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Qian Qi Yong Jingzhou
Yu Dazhong
The Tang Dynasty poet Qian Qi (722-780), also known as Zhongwen, was a native of Wuxing (present-day Huzhou, Zhejiang). Tianbao Ten Years (751) Jinshi. He once served as a Kao Gong Lang Zhong, so he was called "Qian Kao Gong". During the Daizong Calendar period, he was a Hanlin scholar and was known as the "Crown of the Ten Talents of the Great Calendar". His poems have a high artistic level, the style is clean and elegant, fluent and delicate, and he is especially good at writing scenes.
Qian Qi wrote poems about Jingzhou, such as "Fenghe Zhang Jingzhou Patrolling the Peasants' Evening Look", "Jiangling Obscure Day accompanying officials on a boat", "Sending Ma MingFu to Jiangling" and so on. Here is an excerpt from "Sending Li Zhihui back to Jingzhou":
The return boat is not tied, and the grass is left to forget the worries.
Forbidden was once a national, the old marquis of Jiangcheng.
Twilight sails according to the summer mouth, spring rain dreams of Jingzhou.
When the sun goes to the clouds, he worships the crown with the king.
It's a farewell poem. The friend boarded the passenger ship back to Jingzhou, leaving only the worries of the grass. Recalling the past of Li Zhiyi's entry and exit from the imperial palace and the official field of the wind and clouds, the author was reluctant to linger, and the thoughts in his dreams flew with the twilight sails and spring rain, flying from Xiakou to Jingzhou. The poet looks forward to the early return of his friend, because we still have to go to the church together and face the saint together.