Bai Juyi (772-846), born in Xinzheng, Henan Province, was born in Taiyuan and moved to Xiaao when his great-grandfather. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, which was called "Yuan Bai" in the world and "Liu Bai" with Liu Yuxi. Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, various forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "Poet Magic" and "Poet King". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. There is a collection of Bai's Changqing handed down from generation to generation, and the representative poems are Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Trip and so on. Next, I will bring you an appreciation of Bai Juyi's ancient poem "Yong Yan", hoping to help you.
Village Night
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
Frost grass and grey insects cut, and people in the south of the village went northward.
looking at Noda before going out alone, buckwheat blossoms like snow in the moonlight. (Front door: Front door)
Translation and notes
In a gray autumn grass beaten by frost, bugs are whispering, and pedestrians around the mountain village are extinct.
I came to the front door alone and looked at the fields. I saw the bright moon shining on the endless buckwheat fields, and the buckwheat flowers all over the ground were just like a dazzling piece of snow.
Note
(1) Frost grass: grass beaten by autumn frost.
⑵ Cang: gray.
(3) cut: insects cry.
(4) extinct.
(5) Alone: alone, alone.
[6] Noda: a field.
(7) Buckwheat: panicum miliaceum, with black and angular seeds, can be eaten when ground into flour.
References:
1. Gu Xueying. Selected Poems of Bai Juyi: People's Literature Publishing House, 1963: 167.
2. Li Wanlong. Rules of Appreciation of Classical Poetry: Gansu Education Publishing House, 25: 44-45.
Appreciation
It's handy and eloquent, but it's fresh and quiet and poetic.
"The frost grass is green and the insects are cut, and the people in the south of the village are unique in the north", and the frost grass is green, which points out the thick autumn colors; Cut the insects and sing, rendering the sadness of autumn night. Pedestrians are extinct, and everything is silent. Two poems clearly outline the characteristics of village night: the night is deep, the autumn color is thick, and the grass color is boundless under the influence of autumn frost. The air was silent and pedestrians disappeared. Only unknown autumn insects are singing in a low voice. Although the scenery here is purely written, as Wang Guowei said in "Words on Earth", "All scenery words are sentimental words", and the bleak scenery reveals the poet's lonely feelings. This kind of sentiment in the scenery is more charming than direct lyric.
The sentence "Looking at Noda before going out alone" is not only a transition in the poem, but also changes the description object from the village to the field. It is also a turning point between the two couplets, which draws a picture of the bleak atmosphere of the village night and unfolds another picture that makes readers find everything new and fresh: the bright moonlight shines on the endless buckwheat field, which is as bright and dazzling as a crystal white snow from a distance.
"The moon is bright and buckwheat flowers are like snow", which is a very moving scenery. The picturesque beauty of nature infected the poet, making him forget his loneliness for the time being, and he couldn't help but exclaim with amazement. This magnificent sight is in sharp contrast with the description in the previous two sentences. The poet ingeniously uses the transformation of natural scenery to write the emotional changes of the characters, which are flexible and free, without traces; Moreover, it is unpretentious and natural, and it is kind and touching to read, with endless aftertaste. Poetry in the Tang and Song Dynasties praised it as "simple and simple, without fake makeup, with its own aging, and the one who is close to the ancient among the seven wonders".
Understanding of the thoughts, feelings and writing techniques expressed in this poem: Because of the different scenery described before and after, it expresses the poet's emotional changes from loneliness to excitement and complacency. The poet depicts the night scene of the countryside in a simple way, which contains deep poetry in the freshness and calmness. The poem describes the village night, which is bleak and desolate, but also spectacular, which constitutes the rural night scene in contrast. ▲
References:
1. Li Wanlong. The law of classical poetry appreciation: Gansu Education Publishing House, 25: 44-45
Creation background
Yuan and nine years (814), Bai Juyi wrote this poem in Wei Village with the feeling of loneliness due to the death of his mother.
Useful (133) Useless (49)
References:
1. Selected Works of Yan Jie and Bai Juyi: People's Literature Publishing House, 22: 137.
2. Timely. Selected Poems of Bai Juyi: Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House, 1996: 133.