Tang poem · seven-character quatrain唐诗 · 七言绝句
dù杜fǔ甫Du Fu · Tang唐
Walking Alone by the River in Search of Flowers (No. 6)
huáng黄sì四niáng娘jiā家huā花mǎn满xī蹊
qiān千duǒ朵wàn万duǒ朵yā压zhī枝dī低
liú留lián连xì戏dié蝶shí时shí时wǔ舞
zì自zài在jiāo娇yīng莺qià恰qià恰tí啼
Underlined words have notes: tap one. The Pinyin button below shows or hides all pinyin. 一 and 不 are marked with the tone you actually say.字下有虚线的，点开有注释。下方的“拼音”按钮可以显示或隐藏全部拼音。“一”“不”标的是实际读出来的变调。
After years of war and wandering, Du Fu came to Chengdu and built a thatched cottage by Washing Flower Creek. At last his life was settled. It is usually said that in the spring of 761 he walked alone along the river enjoying the flowers, and wrote seven quatrains along the way. This is the sixth. Huang Siniang was his neighbor, and the flowers by her house were especially fine.
经历了多年战乱和漂泊，杜甫来到成都，在浣花溪边盖了一座草堂，生活总算安定下来。一般认为，761年春天，他一个人沿着江边散步赏花，一路写了七首绝句，这是第六首。黄四娘是他的邻居，她家门前花开得特别好。
Du Fu (712–770) was a great Tang poet, called the Sage of Poetry. Most of his poems are about war and the suffering of ordinary people, and they feel heavy. His few years at the thatched cottage in Chengdu were a rare peaceful time in his life, so he wrote many light, cheerful little poems then.
杜甫（712—770），唐代大诗人，被称为“诗圣”。他的诗大多写战乱和百姓的苦难，读起来很沉重。在成都草堂的几年，是他一生中难得的安稳日子，所以这时候他写了不少轻松、明快的小诗。
This poem is like a lively spring painting. First look at the path: flowers on both sides. Then the branches: thousands of blossoms bending them low. Then the picture starts to move. Butterflies flit around the flowers and do not want to leave. Orioles sing freely in the trees. There is color, movement and sound. The repeated words, "thousands upon thousands", "again and again", "qià qià", make it bounce like a nursery rhyme. Du Fu was usually full of worry, but this time he was in a wonderful mood, and reading it makes us happy too.
这首诗像一幅热闹的春天的画。先看小路：两边开满了花。再看树枝：千朵万朵，把枝条都压弯了。然后画面动起来：蝴蝶围着花飞来飞去，舍不得走；黄莺在树上自由自在地唱歌。有颜色，有动作，还有声音。“千朵万朵”“时时”“恰恰”这些重复的词，读起来像儿歌一样轻快。平时愁眉苦脸的杜甫，这一回心情好极了，我们读着也跟着开心起来。