Two quatrains·Part one
Du Fu [Tang Dynasty]
Chiri, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the spring breeze is fragrant with flowers and grass.
Swallows fly when the mud melts, and mandarin ducks sleep in the warm sand.
Translation
The mountains and rivers bathed in the spring light look particularly beautiful, and the spring breeze brings the fragrance of flowers and plants.
The soil melts and becomes soft with the arrival of spring. Swallows build nests in the mud, and pairs of mandarin ducks sleep on the warm sand.
Appreciation:
This quatrain has one scene per sentence, and the four lines of the poem together form a complete picture. The structure of this poem is similar to the "two lines" of "Quatrain" "Orioles Singing and Green Willows" are similar in that they use verses to compose the pictures, and the emotions are contained but not exposed.
There is a sentence in "The Book of Songs? Binfeng? July" that "spring is late, and we are picking Qi Qi". "Chichi" means that the spring days are very long, and "Li" has beautiful sunshine. Meaning, so there is such an idiom as "the wind is beautiful and the sun is beautiful". Therefore, this poem should be written about a warm evening in spring when the days are getting longer, and the warm spring breeze brings the fragrance of flowers and plants. The first two sentences combine vision, touch, and smell to express the author's love for beautiful spring days.
The weather gets warmer in spring, and the soil becomes moist and soft, so it is called "mud melt". Swallows pick up the spring mud and busily build their nests. The beach was warmed by the sun, and the mandarin ducks slept lazily on it in pairs. The stillness of the mandarin ducks also contrasts with the movement of the swallows. The poem implicitly expresses the author's cherishment of spring.
I am used to reading about the gloomy and frustrated Lao Du, and when I read about this elegant novel, I began to wonder if there are two Du Fus in the world.