Tianjingsha·Autumn
Bai Pu
Series: Complete Collection of Ancient Poems for Primary Schools
Tianjingsha·Autumn
< p> The setting sun is setting in the isolated village, with light smoke and jackdaws in the old trees, and under the shadow of a flying dragon.Green mountains and green waters, white grass, red leaves and yellow flowers.
Notes
1 Tianjingsha: the name of Qupai.
2 Canxia: sunset glow.
3 Jackdaw: A crow that returns to the forest after cold weather.
4 Under the shadow of Feihong: The shadow of wild geese passes by. Feihong: swan goose in the sky.
Translation
The sun gradually sets in the west, already hugging the Western Mountains, and the sunset glow on the horizon gradually begins to dissipate, leaving only a few dim colors, reflecting the quiet villages in the distance. How lonely, how lonely, dragging out that long shadow. The smoke from the kitchen was rising faintly, and a few black crows were perched on the rickety old trees, and from time to time they would emit a few heart-wrenching crows. Under the reflection of the remaining clouds, the feathers on his body were shining brightly. Suddenly, a wild goose in the distance flew down and crossed the sky. Looking along it from a distance, the mountains and rivers are beautiful; looking closer, the frosty white grass, fiery red maple leaves, and golden chrysanthemums are swaying in the wind, and the colors are almost charming.
Appreciation
There are similarities between Bai Pu's poem "Tian Jing Sha·Autumn" and Ma Zhiyuan's "Tian Jing Sha·Autumn Thoughts" both in writing and composition. . Although the title of this song is "Autumn" and it expresses the meaning of autumn, there is no word "Autumn" in it. This song begins with a picture of autumn dusk, creating a tranquil and lonely atmosphere. Then, it selects typical autumn scenery in the form of a juxtaposed combination of nouns, and paints a colorful picture from far to near. Autumn landscape picture. At this point, the autumn scenery in front of the reader has changed from the previous bleak and lonely to clear and beautiful. This song has only twenty-eight characters, but its language is concise and beautiful, and its meaning is profound. This song expresses the author's positive, optimistic and cheerful attitude towards life. It is really the so-called "Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself" (Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower").
Bai Pu’s piece uses autumn scenery as the theme of his writing. Readers can see from the rhetoric that his literary accomplishment is extremely high. The entire work is composed of beautiful natural scenes, and Bai Pu himself is like an artist holding these natural puzzle pieces to piece together a beautiful and harmonious picture of life.
When writing about autumn scenery, it is natural to set off a bleak atmosphere. However, if the bleak atmosphere is the main theme of the whole article, it will make readers feel dull and stressed. In order to avoid this situation, Bai Pu paid a lot of attention when choosing words. The first two sentences of "The sunset in the isolated village and the old trees with light smoke and jackdaws" use six pictures: "the isolated village", "the sunset", "the remaining clouds", "light smoke", "old trees" ", "Jackdaw", and any one of these pictures represents the bleak atmosphere of autumn scenery. In order to liven up this bleak atmosphere, the author then chose "under the shadow of a little Feihong" as the conclusion of the first half. In this way, the originally bleak scene became active, and the lonely autumn scene seemed to show another kind of vivid vitality. Finally, in order to strengthen the author's image of the Mid-Autumn landscape as a beautiful and charming one, he ended the piece with "green mountains and green waters, white grass, red leaves and yellow flowers". These two sentences use five colors: "green", "green", "white", "red" and "yellow", and the three colors "white grass, red leaves and yellow flowers" are mixed in the two colors of "green mountains and green waters". Among the three colors, "green mountains and green waters" are broad pictures, while "white grass, red leaves and yellow flowers" are detailed pictures. They are so intertwined that the originally lonely and desolate autumn scenery suddenly becomes colorful and colorful. This shows how superb Bai Pu's Sanqu writing skills are.
The autumn landscape depicted in this song consists of two parts: the first part is a dim, bleak, and deserted late autumn landscape, while the second part is colorful, bright, and full of vitality. The pictures before and after are also autumn scenes, forming a strong contrast. If linked to Bai Pu's reluctance to be an official in the Yuan Dynasty, it is not difficult for readers to understand why there is such a huge contrast in the same autumn scenery. The "little bit of Feihong" in the picture is the same as the "Feihong" in Li Bai's "Sending Pei Shiba Tunan to Songshan": "It's hard to say with a raised finger that Feihong will fly away. There is no sooner or later when we return together, and there is Qingyuan in Yingshui." They have different approaches but similar effects, and they are all metaphors for the author himself. Bai Pu did not want to seek a position in the court, but he hoped that he would be like a wild goose soaring high, flying away from that bleak, deserted, lifeless place, and find a paradise where he was satisfied and full of life. Therefore, readers can understand the land of "green mountains and green waters, white grass, red leaves and yellow flowers" "under the shadow" as the author's place of retreat and the scene in the author's heart. The mood is cheerful and peaceful, without any sense of negativity. It shows the author's love for the secluded life, so it should be a fictional writing. In this piece of music, the author very cleverly and discreetly puts the "scenery in his heart" together with the real environment at that time, creating a strong contrasting effect and implicitly revealing his love and hate.
Although this song is similar to Ma Zhiyuan's "Tian Jing Sha·Autumn Thoughts", it has its own characteristics. The first two sentences start with "lonely village", deliberately exaggerating the silence of autumn dusk.
"One Point of Feihong" brings vitality to the cold static picture, causing a shift in the lyrical sense of the song. Then the poet used the five colors of blue, green, white, red and yellow to depict the beautiful scene of autumn in a three-dimensional way from far to near, from high to low, multi-layered and multi-sided, making the whole picture full of poetry. This piece is full of artistic tension. It writes two sides in one stroke, successfully blending the bleak scenery of late autumn with the bright and gorgeous scenery. The pleasing autumn scenery is used as the main theme of the piece. It can be regarded as another autumn masterpiece.
There are differences between lyrics and music, which are elegant and vulgar. Generally speaking, lyrics are charming and subtle, while music is sharp, new and straightforward. Bai Pu's Xiaoling reads like the artistic conception of a poem. Although there are no lines such as "The heartbroken man is at the end of the world" in the song, the lyrical protagonist disappears and appears in and out of the haze, conveying a kind of loneliness and a touch of sadness like the end of the world.