"Sui Palace"
Author: Li Shangyin
If the martial law is not enforced when traveling to the south in Chengxing, who will save the nine-fold remonstrance letter?
The spring breeze cuts the palace brocade across the country, half as a barrier and half as a sail.
Notes:
1. Jiuzhong: refers to the residence of the emperor.
2. Obstacle mud: Ma Xiang.
3. Sui Palace: refers to the Jiangdu Palace built for recreation by Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. Its former site is in the northwest of today's Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. In addition, there is Sui Yuan.
4. Traveling to the South: In order to satisfy his desire for debauchery and enjoyment, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty visited Jiangdu many times. No martial law: In ancient times, when emperors went out, martial law was enforced. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty traveled south, and in order to show his noble style that the world was peaceful, martial law was not enforced.
5. Jiuzhong: the deep palace where the emperor lived, here refers to Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. Province (xingxing): examine. Letter of remonstrance: A letter of remonstrance enclosed in a letter. In July of the twelfth year of Daye (616), Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty visited Jiangdu three times. At that time, farmers in various places revolted one after another. Lang Cui Minxiang and Wang Airen wrote letters to dissuade him, but they were all killed.
6. Nationwide: the whole country. Palace Brocade: Brocade woven according to the format prescribed by the palace.
7. Mud barrier: The horse bridle is placed under the saddle and hangs on both sides of the horse's back to keep out the mud.
Rhyme translation:
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty did not care about safety when traveling south.
Who in the Jiuchong Palace paid attention to the letter of advice?
During the spring outing, the silk brocade was made from all over the country.
Half of it was made of mud for the royal horse and half of it was used for the sail.
Appreciation:
? This poem satirizes the extravagance and debauchery of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. The poem selects typical themes to expose the ugly nature of Emperor Yang's indulgence in lust and refusal of remonstrance, regardless of the safety of the country and the life and death of the people, implying that the demise of the Sui Dynasty is inevitable. The first two sentences point out Nanyou's insistence on going his own way and paint the face of a lonely man and a thieves. Three or four sentences use Jinfan to illustrate the crime of exhausting people's power. The language is concise and concise, but the criticism is profound.
This is a poem that eulogizes history. The whole poem combines narrative and discussion, fully expressing the extravagance, lewdness, mediocrity and cruelty of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Among the many allegorical poems in history, it can be regarded as an excellent one. do.
The Sui palaces sung in the poem refer to the Jiangdu, Xianfu, Linjiang and other palaces built by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty in Jiangdu (now Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province). According to "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty visited Jiangdu three times from the first year to the twelfth year of Daye (605--616 AD). The dragon boat he rode on was four stories high and pointed to the sky. The rest of the ships were connected end to end, with a length of more than 200 miles. The number of soldiers pulling the ships alone was more than 80,000, which is evident from their extravagance and lewdness.
The first sentence of this poem Qi Jue expresses how Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty went from being dissolute to being mentally comatose and ignoring common sense. After he spent a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources to build the Grand Canal, he "traveled southward" again and again. The three words "without martial law" in the sentence vividly outline what Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty enjoyed. , desperate and proud to the point of getting carried away.
The second sentence
The second sentence continues the mediocrity and cruelty of Emperor Sui Yang. Emperor Sui Yang was mediocre and cruel because of his extravagance and lewdness, and his mediocre and cruel virtue promoted his extravagance and lewdness - -The two are mutually reinforcing. The "nine layers" in the sentence refer to the place where the emperor lives; whoever saves (xing) means enlightenment. "Who" actually refers to Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. At that time, his officials, such as Cui Minxiang and others, witnessed the poverty and unrest of the people in various places. They once advised Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to refrain from extravagance and frugality, but they were killed.
This sentence looks like a rhetorical tone, but it is actually a statement; the word "who saved" is very powerful. Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty did not pay attention to the advice of his subordinates at all. The poem starts from this sentence. From a specific perspective, it summarizes the actions of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty who braved the disapproval of the world, completely ignored the support of the people, and insisted on going his own way, cowardly and decadently.
The last two sentences describe that when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty traveled south, he exhausted all the country’s financial resources and used precious palace brocades as harnesses and sails. Palace brocade is a brocade woven according to the specifications set by the palace; barrier mud is a horse saddle, which is used to pad the saddle and hang on both sides of the horse's back to block the soil, so it is called barrier mud. These two poems use the techniques of writing, exaggeration, and irony, and have a profound artistic conception: Look at the spring breeze, like scissors, cutting all over the country
The palace brocade is used as horse bridles and sails for the southward journey, and the people's wealth and wealth are so used. They were squandering and committing crimes; and the common people all over the world, from the waterway (the canal area) to the land route, were harassed by Emperor Sui Yang's southbound troops, which was simply intolerable.
The potential crisis of annihilation of the country and the surging water of overturning the boat are all visible to the readers!
This epic poem shows its solemnity in its twists and turns. It profoundly reveals the historical reasons for the demise of the Sui Dynasty
; using the past to satirize the present, it made the kings of the late Tang Dynasty sleep and eat. Uneasy, the poet also wrote a seven-rhythm poem also titled "Sui Palace". The poem also wrote about Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty's southern journey - Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was replaced by Li Tang and had just ended his dragon boat romance
You, like this Qi Jue poem, is written extremely smartly and implicitly, and is full of irony.