No. 87 · Tang poem · five-character quatrain第 87 首 · 唐诗 · 五言绝句
dù杜fǔ甫Du Fu · Tang唐
Quatrain
chí迟rì日jiāng江shān山lì丽
chūn春fēng风huā花cǎo草xiāng香
ní泥róng融fēi飞yàn燕zi子
shā沙nuǎn暖shuì睡yuān鸳yāng鸯
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In 764, after a time of wandering, Du Fu returned to his Thatched Cottage in Chengdu, the simple house with a straw roof where he lived. This poem is usually dated to that spring. After war and years on the move, he finally had a calmer stretch of life, and felt more at ease. He wrote two poems called Quatrain, and this is the first. A quatrain is a poem of just four lines.
唐代宗广德二年（764年），杜甫经过一段漂泊，回到了成都的草堂，就是他在成都住的茅草房子。一般认为这首诗就写在那年春天。经历了战乱和流离，他终于又有了一段比较安定的日子，心情也轻松了一些。他写了两首《绝句》，这是第一首。“绝句”是一种只有四句的诗。
Du Fu (712–770) was a great Tang poet, often called the Sage of Poetry. Many of his poems are about war and the suffering of ordinary people, and they feel heavy to read. The few years at the Thatched Cottage in Chengdu were one of the calmest times of his life. Then he wrote many bright little poems about flowers, birds and spring.
杜甫（712—770），唐代大诗人，被人称为“诗圣”。他的很多诗写战乱和百姓的苦难，读起来很沉重。在成都草堂住的几年，是他一生中比较安稳的时光。这时候他写了不少明快的小诗，写花、写鸟、写春天。
This poem is like four small pictures of spring. The first is a wide view: under the spring sun, the river and hills look lovely. The second is a smell: the spring breeze brings the scent of flowers and grass. The third is full of motion: the earth has gone soft, and swallows dart about carrying mud for their nests. The fourth is still: the sand is warm, and mandarin ducks sleep on it. There is far and near, moving and still, color and scent. As you read, you feel you are standing by the river in spring, warm all over.
这首诗像四幅春天的小画。第一幅是大景：春天的阳光下，江水和山都那么美。第二幅是气味：春风吹来，带着花和草的香气。第三幅是动的：泥土化软了，燕子忙着飞来飞去，衔泥做窝。第四幅是静的：沙子晒得暖暖的，鸳鸯在上面睡着了。有远有近，有动有静，还有颜色和香味。读着读着，好像自己也站在春天的江边，全身暖洋洋的。