The Story of Yueyang Tower was written by Fan Zhongyan, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, at the request of his good friend Tengzijing, the satrap of Baling County, on September 15th, the sixth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (146), to rebuild Yueyang Tower. Among them, the poems "Worry about the world first, then be happy about the world" and "Don't be happy about things, don't be sad about yourself" are well-known and quoted sentences. The following is the classical Chinese "Yueyang Tower" published by People's Education Edition, which I carefully recommend for everyone. I hope you like it.
Original text:
In the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, Teng Zijing was appointed to guard Baling County. The next year, the government will be harmonious, and everything will be ruined. It is to rebuild Yueyang Tower, add its old system, and engrave Tang Xian's poems on it, which belongs to the composition to remember.
Yu Guanfu Baling wins, in Dongting Lake. Take a distant mountain, swallow the Yangtze River, and make a vast soup, which is boundless; It's sunny in the morning and cloudy in the evening. This is the grand view of Yueyang Tower, which was prepared by predecessors. However, Wuxia in the north, Xiaoxiang in the South Pole, and the poets who moved to other places will be here, and they will have a good look at things.
If the husband is raining hard and can't even open the moon, the evil wind will howl and the turbid waves will empty; The sun stars are hidden, and the mountains are hidden; Business travel is not good, and it is ruined; Twilight, tigers roar and apes crow. When you go to Dengsi Building, there are people who are homesick, sorrowful, sorrowful and sad.
if it is spring and beautiful, it is calm and calm, and the sky is bright and blue; Sha Ou Xiangji, swimming in brocade scales; The shore is blue and green. Or the long smoke runs out, the bright moon is thousands of miles away, the floating light jumps over the gold, the static shadow sinks the wall, and the fishing songs answer each other. What a joy! When you go to Dengsi Building, you will feel relaxed and happy, and you will forget the humiliation and leave the wine in the wind, which will make you happy.
fu! What is it to taste the heart of the ancient benevolent, or to do something different from the two? Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself; If you live high in the temple, you will worry about your people; If you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about your husband. It's worrying about advancing and worrying about retreating. But when will you be happy? It must be said that "worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world." Hey! Weiss, who are we going home with? On September 15th, six years.
Notes on words:
1. Note: a style. Can write scenery, narrative, mostly for discussion. But the purpose is to express the author's feelings and political ambitions (to explain some of the author's ideas).
2. Four years of Qingli: 144 AD. Qingli, the year number of Zhao Zhen in Song Renzong. "Six years" in the last sentence of this article refers to the six years of Qingli (146), indicating the time of composition.
3. Teng Zijing (zh) guards Baling County: Teng Zijing was demoted to be the prefect of Yuezhou. Teng Zijing, whose name is Zong Liang, is his word and Fan Zhongyan's friend. Obey, send dismissed officials or criminals to remote places. Be demoted as a verb here. Chen, the feudal dynasty officials demoted or transferred. Keep, be the chief of the county. In the Han Dynasty, "guarding a county" was to be the satrap of a county; In Song Dynasty, the abandoned county was called a state, so we should say "know a state". Baling County, namely Yuezhou, is located in Yueyang, Hunan Province, where the ancient name is used. "Defending Baling County" means "Defending Yuezhou".
4. the next year: there are three theories, one of which refers to the five-year celebration of the calendar, which is aimed at the four-year celebration of the calendar; The second refers to the six-year celebration of the calendar, and this "crossing" is a process and experience; The third refers to the seven-year celebration of the calendar, for the six-year celebration of the calendar.
5. political integrity and harmony: political affairs are smooth and the people are happy. Politics, politics. Smooth, smooth. Harmony, harmony. This is a compliment to Teng Zijing.
6. All kinds of abandoned undertakings have been set up. Hundred, not exactly, describes many. Waste, here refers to
abandoned business. With "all", all, all. Xing, revival.
7. Yes: So.
8. System: scale.
9. Tang Xian today: Tang Dynasty and contemporary celebrities. Xian, adjectives are used as nouns.
1. Genus (zhǔ): "entrust", entrust and instruct. Y: Me. Composition: write an article. With: conjunction, used for. Reporter: account.
11. Dave: That. Victory: Great scenery, good scenery.
12. Title: including.
13. swallow: huff and puff.
14. Vast soup (shāng): The water waves are mighty. Soup soup, the current is big and fast.
15. Boundless breadth: boundless breadth. Horizontal, wide. International boundary, edge. (The difference between international and international: international refers to the land boundary, while international refers to the water boundary).
