A happy rain on a spring night
Du Fu
Good rain knows the season, and spring will happen.
Sneak into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently.
The wild paths are all dark with clouds, but the river boats are only bright with fire.
Looking at the red and wet place at dawn, the flowers are heavy on the official city.
This poem describes the beauty of a good rain on a spring night that nourishes all things after a long drought.
The whole poem consists of eight lines and four couplets. The first couplet, "Good rain knows the season, and spring will happen." Leading the whole poem, it praises the spring rain for understanding the needs of farmers and falling in response to the farming season, showing joy.
At the beginning, the word "good" is used to praise "rain", and the good "rain" is personified, saying that it "knows the season". The word "know" points out spring and writes the spring rain alive. . Spring is the growth season when all things revive. When rain is needed, the rain falls as needed. Look how good this rain must be! The word "Nai" in "Dang Chun Nai" means "that is". "Zhi" and "Ji" echo each other, making people feel admirable. Facing the spiritual and considerate spring rain, the poet can't help but Shout "Good Rain" from the bottom of my heart.
"Sneak into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently". The mandibular couplet still uses anthropomorphic techniques to describe in detail from the front the joyful rain coming here with the wind on a spring night and moisturizing all things. The matching of "sneaking into the night" and "silent" not only shows that the rain comes quietly with the wind, but also expresses that Rain is intended to moisten things, and it is intended to please people. Among them, the word "divide" in "sneak into the night" and the word "xi" in "silent" are precise and appropriate. The so-called "latent" means that the wind is light but not wild; the so-called "fine" means that the rain is heavy but not sudden. Only with the light wind and rain as a foundation can "moistening" be produced. The two words "Qian" and "Xi" describe the continuous spring rain from an auditory perspective, silently and gently moistening things.
The neck couplet "The wild paths are all dark with clouds, the river boats are only bright with fire" describes the night in the rain. The paths in the fields were as dark as the clouds, and only the lights on the boats in the river were bright. What makes me happy is how heavy the rain is. A picture of rain at night in Jiangcun is described from a visual perspective. The "only bright fire on the river boat" contrasts with the "dark clouds on the wild paths", which makes it even more apparent that the clouds are densely covered with rain, and it will rain heavily tonight.
The last couplet "Look at the red and wet place at dawn, the flowers are heavy in Jinguancheng" uses an imaginative pen to write about the effect of spring rain on moistening things, and depicts the beautiful scene of flowers blooming after the rain in the morning.
"Jinguan City" refers to Chengdu City. The city got its name from the brocade weaving officials who lived in it. The poet deliberately used an inverted sentence pattern to express "the flowers in Jinguancheng are heavy", changing the passive into active, making the poems appear strange and strange. Gives people a refreshing feeling. The realm of the word "heavy" is fully expressed. The flowers are moistened by the rain, and they appear full, dignified, and full of vitality. When the rain hits the flowers, they do not fall apart, but they feel beautiful, graceful, and charming. All of this comes from the unique scene after the spring rain. Wait until tomorrow morning to see it. The entire Jinguan City will turn into a sea of ??flowers.
The poet looks forward to such "good rain" and loves such "good rain". Although the word "happy" in the title does not appear in the poem, the poem writes about the joy of rain on a spring night. The first is that the spring rain is timely and arrives as expected; the second is that the rain moistens everything and quietly falls into the night; the third is that the rain is a wonder and the rain is so strong; the fourth is that the rain comes and the flowers are beautiful, and the flowers are all over the official palace.