The translation of Langtaosha is as follows:
The sound of waves in August came roaring like thousands of horses galloping, and waves several feet high rushed to the shore. The rocks were knocked back again. In a moment, it retreated to the confluence of the river and the sea and returned to the sea. The piles of sand it rolled up looked like white snowdrifts in the sunlight.
"Langtaosha·Part 7" comes from the poem group "Nine Poems of Langtaosha". It mainly describes the magnificent scene of the Qiantang River's tidal waves. Although the poems are not flashy, they are easy to understand. "Langtaosha" was originally the title of a folk song in the Six Dynasties, and became a music piece in the Tang Dynasty. Liu Yuxi composed the poem "Langtaosha" based on this, each of which is a seven-character quatrain.
Original text:
Langtaosha·In July and August, the waves roar to the ground, and the head is several feet high and touches the mountain. After a while, he entered the sea gate, rolling up piles of sand like snowdrifts.
"Langtaosha" was originally the name of Tang Jiaofang's song, and later was used as the name of his ci brand. In the mid-Tang Dynasty, Liu Yuxi and Bai Juyi sang and harmonized the minor tune "Langtaosha" and created the first Yuefu song "Langtaosha", which has four monotonous lines and is in the style of seven-character quatrains.
Li Yuyan, the later master of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, composed a small song called "Lang Tao Sha" ("Lang Tao Sha Ling"), and Liu Yong of the Northern Song Dynasty created a long slow tune "Lang Tao Sha" ("Lang Tao Sha Slow"). ), both are different from the original word "Langtaosha". Representative works of this tune include Liu Yuxi's "Nine Poems on Lang Tao Sha" and so on.
Langtaosha, originally the name of Tang Jiaofang's song, was later used as the name of his ci brand. Before the Sui Dynasty, Qing Shang music was popular in society. Since the Five Hus in the Jin Dynasty, due to war, trade, marriage and other reasons, Yan music from outside the region was introduced to China and combined with the local Qing Shang music, thus forming a general trend of combining poetry and music. .
The rulers of the Tang Dynasty paid more attention to absorbing foreign music to build new music with the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty, and even regarded the creation of music as the pride of the nation and a symbol of the country's strength. The great rise of Yanle music fundamentally promoted the development of "relying on sound to write lyrics" in the Tang Dynasty. Cui Lingqin's "Jiaofang Ji" recorded 324 songs, all of which were popular songs in the Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods.
"Langtaosha" is one of the Tang Jiaofang songs. According to statistics, there are 209 existing Tang poems and Song lyrics (except Dunhuang music lyrics) with the meaning of "Langtaosha", which can be roughly divided into three categories: There are 19 miscellaneous songs, 182 lyrics, and 8 slow songs.
Volume 82 of Guo Maoqian's "Anthology of Yuefu Poems" includes 19 poems of "Langtaosha" in "Modern Song Ci", and "Complete Song Ci" contains 185 poems.