Tang poem · seven-character quatrain唐诗 · 七言绝句
lǐ李hè贺Li He · Tang唐
South Garden (Fifth of Thirteen)
nán男ér儿hé何bú不dài带wú吴gōu钩
shōu收qǔ取guān关shān山wǔ五shí十zhōu州
qǐng请jūn君zàn暂shàng上líng凌yān烟gé阁
ruò若gè个shū书shēng生wàn万hù户hóu侯
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。
South Garden was a garden in Changgu, Li He's hometown, near today's Yiyang in Henan. It is usually thought he wrote these thirteen poems after giving up a small post and going home. At that time many regions of the Tang empire were held by warlords who ignored the court. Li He badly wanted to serve his country, but he was only a scholar. Restless and frustrated, he wrote this poem.
南园是李贺家乡昌谷（今河南宜阳一带）的一处园子。一般认为，李贺辞去小官回到家乡后，写了《南园十三首》。那时唐朝很多地方被藩镇占着，不听朝廷的话。李贺很想为国家出力，可是只能当个读书人，心里又着急又不平，就写了这首诗。
Li He (790–816), also called Changji, was a Tang poet. His imagination was so strange and wild that people called him the Ghost of Poetry. He came from a distant branch of the royal family and was very gifted. But his father's name sounded like the word for the top exam, and people said he must avoid it out of respect. So he could not take the exam, held only a small post, and died at twenty-six by Western count.
李贺（790—816），字长吉，唐代诗人。他的诗想象奇特，人称“诗鬼”。他是唐朝皇族的远支后代，很有才华，却因为父亲名字里的“晋”和进士的“进”同音，被人说要避讳，没能参加进士考试，只做过小官，二十七岁就去世了。
The poem asks two questions, each louder than the last. First: why doesn't a real man take up a sword and win back the land? It is a shout full of courage. The second question turns another way: go and look in the Lingyan Pavilion. Of all the heroes made lords, which one was a scholar? He means that books cannot save the country; only fighting brings glory. There is resolve here, and also bitterness, because Li He himself was a man who could only read and write poems. The bolder the first half, the more we feel his frustration in the second. Four short lines, both fiery and sad.
这首诗用了两个问句，一个比一个响亮。第一问：男子汉为什么不拿起刀，去收复国土？这是一声大喊，充满了豪气。第二问却转了方向：你去凌烟阁看看，那些封侯的功臣，有哪个是读书人？意思是读书不能报国，只有打仗才能立功。这里有决心，也有不平：李贺自己就是一个只会读书写诗的人。前面越豪迈，后面就越让人感到他的委屈。短短四句，又热血又心酸。