16. It's sunny in the morning and cloudy in the evening, and there are many kinds of weather: sooner or later (in a day), the weather is cloudy and sunny. In the morning, nouns are used as adverbials.
sunlight. Weather, sight. Thousands and thousands, ever-changing
17. This is the grand view of Yueyang Tower: this is the magnificent scene of Yueyang Tower. Here, here. Then, just. Grand view, magnificent sight.
18. What the predecessors said is well prepared: The predecessors' descriptions are very detailed. What the predecessors said refers to the "Tang Xian's Poems and Fu of Modern People" mentioned above.
be prepared, detailed and complete. Hey, the modal particle "le". Yes, auxiliary words, yes.
19. However: Even so, then.
2. Xiaoxiang, Antarctica: south to Xiaoshui and Xiangshui. Xiaoshui is a tributary of Xiangshui. Hunan water flows into Dongting Lake. South, south. Extremely, exhaustively, and farthest.
21. Relocator: a person who has been relocated refers to a person who has been demoted and transferred far away. Poet: a poet. During the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan wrote Li Sao, so later generations also called the poet a poet.
22. many: mostly. Will: gather.
23. There is nothing unusual about seeing things: how can the feelings aroused by seeing natural scenery not be different? Browse, watch and appreciate. Nothing, maybe.
24. Ruofu: Used at the beginning of a paragraph to cause the following. The following "Zhiruo" is the same. "Ruofu" is similar to "like that". "Zhiruo" is similar to "As for". Erotic rain, continuous rain. The appearance of raining, rain or snow (dense)
25. Open: (The weather) clears up.
26. cloudy and cold.
27. Empty and rush to the sky.
28. The sun and stars hide their brilliance. Obsidian (not for glory, which is used as sunlight in ancient Chinese), brilliance, sunlight.
29. Mountain latent form: The mountain has lost its shape. Yue, a tall mountain. Dive, disappear. Form, trace.
3. Line: Go, which means go forward.
31. qiáng and jí: the mast fell and the oars broke. Mast. Hey, paddle. Down, down
. Destroy, break
32. Twilight: It's dark in the evening. Thin, approaching. Dark and dim.
33. then, just. Have: To produce (emotion).
34. Going home, worrying and scorning: leaving the national capital, missing my hometown, worrying about (others) speaking ill, and fearing (others)
criticism and accusation. Go, leave. Country, national capital, refers to the capital. Worry, worry. Slander, slanderer Fear, fear, fear. Scold, ridicule.
35. bare: desolate and cold.
36. I feel extremely emotional, and I feel extremely emotional. And, conjunctions, tables are sequential.
37. To Ruochun and Jingming: As for spring, it is warm and sunny. If, as for. Spring is harmonious, and the spring breeze is warm. Scenery, sunlight. Bright and bright.
38. Calm: The lake is calm and there are no stormy waves. Surprised, it means "up" and "moving" here.
39. Up and down the sky, a blue sky: the sky and the lake are bright and colorful, green and boundless. One, one slice. Vast expanse, extremely wide-ranging.
4. Sha Ou Xiangji, Jin Li Swimming: Sha Ou sometimes flies and sometimes stops, and beautiful fish swim around in the water. Gulls on the sandbar in Sha Ou. Xiang Ji, sometimes flying, sometimes stopping. Set, stop, birds stop in the tree. Brocade refers to beautiful fish. Scale means fish. Swimming, floating or sinking. Swim, swim close to the water. Swim, dive into the water.
41. An Zhi (zhǐ) tīng (tΟ ng) orchid: grass on the shore, orchids on a small continent. Zhi, a kind of vanilla. Ting, Xiaozhou, the water is flat.
42. Gloomy: describes lush vegetation.
43. And the long smoke is gone: sometimes a large piece of smoke disappears completely. Or, sometimes. Long, large. One, all. Empty, dissipate.
44. Bright moonlight shines thousands of miles.
45. Floating gold: When the lake fluctuates, the moonlight floating on the water shines golden. This is a description of the water waves under the moonlight. Some versions are called "glitter and glitter".
46. Still shadows sink a jade: When the lake is calm, the bright moon shines into the water, as if it had sunk a jade. Here is the moon shadow in the water when there is no wind. Bi, a jade with a hole in the center of the circle. A heavy jade is like a jade that sinks into the water.
47. Answer: echo each other.
48. He Ji: There is no end. What, what. Extremely exhausted.
49. relaxed and happy: cheerful and cheerful. Open, open. Yi, happy.
