Said by: Li Bai, a great poet in Tang Dynasty.
original text
Shang Liyong
Li Bai? Tang dynasty
Dapeng rises with the wind one day and soars into Wan Li.
If the wind weakens, it can still lift away the turbulent current.
When the world saw my unchanging tone, it sneered at all my big words.
Fu Xuan can still fear the afterlife, but her husband can't be young.
Translation:
One day, Dapeng will fly with the wind, and with the wind, it will go straight to the outside world.
Even if the wind stops, its power seems to be able to draw the sea away.
When the world saw that I was good at making strange remarks, they all laughed at my rhetoric.
Confucius also said that the afterlife is awesome, and a gentleman cannot despise young people!
Precautions:
Top: present. Li Yong (yūng)(678—747): Zi Taihe, born in Jiangdu, Guangling (now Jiangdu County, Jiangsu Province), was a calligrapher and writer in the Tang Dynasty.
Shaking: a whirlwind from bottom to top.
False order: if, even if.
Incite.
Cangyan: The sea. H: often. Different tones: words and deeds are not common.
Y: Me. Talk big: talk big.
Fu Xuan: Confucius. In the 11th year of Zhenguan reign of Emperor Taizong (637), he was named Fu Xuan. See Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Rites and Music. Fu Xuan written by Song Ben was written as Gong Xuan.
Husband: The general name of ancient men, referring to Li Yong.
Appreciate:
Dapeng is an image that Li Bai often uses to describe himself in his poems and Fu. It is not only a symbol of freedom, but also a symbol of shocking ideals and interests. In the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725), Li Bai, a young boy, wandered out of Sichuan and met Sima Cheng, a famous Taoist in Jiangling. Sima said that Li Bai "has a kind of spirit, which is comparable to that of a wanderer in the octupole", and Li Bai immediately wrote "Dapeng Bird Fu" (later changed to "Dapeng Fu"), comparing himself to the Dapeng bird in Zhuangzi's "Happy Wandering". There is also a sentence in Li Bai's poem Duiluge: "Great Peng Fei wants to shake the eight generations, but strong days will destroy it. I am excited by the lingering wind, swimming in hibiscus and hanging stones. Later generations spread this, who will cry when Zhong Ni dies? " According to Tang Lihua's Preface to the Epitaph of Academician Li Jun, Li Bai "died of a swan song". Later generations think that it may be a mistake in writing "road" or "end" in "Near the Luge Pavilion". It can be seen that Li Bai cited Dapeng as a metaphor all his life. According to the tone of this poem, it is straightforward and not modest, so some predecessors suspected that it was not the author of Li Bai, and some thought it was to argue for Li Bai's works. The interpretation of this poem was edited by Zhan E, the complete works of Li Bai.
The opening of the whole poem is passionate and high-profile, and the first four sentences are compared with "Dapeng". The image of Dapeng often appears in Li Bai's works. Dapeng is a divine bird in Zhuangzi Xiaoyao. It is said that this divine bird is "I don't know its thousands of miles", "If its wings hang clouds in the sky", its wings shoot water for three thousand miles and soar to nine Wan Li. Dapeng is a symbol of freedom in Zhuangzi's philosophy system, and Li Bai was deeply influenced by it. Therefore, Li Bai's works will always have the most romantic fantasy, always full of contempt for the powerful and the pursuit of freedom.
"Dapeng day with the wind, soaring nine Wan Li. If the wind stops, it can still lift away the raging water. " Li Bai compared himself with Dapeng, described the majestic scene of the legendary Dapeng bird when it took off and fell, and even showed the poet Li Bai's ambition to rise to the sky at this time. Li Bai wrote in the third and fourth sentences of his poem: "If the wind stops, it can still stir the turbulent water." Even if the wind stops and Dapeng falls, it will stir up waves in the rivers and lakes. If Li Bai compares himself to Dapeng, then Li Yong is naturally a strong wind that Dapeng borrows from. Li Bai made it clear here that even without Li Yong's help in the future, he can have extraordinary influence in politics. This extraordinary courage can only be summed up in one word "crazy".
Creative background:
This poem is the work of Li Bai in his youth, and the specific creation time is unknown. Li Yong was the secretariat of Yuzhou (present-day Chongqing) from the 7th year of Kaiyuan (AD 7 19) to the 9th year (AD 72 1 year). When Li Bai visited Chongqing, he paid an audience with Li Yong. Li Yong was unhappy because of his informality and high opinion in his speech. When Li Bai left, he wrote this poem "Li Shangyong" in a rather impolite manner as a reward.
Author:
Li Bai (70 1-762), a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty, was called "Poet Fairy" by later generations and "Du Li" with Du Fu. In order to distinguish himself from two other poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Du Li", Du Fu and Li Bai were also called together.