山中
长江悲已滞，
万里念将归。
况属高风晚，
山山黄叶飞。
The Long River grieves, its current choked and slow;
Ten thousand miles from home, my thoughts still homeward go.
How much more now, when autumn winds blow late and high,
From hill to hill the yellow leaves go drifting by.
逐句注释
长江悲已滞，
长江：即长江，此处或泛指诗人眼前江水。悲：拟人，赋予江水悲愁之情；也可理解为诗人移情于景。已滞：已经停滞、迟缓不畅。表面写江流不畅，实则暗喻诗人羁旅受阻、归期难遂。开篇以景融情，营造低沉、郁结的氛围。
Long River: the Yangtze, or the river before the poet’s eyes. Bei (悲): personification—the river is made to grieve; more precisely, the poet projects his own sorrow onto the landscape. Yi zhi (已滞): already stalled or slowed. Literally the current seems blocked; symbolically the speaker is detained far from home, his return thwarted. The opening fuses scene and emotion and establishes a low, pent-up mood.
万里念将归。
万里：极言离家之远。念：思念、渴望。将归：想要归去、归心发动。此句直抒胸臆，以“万里”的空间距离与“归”的心理指向形成张力：身不能归，心已先归。与上句江滞形成对照，一外一内，一景一情。
Wan li (万里): ten thousand li, hyperbole for extreme distance from home. Nian (念): to long for, to think of. Jiang gui (将归): to wish or intend to return. This line speaks directly from the heart. The tension between the vast spatial distance and the inward orientation toward home makes the body unable to return while the heart has already gone. It contrasts with the stalled river in line 1: outer scene versus inner feeling.
况属高风晚，
况：况且、更兼，表示递进。属：正值、恰逢。高风：秋风，古人常以“高风”写秋日劲风，非指高尚品格。晚：既指秋深，也指日暮，双重时间感。此句由情入景，以“高风晚”加重萧瑟凄清，为末句蓄势。
Kuang (况): moreover, how much more—a marker of escalation. Shu (属): to coincide with, to be in. Gao feng (高风): autumn wind; in classical poetry it often denotes the strong winds of autumn, not noble character. Wan (晚): late—both late autumn and late day, giving a double sense of time. The line turns from emotion back to scene; the late high wind intensifies bleakness and prepares for the closing image.
山山黄叶飞。
山山：每座山、重重山，叠字增强绵延无尽之感。黄叶：秋日枯叶，象征衰败、飘零与迟暮。飞：飘飞、散落，动态收束全诗。此句纯以景结情：满山黄叶纷飞，如诗人无依的归思与身世飘零。山峦重叠亦暗示归途阻隔，余韵悠长。
Shan shan (山山): mountain upon mountain, every mountain; reduplication creates an effect of endless, layered barriers. Huang ye (黄叶): yellow leaves of autumn, symbols of decay, drifting, and late season. Fei (飞): to fly, scatter—a dynamic image that closes the poem. The ending is purely scenic, yet laden with feeling: yellow leaves swirling over all the hills mirror the poet’s rootless homesickness and unsettled life. The overlapping mountains also suggest the blocked road home, leaving a lingering aftertone.
今日赏析
王勃为“初唐四杰”之一，才高命短。此诗大约作于他在巴蜀一带漫游或任职期间。当时他远离家乡绛州龙门（今山西河津），仕途失意、羁旅漂泊；面对长江、秋风、黄叶，遂写下这首思乡怀归之作。全诗短短二十字，以江流滞缓、万里归心、高风晚秋、满山黄叶四层意象，层层递进，抒发了浓烈的羁旅乡愁。
Wang Bo, one of the Four Talents of the Early Tang, was renowned for precocious genius but died young. This poem was likely written while he was traveling or serving in the Bashu region (present-day Sichuan), far from his home in Longmen, Jiangzhou (modern Hejin, Shanxi). Frustrated in his official career and stranded in a distant land, he wrote this brief homesickness lyric in response to the Yangtze, autumn wind, and falling leaves. In only twenty characters, four layered images—the stalled river, the heart’s ten-thousand-li return, the late high wind, and yellow leaves flying over all the hills—intensify one another and express a deep traveler’s nostalgia.
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