Source of works
Difficult to Go to Heaven is three seven-character ancient poems by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. Selected from Li Bai's Annotations and Yuefu Zaqu. These three poems are closely related and inseparable.
The whole poem expresses Li Bai's uncontrollable anger after encountering difficulties and obstacles on the political road. However, Li Bai did not give up his lofty political ideal because of this, and still looked forward to one day being able to display his ambition, showing his optimism and heroism for the future life and full of positive romantic sentiment.
original work
The cost of pure wine is a gold cup, 10 thousand copper coins and a hip flask, and I am ashamed of 10 thousand yuan.
I threw the food bar and cup aside. I couldn't eat or drink. I pulled out my dagger. I peeped in four directions in vain.
I want to cross the Yellow River, but ice will block the ferry and Taihang Mountain will be covered with snow.
I will sit on a fishing rod and lean lazily by the stream, but I suddenly dream of sailing a boat towards the sun.
It's hard to go, it's hard to go! Don't go astray! Where to go today.
One day, I will ride the wind and waves, raise the Yun Fan and cross the sea.
Translation of works
The golden cup is filled with famous wine, each barrel 1000 yuan; The exquisite dishes in the jade plate are worth 10 thousand yuan.
I feel depressed in my chest. You can't eat without drinking. Draw your sword and look around, my heart is really at a loss.
Want to cross the Yellow River, ice and snow blocked the river; To climb Taihang Mountain, the mountains have already been closed by the heavy snow.
Like Lushang Yuxi, waiting for a comeback; Like Yi Yin's dream, he sailed through Japan.
How difficult it is to travel in the world, how difficult it is; With so many roads in front of me, should I go from north to south?
I believe that one day, I can ride the wind and waves; Hang Yun Fan high and move forward in the sea.
Annotation of works
(1) Difficult to go: selected from Li Baiji's annotation, Yuefu Zaqu title, describing the hardships of the world and the sadness of parting.
(2) Jinzun (zūn): ancient wine containers decorated with gold. Sake: pure wine. A bucket 1000 yuan: the value of a bucket 1000 yuan (that is, 10,000 yuan) describes the high price of wine. Pan Yu: Exquisite tableware. Shame: a precious dish. Shame: the same as "smell", food. Straight: Pass "value", value.
(3) throwing chopsticks: throwing chopsticks. Zhu (zhü): chopsticks. Cann't eat: I can't swallow. At a loss: at a loss.
(4) Taihang Mountain: Taihang Mountain is at the junction of Shanxi, Henan and Hebei provinces.
(5) Sitting on a fishing rod, lazing by the stream, suddenly dreaming of a flat boat and sailing towards the sun: these two sentences are metaphors: Lu Shang was fishing on the Panxi River in Weishui, and he met a businessman who helped Zhou destroy; Yi Yin once dreamed that he passed by the sun and the moon by boat, and was later hired by Shang Tang to help businessmen out in the summer. Both Lu Shang and Yi Yin helped the emperor to establish immortal achievements, which showed that the poet still had expectations for politics. Bibi: One is "sitting". Suddenly reply: suddenly again.
(6) Duoqi Road, it's safe today: where are you now with so many forks? Divergence: A "divergence", a fork in the road. Ann: Where is it?
(7) Breaking the waves: metaphorically realizing political ideals. According to the Zong Yi Biography of the Song Dynasty, when Zong Yi was a teenager, his uncle Zong Bing asked him what his ambition was, and he said, "I am willing to ride the wind and break the waves." Yes: When? Yun Fan: Raise the sail. The ship sails in the sea, because the water is connected with the sky, and the sails seem to haunt the clouds. Ji: Through it.
Creation background
In 742 AD (the first year of Tianbao), Li Bai was called to Beijing as an academician. Li Bai is an active member of the WTO. He is ambitious and wants to do great things like Guan Zhong, Sean and Zhuge Liang. However, after entering Beijing, it was not reused by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, but was vilified and excluded by powerful ministers. Two years later, he was "repaid" and expelled from Chang' an in disguise. Poems in Tang and Song Dynasties believe that Difficult to Go was written when he left Chang 'an in 744 AD (Tianbao three years). Zhan Ai's poems and poems are year numbers, and Pei Fei's poems and poems are examples of Taibai Yuefu. Yu Xianhao's "Selected Works of Li Bai" thought that "you don't have to take the test for years".
works appreciation
The first four sentences of this poem are about friends who, out of deep friendship for Li Bai and regret that such a genius was abandoned, spared no expense in hosting a farewell banquet. Li Bai, who is naive in drinking, will certainly "drink 300 cups at a time" because of this fine wine, delicious food and the hospitality of his friends. However, this time he picked up the cup and pushed it away. Pick up chopsticks, but put them down. He left his seat, drew his sword, looked around and lost his mind. The four continuous movements of stopping, throwing, pulling and caring vividly show the inner depression and emotional agitation.
