First, the original poem is as follows:
Hanju
Zheng Sixiao in Song Dynasty
Flowers can't bloom, and independent fences are not poor.
It is better to hold incense in the branches and wait for death than to blow it into the north wind.
Second, translation:
You bloom in autumn and never accompany flowers. Alone by the sparse fence, your sentiment and interest have not diminished.
I would rather die in the branches than in the cold north wind!
Third, appreciate:
Zheng Sixiao's Chrysanthemum Picture is different from other poems praising the beauty of chrysanthemums. It expresses the poet's life experience and ideal pursuit, and is a chrysanthemum poem with specific life connotation.
Zheng Sixiao, a student in imperial academy at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, once took an examination of erudite macro words. Yuan army south, Zheng Sixiao care about the country and the people. He went directly to protest and criticize the enemy's plan, but he was rejected. Zheng Sixiao was saddened, living alone in Suzhou, and never married. After the death of the Song Dynasty, the word Weng was changed, and the name South was used to show that he did not forget his motherland. He also named his living room "Dongtian World", combined the characters by spelling, and put the "ten" of the word "Ben" in "Dongtian", meaning the word "Da Song". He was good at drawing orchids, but he didn't even draw soil when he painted orchids after the death of Song Dynasty. People asked him why, and he replied, "You don't know yet?" Zheng Sixiao's self-excited moral integrity makes people cry! He praised chrysanthemums as a metaphor, and this painting of chrysanthemums poured his blood, tears and life!
"bloom is not in full bloom, and there is no lack of interest in independent hedging", which is people's understanding of chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemums don't bloom with flowers at the same time, and they are noble scholars who are not vulgar and flattering.
The sentence "I'd rather hold the branches and incense, rather die than be blown down by the north wind" further describes the noble ambition of Chrysanthemum, depicts the arrogance and aloofness of Chrysanthemum, and expresses its determination to stick to noble moral integrity and die rather than surrender to the Yuan Dynasty. This is Zheng Sixiao's unique feeling and his unyielding loyalty to the motherland.
Poets in the Song Dynasty lamented the dead branches of chrysanthemums, which has become an incomprehensible complex, which is of course related to the hidden pain in the Southern Song Dynasty. Lu You has a poem of "holding the branches idle" in "Dead Chrysanthemum", and Zhu has a poem of "holding the fragrant branches old without dancing with yellow leaves in the autumn wind" in "Yellow Flowers". Judging from the completeness of image aesthetics and the clarity of political orientation, these two poems are slightly inferior to Zheng Sixiao.
"Holding incense to the branches to death" is more tragic and solemn than "Holding incense to the branches to die", with a dignified tone and never looking back. Compared with "never blowing in the north wind" and "autumn wind doesn't dance with yellow leaves", the former asks questions in a firm tone; The latter declared that the word "dance" had a little graceful artistic conception and was slightly out of the theme. More importantly, the former points out the "north wind", which clearly points to the Mongolian khanate originating in the north, and the feeling of resistance is vividly on the paper.
Of course, both Lu You's and Zhu's poems are good, but the three poems stand side by side, and their worries are deeper.
This poem is particularly apt when it is used to express "national integrity, loyalty and patriotism".
Four, the poet profile:
Zheng Sixiao (1241~1318), a poet and painter, was born in Lianjiang (now Fujian). Originally unknown, it was renamed after the death of Song Dynasty, because it was a part of Zhao in Song Dynasty. Recalling the word Weng means not forgetting the old country; No.3 is in the south, sitting and lying down every day, facing south and north. He also claimed to be a descendant of the giant mountain, a poet in Ding Jing, a savage in Sanwai and an old lady in Sanwai. I once tried to give up my life in business school to become knowledgeable. When the Yuan army invaded the south, it offered a defense strategy to the court, which was not adopted. The guest lived in Wuxia and sent the food to Guobao Temple. Zheng Sixiao was good at making orchids, and spent less money on Xiao Ye, which showed that the land in Song Dynasty was plundered. There are poems such as History of Mind, Works of Mr. Zheng Suonan, Poems of One Hundred and Twenty Pictures by Weng Suonan, etc.