountains are only falling.

Shepherds drive calves back, and hunting horses bring birds back.

Looking at each other without acquaintance, long song Huai Tse-wei.

Excerpt from Notes on Wang Ji's Poems (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1981). Wang Ji (c. 589–644), courtesy name Wugong, was a tang dynasty poet from Longmen, Daizhou (present-day Hejin, Shanxi).

Donggao: Place name, now part of Wanrong, Shanxi. The author abandoned his official position and lived in seclusion here. Gao, waterside land.

Twilight: Late afternoon. Thin, close.

Leaning: Wandering.

Calf: Calf. This refers to cattle herds.

Birds: Refers to birds and beasts that are hunted.

Tse-wei: Eat wild vegetables. According to the "Chronicle of History and Boyi Lie", After the death of Shang, Boyi and Shuqi, the sons of Lone Bamboo Jun, "did not eat Zhou Su, hid in Shouyang Mountain, and ate wei and ate it". Later, he used the metaphor of "Cevi" to live in seclusion.

This poem is written about autumn scenery in the mountains. The whole poem exudes a lonely and depressed mood in the description of Xiao Seyi's quiet scenery, expressing the poet's feelings of pity and loneliness.

Standing in Donggao in the evening and looking into the distance, I wandered and did not know where to belong. ("Donggao" borrows a verse from Tao Yuanming, implying that after the poet returns to hiding, he tries to cultivate Donggao.) "Desire He Yi" is a use of verses from Cao Cao's "Short Song Line". These two verses narrate that in the thin twilight, the poet stands on top of Donggao, looking around, and an inexplicable loneliness and loneliness of melancholy rush into his heart, making it impossible to calm down, providing a clever preparation for the middle four sentences to write. Layers of woods are dyed with autumn colors, and the mountains are draped in the afterglow of the setting sun. The shepherd drove the cattle back to their homes, and the hunters galloped past me with their prey. Everyone was relatively speechless and didn't know each other, and I really wanted to live in seclusion in the mountains.