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lǐ李bái白Li Bai · Tang唐

Hearing Wang Changling Was Demoted to Longbiao, I Send This from Afar

yáng杨huā花luò落jìn尽zǐ子guī规tí啼

wén闻dào道lóng龙biāo标guò过wǔ五xī溪

wǒ我jì寄chóu愁xīn心yǔ与míng明yuè月

suí随jūn君zhí直dào到yè夜láng郎xī西

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。

In the corpus, line 4 says the moon follows the wind. Textbooks say it follows you, the friend. Some editions have the wind.

资料库原文第四句作“随风直到夜郎西”。课本作“随君直到夜郎西”，也有版本作“随风”。

Line by line逐句翻译

杨花落尽子规啼The willow catkins have all fallen, and the cuckoo cries.柳絮落光了，杜鹃鸟在悲伤地啼叫，
闻道龙标过五溪I hear you are sent to Longbiao, past the far Five Streams.听说你被贬到龙标，要经过遥远的五溪。
我寄愁心与明月I give my worried heart to the bright moon,我把忧愁思念的心托付给明月，
随君直到夜郎西so it can follow you all the way west of Yelang.让它跟着你，一直到夜郎的西边。

Words字词注释

杨花yáng huā: yáng huā: willow catkins, white fluffy seeds that drift like snow.杨花：柳絮，柳树的种子带着白色绒毛，像雪一样飘。
子规zǐ guī: zǐ guī: the cuckoo. Its sad call was said to sound like "better go home".子规：杜鹃鸟，叫声很悲伤，听起来像“不如归去”。
闻道wén dào: wén dào: to hear it said.闻道：听说。
龙标lóng biāo: Longbiao: a place near today's Hongjiang in Hunan. Here it stands for Wang Changling, who was sent there.龙标：地名，在今湖南洪江一带。这里用地名代指王昌龄，因为他被贬到那里做官。
五溪wǔ xī: wǔ xī: the Five Streams, in western Hunan and eastern Guizhou, a remote land at that time.五溪：湘西、贵州东部一带的五条溪水，那里在当时是偏远的地方。
愁心chóu xīn: chóu xīn: a worried, missing heart.愁心：担忧、思念的心。
与yǔ: yǔ: to give to, to hand to.与：给，交给。
随君suí jūn: suí jūn: to follow you. Jūn means you, here Wang Changling.随君：跟着你。君，你，指王昌龄。
夜郎yè láng: Yelang: a Tang county near today's Xinhuang in Hunan, close to Longbiao.夜郎：唐代的夜郎县，在今湖南新晃一带，靠近龙标。

Background创作背景

Wang Changling was a good friend of Li Bai. He had been an official in Jiangning, today's Nanjing, and was then demoted to a small post in remote Longbiao. This is usually placed in the Tianbao years, but sources differ on the year. When Li Bai heard the news he was far away and could not see his friend off, so he wrote this poem and sent it to him.

王昌龄是李白的好朋友。他原来在江宁（今江苏南京）做官，后来被贬到更偏远的龙标去做县尉，一个很小的官。一般认为这件事发生在唐玄宗天宝年间，具体年份说法不一。李白听到消息时离朋友很远，没法去送他，就写了这首诗寄给他。

The poet作者

Li Bai (701–762) was a great Tang poet, called the Immortal of Poetry. He had many friends and wrote many poems of farewell and longing, such as To Wang Lun and Seeing Meng Haoran Off to Guangling. His imagination was very bold. Here he asks the moon to keep his friend company in his place.

李白（701—762），唐代大诗人，被称为“诗仙”。他一生朋友很多，写了很多送别和思念朋友的诗，比如《赠汪伦》《黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵》。他的想象特别大胆，这首诗让明月替他去陪伴朋友，就是很好的例子。

The mood意境

The first line shows late spring: the catkins have fallen and the cuckoo is calling. Spring is leaving, and the bird sounds so sad, so the poem starts with sorrow. The second line gives the news: the friend is being sent far away, past five streams. The last two lines are the most beautiful. The poet cannot go, so he gives his heart to the moon. Wherever the friend goes, he can look up and see the same moon, and the moon carries the poet's care along with him. The moon becomes a helpful friend. It is warm and full of feeling.

第一句写暮春的景：柳絮落尽，杜鹃在叫。春天要走了，杜鹃的叫声又那么悲伤，一开头就让人觉得难过。第二句才说出消息：朋友要被贬到遥远的地方，路上要过五条溪。后两句是全诗最美的地方。诗人去不了，就把自己的心交给明月。不管朋友走到哪里，抬头都能看到同一个月亮，月亮就带着诗人的牵挂一直跟着他。这是把月亮当成了会帮忙的好朋友，又温暖又深情。