"I don't know that the sky is in the water after being drunk, and the boat is full of dreams and presses the Milky Way." From the poet Tang Wenru's "Longyang Caoqinghu" at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty.
Original text:
The autumn wind has blown, and Dongting Lake seems to be aging a lot. After a night of melancholy, Xiang Jun should have more white hair.
Completely drunk, I can't see the sky in the water. A ship full of dreams sank into the Milky Way.
Translation:
The autumn wind blows hard, and Dongting Lake seems to be aging a lot. After a night of melancholy, Xiang Jun should have more white hair.
When I was drunk, I forgot that the stars in the water were just reflections. In a clear dream, I was lying by the Tianhe River.
Cao Qinghu in Longyang County is the work of Tang Wenru, a poet in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. The style of the whole poem is very light, with scenes and dreams written alternately. The novel and unique conception and ethereal and fantastic poetic realm are excellent works in ancient poetry. And the romantic color between the lines also left an indelible mark in later poems.
This article is the work of Tang Wenru, a poet in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. With the help of such a short seven-character quatrain, what readers can appreciate is the poet's unique mental outlook. This poem is like a self-portrait of him. After reading it, the poet's mental outlook is clearly presented to the readers.
The "Longyang County" in the poem title is now Hanshou, Hunan. "Caoqing Lake", the southeast of Dongting Lake today, was named after Caoqingshan in Hunan Province. The title of the poem says "Caoqing Lake" and the poem says "Dongting" because the two waters are connected.
This is a travel poem full of artistic individuality. In a word or two, the poet skillfully combines the recollection of history with the description of the magnificent natural scenery in front of him, and conveys the true feelings with illusory myths. "The west wind blows the waves of the old Dongting Lake, and it is white and hairy to you all night." There is an "old" in the two sentences that cannot be easily let go.
The autumn wind is rustling, Dongting Lake is endless, and Bai Bo is endless. Compared with the quiet clear water in spring, that scene gives people a deep feeling of being far away from Sichuan. The poet's sadness about autumn is faintly visible. But he deliberately did not have to say it directly, but created a white-haired image of Xiang Jun, which was thought-provoking.
Legend has it that Xiang Jun was sad enough to hear that Shun Di died in the wild of Cangwu and could not follow him. At this time, the bleak autumn scenery turned the beautiful Xiang Jun into silver hair overnight. This novel idea makes people imagine how shocking Dongting autumn scenery is. In the objective world, the poet's own sense of aging and decline is self-evident. An "old" word, integrating feelings into the scene, can really be said to have reached the point of apotheosis.
Look at three or four more sentences: "I don't know that the sky is in the water after being drunk, and the boat is full of dreams." At night, the wind stopped, the waves calmed down, and the bright galaxy was reflected in the lake. On the passenger ship by the lake, the poet kept drinking and singing from morning till night, having a good time, and finally got drunk and fell asleep.
The feeling of "sitting on a boat in the sky in spring" (Du Fu's "A boat with a little cold food") gradually penetrated into the poet's dream. He seems to feel that he is not boating in Dongting Lake, but boating on the Milky Way, and what he sees around the ship's rail is a starry sky. The poet wrote this dream so beautifully that it was as tempting as a fairy tale.
However, "this song should only be in the sky", when I wake up, all I leave in my heart is endless disappointment. One or two words about sad autumn are not necessarily accompanied by the feeling of untimely birth and difficult ambition; The last two sentences, remembering dreams and writing about his nostalgia for dreams, reveal his frustration and disappointment with reality from the opposite side. So three or four sentences look different from one or two sentences, but they are well connected and harmonious internally.
The description of dreams in these two sentences is very successful: dreams are realistic, and ships are positively related to the sky and the sky in the water, which is true and credible; Dreams are invisible, but it is said that dreams are full of ships and have no weight, but they are expressed by the word "pressure", which makes the illusion so real; From the dream of Ming Che, it is not difficult to detect the poet's pleasure of getting rid of the hubbub, remembering his dreams and touching his feelings, but also secretly vividly. There are many poems about dreams in ancient times, but it is rare that this poem is so fresh, beautiful and implicit.
Full of romanticism, light style and non-adhesion are the main artistic features of this poem. Poets are interested in the expression of true feelings, not limited to appearances, so they write in an eclectic way, get rid of dust and get rid of vulgarity. No matter how to describe a scene, a dream, there are both virtual and real, both dreamy and dreamy, and the idea is novel and unique, which is rare in previous poems.
References:
Tilongyang county qingcaohu-Baidu encyclopedia