Original: the news of this distant western station! The north has been recovered! At first, I couldn't stop crying on my coat.
Where are my wife and son? There is not a trace of sadness on their faces. However, I packed my books and poems crazily.
On a green spring day, I began to go home, singing my songs loudly and drinking my wine.
Come back from this mountain, pass another mountain, go up from the south and then go north-to my own town! .
Translation:
Outside the sword gate, the good news came suddenly, and the loyalists recovered the northern part of Hebei. When I am happy, tears are all over my clothes. Looking back on his wife and children, he has also swept away the gloom and rolled up his poems, which made the whole family ecstatic. I want to drink and sing and go back to my hometown together in spring. My soul has already soared, so I went from the dam to Wuxia, then to Xiangyang and went straight to Luoyang.
The first half of this poem is about the surprise when I first heard the good news; In the second half of the poem, people are dancing and preparing to return home, which highlights anxious to return's joy. The whole poem is full of unrestrained emotions and the word "hi" is everywhere, which vividly expresses the author's infinite joy and excitement. Therefore, it is called Du Fu's "the first quick poem in life". Except for the first narrative topic, all the other sentences express the poet's surprise when he suddenly heard the news of victory. The poet's thoughts and feelings poured out of his chest and rushed down. The last six sentences are dual, but understanding nature is like talking, and it comes naturally.
The poem Yan Xi was written in the spring of the first year of Guangde, Tang Daizong. The author was fifty-two years old. In the winter of the first year of Baoying (762), Tang Jun won a great victory in Hengshui near Luoyang, and recovered Luoyang, Zheng (now Zhengzhou, Henan) and Bian (now Kaifeng, Henan). The rebel leaders Xue Song and Zhang Zhongzhi surrendered one after another. In the second year, that is, in the first month of the first year of Guangde, Shi Siming's son Shi Chaoyi was defeated and hanged himself, and his troops surrendered to Tian and Li Huaixian one after another. Du Fu, who lives in Zizhou (now Santai, Sichuan), heard the news and wrote this masterpiece with passionate pen and ink.
In this poem, Du Fu notes: "I am in Tokyo". The theme of the poem is to express the joy of suddenly hearing that the rebellion has been put down and rushing back to my hometown.