Don du fu
The city music under the overpass is soft and melodious, half of it goes with the river wind and the other half floats into the clouds.
This song should only exist in the sky. How many times can the world listen to it?
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The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is the work of Du Fu, a great poet in Tang Dynasty. It was written in the second year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty (76 1). There are four sentences in the whole poem. The first two sentences describe music with concrete images, which are real words; The last two sentences boasting about Yue Xian in the sky are daydreams. Because of reality and emptiness, the reality and reality are born together, and the beauty of music is praised to the extreme. This poem is dynamic and static, subtle and intriguing.
poetic sentiment
Beautiful and melodious music floats over Chengdu all day, gently rippling on the waves of Jinjiang and rising into the white clouds. Such wonderful music should only be enjoyed by immortals. How many times can an ordinary person listen to it in his life?
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This four-line poem is literally as clear as words, but there have been many objections to its theme. Some people think that it is just a hymn without any implication; Some people think that it is ostensibly praising music, but in fact it contains irony and exhortation.
Ironically, the author did not explicitly criticize Hua Qing, but adopted a clever pun. Literally, this is an excellent musical hymn. "Chengdu has more silk management days", which means Chengdu; Silk tubes refer to stringed and wind instruments; Succession, which originally meant that things were numerous and chaotic, was usually used to describe concrete things that could be seen and touched, but here it was used as a metaphor for abstract music that could not be seen and touched, which turned the invisible into visible from the synaesthesia of human hearing and vision, and accurately and vividly described the light, soft, mixed and harmonious musical effect of the stringed instrument. "Half into the river, half into the clouds" is also written like this: melodious music flies out from the banquet of Huaqing's family, rippling in the Jinjiang River with the wind, and Ran Ran floats to the blue sky and white clouds. These two poems make readers truly feel the beauty of music. The word "half" is ethereal and clever, which adds a lot of interest to the whole poem.
The music is so beautiful that the author can't help but sigh: "This song should only be available in the sky and can be heard several times on earth." Fairy music in the sky, of course, is rare in the world, and it is even more wonderful to smell it.
There are four sentences in the whole poem. The first two sentences describe music with concrete images, which are real words; The last two sentences boasting about Yue Xian in the sky are daydreams. Because of reality and emptiness, the reality and reality are born together, and the beauty of music is praised to the extreme.
However, this is only a literal meaning, and the implication is meaningful. This can be seen from the words "heaven" and "earth". "Tian" actually refers to the palace where the son of heaven lives; "People" means outside the palace. This is a common pun in feudal society. It is said that music belongs to the sky, and the word "should only be" has been added. Since it is "should only be in the sky", then "people" should certainly not be "hearing". Don't "smell" but "smell", not only "smell several times", but also "day after day", so the author's satire is both implicit and witty and accurate from this contradiction.
Zhang Tianjue, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once said on the irony of poetry: "Irony should not be in full bloom, and anger will show bones and muscles." ("Poet Jade Scrap" Volume 9 quotes) Du Fu's poem is soft with rigidity, soft with hidden needles, ironic, intended to be silent, and the advice is not harsh, just right.