Cui Hu Poem: Written in a Village South of the Capital – 崔护《题都城南 庄》
题都城南庄 崔护 去年今日此门中， 人面桃花相映红。 人面不知何处去， 桃花依旧笑春风。 Written in a Village South of the Capital Cui Hu In this house on this day last year a pink face vied In beauty with the pink peach blossom side by side. I do not know today where the pink face has gone; In vernal breeze still smile pink peach blossoms full blown. This quatrain is written in memory of a beauty the poet met with in the preceding year. 《题都城南庄》是唐代诗人崔护的诗作。此诗设置了两个场景，“寻春遇艳”与“重寻不遇”，虽然场景相同，却是物是人非。开头两句追忆“去年今日”的情景，先点出时间和地点，接着描写佳人，以“桃花”的红艳烘托“人面”之美；结尾两句写“今年今日”此时，与“去年今日”有同有异，有续有断，桃花依旧，人面不见。全诗以“人面”“桃花”作为贯串线索，通过“去年”和“今日”时同地同景同而“人不同”的映照对比，回环往复、曲折尽致地表达出诗人因这两次不同的遇合而产生的感慨。 The poem “Written in a Village South of the Capital” is a poem by Cui Gu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The poem sets up two scenes, “Seeking for spring and meeting a beautiful woman” and “Seeking again and not meeting her”, although the scenes are the same, but things are different. The first two lines recall the scene of “last year to...