As a country of etiquette, China has been very hospitable since ancient times, and Confucius once said: Friends come from afar and are happy. Whenever guests come to the house, they always clean the home with a treasured collection of good wines and make a table of rich delicacies, all to show due courtesy and respect for the visitors. Once Du Fu's visitors were not well prepared, so he was very ashamed, but at the same time he was very excited, so he wrote a poem.
Guests
The spring water in the north and south of the house is spring water, but the flock of gulls comes day by day.
The flower path has not been swept by guests, and the Pengmen gate is now open for the king.
PanYi City is far from tasteless, and the bottle restaurant is poor and only old.
Ken drank opposite his neighbor and called out the remaining cups across the fence.
We all know that Du Fu's life is very tortuous, although he is talented, but it is not smooth on the road of career. At this time in the spring of the second year of the Tang Dynasty, du Fu, who was already 56 years old, finally decided to end his long-term stable life after experiencing continuous wandering, so he built a thatched house in Huanhuaxitou, a western suburb of Chengdu. Shortly after he settled there, a guest came to visit him, and he was so excited that he improvised the poem.
This guest was a county commander surnamed Cui, who admired Du Fu's literary talent and sympathized with his plight, so he took the time to come to see Du Fu with some household necessities. Du Fu was of course very happy to learn of Cui Xianling's coming, but this was not because of the identity of the other county order, but because he had not lived such an ordinary and joyful ordinary life for a long time. At this time, he had just settled down here, and the house had not been cleaned inside and outside, but the environment was still quiet. In the first league, Du Fu first described the scenery outside the house, not to mention the place where he lived, the conditions were very simple, but the environment was very beautiful. There is a stream flowing in front of the house and behind the house, surrounded by gulls and birds, which is a good place to make people feel calm, plus it is far away from red dust, which makes him a lot less troublesome. Here the poet uses the gull bird as a metaphor for himself, indicating that at this moment he has looked down on everything, and his state of mind is even more indifferent.
These two sentences of jaw association must have been heard by everyone, and they are a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages. Here Du Fu adopts the writing method of flowing water pairs, and he is a little ashamed to say that the path full of flowers and plants in the garden has not been cleaned by guests, and the gate that has been closed has been opened for you for the first time. At this time, Du Fu was lonely, so suddenly someone was visiting, and he naturally felt overjoyed. Here he only used 14 words to express his life and the scenery of his home, with a very strong atmosphere of life. Du Fu of the Neck Joint Office further expressed his guilt, and guihe naturally came to warm hospitality, but because of the remote and inconvenient transportation, there was no way to buy more dishes, and the banquet was not hearty. Moreover, he has been on the go all year round, his family is very poor, and he has not yet made wine, so he can only take last year's old wine to entertain. Although the words are polite, they contain a very deep sense of humanity, and the attitude is frank, which makes people feel more comfortable and comfortable listening.
The end of this poem is even more interesting, after a few rounds of drinking, the guests are also very happy, then Du Fu remembered that the old man of the neighbor is also very good at drinking, may as well call him and drink a few drinks together. "Ken and" the son is the tone of inquiry, he first asked for the advice of friends, friends are willing to naturally follow the lord, and the old man next door can drink, I think he is also a person with a cheerful temperament, and it is not even happier to drink together.
The whole poem is very neat and smooth, and the writing is neat, and the frankness and nature are even more unbearable. The time and space transformation sequence of the whole poem, Du Fu mastered the orderly, especially the welcome and hospitality is very natural, really worthy of the holy name.