wei yingwu
Alone, pitied by grass and streams,
There is an oriole singing in the tree.
The rain brought by the spring tide comes late and urgently,
Wild crossing, no boat crossing.
[Notes]
1. Chuzhou: now Chuxian County, Anhui Province.
2. Xijiang River: in the west of Chu County, commonly known as Shangma River.
3. pity: love.
4. Deep trees: trees with dense branches and leaves.
5. Wild crossing: a ferry in the country.
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[Brief analysis]
This is a famous landscape poem and the most famous masterpiece of Wei. Although the poem is about ordinary scenery, it has become a legal animation with deep artistic conception after being touched by the poet.
This article was written by the author when he was a historian in Chuzhou. The author visited Chuzhou on Xixi and wrote this poem.
The first two sentences of the poem, "I feel sorry for the static grass growing by the stream, and there are orioles singing in the depths of the trees", mean that the poet loves the static grass growing by the stream, and there are orioles singing in the depths of the shade. This is an elegant scenery where beautiful colors and beautiful music are intertwined. "Solitude and pity" means eccentricity, which shows the poet's quiet mind. The last two sentences, "spring tide comes late with rain, and no one crosses the river in the wild", mean that it rains in the evening and the tide rises more violently. There are no pedestrians on the ferry in the country, and a ferry is moored across the river. This picture of crossing a boat in the rain contains the poet's sadness about his inaction, which makes people think deeply.
Wei has been a "Sanweilang" and has been a secretariat of Chuzhou, Jiangzhou and Suzhou. He was deeply worried about the political corruption in the mid-Tang Dynasty, and was also concerned about the sufferings of people's livelihood, but he could do nothing. This poem expresses his feelings euphemistically.
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[Appreciation]: This is a famous landscape poem and one of Wei's representative works. This poem was written in the second year of Emperor Taizong's reign of Jian 'an (78 1), and the poet became the secretariat of Chuzhou. The rule of Chuzhou in the Tang Dynasty is now Chuxian County, Anhui Province, and Xijian is in the western suburbs of Chuzhou City. This poem describes the quiet scene by the water of a mountain stream.
In the first two sentences of the poem, the poet said that in the prosperous scenery of spring, he only cared about the solitary grass by the river, while the beautiful song of oriole came from the lush Woods, but the poet seemed to care nothing about it. The last two sentences are about what I saw in the wild crossing in the late rain. Late tides and spring rains make the water more urgent. The suburban ferry is more deserted at the moment. Maybe the boatman has gone home to rest, only to see the empty ferry drifting freely. Whether this poem has a sustenance or not, and what is the implication, has been debated endlessly. Some people think that it is the thorn of "the gentleman is next, the villain is above"; Some people think that "there is no need to entrust the scenery of Xixi to this couple." In fact, the emotions revealed in the poem are looming. At the beginning, when you mentioned Youcao and Orioles side by side, the poet used the word "lonely pity", which clearly showed the poet's state of mind when he was poor and sober, and he did not flatter him very much. The last two sentences contain a kind of helplessness and sadness that is not in place and not used. Poets write scenes with emotion, express their feelings by borrowing scenes, write their favorite and disliked scenes, and talk about their comfortable and uncomfortable situations, while inner peace and emotional sadness naturally show up.