Li Bai's white hair and three poems by thousands of feet

Thousands of feet White Hair: From the works of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, Qiupu Qiu Ge Pu looks like autumn.

original work

Qiu Puge Li Bai

White hair three thousands of feet, sorrow like a beard.

I don't know where to get autumn frost in the mirror.

Sentence annotation

1 qiupu: Chizhou county in Tang dynasty. So the address is in Guichi West, Anhui.

2 white hair: white hair. It also refers to old age.

3 yuan: Because.

Four: So, so.

Spiegel: A bright mirror.

6 where: where, where.

7 autumn cream: describe hair as white as autumn cream.

Translation:

White hair as long as three thousands of feet, it is because of sadness that it grows so long. Somewhere in the mirror, autumn frost falls on my head.

Creative background:

This poem was written by Li Bai when he lived in Qiupu (a water town southwest of Guichi County, Anhui Province). At this time, he was nearly old, and he wrote this poem because of his old age and physical decline.

Qiupu Qiu Ge Pu Looks Like Autumn, from the fifteenth song of Seventeen Songs of Qiupu. This poem begins with 3,000 white hairs that are impossible to appear in reality, and expresses the great psychological shock brought by shocking white hairs. Extremely exaggerated but truly vented inner worries.

Appreciation of works:

This poem is very vivid and vivid, with exaggerated metaphor.

Although this poem describes the sadness of white hair in his later years, it is still free and easy with a smooth pen. The exaggeration, metaphor and vivid images in the poem left a deep impression on people. An old man with white hair sat alone in front of the mirror, staring blankly at his white hair as if it were in front of him.