Chinese poem illustration: 黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵 Seeing Meng Haoran to Guangling at Yellow Crane Tower by Li Bai

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One of the most famous Farewell poetry through the history.

By depicting scenic view ,poet’s own feeling was expressed indirectly. This poem use the very typical writing technique as most classic Chinese poems did , parallelled the lonely boat to both loneliness, paralleled the Yangtze river to the endless feelings of thinking each other , the deep and true feeling plus the wording makes it a masterpiece. Whenever spring comes, the sentence 烟花三月下扬州 will always touch deeply and softly and in Chinese mind.

At the end of this video, the most pop and famous Farewell Poetry 送杜少府之任蜀州, 渭城曲 and this poem was compared.

黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵
李白

故人西辞黄鹤楼,
烟花三月下扬州。
孤帆远影碧空尽,
唯见长江天际流。

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