Dead vines, old trees, faint crows,
Small bridges and flowing water,
The ancient road and the west wind are thin.
When the sun sets, heartbroken people are at the end of the world.
At dusk, a group of crows landed on an old tree with withered vines and made a piercing cry. Under the small bridge, the running water jingles, and the farmhouse next to the small bridge raises smoke. On the ancient road, a thin horse struggled against the west wind. The sunset gradually lost its luster and set from the west. On a cold night, only lonely travelers wander in the distance.
Tianjingsha Qiu Si is a poem written by Ma Zhiyuan, a writer of Yuan Sanqu. This song juxtaposes a variety of scenery into a picture of the sunset in the autumn suburbs, which makes the wanderer ride a thin horse on the bleak background, revealing a sad mood and expressing the sadness that a wanderer misses his hometown and is tired of wandering in autumn. This verse is unique, the first three sentences are all composed of noun phrases, and one * * * lists nine kinds of scenery, which is concise and meaningful. The whole song has only five sentences and 28 words. Its language is extremely concise, but its capacity is huge, its significance is far-reaching and its structure is exquisite, so it is praised as "the ancestor of Qiu Si" by later generations.
The whole song consists of four pictures and four scenes. * * * There are twelve nouns: withered vine, old tree, faint crow, small bridge, flowing water, family, ancient road, west wind, thin horse, sunset, heartbroken man and Tianya. The author skillfully combines these twelve seemingly unrelated nouns to form these four beautiful pictures. Really achieved painting in poetry. On the surface, this song has no gorgeous beauty. However, it is the author's seemingly casual' noun integration' that wrote this masterpiece with historical significance.
The first sentence, "The withered vine and the old tree are crying", is a sad and vicissitudes picture with a sense of life. A withered vine, an old tree and a faint crow bring readers into a sad mood. A shriveled, innuendo shriveled life; An old man alludes to vicissitudes of life; One is confused, four are confused and depressed. Together, bring readers into the realm of the author's imagination.
On the surface, the second sentence "small bridge flowing water" seems to have changed a scene in the journey, which is really a nostalgia for the good times of life. A small bridge, a flowing water, a family and three kinds of scenery write the warmth and yearning for the family. This sentence expresses the author's pursuit of a better life, but he can't get it all his life.
There is no traveler himself in the first two sentences, but the description of the scenery along the way causes passers-by to think about their own lives.
The sentence "The old road is thin and the west wind is thin" is written by a person walking alone on a lonely road. Thin words write the distance of the road, so the horse is thin. The word "ancient road and west wind" coincides with a thin word. The ancient road, the sorrow of the road; West wind, lonely road. This sentence is about the journey and also about life. I wrote the author's heart of returning to thinking, but the thin word also wrote that I don't know where the road to life is.
The last sentence "Sunset sets, heartbroken people are at the end of the world" expresses the picture that the sunset is about to set on the horizon, and a pedestrian riding a horse is on the road alone in the distance, but it is far away and I don't know where to go. As the sun sets, time is running out to write about the dusk of life. Broken-hearted people write down the sadness in their lives. Tianya, far away from home, thinking about falling leaves and returning to their roots is an impossible road.