Wang Mian
My Xiyan Lake Head Tree,
All bloom with faint ink marks.
Don't boast that the color is beautiful,
Just keep it fresh and full of Kun.
To annotate ...
⑴ Plum blossom: Plum blossom in ink painting.
⑵ Xiyan Lake: a pool for washing pens and inkstones after writing and painting. Wang Xizhi has a legend that "the middle school books in the pool are all black". This is the allusion used here.
⑶ Pale ink mark: refers to the appearance of plum blossom outlined with pale ink. There are several ink colors in ink painting, such as light ink, thick ink and Jiao Mo. What is said here is that the plum blossoms are dotted with faint ink.
(4) Fresh air: fragrance. This refers to pure character and noble moral integrity.
5. Gan Kun: Heaven and earth, people. Dry represents the sky, and Kun represents the ground.
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This poem is a seven-character quatrain inscribed by Liang Zuo on a plum blossom painting, and it is a portrayal of Wang Mian's career and self-temperament.
Mo Mei is the plum blossom of ink painting. Poets praise Mo Mei and Dont Ask For Help, just to leave a fragrance of virtue to the world. In fact, he used Mei as a metaphor to express his attitude towards life and his noble sentiment of not being kitsch.
The first two sentences, "The first tree in Xiyan Lake, my home, is full of pale ink marks", which directly describes Mo Mei. In the painting, the plum trees by the pond are in full bloom, and the plum blossoms are stained with a faint ink color. "West Wild Goose Lake" is the allusion of Wang Xizhi's "middle school books in the pool, and the water in the pool is all black". The poet has the same surname as Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in Jin Dynasty, so he says "my home".
Three or four sentences praise Mo Mei's moral integrity. It is painted in light ink, and although its appearance is not exquisite, it has a beautiful, noble and dignified, secluded and detached inner temperament; It doesn't want to attract people, please people and get people's praise with bright colors. It just wants to send out a fragrance and let it stay between heaven and earth. These two sentences are the poet's self-portrayal. Wang Mian grew up in a poor family, herding cattle during the day and studying hard under the ever-burning lamps of Buddhist temples at night. Finally, he learned a lot. He is good at poetry and painting, and he is versatile. However, he tried every time and didn't want to curry favor with the powerful, so he decided to be rich and famous, and lived in seclusion in Jiulishan, East Zhejiang, drawing rice for a living. The phrase "don't be praised by lewdness, just stay dry for nothing" shows the poet's character of disdain, independence and self-appreciation.
This poem, titled Mo Mei, is intended to express one's ambition. The poet organically integrates painting style, poetic style and personality. Literally praising plum blossoms is actually appreciating the virtue of a person standing.
Ode to Plum Blossoms (Bu Suan)
Lu you
Outside the bridge, the plum blossoms are lonely, no matter what. Twilight arrival, plum blossom is helpless, exhausted, and has to withstand the wind and rain.
Plum blossoms don't want to compete for blooming, and the envy and rejection of flowers don't care. Scattered into mud, ground into dust, only fragrance remains.
Translation:
Outside the station, near the broken bridge, flowers bloom alone, but no one cares. Every day when the sun goes down, there will always be lonely worries in my heart, especially when it is windy and rainy.
I don't want to try my best to fight for love, but I let the flowers envy me. Dead branches and leaves turn into mud and grind into dust, but only fragrance remains.
Precautions:
(1) Post Station (Yi Qusheng): a traffic post station on the ancient road. This sentence is about a secluded place where no one goes in and out.
(2) Loneliness: cold and cheerless. No owner: no one asked.
(3) Zhuo Yang Pingsheng: Supplement.
(4) This line says: I don't want to go to great lengths to compete for beauty, so let the flowers be jealous.
(5) Crushing (year): Crushing. Dust: To turn into dust.
(6) unchanged fragrance: unchanged fragrance.
Appreciate:
Plum blossom is the eternal theme of ancient literati in China for thousands of years. Lin Hejing, a great hermit in Song Dynasty, loved plum blossoms and kept singing plum blossom poems. With the feeling of "wife plum crane" in plum blossom, he can be said to be a scholar who loves plum blossom most. Chairman Mao's Yongmei Ci is based on Lu You, which is quite different from Lu You's Ci. Lu You's lonely and noble description of plum blossoms attracted the envy and jealousy of flowers. Chairman's poem, however, describes the beauty, positivity and loyalty of plum blossom, smiling without worry, but with the integrity and lofty sentiments of revolutionaries in the new era. There are countless poems written by China about Mei, and the great artistic conception is similar to the great one. Chairman Mao made an extraordinary move with the demeanor of a great poet. A poem by Yongmei swept away the sadness, depression and seclusion of literati in the past, creating a new landscape and atmosphere, which is amazing and convincing.
Year after year, wind and rain bring spring back, but heavy snow welcomes spring back. Even though there are hundreds of ice ridges on the cliffs of the county, plum blossoms stand out from the crowd in the face of such a grand and cold winter scene. Poets, of course, also follow the old adage, expressing their aspirations with poems and sending their aspirations through Mei. In this grim juncture of "the sky is crisp and the cold current is urgent" (that is, there were three years of natural disasters in China at that time, and the struggle against imperialism and revisionism was fierce), poets encouraged themselves and comforted others with plum blossoms in full bloom in the dead of winter, and should learn from them. In such a steep situation, they bravely met the challenge and showed their handsomeness. The poet uses the word "Qiao" very well, and the plum blossom image that has never appeared here appears on this word. This is the image of a happy person, a confident person and a winner Of course, this is not only the plum blossom image in the poet's eyes, but also the image of the poet himself and the producer of China. How many layers of profound meaning does this "Qiao" contain? It is aggressive and never gives in.
Next, the poet deeply guided the plum blossom image. Although it is beautiful, it does not deprive us of the beauty of spring. It is just the messenger of spring, bringing us the information of spring. However, when the cold winter passed and spring was everywhere, Meihua was alone, living in seclusion among the flowers, giving a happy laugh. Plum blossoms, in the eyes of poets, are soldiers. It fights with the cold only to win the spring, announce the coming of spring, and then retreat, not to seize the beautiful scenery of spring. This image is selfless and silently dedicated. Here, the poet greatly deepened the image of plum blossom. It became the image of an international proletarian fighter, and changed from a revolutionary in China to a revolutionary in the world. In New China, the image of plum blossom was shaped by poets to be more plump and tall.