Appreciation of English Translation of China's Ancient Poems Linjianggao
Linjiang fairy returns to Lingao at night.
Song: Su Shi
Drink Dongpo at night to sober up and then get drunk.
It's like midnight.
The child is short of breath.
You shouldn't even knock,
Leaning against a stick, listening to the sound of the river.
I hate this body for a long time,
When do you forget the camp?
The night was calm and the lines were flat.
The boat left,
Jianghai spent the rest of his life.
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The banquet in the middle of the night was drunk in Dongpo's apartment, and it seemed to be midnight when I came back. By this time, the boy servant at home had fallen asleep and snored like thunder. Gently knocked on the door, no response, so we have to lean on the stick and listen to the roar of the river running alone.
I often resent that this body doesn't belong to me. When can I forget the fame and fortune? Taking advantage of the dead of night and calm, I took a boat and disappeared, traveling all over the rivers and lakes for the rest of my life.
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On the grounds of being drunk at night, this word is an impromptu expression, which shows the author's broad-minded and sad mood during his exile in Huangzhou.
The first movie is about Dongpo getting drunk and returning to Lingao. The first two periods stipulated the place where the poet drank at night and the degree of drunkenness. Drunk, awake and drunk, so it is drunk. The word "as if" describes the poet's drunken state, which is really vivid. The phrase "family boy" is an event of stopping and knocking on the door of an apartment. Although the poet knocked on the door again and again, the child slept for a long time without waiting for his master to come back at night, snoring like thunder, completely unaware of the knock on the door. Therefore, the poet simply stopped knocking. When all was quiet at night, he turned to the river with a stick and listened carefully to the sound of the waves. Su Shi has always believed that "a master should not be careless, but can only ride the wind and waves" (Part II of Three Invitations to Cai Zhunlang to Visit the West Lake). Since there is no "hug" (knocking at the door), it should be changed to "break" (listening to the sound of the river with a stick). This life detail is another embodiment of the poet's unique personality and broad-minded attitude towards life.
The next film is the poet's philosophical thinking when he leans against a stick and listens to the sound of the river. The phrase "long hate" means "you are not what you are, but when can I get rid of the shackles of foreign things? The sentence" Midnight ",which is willful and full of scenery and feelings, is not only about writing the calm river in the middle of the night, but also symbolizes the poet's quiet and detached state of mind at the moment, which leads to the last two sentences of longing and reverie." Boat ",facing the calm river, the writer fantasizes that he can drive a boat like Fan Li, stay away from the noise of the world and spend the rest of his life in the depths of rivers and lakes." This is what Confucius said, "Tao can't be done, but you can float on the sea with a fork" (The Analects of Confucius Gongye Chang), which reflects the author's desire for spiritual freedom and soul liberation at that time.
The whole poem is characterized by the combination of narration, discussion, scenery description and lyricism, and the language is free, concise and vivid, which shows the poet's unique language style. Emotionally, elegance, broadmindedness and sadness interweave, which well shows the poet's complex mood during his exile in Huangzhou. In Su Shi's 362 extant poems, the word "ghost" appears 105 times, which is worth pondering. Mr. Li Zehou said: "Su Shi has never retired in his life, nor has he really returned to the field. However, the emptiness of life expressed in his poems is deeper and heavier than any oral or actual "retreat", "return to the field" and "seclusion" of his predecessors. Because this' retreat' emotion expressed in Su Shi's poems is not only a retreat to politics, but also a retreat to society "(the course of beauty). Because of the idea of abandoning the official and retiring at the end, "Take a message the next day, hang the crown and serve the river, and shout by boat." Hearing this, the county magistrate Xu Junyou was surprised and scared. Thinking that the country had lost its sinner, he hurried to offer his condolences. I hope to snore like thunder, but I am still not happy "(Ye Songmeng's" Xia Lu "Volume 2) Originally, why? Because there is no escape from this world "("The Course of Beauty "). Whether it is paradise on earth or Langmiao Jianghu, it is an "external world" for Su Shi, and there is no difference. His ultimate destination can only be his own "inner world", and the so-called "boat dies today, and the river and the sea leave the rest of their lives" is actually just a metaphor for the poet's hope for spiritual liberation.
