From Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon?" , the original text is:
When is the spring flower and autumn moon? How much do you know about the past? The small building was easterly again last night, and the old country was unbearable to look back on the moon!
Carved fences and jade bricks should still exist, but Zhu Yan changed them. How much sadness can you have? Like a river flowing eastward.
Translation:
When will this year end? How much do you know about the past? Last night, the spring breeze blew from the small building. How can I bear the pain of missing my hometown in this bright night?
Carefully carved railings and jade steps should still be there, but the people I miss are aging. Ask me how much sadness I have in my heart, just like this endless spring water rolling east.
Extended data
Creative background:
Before Li Yu's poisoning, this word was written in 978, the third year of Taizong's Taiping and Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, Li Yu had been in the Song Dynasty for nearly three years.
Theme appreciation:
This is a sad song of life. By comparing the sharp contradiction between the eternity of nature and the impermanence of life, the author expresses the sorrow of life failure after the national subjugation.
The word Li Yu has caused widespread popularity to a great extent because of the infectious and symbolic metaphor used in the conclusion sentence, which makes the melancholy vivid and abstract: the author has not written clearly the true connotation of his melancholy: he misses the happy life in the past, but only shows its external form: "It is like a river flowing eastward.
In this way, people can easily get some kind of spiritual resonance from it and use it to express their similar feelings. Because although people's worries have different connotations, they can all have the external form of "just like a river flowing eastward". Because the image is often greater than the thought, the word Li has a * * * sound in a wide range and has been passed down through the ages.
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