Lantern Festival Poetry: Lantern Festival

Fat water flows eastward, and it is not enough to miss the beginning. I didn't see Dan Qing (4) in my dream, but I was suddenly surprised by the singing of birds.

Spring is not green, the temples are first silk, and the world is not sad for a long time. Who teaches red-violet night ⑤? The two know each other thoughtfully.

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Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

② Feishui: It originates from Zipeng Mountain in Hefei, An Wei, flows southeast through Jiangjun Mountain, and flows into Chaohu Lake at Shikou.

(3) Acacia: Leave the feeling of acacia, which means don't get emotional at the beginning, especially afterwards.

④ painters: refers to pictures in general, and here refers to portraits.

⑤ Red Lotus Night: refers to Yuanxi. Red lotus refers to lanterns.

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At Wang Yang, the water flows eastward and never stops. If I had known it was bleak today, I shouldn't have been so haggard. I always can't see the meeting in my dream clearly, and I can't see the portrait I chased clearly, and this kind of spring dream is often awakened by the cry of mountain birds.

Before the spring grass grows green, my sideburns have turned silver and are aging too fast. We have been apart for too long, and slowly all the pain will be gradually forgotten by time. I don't know who it is, but it makes me miss it. Every reunion night, only you and I can feel this feeling.

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This word was written in the third year of Qingyuan (1 197) to commemorate the lovers. This dream poem is called "One Yuan Xi Dream" and was written in the Lantern Festival in the third year of Qingyuan in Ningzong. The first part wrote about the regret of past love, and then wrote about the resentment of not seeing the lover in the dream, which shows the depth of the author's love. The next film says don't be so sad for so long, your hair has turned white. Just take a few pictures and imagine that on the night of the Lantern Festival, the other party is also suffering from acacia, which is extremely painful. Spring is not green, the temples are first silk, and the world is not sad for a long time. "Spring is not green", but as far as Lantern Festival is concerned, the early spring is still cold and the vegetation is not green; The first wisp of silk on the sideburns tells that the poet woke up from his dream all night, suddenly awakened his love affair 20 years ago, and suddenly felt that his sideburns were gray and his youth was gone. Only then did he realize that his old feelings seemed to have become indifferent, and he forced out the feeling that "the world will not be sad if it is not long." The so-called "not sad" refers to the long-lost acacia, which has changed from the exposure of passion to deep restraint, from sentimentality to forbearance and restraint, showing a kind of indifference and dullness of "not sad", but actually a deeper and more depressed sadness. The whole poem is profound and ethereal.

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The author has been to Hefei several times and fell in love with a geisha. The party at that time became a memorable event in his life. In my memory, her image is very vivid. However, the Iraqi people are far away and have no future. Looking back on the past, it is memorable and deeply touched. Meet in a dream and be awakened by a mountain bird. The pain of missing makes me really feel the endless troubles of "the original lovesickness", just like the fat water flowing eastward for an endless period. Who let two people have their own hearts to relive the scenes of falling in love in those years every Lantern Festival night? The sadness and sadness revealed between the lines is caused by this. The whole poem is affectionate and touching. [8]

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This is a love poem, which is related to the "Hefei incident" in Jiang Kui's youth. It's an old couple in Hefei, missing and missing. It can be seen that Baishi is a very emotional person. Although the past is gone forever, the passage of time and the transformation of space, coupled with the vicissitudes of personnel changes, have not changed Baishi's deep attachment to Hefei couple. So he wrote a series of poems that deeply missed each other during his long wandering in the rivers and lakes. In the third year of Qingyuan in Song Ningzong (1 197), he dreamed of seeing his old lover again, and after waking up, he wrote this touching love story. This year, it has been more than twenty years since I first met my lover.

The first two sentences reveal the reason of dreams. The first sentence begins with empty fat water, which is interesting and concrete. There are two streams of fertilizer and water in the east and west, which refers to the one that flows eastward through Hefei and enters Chaohu Lake. Pointing out "fat water" not only explains the place where this love happened, but also draws the poet into distant meditation. Reflected in the poet's mind, there are not only images of fat water flowing eastward, but also a series of warm or painful memories related to Hefei Incident. Here, the fat water flowing from the east in an endless period is not only a symbol of the long passing years, but also a symbol of endless lovesickness and attachment in the long years, which is natural and rich in connotation. It is precisely because this relationship brings endless painful thoughts that the second sentence turns to complain that this lovesick relationship should not have been planted in the first place. The word "kind" of "planting acacia" is used exquisitely.

Acacia is the fruit of acacia, so acacia is associated with acacia, and the word "species" is derived from the tree. It not only gives the abstract acacia a sense of image, but also implies that it keeps pace with the times and cannot be eliminated, and it has planted an unforgettable and long-lasting hatred in its heart. This feeling can't be eliminated, so I can only get down and frown. (Li Qingzhao) The word "disharmony" comes out with a sharp and embarrassing language, which seems to regret the frontier, but in fact it more powerfully expresses the sincerity and depth of this lovesickness and its long-term painful torture to the soul.