Extended reading: Su Shi's anecdotes and allusions
1, test-taking anecdote
In the second year of Jiayou, Song Renzong, Su Shi was appreciated by the examiner Mei with a paper entitled "On Criminal Loyalty" and recommended to the examiner Ouyang Xiu. Ouyang Xiu is also very appreciative and wants to be promoted to the first place, but he is afraid that this article was written by his favorite pupil Ceng Gong, so in order to avoid suspicion, he ranks second. Only when I opened the paper did I know that the article was written by Su Shi. When it comes to the second interview of the Ministry of Rites, Su Shi takes "Spring and Autumn Game" as the first.
As for the content in "On Punishment and Loyalty": "Kill three, Yao said kill three", at that time, the examiner didn't know its allusion, and Ouyang Yong asked Su Shi who he Dian was from. Su Shi's answer is in the biography of the reflection of Kong Rong. Ouyang Xiu searched for a long time but couldn't find it. Su Shi replied, "Cao Cao destroyed Yuan Shao and gave his son Cao Pi to Yuan's wife. Kong Rong said,' It was Zhou Wuwang who gave da ji to the Duke of Zhou'. Cao Cao was frightened and asked where he came from. He replied:' it is natural to take this as a measure.' "After listening to this, Ouyang Xiu suddenly realized.
2. Building Su Causeway
"Dongpo built Su Causeway everywhere", and Su Shi built many long dikes in his life. In the tenth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1077), Xuzhou was besieged by floods. Su Shi told everyone to "prepare a cup, store earth and stone, and accumulate straw", and at the same time urgently mobilized 5000 people to reinforce the city foundation and build high walls. Su Shi organized Xuzhou soldiers and civilians to build long levees for flood control in the south of the city where the water situation was severe. The History of the Song Dynasty records that Su Shi "led his disciples away with cups, built a long dike in the southeast, headed the horse on the stage, and ended up in the city", and Ming Jiajing's biography of Xuzhou to Su Causeway: "When Su Shi was in Song Shouxu, he decided to deal with the disaster in the river, because he built a city to block it, and the city returned to Taiwan, which was twenty miles long. Many people have been thinking about it so far. In the fourth year of Yuan You in the Northern Song Dynasty (1089), the poet Su Shi (Su Dongpo) was appointed as a well-known poet in Hangzhou. Because the West Lake has not been dredged for a long time, it has been silted up by more than half. " The Pinghu Lake in Taini has been overgrown with weeds, and people are still depressed when they are in their prime. "The lake gradually dried up, and the lake was full of weeds, which seriously affected agricultural production. In the second year of Su Shi's arrival in Hangzhou, he dredged the West Lake, mobilized more than 200,000 migrant workers, expelled farmland, restored the old scenery, and erected three towers (now reflecting the moon in three ponds) in the deepest part of the lake as a symbol. He collected the dredged silt and built a long dike running through the West Lake, which was connected by six bridges for pedestrians. Later referred to as "Su Gong Di" or "Su Causeway". In the sixth year of Yuan You (109 1), when Su Shi relegated Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui), the West Lake in Yingzhou was also dredged and diked. During Shao Shengyuan's reign (1094), Su Shi was demoted to Yuan Ningjun's deputy envoy and lived in Huizhou (now Huiyang, Guangdong). Su Shi, who was nearly sixty years old, galloped day and night and came to the relegation center all the way, which was warmly welcomed by the people in Lingnan. Su Shi took out the gold given by the emperor and donated it to dredge the West Lake and build a long embankment. To this end, "the father and the old get together and the pot is empty. If you can't drink it for three days, kill all the chickens in the village. "People are celebrating.