Li Bai (Tang)
wisteria hangs clouds and flowers are suitable for spring.
the dense-leafed songbird keeps the beauty in the fragrance.
Note:
Wisteria, also known as "vines" and "cowvines", is a large deciduous vine in Leguminosae. With thick branches and luxuriant leaves, its climbing stem is like a dragon, which can stretch tens of feet high. It is one of the famous flowers with rattan as a shed.
hanging a cloud tree: hanging on a tree in the clouds, it is said that wisteria climbs high. Yunmu: a big tree towering into the sky.
appropriate: suitable.
Yangchun: warm spring. "Guan Zi Di Shu": "Yangchun farming is the only way to make it, so that people can build walls and tombs."
songbird: a bird that sings.
Translation:
Wisteria is hung around a big tree, and the vines are so beautiful in spring.
The birds are singing in the dense leaves, and the beauties miss its fragrance.
appreciation:
? "Wisteria hangs clouds and trees, and flowers and vines are suitable for spring." The word "hanging" in the first sentence vividly describes the characteristics of wisteria, highlighting the high climbing of wisteria, and "the incense burner in Rizhao produces purple smoke, and the waterfall hangs in front of Sichuan in the distance." The "hang" in "Hang" has the same effect. Here, the poet used imagination and exaggeration to decorate the tree with "clouds", saying that the tree is high, and the poet's vision at this time is far-sighted. The word "Yi" in the second sentence highlights the beauty of wisteria, and it is undoubtedly the most suitable for beautiful flowers to bloom in warm spring. At this time, the poet changed his vision from distant view to close view, and from wisteria wood to wisteria flower, just like painting, first sketching the branches roughly, and then tracing the vines carefully.
"The birds are singing in secret leaves, and the fragrance keeps the beauty." The word "hidden" highlights the dense leaves, vividly showing the birds flickering among the branches and leaves in front of readers. Here, the rhetorical device of inversion is used, which means that the song bird hides the dense leaves and puts "dense leaves" at the beginning of the sentence, which highlights the dense leaves of wisteria. The word "song" endows the poem with the beauty of sound, arouses the reader's hearing, and at the same time highlights the beauty of nature, and contrasts the quietness of the wisteria grove with the movement. On the one hand, the word "fragrant wind" vividly describes the intoxicating floral fragrance of wisteria, and at the same time describes the beauty of the flower from two aspects of smell and touch. "Beauty" and "fragrant wind" set off each other. The poet used anthropomorphic rhetoric, and the word "stay" appreciated the flower and the beauty each other, vividly depicting the beauty's intoxicated expression with the floral fragrance.
The whole poem is natural and simple, and the poet uses techniques such as line drawing, inversion, personification, exaggeration, imagination and antithesis, just like painting. First, the wisteria is outlined in a big way, then the flowers and vines are described in detail, and finally the love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland is poured into the specific image of beauty. Although it is just twenty crosses, it is full of color, fragrance and taste, which shows the poet's skill in refining words.
Reference website: Ancient Poetry Network
Reference book: The Complete Works of Li Taibai, Note to Wang Qi.