Tang Dynasty: Zhang Ji
Seeing the autumn wind in Luoyang City, I want a writer to write a book.
I can't talk about the fear in a hurry, and pedestrians are coming and opening.
Translation and Notes
Translation
There is an autumn wind blowing in Luoyang, and my thoughts are surging, so I want to write a letter from home to greet peace.
I'm worried about what I haven't written in time, so I open the envelope again before the messenger is about to leave.
note
home: a "return".
meaning is heavy: it describes a myriad of thoughts.
fear again: I'm afraid.
pedestrian: refers to the messenger.
imminent: we will start.
Kaifeng: Open the sealed letters.
Appreciation
This is a homesick poem. Express the depth of homesickness by describing the feelings before and after writing a letter. The first sentence explains the reason for the "writer's book" ("see the autumn wind"), and the following three sentences describe the psychological activities before and after writing. Before writing a book, it is "full of meaning", and after writing a book, it is "endless fear". The detail of "opening the envelope" vividly shows the mentality of "endless fear of repetition", which blends meaning with form. What is written is what everyone thinks is common, but not everyone can tell it. As a guest in another country, I miss my hometown when I see the autumn wind, and I ask someone to send me a message. Afraid of missing something when he left, he quickly opened it and looked at it several times. Things are flat, and once you enter poetry, especially once a master like Zhang Ji enters poetry, it will become a wonderful place. This is not common in poetry. Of course, there are many excellent works with letters from home as the theme in Tang poetry. Like Cen Can's "on meeting a messenger to the capital": "Meet immediately without pen and paper, and report peace by your message." The writer Jun Ma, despite my hectic schedule, is an emissary of Lu Yu, and sends a message to comfort his family. Du Fu's Spring Hope: "after the war-fires of three months, one message from home is worth a ton of gold." The writer is trapped in Chang 'an under the occupation of An Lushan, and I wonder if his family in the war is Anji, and I am eager to come to the book to comfort me. They all expressed their homesickness with unique skills. What makes this poem unique is that it is deep in shallowness and twists and turns in gentleness. At first glance, it is a few words, but it is full of meaning.
Wang Anshi's poem titled Zhang Siye says: "It seems to be the most extraordinary, but it is easy but hard to achieve." It can quite tell the artistic style and the bitterness of this poem. Poetry rises with autumn wind, which is a common technique since the Book of Songs. With the autumn wind, the geese fly in the north and fly in the south, and they travel in other places, which is easy to touch and think about. For example, Liu Yuxi's Autumn Wind once said: "Where the autumn wind comes, the rustling sends the geese. When you come to the court tree, the lone guest hears it first. " Let's look at the poet's history again. It turns out that he was originally from Wuzhong (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), which reminds people of the story of Hans Zhang, a Jin native. According to the Biography of Hans Zhang in the Book of Jin, "Seeing the autumn wind, I miss Wuzhong's leeks, soups and bass, and say,' Life is too expensive to be ambitious, so how can I be detained for thousands of miles to be famous!'" Then I drove home. "Zhang Ji and Hans Zhang generation Tongli, and all official travel to the north. Hans Zhang predicted that Sima Tong, the king of Qi, was about to make an insurrection, so he decided to retire. Zhang Ji may not have any political reasons, but he was very similar in thinking about his hometown when he saw the autumn wind. Although he can't "drive home" immediately like Hans Zhang, he pours his homesickness on the paper. This creative impulse of feeling things and feelings, although using the traditional method of "rising", contains such rich connotations, which cannot but be a feature of this poem.
"Desire for a writer is full of meaning", in which the word "desire" is closely related to "seeing the autumn wind". It turns out that the poet's mood is calm, like a clear water. The autumn wind blows his emotional ripples. The writing is smooth and fluent, but at the end of the sentence, the word "meaning is heavy" suddenly comes back, just like calligraphy. Therefore, the poet's feelings here did not flow downstream, but went deeper. This technique, seemingly ordinary, is extremely high. We play poetry carefully: the poet is homesick for seeing the autumn wind, so he wants to write a book, but there are thousands of words and I don't know where to start. "meaning is heavy", but with virtual reality. Liu Yuxi's "Song of the Knife Ring" says: "Look at each other now, and the pulse is full of center of gravity." "ten thousand centers of gravity" and "ten thousand meanings" are all extremely complicated thoughts and feelings. Every reader with life experience can understand how much intention there is. How to write this book because it is "full of meaning" Did you write it? The author doesn't make it clear for the reader to imagine, which is called endless implication and thought-provoking.
Although "meaning is so heavy" that I can't write, I still wrote my letter from home in terms of meaning. The problem is that I hurried to write, but my meaning is still unfinished. The word "hurry" is vivid and picturesque, which not only describes one's own side, but also reflects the sender's side. From the following, it can be seen that the messenger met him immediately during his trip: he might be about to get on the horse and board the ship. Even if he was not as urgent as Cen's participation in Beijing to make "meeting immediately", he was still in a hurry and could not stop for a long time. As the messenger is in such a hurry, the writer has to hurry to write. As a result of writing in a hurry, it is difficult to express Wan Zhong's mind clearly at once. In this logical description, the poet's eagerness and haste are vivid as at present. The word "inexhaustible" also closely echoes the above-mentioned "meaning is heavy", because "meaning is heavy", it is "inexhaustible" And "meaning is heavy" is also related to homesickness caused by "seeing the autumn wind" Huang Shucan's Annotations on Tang Poetry said: "The meaning of the first sentence has been generally seen, and there are endless words in the official letters. "pedestrians are coming and Kaifeng is opened", which is even more wonderful. Try to think about how to pick up the second half of this song, and you will know that the first sentence is difficult to write. " Explain that the beginning of the second half of the poem is closely linked with the beginning of the whole poem. The conclusion of the sentence is even more ingenious, and it can be called a warning strategy. Nearby Yu Biyun commented: "I have written a book, but I can't talk about it for a long time. I am about to open it, and I am very homesick." He added: "This kind of poetry is all about sex." The so-called "ultimate language" means writing the most sincere feelings of human beings, and reaching the extreme. Structurally, the last sentence says "I can't talk about it in a hurry" and the next sentence says "I'm about to open it", which makes the atmosphere of "hurry" full.