"I didn't see Dan Qing in my dream, but suddenly I heard the birds singing." Three or four sentences "dream" to the point, divided into dreaming and waking up. I miss you deeply, which leads to my dream. However, due to the long-term separation, the image of Iraqis in the dream is also very vague, and it doesn't feel as real as that shown in Dan Qing's pictures. The author seems to have a portrait of an old lover in his possession, and he often takes it out when he is lovesick on weekdays, but he always thinks it is better to face the truth of Iraqis, and when he dreams of Iraqis, he feels that the image in his dream is not as vivid as that of Dan Qing. Meaning becomes a layer, forming a deeper hazy meaning. The next sentence and the last sentence are contradictory in language, but its meaning has become another layer. It is said that in a misty dream, I suddenly heard the singing of a mountain bird, which awakened my dream and made the image of "I can't see better than Dan Qing" disappear without a trace and nowhere to be found. If the last sentence is regret in a dream, the next sentence is melancholy after waking up. Being far away from the thinker, meeting each other is only in a dream, but even such an unreal dream can't last long. What's it like? The first part stops here, but "lovesickness" and "dreaming" continue, and the next part goes deeper from another angle to express the feelings after waking up.

Another year has passed, and the suburbs of spring have not yet been green, and the spring is chilly: "Xian Si" said that he wandered around the rivers and lakes in the past, and after years of frosting on his temples, even though there was a fragrant spring to reward him, why not! Two sentences are a flowing pair, language contrast. The feelings are extremely sad and the intentions are extremely unique.

The next sentence, "Don't be sad for a long time in the world", is the condensation point of the whole word's feelings, full of profound life experience and deep sadness. True and deep love always engraves the rings of memory deeper and deeper with the accumulation of years, but on the surface, this deep-rooted acacia often does not manifest as a warm outbreak and strong external grief, but as underground magma, it sneaks a fiery torrent under a calm and even indifferent appearance. It is also like an underground river under the surface of the earth, surging in the depths, but its appearance is not easy to detect. Especially because of age, repeated lovesickness and pain year after year have gradually made nerve endings feel dull and numb, and the sadness in my heart has accumulated too much and is wrapped in an outer membrane that is not easy to touch. In this case, even I don't seem to realize the hidden sadness in my heart. "Affectionate but always ruthless" (Du Mu's two farewells), and the appearance of "not sad" reflects the sadness in his heart more deeply. When the author is clearly aware of this, the sad feelings will inevitably go further. In a homophonic work written by the poet a few days ago, there is "juvenile things are always sad", which is exactly the same. This is a deeper and more tragic emotional state of a middle-aged person who has experienced emotional hardships. In the face of this unforgettable pain in the form of numbness, the loveliness and sadness of young men and women are inevitably superficial.

"Who teaches red-violet night, the two know each other thoughtfully." Red lotus night refers to the Lantern Festival, and red lotus refers to the lanterns of the Lantern Festival. Ouyang Xiu's Mo Shan Xi Yuan Xi: "Cut Red Lotus in the City", and Zhou Bangyan's Jieyu Flower. Lantern Festival: "Full of red lotus, snuff set each other off", which can be proved. The break ended in lovesickness and knowing each other. It is the same as Li Qingzhao's "one kind of acacia, two kinds of leisure worries". "Year after year" means the first sentence "endless". The special mention of "Red-violet Night" here seems to be not only to the point, but also because the Lantern Festival easily touches the association of reunion, which is probably related to past love. In ancient times, the Lantern Festival was a good night for young men and women to have sex. Ouyang Xiu's Life Checker, Xin Qiji's Jade Case and Liu Yong's Welcome the New Year all help to understand this point.

So, every year on this night, I miss you so much that I "dream". Saying "thoughtful" instead of "lovesickness" is not only to avoid repetition, but also because the word "thoughtful" has the perceptual image of bowing one's head and thinking, which is quite like Li Shangyin's artistic conception of "the moonlight should be cold when singing". "Knowing each other" means that both sides know that they miss each other, and only each other knows the situation and taste of lovesickness (whether it is warm and sweet memories or the pain of long-term separation). The two sentences mentioned by "who taught" seem to be asking questions, crying, complaining, resenting some unknown force that separates the two sides forever, and resenting themselves. There is a delusion of love in the world, and this hatred has nothing to do with romance. (Ouyang Xiu's "Spring in the Jade Building") After a deeply engraved sentence "The world is not sad for a long time", it ends with the sentence "Who teaches". This is a description of nothing, which turns reality into emptiness and human things. The charm of the word is long and profound, and it contains ethereal meaning.

Traditional love words tend to be soft and charming, but this word uses a clear and healthy pen to write unforgettable feelings, which has a unique and profound emotional charm. Except that the word "red lotus" is more beautiful because of its connection with love, the whole article uses tempered and natural language, which can be described as washing away the lead. The content and artistic conception of the words are also particularly ethereal and purely lyrical, which is not as good as the specific situation of this love. The so-called "the more the meaning is cut, the smaller the words are" and "the feelings are empty" is the characteristic of this word.