The Original Text and Appreciation of Li Bai, a Moon Song in Emei Mountain

Li Bai

Emei Mountain is in the autumn of the first half of the month, and it falls into the Pingqiang River.

At night, Qingxi flows to the Three Gorges, but I miss you and I don't see Yuzhou.

This song is a work of chanting Emei Mountain and the Moon, which was written in the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725) when the poet went out to Shu. The poet who wrote the whole poem set out from Qingxi and saw it in the night under the Three Gorges in Yuzhou, expressing his deep affection for Emei Mountain, the moon and friends. The first two sentences, written from Emei Mountain, depict the quiet, beautiful and charming scenery of Emei Mountain on a moonlit night in autumn with beautiful brushstrokes. The mountains and the moon set each other off, clean and deep, reflected into the river, sparkling and shining. With the word "autumn", it not only points out that the season of traveling far away is in autumn, but also describes the beauty of moonlight; "Half-round" is reminiscent of the beautiful artistic conception of the castle peak spitting the moon; The linked predicate of "entering" and "flowing" shows the beauty of the Qingjiang River reflected by the moon and the feeling of sailing in the autumn night, so it is difficult to write so ethereal unless you visit it in person. Three or four sentences are written to express his attachment to Emei Mountain from a specific moonlit night. You can still see the moon shadow of Pingqiang River in Qingxi, but when you enter the Three Gorges, "there are mountains on both sides of the strait, and there is nothing missing. The rocks are stacked on top of each other, hiding the sky from the sun. Since midnight, there is no sunrise. " Not seeing Emei Mountain, naturally, adds to the feeling of missing, and it is with this feeling that the poet "misses you and doesn't see Yuzhou". Although the short quatrains are quite limited in expressing the changes in time and space, this 28-character quatrains go beyond time and space, transforming the names of Emei Mountain, Pingqiang River, Qingxi, Yuzhou and Three Gorges in turn, and developing a travel map of Shujiang River for readers. It's really free, and it's only seen in ten thousand quatrains of the Tang Dynasty. Because the author runs the symbolic artistic image of Emei Mountain and Moon through the whole poem, it becomes the catalyst of poetic sentiment and fills the gap caused by the long span of time and space. Therefore, the place names in the whole poem are * * * twelve characters, but they are not trivial and dull, and the language is shallow but still long, showing Li Bai's outstanding artistic achievements.

This is a wonderful land of Taibai. However, among the 28 characters, there are "Emei Mountain", "Pingqiang River", "Qingxi", "Three Gorges" and "Yuzhou", which make the later generations artificial, and there are countless traces. It is beneficial to see the beauty of this old furnace hammer. (Wang Shizhen's "Yiyuan Yan", Volume 4)

"Jun" refers to the moon. Between Qingxi and the Three Gorges, the sky is as narrow as a line, that is, half a round is no longer considerable. (Tang Ruxun's Interpretation of Tang Poetry)

"Jun" refers to the moon. In Emei, the moon was reflected into the river, and it was clear because of the moonlight, and it went to the Three Gorges, but suddenly the moon was gone, and the boat had gone straight down to Yuzhou. Poetry is pure from verve. (Huang Shucan's Annotations on Tang Poetry)

This month, I wrote about the precipitousness of the gorge in the middle of Shu. Under Mount Emei, you can still see half a moon shining into the river. Since Qingxi entered the Three Gorges, the higher the mountain, the narrower the river, the cliffs on both sides of the river, the sky in Wan Ren, the sky overlooking the blue sky, only a line, and this half-moon is not visible, so we can't help but think about it. The word "Jun" refers to the moon. (Li Wei's "A Brief Record of the Changes of Poetry")