A group of poems from Song Dynasty poet Chang Lu, "Two Poems of Light Rain Climbing to the City"
Original text:
The rain reflected the cold air, and the heavy building leaned against the corner of the city.
Shallow mountains, high and low trees, a Jiangnan ink painting.
These two poems are works of climbing stairs to see the wild. The first poem depicts an ink painting in the south of the Yangtze River by writing an ink painting, in which the rain reflects the cold weather, the mountains are deep and the trees are secluded, overlooking the balcony. At noon, the author of the second poem boarded the scene and looked into the distance, depicting a beautiful and sunny picture with flowers and birds, showing the author's cheerful mood.
Appreciate:
The first sentence is "light rain" in autumn, and the word "reflection" captures the characteristics of natural scenery very aptly. If it is a light rain in spring, just like a cloud, it can't be "reflected" with the sky; The misty rain in early summer is boundless, and everything in the distance is wrapped up, not to mention "reflecting" with the sky. Only in autumn, this seemingly transparent "meaningless and silent" rain has this feature. Therefore, from the beginning of "the rain reflects the cold", it is described in detail with "semi-existence", which truly conveys the god of autumn rain in detail. As for the word "cold" in front of "empty", it is to show the cold feeling of autumn rain and does not contain the poet's subjective feelings.
This is a masterpiece of climbing stairs, which is expected. The second sentence is "going to the city". The word "leisure" on the heavy building not only shows that the poet is not here for the first time-he will be in a very urgent mood and there will be no word "leisure"; This also means that he didn't try to relocate the guests-it would be boring and impossible to be "idle". The most important thing is to point out that when the poet has leisure, his heart is relaxed and he can appreciate autumn scenery slowly in this autumn rain.
The poet looked at the wild, and the poet summed it up with a poem: "The shallow mountains are high and the trees are low." The sky is high and the air is clear, and the columns are heavy, either near or far, or light or dark, each with a "shallow depth"; On the other hand, the trees on the mountain are quite mixed and confusing, but when you see layers of trees, the "height" is different. "Shallow and deep" and "high and low" describe the distant land of autumn mountains.
This kind of scenery is unprecedented for the poet, and he is more interested. The poet's new feeling of "old knowledge" is more attractive than when he first met. Although the poet has seen this kind of scenery, he has never gazed in the light rain before, and he is not in such a comfortable mood. He later enjoyed a particularly high interest. In a word, the poet lingers and is lost in thought. After repeated pondering, he finally became suddenly enlightened: "the mountains are shallow and the trees are high" in front of him, just like "an ink painting of the south of the Yangtze River". Empty and clear, desolate and distant, only ink painting has this artistic conception. The beauty he never appreciated before, but now he has a leisurely heart, so he feels very comfortable. Therefore, this last sentence is not just a subtle and appropriate metaphor, but full of extreme pleasure.
However, the metaphorical relationship between "there are trees with high and low colors in shallow mountains" and "an ink painting map of the south of the Yangtze River" is also very meaningful. The above sentence is a real scene. In order to compare with ink painting, the poet deliberately avoided color and only used the word "shallow and deep" to describe it. The next sentence is a virtual image. Although it is virtual, it is extremely detailed. In front of "ink painting" are "Jiangnan" and "mountain color", which leaves readers with room for imagination. In this way, from real to virtual, virtual and real are born together. Although there is no delicate description of the scenery, it can show the charm of the scenery and arouse readers' distant association.
reference data
Yu shaoqing. A dictionary of appreciation of song poetry. Shanghai: Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, February 1997.