Li Qingzhao (Southern Song Dynasty)
Depressed courtyard, oblique wind and drizzle, heavy doors must be closed. Fondling willow flowers to eat cold food, all kinds of nasty weather. Writing a poem is a leisurely taste. When you spend too much money, it's hard to get rid of a thousand worries.
It was chilly in the spring for a few days upstairs, and curtains were hung on all sides, so the jade work was unintentional. Dream Leng Xiang's new dream. Go to sleep and don't be sad. Clear dew and morning flow, new tung is introduced at the beginning, and how much spring comes. The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the smoke is filled, but today the sun is brighter.
Appreciation of words
At the beginning of the word, it first describes such an atmosphere: the yard is full of bleak scenes, and the oblique wind and drizzle for several days make people feel so cold that they have to close all the doors and windows, giving people a sense of desolation and silence. Without the following sentence "Love willow flowers and eat cold", readers will think that these words were written in the cold autumn when the river is cold and the leaves rustle.
It should be gratifying that the cold food is coming and the spring is getting stronger. However, the poet is complaining about "all kinds of nasty weather". In fact, the phenomena of yin, rain, wind and cold in nature are not gratifying or annoying. For the same scene, different people or the same person have different feelings before and after, and they will have completely different feelings. Cold spring and lingering spring rain can make people feel bored and depressed, but they can also bring comfort, because they report the news of spring and herald the arrival of all love. Du Fu's famous poem "Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night" is a masterpiece of singing spring rain. Du Mu's poem "Tomb-Sweeping Day" describes how the rainy weather in Qingming Festival hurts people, but at the end, the sentence "Where is the restaurant, please, and the shepherd boy will give directions to Xinghua Village" still reveals a happy mood. The poet complained that the weather was disgusting, which showed that she had hidden a lot of unhappiness in her heart; Because of the bad mood, the more depressed the courtyard is, the more bored it is. This is the so-called "I see things, so everything is my color" ("Words on Earth").
Since it's always rainy, how can I alleviate my inner troubles? In Cao Mengde's poem, it is said that "Du Kang alone can relieve anxiety" ("Short Song"). In this "all kinds of nasty weather", poets really use poetry to cheer up their spirits and wine to drown their troubles. "Dangerous rhyme" is a poem written with the rhyme of strange words, and "Fu Tou wine" is an intoxicating wine. However, what happens after the poem wakes up? -"Especially the Taste of Leisure", the poet feels more lonely and bored, more bored. Put "worry" and "leisure" in the same breath, "leisure is the most bitter" and "it is a taste of the heart". Where does the poet's "leisure" come from? The next two sentences seem to give us a hint, but they are not revealed. I want to stop: "There are so many things to worry about." Even if the geese flying far away can send books, but "there are thousands of troubles, can you send them" ("Caotang Poetry")? The poet's melancholy and complicated mood cannot be expressed in words. Li Panlong once said that this word is "hard to express in mind" ("Poem of Caotang Yu Juan"), which is true. Some emotions are really hard to describe.
The next film, "It's cold in spring upstairs for a few days, and the curtains are hanging all around, and the jade is dry and unintentional." It makes people think that overlooking from the gap may alleviate their worries, but what makes the poet even lazy to lean upstairs now? Is the courtyard cold and bleak, or is it cold in spring? In Point and Lip, the poet once wrote that he was "haggard" because he was expecting her husband to return. Could it be that he has been looking for it for a long time, tired and listless? Perhaps the genius of the poet lies in "stopping at once" and "waiting for people's self-satisfaction"
The sentence "cold" was written immediately after the sentence "cold in spring". The poet felt a little cold in his sleep, and when he woke up, it was already fragrant in the furnace, and the day would break. From the sentence "Don't worry about people", we can appreciate the poet's inner feeling of boredom and loneliness. What is particularly noteworthy here is the word "new dream". What is the dream? Li Panlong said, "This is a new dream, you can understand it" (ditto), so you'd better come here according to your own understanding.
The poet's pen suddenly turned: "The morning dew is clear, the new tung is introduced at the beginning, and the spring scenery is so much!" Originally, the poet was too lazy to rely on the lazy attic, but now he has the idea of a spring outing. After reading these, we finally feel the breath and pulse of spring. The word "flow" of "clear dew morning flow" describes the thickness of morning dew, and the word "introduction" of "new tung beginning introduction" indicates growth, showing a vigorous and upward force. These short words express the poet's desire and pursuit for a better life. However, writing here, the poet's pen is another turn: "The sun is shining, the smoke is curling, but today the sun is shining." At present, it is obviously gone and the rain has cleared up, but a series of rainy days seem to make the poet suspicious. Literally, the word means that she can't believe it. She wants to see for herself whether the weather is really sunny, but the hidden inner feelings keep repeating, and the joy of spring in the poet's heart quickly disappears. This can not help but arouse readers' speculation: why did the poet's idea of a spring outing stop? Is she now "regretting teaching her husband to find the Marquis" because of "suddenly seeing the strange willow color"?
For the end of a word, the poet is always very attentive when creating. The unusual ending of this poem lies in that it did not write the above-mentioned "sorrow" in one breath, but unexpectedly turned the pen and waved a layer of new ideas, which made the meaning of the word "sadness and joy" ("Poetry Discrimination") euphemistic and tortuous. From the ambivalence of "the sun is rising and smoke is gathering" and "it's sunny today", it is revealed that this "worried person" really doesn't want to realize it. The news is probably the same as the word "Wulingchun". It is said that Shuangxichun is still in good condition and plans to make a canoe. I am afraid that the boat will not move and I have more worries. It is this kind of ups and downs that poets use to write unspeakable secrets at different levels.
Judging from the whole poem, this poem expresses the melancholy of the poet's spring boudoir, but it has become one of the representative works of Li Ci, not only because its ideological content has certain representative significance in his previous works, but also because its artistic techniques also reflect the consistent graceful and restrained style of Li Ci. The poet's melancholy is all half-contained and half-vomited, which makes readers have endless guesses. Yun once said in Painting Postscript of Ou Xiangge that painting should "make people doubt" ("doubt" here is not doubt, of course, but makes people try to imagine the meaning outside the painting), and the word "doubt" is also showing its skill. One of the characteristics of Yi 'an's lyrics is to stop talking and leave a large blank between the lines for readers to associate, supplement, ponder and aftertaste.
Wei Liaoweng commented on this word and said: "If it suddenly rises, it will be profound. In the first stage, the cloud' closes the door', and in the second stage, the cloud' does not allow people to be sorry'. When they opened and closed, their feelings suddenly changed. When it rains, the sky is clear and the local laws are muddy. From this comment, we can also get a glimpse of some characteristics of this word in conception. (Liu) According to