Mountain Rain
Song Dynasty: Weng Juan
It was white all night, without clouds or thunder.
Pingming suddenly saw a stream running and knew that it was raining from another mountain.
Second, the creative background
In the eighteenth year of Yuan Shundi's rule, hutcheson and his disciples fled to Korea to escape the war. The poet expressed his inner sadness and anxiety about the current situation through his poems.
Thirdly, the translation of poetry.
All night, the forest was covered with the brilliance of the stars and the moon; There is not a cloud in the sky, and there is no thunder. Going out at dawn, I suddenly saw the stream rushing; So, in fact, I know that there was a rainstorm in other mountains, and the water was transferred to this place.
Extended data:
Shan Yu is a seven-character quatrain written by Weng Juan, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. The first two sentences of the poem describe the scene before the rain, and the last two sentences describe the scene after the rain. The poem has a peculiar conception and a strong interest in life, which embodies the poetic characteristics of "Yongjia Four Spirits".
The title of this poem is Shan Yu, and it doesn't begin with rain. On the other hand, it evaded the topic and tried to write about sunny weather. The poem says that the moon shines in the forest and the stars twinkle in the sky all night. The poem is full of sunshine, and the word "overnight" is used to emphasize that the whole night is like this, but there are not enough poets. Furthermore, there are not only stars and the moon, but also no clouds and thunder.
The second sentence and the first sentence are complementary, written from the visual and auditory aspects respectively, which makes Yixian very dead and can't be changed. Three or four sentences suddenly changed, saying that it was dawn. I saw the rushing water in the stream and knew that there had been a heavy rain outside the mountain. These two sentences are also written in a positive way, which forms a pair of contradictions with the previous two sentences, and unexpectedly expresses the poet's surprise.
It is strange that the poem about rain has not passed through the front and there is not a word about rain; The first two sentences don't write rain, but write sunny, which is even more strange. The beauty of the poem is that it describes not only the ordinary rain, but also the rain in the mountains, which makes people feel strange. If it is on the flat ground, the poet will see dark clouds and lightning in the distance at night; Because it is in the mountains, you can only see the sky overhead, but you can't see the mountains outside, so the poem can be written clearly, and you can make a fuss about the stream the next morning, and unify the extremely contradictory two groups of scenes in a small poem. Yongjia Siling's poems are unique in this unexpected artistic conception, and at the same time, they are full of strong interest in life in the scenery.
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