Then the two sentences are followed by "hollow" and "difficult to walk" is written in front. The poet used "ice blocking the river" and "snow covering the mountain" to symbolize the difficulties and obstacles on the road of life, which has a comparative meaning. A man with great political ambitions was called to Beijing and was lucky enough to get close to the emperor, but the emperor could not appoint him. He was expelled from Chang 'an in disguised form by the "reward for returning to the mountain". Isn't this just like the Yellow River encountering ice and Taihang Mountain encountering snow? However, Li Bai is not that kind of cowardly character. From the beginning of "drawing a sword and looking in all directions", it shows that he is not willing to be depressed and will continue to pursue it. "I will sit on a fishing rod and lazily lean against the stream, but I suddenly dream of driving a boat and sailing towards the sun." In a daze, the poet suddenly thought of two figures who did not go well politically at first, but made great achievements in the end: one was Lu Shang, who was fishing in Panxi at the age of 80 and met King Wen; One is Yi Yin. Before he was hired by Tang, he dreamed that he was sailing around the sun and the moon. Thinking about the experiences of these two historical figures increased the poet's confidence.
"It's hard to walk, it's hard to walk, a lot of roads, is it safe now?" The meeting between Jiang Shang and Yi Yin certainly increased his confidence in the future, but when his thoughts returned to the present reality, he once again felt that the road of life was difficult. Looking forward to the future from the banquet, I only feel that the road ahead is rugged and there are many mistakes. Where is the road? This is another feeling in sharp and complicated contradictions. But Li Bai, who is stubborn and confident, never wants to show his discouragement at the farewell party. His strong demand for active use of the world finally freed him from the pain of wandering again, and sang a strong voice full of confidence and prospects: "One day, I will ride the wind and waves, go straight to Yun Fan and cross the deep sea!" He believes that although there are many obstacles ahead, one day, as Zong Yi said in Liu Song, he will ride the wind and waves, hang up the Yun Fan, cross the sea and reach the ideal shore.
This 14-sentence poem with 82 words can only be regarded as a short poem among the seven-character poems, but it has a long momentum pattern. One of the important reasons is that it reveals the ups and downs and complex changes of the poet's feelings in a hundred steps. At the beginning of the poem, "Jin Zun Qing Jiu" and "Pan Yu Zhen Shame" make people feel as if it were a happy banquet, but the following two details, "Quit drinking and throwing chopsticks" and "Draw your sword and look around", show a strong impact of emotional waves. In the middle four sentences, I just sighed "the ice jam in Sichuan" and "the snow all over the mountains", and suddenly it took a thousand years, as if I saw Lu Shang and Yi Yin suddenly being reused by the monarch from their humble positions. The poet's psychological disappointment alternates rapidly with hope, depression and pursuit. "It's hard to walk, it's hard to walk, a lot of roads, is it safe now?" The four sentences with short rhythm and strong jumping are completely inner monologues in an anxious state, forcing Xiao to convey the complex psychology of wandering back and forth and continuing to explore and pursue without evidence. At the end of the sentence, after several twists and turns, the realm was suddenly enlightened, and I sang a high-pitched and optimistic tone, believing that my ideals and ambitions would be realized one day. Through such ups and downs of feelings, it not only fully shows the suppression of the poet's grand ideals and ambitions by the dark and dirty political reality, but also reflects the poet's strong inner repression, anger and the injustice caused by it, and at the same time highlights the poet's stubbornness, self-confidence and persistent pursuit of ideals, showing the poet's powerful spiritual strength in trying to get rid of repression.
"it is hard to go" is an ancient topic in Yuefu, and it often laments the hardship, poverty and loneliness of the world. Li Bai's group poem Difficult to Walk mainly expresses his feelings about the lack of talents. Here is the first poem. There is no lack of heroism in grief and indignation, but there is still hope in setbacks.
This poem is influenced by accuracy-it is difficult to go in theme and expression, but shine on you is better than Blue. Their poems all reflect the suppression of talents by feudal rulers to a certain extent, but due to the reasons of the times and the poet's spiritual temperament, Li's poems are more profound and intense, and at the same time, they also show positive pursuit, optimistic self-confidence and tenacious adherence to ideals. Therefore, compared with Bao Zheng, Shi Li's ideological realm is higher. This poem is mostly about human suffering and expresses the sadness of parting.
Brief introduction of the author
Li Bai (70 1 ~ 762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He claimed that his ancestral home was Ji Cheng in Longxi (now southwest of Jingning, Gansu), and his ancestral home was Suiyeju in the Western Regions at the end of Sui Dynasty (it was the capital of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, near tokmak in northern Kyrgyzstan). When I was young, I moved to Qinglian Township, Changlong, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan) with my father. Teenagers show their talents, write poems, read widely and are good at chivalry. From the age of 25, I have been wandering for a long time and experienced a lot of social life. In 742 AD (the first year of Tianbao), he was called to visit the Hanlin in Chang 'an. The style of the article was famous for a while, which was appreciated by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, but it was not taken seriously politically and was destroyed by powerful people. Only one year later, he left Chang 'an. In 744 AD (Tianbao three years), he made friends with Du Fu in Luoyang. After the An Shi Rebellion broke out, he joined the Wang Yong shogunate Lilin in 756 AD, hoping to quell the rebellion. Due to the failure of Wang Yong Zheng Duo, Yelang was exiled (now Guizhou), but he was pardoned and returned to the East on his way. In his later years, he drifted to the southeast and died in Dangtu (now Anhui). His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is bold and unconstrained, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally and the melody is harmonious and changeable. He is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature, myths and legends, which constitutes his unique magnificent and gorgeous colors. Li Bai is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan, and reached the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.