One of the "Clear Flat Tones"
Don Lee Bai
The clouds want to dress and flowers, and the spring breeze blows Revlon.
If it were not for the jade mountain head, it would meet the Yaotai Moon
This poem is one of the three poems of Li Bai's "QingPing Tone", these three capitals are some Yang Yuhuan, this poem uses anthropomorphism, exaggeration and imagination and other artistic expression techniques to imitate Yang Guifei's bright face and noble status, which shows that Yang Guifei's beauty is not ordinary.
Translation: When you see the clouds, you think of her gorgeous clothes, and when you see the flowers, you think of her gorgeous appearance; the spring breeze blows the railings, and the dewdrops are more moist and colorful. Such a heavenly national color is either the fluttering fairy seen at the head of the jade mountain, or the goddess illuminated by the moonlight in front of the Yaotai Hall.
The story behind the poem is:
About 742 AD, through the introduction of Princess Yuzhen to Tang Xuanzong, Li Bai found a position as an attendant of the Hanlin Academy in Beijing, in fact, he was the one who wrote the music, and had nothing to do with the government, in the past, it was Tang Xuanzong's secretary, at first Li Bai was also holding out hope for the work of the industry, and later he followed Tang Xuanzong Yang Guifei and them to play together.
One day, when Tang Xuanzong and Concubine Yang were in the palace to admire the peony flowers in the Agarwood Pavilion, they summoned Hanlin to ask Li Bai to enter the palace to write some new music, Tang Xuanzong, Yang Yuhuan and Li Bai enjoyed the peony wine tasting in the Agarwood Pavilion, and Tang Xuanzong, who was full of joy, ordered Li Bai to write new lyrics for this scene. With the power of wine, Li Bai summoned the eunuch Gao Lishi to take off his soap boots for him, and then asked the noble concubine to grind ink for him, waving his hand and writing, "The clouds want to dress and flowers, and the spring breeze blows Revlon." "and two other songs. At that moment, the musician Li Guinian sang and the disciples of Liyuan accompanied, and even Yang Guifei ordered someone to bring a seven-treasure cup and fill it with Western wine to pay tribute to Li Bai.
Later, The Revlon Cosmetics Company in New York came to China, maybe you don't know Revlon, but you must know "Revlon", Revlon's Chinese is from Li Bai's "Qingping Tone" in the "Spring Breeze Breeze Revlon". And the translation of "Revlon" let more people know.
The other two are
Second
A branch of red dew condensed incense, cloud rain Wushan cut off the intestines.
Borrow the Han Palace who is like that? Poor Fei Yan leaned on new makeup.
Third
The famous flowers are happy with the country, and the king looks at it with a smile.
Explain the infinite hatred of the spring wind, and the agarwood pavilion leans on the north to dry.