Mount Emei Yuege
Author:
Lipper
Genre: Seven-character quatrains
Measure:
Original text:
In the autumn of the first half of Mount Emei, the Pingqiang River reflected.
In the evening, Qingxi went to the Three Gorges, but the four gentlemen did not see Yuzhou.
Translation:
On a crisp autumn night with bright moonlight, the poet went down the river from Qingxi Post in a boat. The moon reflected on the river, like a good friend, accompanied the poet. But on the way from Qingxi to Yuzhou, the moon is always blocked by mountains on both sides, which makes the poet miss him very much.
Precautions:
① Emei Mountain: located in the southwest of Emei County, Sichuan Province.
② Pingqiang (qiāng): River name, today Qingyijiang, in Emei, Shandong.
Three rounds: here we go. Qingxi: Qingxi Post Station, near Emei Mountain in Ji 'an, Sichuan. Three Gorges: refers to Qutang Gorge, Wuxia Gorge and Xiling Gorge of the Yangtze River, at the junction of Sichuan and Hubei provinces. One refers to the Three Gorges in Li Tou, Beibei in Leshan, Sichuan is peaceful, and Qingxi is in the upper reaches of Li Tou Gorge.
④ Jun: It refers to Mount Emei. One refers to the author's friend. Down the river. Yuzhou: Chongqing area today.
Writing background:
This poem was written by young Li Baichu when he left Sichuan.
About the author:
Li Bai (70 1-762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. Born in Ji Cheng, a native of Longxi (now Qin Andong, Gansu), he was born in Broken Leaf City (at that time, it belonged to Duhufu, Anxi, now the Chu River basin south of Balkhash Lake), and then moved to Jiangyou, Sichuan. When Tianbao first entered Chang 'an, He Zhangzhi met him and called him a fallen fairy. He was recommended to Tang Xuanzong to write to Hanlin. After wandering the Jianghu, Wang Yong hired Li Lin as his assistant. He rose up and was defeated, and sat in Yelang (now Guizhou Province) in exile for nothing. He was pardoned on the way. When he arrived in Dangtu, he lived in Lee, and only a few people died. He is a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, including Li Taibai. Li Bai's lyrics are legendary in the Song Dynasty (such as Shan Ye in Xiangtan written by Wen Ying). Judging from Cui's Jiao Fangji and the Dunhuang suicide note circulated today, there is a tune between Tang Kaiyuan. However, it is difficult to determine whether this chapter is too white. Today, there are still records of a Bodhisattva and a Qin Yi.
Appreciate:
This poem was written by young Li Baichu when he was far away from Sichuan, with clear artistic conception, simple language and smooth rhyme.
The poem begins with "Emei Mountain Moon", pointing out that the season of traveling far away is in autumn. The word "autumn" is upside down at the end of the sentence because of its rhyme. Autumn is crisp and the moonlight is bright ("autumn moon is bright"). The word "autumn" also describes the beauty of moonlight, which is natural and wonderful. The moon is only "half a circle", which reminds people of the beautiful artistic conception of the castle peak spitting the moon. There is Pingqiang River in the northeast of Emei Mountain, now Qingyi River, which originates from Lushan County, Sichuan Province, flows to Leshan County and joins Minjiang River. The second sentence "shadow" refers to the shadow of the moon, and the verbs "enter" and "flow" form a linked predicate, indicating that the shadow of the moon is reflected into the river and goes with it. Life experience tells us that no matter how the river flows, the moon shadow in the water is fixed. "When the moon is gone, I will go." Only when the viewer goes down the river will he see the wonderful scenery of "shadow into the river" Therefore, this sentence not only describes the beautiful scenery of Qingjiang River reflected by the moon, but also describes the darkness of sailing in autumn night. Artistic conception can be described as ethereal and wonderful.
There is someone in the second sentence, and the person in the third sentence has appeared: he is leaving Qingxi Station overnight, entering the Minjiang River and heading for the Three Gorges. Young people who "go to the countryside with swords and shadows and leave their loved ones to travel far away" will be reluctant to leave their hometown. Seeing the moon on the river is like seeing an old friend. However, the bright moon is not an old friend after all. I can only "look up at the bright moon and send my feelings for thousands of miles." The last sentence, "I miss you, but I can't see Yuzhou", can be described as infinite separation.
Emei Mountain-Pingqiang River-Qingxi-Yuzhou-Three Gorges, the picturesque landscape gradually unfolds a picture of the Shu River for readers. Apart from the "Emei Mountain Moon", there is almost no more specific description of the scenery in the poem; Except for the word "four kings", there is no lyric. However, the artistic image of "Emei Mountain Moon" runs through the whole poetic realm and becomes a catalyst for poetic sentiment. It has rich implications: the mountains and the moon accompany Wan Li, which can be seen every night, making the feeling of "missing you" deeper and deeper. The bright moon is approachable and unattainable, which is a symbol of missing friends. Where there is a bright moon singing, where there is a feeling of missing friends in the river, which is intoxicating.
Originally, the expression of time and space changes in short quatrains is quite limited, so the general writing method is not to transcend time and space at the same time. The time and space span expressed in this poem is really free. There are five place names in twenty-eight words, and the word * * * is twelve, which is unique among the ten thousand quatrains in the Tang Dynasty. It means "four words in the place name are five, and the ancient and modern eyes are the last words, and they never tire of repeating them" (in Wang Linzhou's language). The reason is that the poet's experience of swimming in the river and his yearning for his friends are permeated in the poetic realm, and the symbolic artistic images of mountains and moons are everywhere, unifying a vast space and a long time. Secondly, the treatment of place names is also full of changes. "Emei Mountain Moon" and "Pingqiang River" are attached to the scenery by place names and are useless; "Faqingxi", "Xiangsanxia" and "Xiayuzhou" are all practical, but their positions in the sentence are also different. I can't feel the trace when I read it. It's wonderful in chemical engineering.