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In the autumn of the first half of Mount Emei, the Pingqiang River reflected. In the evening, Qingxi went to the Three Gorges, but the four gentlemen did not see Yuzhou. -Tang Li Bai's "Emei Mountain Moon Song"
Introduction to ancient poetry:
The Seven-character quatrain of the Moon Song on Mount Emei is a poem written by Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty. The poem says: "In the first half of autumn, Mount Emei fell into the Pingqiang River. Qingxi went to the Three Gorges at night, and the four gentlemen did not see Yuzhou. " Depicted a beautiful night view of Mount Emei.
The poet used five place names in succession, with exquisite conception and beautiful artistic conception. Wang Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty commented: "This land is too white, and there are Emei Mountain, Pingqiang River, Qingxi, Three Gorges and Yuzhou among the 28 characters. It's hard to find a trace, and it's very good to see the beauty of this old furnace hammer. "
Translation:
Half the moon is hanging high on the hill, and the moon is reflected on the clear water of Pingqiang River. In the evening, I set off from Qingxi to the Three Gorges and arrived in Yuzhou unconsciously. I can't see you (the moon on Mount Emei). How I miss you!
Appreciate:
This poem was written by Li Bai on his way out of Shu in the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725). This poem has clear artistic conception, simple language and smooth rhyme. The whole poem is one of Li Bai's masterpieces with beautiful artistic conception and natural style.
The poem begins with "Emei Mountain Moon", pointing out that the season of traveling far away is in autumn. The word "autumn" is upside down at the end of the sentence because of its rhyme. Autumn is crisp and the moonlight is bright ("autumn moon is bright"). The word "autumn" also describes the beauty of moonlight, which is natural and wonderful.
The moon is only "half a circle", which reminds people of the castle peak spitting the moon. There is Pingqiang River in the northeast of Emei Mountain, now Qingyi River, which originates from Lushan County, Sichuan Province, flows to Leshan County and joins Minjiang River. The second sentence "shadow" refers to the shadow of the moon, and the verbs "enter" and "flow" form a linked predicate, indicating that the shadow of the moon is reflected into the river and goes with it.
Life experience tells us that the moon shadow in the water is fixed, no matter how the river flows, it does not move. "When the moon is gone, I will go." Only when the viewer goes downstream will he see the "shadow flowing into the river". Therefore, this sentence not only describes the beautiful scenery of Qingjiang River reflected by the moon, but also describes the darkness of sailing in autumn night.
There is someone in the second sentence, and the person in the third sentence has appeared: he is leaving Qingxi Station overnight, entering the Minjiang River and heading for the Three Gorges. Young people who "go to the countryside with swords and shadows and leave their loved ones to travel far away" will be reluctant to leave their hometown.
Seeing the moon on the river is like seeing an old friend. However, the bright moon is not an old friend after all. I can only "look up at the bright moon and send my feelings for thousands of miles." The last sentence, "I miss you, but I can't see Yuzhou", can be described as infinite separation.
Five place names are used in the poem in succession, which are ingenious and leave no trace. The poet passes through Emei Mountain-Pingqiang River-Qingxi-Three Gorges-Yuzhou in turn, and the poetic scene gradually unfolds a map of the Shu River for readers. Apart from the "Emei Mountain Moon", there is almost no more specific description of the scenery in the poem.
Except for the word "four kings", there is no lyric. However, the artistic image of "Emei Mountain Moon" runs through the whole poetic realm and becomes a catalyst for poetic sentiment. It has rich implications: the mountains and the moon accompany Wan Li, which can be seen every night, making the feeling of "missing you" deeper and deeper.
The bright moon is approachable and unattainable, which is a symbol of missing friends. Where there is a bright moon singing, where there is a feeling of missing friends in the river, which is intoxicating. Using five place names in a row can make a trip in an exquisite place, which is both heroic and homesick.
Originally, the expression of time and space changes in short quatrains is quite limited, so the general writing method is not to transcend time and space at the same time. The time and space span expressed in this poem is really free. There are five place names in twenty-eight words, and the word * * * is twelve, which is unique among the ten thousand quatrains in the Tang Dynasty.
It means "four words in the place name are five, and the ancient and modern eyes are the last words, and they never tire of repeating them" (in Wang Linzhou's language). The reason is that the poet's experience of swimming in the river and his yearning for his friends are permeated in the poetic realm, and the symbolic artistic images of mountains and moons are everywhere, unifying a vast space and a long time.
Secondly, the treatment of place names is also full of changes. "Emei Mountain Moon" and "Pingqiang River" are attached to the scenery by place names and are useless; "Faqingxi", "Xiangsanxia" and "Xiayuzhou" are all practical, but their positions in the sentence are also different. I can't feel the trace when I read it. It's wonderful in chemical engineering.