5. Forget the humiliation: both the glory and humiliation are forgotten. Pet, glory. Humiliate, humiliation. Together, together, make a "all".
51. Bring the wine to the wind: bring the wine to the wind, that is, bring the wine to drink in the breeze. Hold, hold, hold. Face
Yes.
52. Yangyang: Happy.
53. Mrs. Ji: Alas. Fu is two words, both of which are modal particles.
54. Taste: Once. Seeking: exploring. Guren: A man of noble character in ancient times. Mind: thoughts (emotional thoughts).
55. Or different: maybe different from (above) two moods. Or, close to the meaning of "maybe" and "maybe",
is a euphemism. For, here refers to psychological activities, that is, two kinds of mood. Both, here refers to the "sadness" and "joy" in the first two paragraphs.
56. Don't be happy with things, don't be sad for yourself: don't be happy or sad because of the quality of foreign things and your own gains and losses (this sentence is intertextuality). So, because.
57. If you live in a temple, you worry about the people: if you are an official in the DPRK, you worry about the people. Being at the height of the temple: being on a high temple,
means being an official in the DPRK. Temple, ancestral temple. Hall, palace. Temple: refers to the imperial court. The following "Jin" means "staying at the height of the temple".
58. If you are far away from the Jianghu, you will worry about your monarch: if you are an official in a remote place, you will worry about your monarch. Being far away from the Jianghu: being in a remote Jianghu means not being an official in the imperial court. One: the sign of attributive postposition. Yes, it is. The "retreat" in the following refers to "being far away from the rivers and lakes".
59. Worry about the world first, and enjoy it later: worry before the world worries, and enjoy it after the world enjoys it. First, before. After, after. Its, refers to the "ancient benevolent".
6. Weiss, who are we going home with: (If) there is no such person, who am I going with? Slightly, (if) not. Si people, such people (referring to the "ancient benevolent people" mentioned above). Whoever returns is "who returns". Return, refuge.
Translation:
In the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, Teng Zijing was demoted to be the county magistrate of Baling. After a year, politics is clear and accessible, people live in peace and harmony, and all things abandoned in the past have resurfaced. So I rebuilt Yueyang Tower, increased the scale of the old one, carved the poems of sages and modern people in the Tang Dynasty upstairs, and told me to write an article to describe it.
In my opinion, the magnificent scenery of Baling County is all on Dongting Lake: connecting the distant mountains and engulfing the Yangtze River, the flowing water is vast and endless, the glory in the morning and the beautiful scenery at night are full of weather. This is the grand landscape of Yueyang Tower, which has been described in detail by predecessors. However, it leads to Wuxia in the north and Xiaoxiang in the south. Isn't it different that demoted officials and poets often come here to get together and enjoy the scenery?
when it rained for a long time, it continued for months. The cold wind blew angrily, and the dirty water waves were in the air; The sun, the moon and the stars disappeared, and the mountains lurked; Businessmen and passengers can't go out, the mast on the ship collapses and the oars are damaged; In the evening, the sky was dark, and the old tigers roared and the apes cried sadly. At this time, when I boarded Yueyang Tower, I was far away from the capital, nostalgic for my hometown, worried about others' slander, and afraid of being ridiculed by everyone. I was so sad that I felt extremely sad.
As for the peaceful spring breeze, the spring scenery is bright, the waves in the lake are calm, the sky is bright, and the lake is green in the late Qing Dynasty. Sha Ou flies, the golden fish swim in the water, the grass on the shore and the orchids in Tingzhou look gloomy and green. Sometimes the long smoke is in the air, the bright moon shines thousands of miles, and the lake shines like gold. Sometimes the shadow of the moon in a calm lake is like a jade that sinks into the water, and fishermen on the lake sing to each other. How can there be an end to such a happy scene? At this time, when you board Yueyang Tower, you will feel relaxed and happy, and you will forget all the splendor, disappointment and humiliation of your life. I drank the wine in front of the beautiful scenery and felt very happy and beaming.
ouch! I have explored the state of mind of benevolent people in ancient times, or the behavior of these people is different. Why? They are not happy or sad because of foreign things and personal gains and losses. Being a senior official in the court is worrying about the people; Being far away from the rivers and lakes, I am worried about the king. He is worried when he enters, and he is also worried when he retreats. So when will he be happy? The ancients must have said, "Let's get rid of the worries of the world before the joys of the world!" Alas! If it's not such a person, who am I going home with?
it was written on September 15th, 6th year of Qingli.