Li shangyin
I want to know why my Jinse has fifty strings, and each string has a youthful interval.
Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, was bewitched by butterflies, and cuckoo crowed in the imperial spring.
Mermaids shed pearl-like tears on the moon-green sea, and the blue fields breathed their jade to the sun.
A moment that should last forever has come and gone before I know it.
Li Shangyin played his "Jinse" on a moonlit night. A sad swan song has fascinated countless audiences in later generations and always caused many different explanations and speculations. Jin Renyuan Haowen once said in "On Thirty Poems" that this poem is "a wonderful device to solve people's difficulties".
There are always different opinions about the theme of the poem Jinse. Some people think that the content of this poem is about "Jinse" musical instruments, saying that "Saint Zhuangzi daydreaming was bewitched by butterflies, and Wang's longing for love was cooing. Mermaids shed pearl-like tears on the moon-green sea, and the blue fields breathe their jade to the sun. " In the four sentences, four musical sounds are written respectively, namely, appropriateness, resentment, purity and harmony. Some people regard the guess of "Jinse" as a woman's illusion, and suspect that it is "Hu Ling's blue dress" ... In addition, many people tend to mourn, thinking that the poet is thinking of his dead wife in loneliness and desolation and bowing to mourn himself!
Although it is difficult to give an exact explanation in reason, this poem is easy to arouse readers' goodwill and love in sensibility. Poetry is very emotional because of its image; Poetry is difficult to understand because it only depicts images and is confusing. To understand this poem, I think the main thing is to analyze the image of the poem and see what it gives us, without attaching facts.
"I wonder why there are fifty strings on my Jinse, and each string has a flower-like quality and a youthful interval." The poem begins with "Jinse", which not only describes the beauty of the instrument, but also describes the fineness and complexity of the strings. The word "Jinse" gives readers a beautiful and resentful intuition. It is recorded in Hanshu Jiaosi Zhi that "Taidi ordered the banjo to be played, but the mourning for the emperor could not stop, and it was broken into twenty-five strings". Who would have thought that the "golden vessels" of the "fifty strings" were attached with such sad feelings? For no reason, if you don't do it, you will die. The word "for no reason" made Jinse suddenly have life. This depressed sigh is like saying that it is not that she wants to have these 50 strings, but that she was born with so many, and she is helpless. "Every flower is the interval of youth", and every string and column on this piano is pulling the pain buried in the poet's heart. "Chord" and "column" inherit a sentence from Fifty Chords, and the word "one" further strengthens all kinds of feelings in Fifty Chords, which implies both meticulous and complicated feelings and heavy sadness. The touch of each string and column will arouse the poet's recollection of the past. The word "Hua nian" corresponds to the word "Jinse" in front, which not only shows the beauty of "Hua nian", but also shows the melancholy when recalling today. The poet uses Thule's beauty to compare his outstanding talent, and uses Thule's Fifty Strings for no reason to imply that the Spring Festival in China has quietly passed, and the feelings of pain and indignation are vaguely contained in the sigh of "for no reason". These two sentences can be said to be the sum of this poem.
"Saint Zhuangzi daydreaming, bewitched by butterflies, crowed by cuckoos. Mermaids drop pearl-like tears into the moon-green sea, and blue fields breathe their emeralds at the sun. "The first word" thinking "on chin and neck recalls the past, and the poet laments that he gave up his talent and hurt his life. For Li Shangyin, the past is unbearable. He was young and promising, but he was caught in the political whirlpool of the late Tang Dynasty. He was very depressed and was down and out all his life. His beloved wife died young in China, and now only the poet himself is left to reminisce about the past in loneliness and desolation. Zhuan Xu takes things as feelings, and expresses the feelings of "Meng Xiao" and "longing for love" with the things of "butterfly" and "Du Fu". Necklace couplets take "the sea moon" and "Lantian is getting warmer" as the scene, and write down the sadness of "tears in beads" and the confusion of "jade producing smoke". According to myth, when the moon is round, pearls are round. However, the pearl of the sea under the moonlight still has tears. In the vast sea, every pearl is a tear. Meiyu is produced in Lantian Mountain, where there is jade, and the clouds are lingering, but people only see the smoke in the mountains and don't know where the jade is. Meiyu is as unappreciated as pearls left by the sea.
Li Shangyin's allusions have their own characteristics. Sometimes with its original meaning, such as Ding Anlou, he expressed his grief and indignation that he couldn't stretch his arms with the words "Jia Sheng was sad when he was young, and RoyceWong went on a spring outing". Sometimes he takes allusions as a special image and creatively extends them. "Meng Xiao" and "Spring Heart" are the latter ways to use allusions. Zhuang Zhoumeng's allusion to butterflies was originally intended to illustrate a Taoist philosophy of "using everything for my own use", but Li Shangyin used the image of "butterfly dream" for his own use, expressing his dream of pursuing official career and endless regret after this dream failed. The word "Xiao" means the fleeting dream, and the word "fan" means the dreamer's obsession. This infatuation, intoxication and loss should be the poet's original intention. "Wang Chunxin" uses the story of returning home, turning the cuckoo into the soul, and mourning and hating, which is extended by Li Shangyin. What is "love"? Spring is the heart of pursuit, yearning and persistence. What an obsessed dream, what a deep emotion! The beauty of this poem is that the poet doesn't know his feelings at all, but gives readers a direct feeling and hint with all kinds of beautiful and complicated images and tortuous plots, which makes readers have countless touches and associations.
"Meng Xiao" and "Chun Xin" are sentimental and easily influenced; Butterfly and Rhododendron evoke the association of flying and crying; "When is the bright moon" and "When is the sun warm" draw people into a desolate, spacious, warm and charming situation. Poets turn reality into nothingness, and use four allusions and four beautiful, quiet, blurred and sad scenes to convey their experiences and feelings, which makes it difficult for people to express reality but feel the same. This is a kind of poetry with touching and stimulating effects.
"A moment that should last forever? I've been there and I don't know, "Wei Lian asked himself and answered, pointing out that this poem recalls the past and takes it as a lesson." The so-called "this feeling" refers to the obsession with "dreams", the deep love for spring, the sadness of "tears on beads" and the confusion of "jade smoke" written in Qin and Jing's couplets. Do you feel sad when you look back on the past? When the Chinese New Year is over, you will already feel the bitterness and sadness. In the hazy world of jade and smoke, the poet looks back on the past events of the New Year, reminisces about the past love, and leaves behind the disappointment of that year, which makes him sigh again: looking back, the residual photos are more empty.
This poem was written by the author in his later years, when he recalled the past and expressed his feelings about the ups and downs of his life. Although the description is euphemistic and vague, it obviously has its sustenance In his poems, Li Shangyin concealed the specific events in his life, implicitly and euphemistically expressed his bumpy fate and sad feelings from many different angles, and lamented the passing of the New Year and the emptiness of his ambition.
When a song "Jinse" is played, a gaunt figure disappears in the sad rhyme, leaving readers with endless disappointment.