The Ship Full of Clear Dreams and the Galaxy expresses his nostalgia for dreams and reveals his frustration and disappointment in reality.
"The boat is full of clear dreams and the stars are overwhelming" means: In a clear dream, I am lying on the Milky Way.
Source: "Inscribed on Qingcao Lake, Longyang County" is a seven-character quatrain written by Tang Gong, a poet in the late Yuan Dynasty.
Original text:
The west wind blows the old Dongting waves, and the king of Xiang has many white hairs overnight.
After being drunk, I don’t know that the sky is in the water, and the boat is full of clear dreams that overwhelm the stars.
Translation: The autumn wind blows strongly, and the water of Dongting Lake seems to have aged a lot. After a night of melancholy and thought, Mr. Xiang also has more gray hair. After getting drunk, I forgot that the stars in the water were just reflections. In a clear dream, I was lying on the Milky Way.
Appreciation of a boat full of clear dreams that overwhelms the stars:
“After being drunk, I don’t know that the sky is in the water, but a boat full of clear dreams overwhelms the stars.” At night, the wind stopped, the waves calmed down, and it was bright Milky Way reflected in the lake. On the passenger boat by the lake, the poet kept his cup in hand from day to night, drinking and chanting, enjoying himself. Finally, he got drunk and fell asleep.
The feeling of "A boat on spring water is like sitting in the sky" (Du Fu's "Xiaohan Shizhou") gradually penetrated into the poet's dreamland. He seemed to feel that he was not mooring the boat in Dongting Lake, but rowing on the Milky Way. What he saw around the side of the boat was a world of bright stars. The poet wrote the dream so beautifully, as alluring as a fairy tale.
However, "this song should only exist in heaven." When I woke up from the dream, what remained in my heart was only boundless confusion. The first and second sentences describe the sadness of autumn, which may not be without the emotion of being born at the wrong time and having ambitions that are difficult to achieve; the last two sentences describe dreams and express nostalgia for dreams, which reveal his frustration and disappointment in reality from the opposite side.
So the third and fourth sentences may seem to have different tastes from the first and second sentences, but inside they are coherent and harmonious. These two sentences are very successful in describing the dream: the dream is consistent with the reality, the boat in the sky and the sky in the water are in direct correlation, which seems real and credible; the dream has no body, but it is said that the dream is full of the boat, the dream is weightless, but it uses "pressure" Express it with words, and make the illusion so real.
From the tranquility of the dream, it is not difficult to detect the poet's joy in getting rid of the hustle and bustle of the world. When remembering dreams and emotions, it is also wonderful to convey the spirit secretly. There are many poems about dreams in ancient times, but it is rare to see them as fresh, beautiful, and implicit as this poem.