The play answers Yuan Zhen
Ouyang Xiu
The spring breeze is beyond doubt, and there are no flowers in the mountain city in February.
There are still oranges in the snow, and the frozen thunder scares the bamboo shoots to sprout.
the smell of singing geese at night makes you homesick, and you feel sick in the New Year.
I used to be a guest of Luoyang Flower, but Yefang didn't have to be late.
Ouyang Xiu (17—172) was born in Yongfeng, Jizhou (now Jishui, Jiangxi). In the eighth year of Tiansheng in Song Renzong (13), he was promoted to the position of scholar with the first place, and was appointed as an official in Xijing. In the fourth year of Jingyou in Renzong (137), he was demoted to Yiling (now Yichang, Hubei). He has been right in succession, knowing Chuzhou, Yangzhou and Yingzhou, and should stay in Tianfu and Nanjing. He has a bachelor's degree in Hanlin and knows Kaifengfu. In the sixth year of Jiayou (161), he learned about politics. Ouyang Xiu led the ancient prose movement in the Northern Song Dynasty and was one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties. He also made significant contributions to the innovation of the poetic style in the Song Dynasty, and his book "Poems on June 1" is the first poetic work in China, which has far-reaching influence. In terms of poetry creation, the achievements are also very outstanding. Sikuquanshu collected 153 volumes of Wenzhong Collection, and Quansong Poetry recorded 22 volumes and 28 sentences of his poems.
Answer Ding Yuanzhen, a play to Yuan Zhen, was written by Ren Zong Jing You for three years (136), and Ouyang Xiu defended Fan Zhongyan with the theory of cronies, which was demoted to the order of Yiling County in Xiazhou. In the spring of Jing You's fourth year, his friend Ding Baochen (character Zhen), then a military judge in Xiazhou, wrote a poem entitled "It takes a long time to rain" for him, and Ouyang Xiu wrote this poem to answer. The word "drama" is used in the title to cover up his frustration after being demoted and to comfort Ding Baochen.
The first couplet wrote about the late spring in the mountain city, and explained the time and place. This is an inverted sentence. It is reasonable to say that flowers are not seen in early spring and February, which will lead to the doubt that the spring breeze will not reach the horizon. It is the form of inversion that arouses readers' suspense and curiosity, thus arousing readers' reading interest. "Spring breeze is beyond the horizon" also reminds people of the famous sentence "Spring breeze does not pass Yumenguan" in Wang Zhihuan's Liangzhou Ci, and the poet seems to complain that Yiling, a mountain city, is a forgotten corner and can't get the favor of the emperor.
the early spring scene in the mountain city is written in the couplet. There are still winter scenes in early spring. First, there is still melted snow on the branches. Second, there are still unfinished oranges hanging on the trees. It is a fantastic idea to write four sentences that spring bamboo shoots are about to break out of the ground and say that their growth is the result of being awakened by spring thunder. These two sentences come from "no flowers", but they all describe the characteristics of Yiling, which is rich in oranges and bamboo, and fully reflect that spring in Yiling really comes late.
Neck ties express homesickness. Five sentences about not being able to sleep at night and smelling geese crow further enhance the feeling of homesickness. The poet who wrote this sentence lost sleep because he was homesick, but he could hear the geese cry at night because of insomnia, and he was even more homesick because the geese returned to the north on time when spring came, but he could not return to Luoyang, where he served as the left-behind pusher in Xijing before being demoted. I entered the new year when I was ill in other places, so I was particularly sensitive to beautiful things, so I was filled with emotion.
Tail couplet comforts itself and friends. Seven sentences wrote that he had enjoyed famous flowers in Luoyang, which slightly meant that "once the sea was difficult for water". Ouyang Xiu said in "Luoyang Peony and Customs": "Luoyang customs are generally good flowers. In spring, all the people in the city arrange flowers, even those who bear them. When the flowers bloom, the scholars compete for travel. " From the eighth year of Emperor Renzong's Tiansheng (13) to the first year of Jingyou (134), the poet served as an official of Xijing in Luoyang, and Luoyang was rich in peony, of course, there were other kinds of flowers, which Ouyang Xiu naturally enjoyed to his heart's content, so he called himself "a guest of Luoyang Flower". The wildflowers in the mountain city will definitely open, so we don't have to sigh, and look forward to the arrival of Yangchun in March.
The beauty of this poem is that it can combine scenery writing, lyricism and discussion, and the scenery writing can be full of vitality in the chilly spring. Lyrics can have hope in the unbearable reflection; Discussion can take a step back from frustration. Ouyang Xiu once said in "Sleeping in the Yellow River": "When you see the mountains and rivers, you can sing, but you can't come because you have moved?" No matter what feelings are expressed in the poem, it is still very meaningful for people to look at the setbacks in life in an all-round way. Therefore, the arguments in Song poetry cannot be totally denied.