[Song Dynasty] Ouyang Xiu "Picking Mulberries (It's good to take a short boat to the West Lake)"
It's good to take a short boat to the West Lake, with meandering green water. Fragrant grass embankment. Faint music and music are everywhere. There is no wind on the water, the glass is smooth, and I don't feel the boat moving. Micro ripples. The sand birds were startled and flew across the shore.
Notes:
1. Chu (zhào): a rowing tool shaped like an oar. West Lake: This refers to the West Lake in Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui).
2. Weiyuan (wēi, yí): curved and long.
3. Liuli Slippery: Describes running water as clear and transparent as smooth as glass. Bai Juyi's poem "Pan Taihu Calligraphy": "The blue glazed water is pure and windless."
4. Ripples: water ripples. Zuo Si's "Wu Du Fu": "The bright moon shines on the ripples." Note: "Ripples, fine ripples."
Appreciation:
This article is a composition of Ouyang Xiu's poem praising the West Lake in Yingzhou Lyrics - "Picking Mulberries" is the first of ten poems. Regarding the mentality and purpose of writing the ten poems "Picking Mulberries", the author said this in "Xihu Nianyu", which is the first of the group of poems: "Although the beautiful scenery and good days are more than those in Gaohui; the breeze and the bright moon are fortunate to belong to idle people. . Travel together or make friends with you, and sometimes go alone when you are happy. Listen to the frogs for a while, and ask questions for officials and privately. When the water is flowing, you can chant it with joy and understanding. No one." It can be seen that these little words are all improvisations of his broad-mindedness and unrestrained attitude, and each one is the product of his "joyful understanding" of the natural scenery of Yingzhou West Lake. The good thing about these ten poems is that although they are all about the same West Lake, each one has its own artistic realm and aesthetic characteristics. As Xia Jingguan, a recent scholar, said: "This poem about West Lake in Yingzhou was written by Gong Xi, who knew Yingzhou in the past, and lived in Yingzhou later this night. None of the ten poems has the same meaning." (Long Yusheng cited Xia Jingguan in "Selected Poems by Famous Writers of the Tang and Song Dynasties") (Comment 6) This article describes the tranquility and beauty of the West Lake and the author's comfortable feeling of boating on the lake. Through this description, it expresses the author's leisurely and elegant demeanor as a "idle person". The whole article shows readers such a "state of being": On the lake with a long blue embankment and a mirror-like level, there are faint music and songs at first, and then the sound of oars startles the sand birds, and the calm atmosphere is suddenly broken. The drunken man Ouyang Xiu appeared slowly from a distance in a short boat with a short boat... The author seems to be describing the scene objectively, without any self-description, but the protagonist's leisurely attitude of self-admiration and self-enjoyment is... It stands out vividly on the screen. This shows that the author is good at expressing himself through the presentation of a specific realm. Therefore, Xu Angxiao's "Ci Comprehensive Occasion Review" praised this article and said: "A leisurely and elegant place is out of reach." Yu Biyun's "Selected Explanations of Ci Poems of the Tang, Five Dynasties and Two Song Dynasties" commented on the wonderful way of creating a scene: "The four sentences below are extremely elegance. The waves of a boat on the lake are as flat as a mirror. The words "I don't feel the boat moving" are particularly wonderful.
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