Once the ocean is short of water,
Amber forever.
Looking back at the flowers lazily,
Half the sky is cultivated, half the sky is a gentleman.
After experiencing the magnificence of the sea, you will no longer be attracted by the water elsewhere. I am intoxicated in the Wushan Yunmeng, and the scenery elsewhere is not called sex. Although I often walk through the flowers, I have no intention of enjoying them, partly because I was a monk and partly because I only have you in my heart ... This further explanation is. Obsessed with the ocean you love and intoxicated with your dreams, I will no longer be interested in other women. No one can love you as much as you do. You are the best. No one can replace you after you leave. No matter how beautiful other women are, I am not in the mood to love, because there is only one you in my heart. ...
Yuan Zhen's wife's name is Wei, and her word is Hui Cong. Four years younger than Yuan Zhen, he married Yuan Zhen at the age of 20 and died at the age of 27. Yuan Zhen was probably the poet who wrote the most poems to his wife in ancient times, and his wife was involuntarily reflected in many of his poems. It is conceivable that Yuan Zhen spent the rest of his life thinking about his wife. I don't know how many poems Yuan Zhen wrote to commemorate his wife, but there are still more than 30 poems that can be seen now. In addition to this song, there are three mourning songs, eight mourning songs in the spring of six years, five mixed memories and so on, which can be said to be touching. From these poems, we can imagine that Wei Cong is a virtuous and beautiful woman, and we can also know that Yuan Zhen is an infatuated and grateful man.
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Yuan Zhen was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, with a large number of poems. He divided his poems into ten categories, such as ancient satirical poems, musical satirical poems, classical poems, new Yuefu poems, regular poems and colourful poems. This poem "Leaving Thinking" (one of the five) belongs to Yan Shi. The so-called "erotic poems" are poems describing the love between men and women. Of the author's ten poems, this one is better written. And this song "Congsi" is especially passionate, moving and has unique artistic characteristics. It is also a masterpiece among the classical poems describing the theme of love.
The most prominent feature of this poem is to express the hero's deep love for his lost sweetheart in a clever way. It uses water, clouds and flowers in succession, and it is written in a tortuous and euphemistic way, with far-reaching artistic conception and intriguing.
There are only four sentences in the whole poem, that is, three sentences are used figuratively. A sentence or two, from a surprise, is so figurative that it is almost impossible to understand the author's intention. In the past, it was difficult for seawater to touch water. From Mencius, it is hard to find water if you look at the sea, and Mencius' Dedicated Articles. On the surface, the poem says that if you have seen the vast sea, you can't see the stream. It compares the sea with rivers. The sea is vast and magnificent. This river is just a trickle, you can see through it by raising your eyes. The artistic conception is profound and meaningful. However, this is only superficial, and it also contains profound thoughts. The second sentence uses the allusion of "Wushan Yu Yun" in Song Yu's Gao Tang Mi. "Gao Xu" said: During the Warring States Period, the "former king" of King Xiang of Chu swam to the platform of Gaotang, "sleeping in the daytime, dreaming of a woman ... willing to recommend pillows, Wang Xing". This woman is the "daughter of Wushan". When she left the king of Chu, she said, "My concubine is in the sun of Wushan, but she is blocked by high hills. Dan is facing the clouds, it is raining at dusk, under the balcony. "When the king of Chu saw it, it was as he said, so he set up a temple name for her and wrote" Chaoyun ". Obviously, Song Yu's so-called "Cloud of Wushan Mountain"-"Chaoyun" is just the incarnation of a goddess. On the surface, Yuan Zhen's so-called "eternal amber" said: Except for the colorful clouds on Wushan Mountain, other clouds are not worth observing. In fact, he skillfully used the allusion of "Chaoyun" and compared it to a beloved woman, fully expressing his sincere feelings for that woman. The poet shows that no other woman, even a beautiful woman, can touch his heart and win his favor and admiration. Only that woman can make him fall in love. Write enthusiastically and implicitly.
The third sentence, "looking back at flowers lazily", is to compare flowers with people. In other words, even if I walked into the blooming flowers, I didn't pay attention to the past and didn't bother to look back. Why can't he bear to see the blooming flowers that meet his eyes? The fourth sentence "half-edge gentleman and half-edge gentleman" gives the answer. The implication is that he saw through the world and went to the monastery, which is one of the reasons. Secondly, because of the loss of her beloved, he never wants to see other "flowers" again. Looking at the whole poem, it is not difficult to see that the reason for "picking flowers and looking back" is still because of the loss of "Jun". The theory of "half-edge monasticism" is just a kind of speech that avoids the important and takes the light.
Ancient poetry critics once said that this poem is the author's mourning poem for Wei Cong, who once fell in love with him, or it is supposed to be a self-portrait of the poet "Yingying in the Boudoir" (Bian Yuan Zhen Chronicle). These statements lack historical data.
In this poem, the author uses various metaphors to express his deep affection for the female companion who once fell in love. The first three sentences are closely related to the theme, step by step, and the last sentence reveals the theme with the finishing touch. This writing is focused, clear and visible, and there is little emotional beating. Unlike some works in classical poetry, the emotion beats too much, like a montage of movies, which is almost invisible. For example. Xin Qiji's "Nian Nujiao" (Tang Ye Hua Luo) describes the complex feelings of nostalgia and yearning for the singer, and the emotional jump is particularly great. It suddenly wrote the "light farewell" of the past; Suddenly wrote today's "revisiting the old place", and the building was empty. Things are different, and suddenly he wrote a fantasy of the Ming Dynasty, "Respect only when you see it again, but it is difficult to fold flowers in the mirror." Among them, many connections are omitted, which makes people look forward to it. Of course, this does not mean that the size of emotional jump can be used as a standard to evaluate the quality of a work. Xin Qiji is also a well-known masterpiece with high aesthetic value.
In the classical poems describing love, there are many excellent works, which have always been loved by people and aroused people's * * *. For example, Wang Wei's "Acacia" poem: "When those red berries come in spring, they will appear on the branches of your southern country, and I advise you to collect more as a symbol of our love." It uses bright red beans to symbolize beautiful and faithful love. Li Shangyin's poem "Spring silkworms will weave until they die, and tears will be exhausted every night" ("Untitled") expresses his heartfelt feelings for love with a persistent spirit, which will never change. The phrase "the sea is difficult for water, but amber lasts forever" is different from Wang and Li's love poems. This is a vivid metaphor of absolute affirmation and negation. To express sincere and single-minded love. It is precisely because it is different that it can arouse the strong sense of * * * of those who have lost their loved ones for various reasons. Someone wrote these two poems in literary works. Some people write letters to express their infatuation with each other. This fully shows that Yuan Zhen's poems have great influence and artistic appeal.
The exact writing date of this poem is unknown. It may be a self-portrait of the author's own life. It is said that the author's first love was "Cui Yingying", and later she had a new love. Therefore, some people think that Yuan Zhen is frivolous in his love life, thus denying the due value of this poem "Self-Thinking". I think that when we comment on the value of classical literature today, we can't judge the author's literary works by his private life. Literary works often break through the ideological limitations of the author and produce great works.
Social influence. When we evaluate Yuan Zhen's poems, we should also focus on its positive social effects and fully affirm its artistic value. It is better to belittle the objective aesthetic significance than to contact the author's private life.