From Li Bai's Sitting Alone in Jingting Mountain in Tang Dynasty
The birds flew without a trace, leaving the lonely clouds free and unfettered.
You look at me, I look at you, and there are only my eyes and Jingting Mountain's eyes.
Vernacular translation:
Birds fly high without a shadow, and lonely clouds go alone for fun.
You look at me and I look at you. They don't hate each other. It's just me and Jingting Mountain ahead.
Precautions:
1, Jingting Mountain: in the north of Xuancheng City, Anhui Province. "Yuanhe County Records" records: "It is ten miles north of Xuancheng County. There are Song Wanting and Tiger Peeping Springs in the mountains. " "Jiangnan Tongzhi" Volume 16 Ningguo Mansion: "Jingting Mountain is ten miles north of the mansion. Fu Zhiyun: It is said in ancient times that there are picturesque scenery in the east, ten thousand buildings in the east, cities in the south and sails in the tobacco market. "
2. Everyone: Nothing.
3. Lonely cloud: Tao Yuanming's poem "On the Poor" has a sentence "Lonely cloud comes alone". Zhu Jian's note: "I sit alone, birds fly away, and some people are ruthless and don't date each other." The unique mountain of Jingting looks like this, but it doesn't hate each other. " Go for leisure alone: go alone, go alone. Idle, describe the carefree appearance of traveling around. Lonely clouds are floating around.
4. I can't get tired of seeing two things: the poet and Jingting Mountain. Tired: satisfied.
Li Bai (70 1-762), the word Taibai, was a romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty and was praised as a "poetic immortal" by later generations. My ancestral home is Ji Cheng in Longxi (to be tested), and I was born in Broken Leaf City in the Western Regions. At the age of 4, he moved to Mianzhou City, Jiannan Province with his father. Li Bai has more than 1000 poems, among which Li Taibai Ji has been handed down from generation to generation. He died in 762 at the age of 6 1. Its tomb is in Dangtu, Anhui, and there are memorial halls in Jiangyou, Sichuan and Anlu, Hubei.
Appreciation of works:
The first two lines of this poem, "Birds fly high, and lonely clouds go to leisure alone", seem to describe the scene in front of us, but in fact they have written all the sad feelings: several birds fly high in the sky until they disappear; There is still a white cloud in the vast sky, but I don't want to stay and drift away slowly, as if everything in the world is rejecting poets. The words "exhausted" and "doing nothing" lead readers to a realm of "peace": it seems that after eliminating the noise of a mountain bird, it feels particularly peaceful; After the rolling thick clouds disappear, I feel particularly quiet and calm, which means disappearing and slowly disappearing into the sky. Leisure is mainly to express leisure, and it is to use the leisure of lonely clouds to set off the leisure of the author's mood. There is an artistic contrast between these two words and "independence". Mainly for the writer to sit alone at the moment and feel carefree, which is in line with Li Bai's own immortal thought.
So these two sentences are written as "dynamic" to see "static", and "static" is defined by "dynamic". This "quietness" reflects the loneliness and loneliness of the poet's mind. This vivid writing can give readers association, and imply that the poet has been visiting Jingting Mountain for a long time, outlining his image of "sitting alone" and paving the way for the next couplet "never tired of looking at each other".
The images of these two sentences are juxtaposed in the form of "the stars arch the moon". The central word "bird" in the previous sentence is the central image, and the word "fly" is added to form a compound image, which strengthens the dynamic expression meaning. Birds can remind readers of the quiet and peaceful scene in the mountains. Birds are singing euphemistically in the empty mountains, which makes them interesting. At present, birds fly high and get farther and farther away from people. The word "Gao" has played a role in expanding space. Looking up, in the empty blue sky, birds are flying away until they are out of sight. The word "gold" enhances the expressive force of this sentence and shows Li Bai's melancholy at this time. The last sentence "cloud" is the central word, which is compounded with "go", and the silent cloud is drifting away. And clouds are not all over the sky, just "solitary clouds" without companions, just drifting away leisurely and slowly. The poet used "leisure" to write the state of the solitary cloud, highlighting the process of leaving, so that readers can feel the poet's inner pain and helplessness when they taste the state of the solitary cloud leaving.
The words "exhausted" and "doing nothing" lead readers to a realm of "peace": it seems that after eliminating the noise of a mountain bird, it feels particularly peaceful; I feel very quiet after the thin clouds disperse. They all seem to be spiritual, unwilling to associate with poets, leaving only a vast space, where poets are more lonely and small. In fact, there are countless birds in the mountains, and clouds will not float into the sky. In the poem, all the birds and lonely clouds leave the poet, which is the result of the poet's emotional projection and the boundless space for the poet to express his lonely feelings. This vivid writing can remind readers that Li Bai has been sitting there for some time. He watched the birds and lonely clouds fly away gradually, and all the birds and lonely clouds left Jingting Mountain. Only he is still sitting there enjoying it, sketching his image of "sitting alone" and paving the way for the next couplet "Never tire of looking at each other".
Three or four sentences, "Never tire of seeing it, only Jingting Mountain", personify Jingting Mountain in a romantic way. Although the bird flew away, the poet didn't go back, and he didn't want to go back. He stared at the quiet and beautiful Jingting Mountain for a long time and felt that Jingting Mountain seemed to be looking at himself affectionately. There is no need to say anything between them, and they have reached emotional communication. "Never tire of looking at each other" expresses the deep feelings between the poet and Jingting Mountain. "Xiang" and "Liang" are synonymous, which closely connects the poet with Jingting Mountain and shows strong feelings. At the same time, Looking at each other also points out that at this moment, only the lonely scene of "mountain" and "me" is as important as the word "two", and the interdependence between mountains and people arises spontaneously. The word "only" in the conclusion is also tempered, which highlights the poet's love for Jingting Mountain. "It's enough to have a bosom friend in life", and the bird flying away is nothing to the poet. The artistic conception created by these two poems is still "quiet". On the surface, it is written that the poet looks at Jingting Mountain with deep affection. In fact, the more poets write about the "sentimentality" of mountains, the more they show people's "ruthlessness"; And his lonely and desolate situation is revealed in this quiet scene.
The moving images of "birds" and "lonely clouds" are opposite to the static images of "Jingting Mountain". There is only quantitative change in the dimensions of time and space, but qualitative change in the psychological dimension: literati with ideals and talents who are suppressed by politics are often particularly sensitive to "passing away" and "dissipation", with short personnel and eternal universe. The poet introduced the eternal mountain as his confidant, probably because he had no choice but to do it after Chang 'an was invisible. Even if Chang 'an attracts him, he doesn't know whether he will follow the "birds flying high".
In the poet's pen, Jingting Mountain has no beautiful mountains, no beautiful streams and no beautiful bridges. It is not that there is nothing to write about Jingting Mountain, because Jingting Mountain "faces Wanxi in the east and the city in the south, sailing in the vast market with picturesque scenery". From the perspective of poetry, it is impossible to know the position of the poet relative to the mountain, perhaps at the top of the mountain or in the open area, but these are not important. The purpose of writing this poem is not to praise the scenery, but to express feelings through the scenery and the quiet scenery here. The poet found solace in the anthropomorphic Jingting Mountain and seemed to feel less lonely. However, it is here that the poet's inner loneliness is more prominent. The deep loneliness in the world and the tragic atmosphere of the poet's life are full of the whole poem. The whole poem seems to be full of scenery, but it has no emotion. But because the scenery is composed of emotion, every sentence is emotion, just like Wang Fuzhi said, "There is a scene in love, and there is love in the scene."