December, five days after another snow. Podocarpus nagi are freezing to death, the status of the people he no clothes! View of the village back to Lu, the ten rooms eighty-nine poor. Benefits, such as the north wind sword, not houses became cloth wadding. Artemisia spines CD burning fire, and worry about the night until the morning sitting. I realized that Big Chill years old, farmers, especially those Kuxin. Care of me as this day, deep-closing doors cottage. 紖 brown fur covered by, sit with the other temperature. Escape hunger bitter cold, nor ridge acres of ground. Nianbi be ashamed of deep, ask yourself is who?
Emperor Xian Zong Yuan and six (811) to eight years, the death of the mother Bai, leaving official, home mourning, relegated to the next village of Gui Wei (now Weinan County) home. During the retreat, his body sick, life difficulties, Yuan Zhen and other friends have been great financial aid. This poem, to make the yuan during this period and "December." In the late Tang Dynasty, there are disparate administrative regions, outside the Tibetan invasion, Tang dynasty central government control region greatly reduced. But it does support a large number of troops, together with officials, landlords, merchants, monks, priests, etc., not even farming and eating more than half of the population accounted for. Heavy burden of farmers, the pain of life, can be imagined. Bai deeply with experience. In this poem he wrote in "view of the village back to Lu, the ten rooms eighty-nine poor", with whom he wrote in another poem, "bellowed the families, only the farmers the most difficult" ("summer drought Poetry "), as he witnessed when the Department's Record of real life. This poem is in two parts. Write the first part of farmers in the north, such as swords, snowy winter, lack of clothing is less, unable to sleep at night, Oh, how painful they are! Write the latter part of his days in the Big Chill this is deep cover door for food and clothing, have a good quilt cover, neither the pain of cold and hunger, nor the labor of the ground Shimoda. Poets to their lives and the suffering of the peasants were compared, deeply ashamed and guilty, which issued a "ask themselves is who?" Lament. Classical poetry, the use of contrast methods of many poor peasants suffering and the exploiting classes is not too voluptuous to be too little contrast. But, like the poor peasants in the poem and the poet their own food and clothing for the contrast extremely rare, especially that from the heart of the "ourselves" in the feudal gentry in the more valuable. In addition to contrast, the poem also has the following characteristics: language popular, Narrations smooth, painted algae does not matter, using only line drawing, Poetry plain, explain the meaning of real love. These features are unique to reflect the popular poetry plain white art style. (Gu Wenzhao)