House of Bamboo
Wang Wei? Tang dynasty
I leaned alone in the dense bamboo, playing the piano and humming a song.
It's too light for anyone to hear, except my partner, Mingyue.
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Sitting alone in a quiet bamboo forest, singing loudly while playing the piano.
No one knows in the mountains and forests, only a bright moon is quietly accompanying me.
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Zhuliguan: A scenic spot in Wangchuan Villa. There are bamboo forests around the house, hence the name.
Juan: A deep bamboo forest.
Xiaoà o: Wearing a green hat will make a long and crisp sound, similar to whistling.
Deep forest: refers to "secluded forest".
Taking pictures: corresponding to "sitting alone", it means that there is no one around, only the bright moon seems to understand and wants to take pictures.
Long whistle: shout with a pinch of mouth, which means chanting and singing In ancient times, some detached people used it to express their feelings. Celebrities in Wei and Jin Dynasties called whistling.
Creation background
This poem was written during Wang Wei's seclusion in Wangchuan, Lantian in his later years. Wang Wei believed in Buddhism in his early years, his thoughts were detached and his career was bumpy. After forty, I lived a semi-official and semi-secluded life. With a quiet mind, the poet met the quiet nature of bamboo forest and bright moon and wrote a book with great care.
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This poem describes the leisure life and interest of hermits, the leisure life of the poet sitting alone under the moon and playing the piano. With simple and beautiful words, it conveys the poet's calm and indifferent state of mind, showing the realm of tranquility and appealing to both refined and popular tastes.
The environment in which the poet started his activities was quiet. The word "independence" at the beginning left a prominent impression on readers, and the word "independence" also runs through the whole article. "Dark fire" refers to the depths of bamboo forest. "The Songs of Chu Nine Songs Shan Gui" said: "I can't see the sky anywhere else." As the name implies, the "Bamboo Pavilion" is a house built deep in the bamboo forest, and Wang Wei sits alone in it. His friend Pei Di wrote in the same poem: "No one in the world is the only mountain bird." Only the first sentence of the poem shapes the image of a leisurely solitaire.
The second sentence inherits the poet's carefree, alone, and expresses his feelings by playing the piano and whistling. We know that Wang Wei is a famous musician, so after passing the Jinshi exam, he became too happy. However, it is obvious that he is sitting alone in the bamboo pavilion playing the piano, not for people to appreciate, but to express his embrace. "Long whistle" refers to chanting poems loudly in a long sound, such as Su Shi's Waiting in the Woods: "Come home in the morning and evening, and the old songs will be long." It is obvious that playing the piano is not enough to express your feelings, and then I sang again. The poem he sang may be this "Bamboo House".
In describing the scenery in the poem, only six words are used to form three words, namely "secluded place", "deep forest" and "bright moon". For the moon that shines on the earth, there is nothing new and ingenious about using the word "Ming" to describe its brightness. It's a common saying. As for the first sentence "Huang" and the third sentence "Lin", they are actually the same thing, both of which repeat the bamboo forest where the poet lives, adding the words "secluded" and "deep" in front of the bamboo forest, but the explanation is neither "three poles and two poles of bamboo" as mentioned in Yu Xin's Xiao Yuan Fu, nor "green hills and bamboos" as mentioned in Liu Zongyuan's poems. Here, it's like writing the scene at will, without any effort to describe and describe it.
Write three or four sentences about your inner world, and no one can understand them. "It's too light for anyone to hear" is the proper meaning of this poem. If he didn't care what people knew and didn't know, he wouldn't have written this poem. Since he wrote this poem, it shows that he still hopes someone can understand him. Unfortunately, he was only accompanied by a bright moon in the sky. Writing "I don't know" at the beginning and "Moonlight" at the end can also be said to echo each other.
When writing about people's activities in poetry, only six words are used to form three words, namely, "sitting alone, playing the piano and whistling". For the characters, they didn't describe how they played Xiao Shu, and they didn't express their emotions. For the piano sound and whistle, I didn't spend any ink to write its timbre and sound. On the surface, the words used in the four poems are unremarkable. But when the four poems are combined together, they have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they contain a special artistic charm. As a masterpiece in Wang Wei's Wang Chuan Bie Ji, its beauty lies in its naturally attractive artistic conception. It does not win with words, but regards beauty as a whole. Its beauty lies in its absence. To appreciate and appreciate its beauty, we should take its appearance as its spirit, and its spirit is contained in the artistic conception. As far as artistic conception is concerned, it not only gives people the feeling of "secluded amorous feelings" ("My Servant Poems"), but also makes people feel that the scenery of the secluded forest on this moonlit night is so ethereal and clear, and the people who play the piano and shout during it are so carefree, dusty and seamless. On the other hand, in language, we can see the flavor from nature, from plain high rhyme. Its natural and simple style beauty and artistic conception beauty complement each other.
It is conceivable that the formation of a poem's artistic conception depends entirely on the consistency between the character's mind and the internal quality of the scenery written, without the help of external hue. Therefore, when I am integrated with things, feelings and scenery, the poet can, as Si Kongtu said in Poetry and Nature, "look down on everything, don't take the neighbors, and go their own way to become spring scenery" and enter the artistic world of "thin words and feelings, leisurely days". Of course, when we say "everywhere" here, we don't mean that poets have no choice but to choose materials easily; When we say "start a spring" here, we don't mean that the poet didn't make arrangements when he was in charge, but he believed it. The poem describes the surrounding scenery, choosing bamboo forests and bright moons, which is consistent with the quiet environment to be expressed; Express your feelings in poetry, one chooses to play the piano and whistle, and then the other expresses it with the tranquility and clarity of mind. This is the immediate matter, and the reason why he wrote this scene and this matter has his own mature poetic thought. Judging from the combination of the whole poem, the poet wrote a piano and whistle while writing a secluded forest on a moonlit night, expressing tranquility with his voice. As for the last sentence of the poem, it not only contrasts with the "people don't know" in the previous sentence, but also plays a role in breaking the dark night. The contrast between these sounds and silence, as well as light and shadow, is ingenious and ingenious in arrangement.
Brief introduction of the author
Wang Wei (70 1 year -76 1 year, 699 -76 1 year), whose real name was Ji Jie, was named the magic pony. Han nationality, a native of Hedong, Zhou Pu (now Yuncheng, Shanxi) and Qixian, Shanxi, was a poet in the Tang Dynasty and was known as the "Shi Fo". Su Shi commented: "Poetry is full of paintings; Look at the picture, there are poems in the picture. " In the ninth year of Kaiyuan (72 1), he was a scholar and was appointed as Tai Lecheng. Wang Wei is a representative of poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Today, there are more than 400 poems, including Acacia and Autumn Night in the Deep Mountains. Wang Wei is proficient in Buddhism and is greatly influenced by Zen. Buddhism has a Vimalakīrti Jing, which is the origin of Wang Wei's name and ci. Wang Wei's poems, paintings and calligraphy are all famous, versatile and proficient in music. Together with Meng Haoran, they are called "Wang Meng".