Appreciation of He Dang's Cut the West Window Candle and Talk about Late Rain

A Short Message to Friends in the North on a Rainy Night is a lyric quatrain written by Li Shangyin, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, to his wife (or friend) in Chang 'an, a foreign land. The poet wrote his deep affection and kindness to his wife (or friend) in plain words. The whole poem is ingenious, natural and smooth, ups and downs, full of artistic conception. This poem is the poet's reply to his wife (or friend). Although it is difficult to agree on the date of return, the poet's imagination of meeting another day and talking about the rain at night by candlelight will certainly comfort friends or wives who ask about the date of return. "Notes for Friends in Bei Tang on a Rainy Night" Li Shangyin asked about the untimely return date (1), and the rain rose in the evening. When * * * cuts the candle at the west window (3), it talks about the late rain (4). [1] This is a lyric. The first two sentences of this poem, with questions and answers and descriptions of the immediate environment, illustrate the lonely feelings and deep nostalgia for his wife. The last two sentences imagine the joy of meeting again in the future and compare with the loneliness tonight. The language is shallow and affectionate, implicit and meaningful, well known and memorable. According to textual research, this poem was written by the author when he entered the Liu Zhongying Zizhou shogunate of Dongchuan secretariat from July to September in the fifth year of Dazhong (85 1). At this time, Yishan's wife Wang Shi died (Wang Shi died in the summer and autumn of Dazhong five years). So, give this poem to friends in Chang 'an. However, a mountain entered the catalpa curtain, and in the summer and autumn of the fifth year, his wife died. Even if Wang's death comes first and Yishan's poems come last, it is completely possible in the era of traffic jams and poor information. As far as the content of poetry is concerned, if we understand it by "sending it inside", we will feel sad and lingering; Think of it as "north delivery", too delicate, too plain and too delicate. [4] A Short Message to Friends in the North on a Rainy Night, selected from Li Yishan's Poems, is a famous lyric short chapter by Li Shangyin, written by a poet to his wife in the North. At that time, the poet was blocked by the autumn rain and stayed in the Beijing-Pakistan area. His wife sent a letter from home asking about the date of her return. However, due to the continuous autumn rain and traffic interruption, it is impossible to determine, so reply: Jun asked that the return date is undecided. This sentence has questions and answers, ups and downs, revealing the poet's anxiety about being in a foreign land and having an uncertain return date. The poet and his wife, Mr. Wang, are deeply attached to each other and always look forward to returning to their hometown as soon as possible, sitting under the west window with his wife and chatting late into the night by candlelight. At this time, I can only miss it hard. There are only four sentences in the poem, but the scene is integrated with reality, which not only contains the repeated contrast of space, but also reflects the cyclic jump of time. "What to do" is the word of imagination, and imagination comes from real scenes. So the second sentence of the late rain has become an imaginary topic, and naturally it has become such a clever poem as "refusing to talk about the late rain". Most of Li Shangyin's love poems are elegant, gorgeous, deep and tortuous. This poem, consisting of 10,000 Tang poems, is entitled "Night Rain Sends Inside". "Inside" means "my wife" and refers to my wife. At the beginning of the first sentence, you directly call the other person "Jun" and draw a picture of lovesickness between husband and wife from a unique perspective: Dear wife, you must be anxious to ask me when I will return to China. Then, I tell you, I don't know when I can go home. The uniqueness of this poem lies in the poet's writing of acacia from a misplaced perspective, that is, the other party may not really write to ask about the date of return, but the poet imagines his wife's missing and asks about the date of return. China's ancient poems about lovesickness often don't directly write about how to miss each other, but how to miss himself, which euphemistically expresses the poet's feelings of missing. For example, Du Fu's Moonlit Night shows his thoughts about his wife by imagining his thoughts about himself on the moonlit night. The phrase "Jun asks if he will return soon" seems dull, but it injects the thoughts of his wife into every word, which is euphemistic, affectionate and intriguing. "Late Rain Rising in Autumn Pond" is about the environment in which he lived at that time, that is, the scenery. The poet described a specific environment in concise language: Bashan, autumn night and pouring rain. The author gives a more specific description of this environment, not only describing the rain in the sky, but also describing the rain accumulated underground. Through the realistic scenery, people seem to feel such an atmosphere: it is dark all around, it is raining cats and dogs, the pool is full, there is no intimate friend around the author, and it is raining cats and dogs, making people feel lonely and desolate. This intermittent autumn rain makes people upset, the pool is full of feelings, and the nature author's heart is also surging. Then, the feeling of "autumn pool rising" is more than torrential autumn rain and rising pool water. Obviously, it is the emotional wave of the author's infinite yearning for his wife in sleepless nights. Therefore, there are deep feelings in the scenery, and the environment is written, but it is not just the environment. There is a word "love" between the lines. In this way, the blending of scenes constitutes an artistic realm.