Annotation and analysis of the poem "Good in the Middle" by Nalan Xingde (Farewell is like silk and can't sleep)

It's good in the middle (I can't sleep like silk threads)

I can't sleep like silk threads. It's a border city worthy of a lonely pillow and a dream. Because I heard the rain coming in the middle of the night, I remembered the midnight lights in the red building. The book is solemn and the hatred is clear. The sky will turn sadness into passion. When I got up and slapped my hands to seal the title, I missed the word "Yuanyang".

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Farewell is like silk: the sadness of parting is lingering.

Dreaming of the border town: Dreaming in the border town. Zisai: generally refers to the frontier fortress. Legend has it that the soil color of the Great Wall built by the Qin Dynasty was purple, and the color of the pass in the Han Dynasty was also the same, so it was called Zisai.

The book is solemn: refers to a home letter written to the wife. Title: Signed at the edge of the envelope.

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This word describes farewell, and the deep affection of character and virtue can be seen in the writing. Because Xingde held the position of imperial guard and had to travel with the emperor, his travels often went as far as the frontiers and fortresses, so he and his wife spent little time together and parted frequently. As a result, Xingde, who is born with many emotions, is trapped in lovesickness between two places and cannot extricate himself. This poem describes that I was thinking about farewell, falling into a dream because of my thoughts, listening to the rain when I woke up from the dream, and thinking about the distance when listening to the rain. I couldn't help myself, so I wrote a letter from home to send my lovesickness. The poet writes all the way through, with a clear context, and the deep and sincere feelings run through it. The combination of virtuality and reality in the upper palace means that dreaming about the border city and recalling the red building are virtual, but being unable to sleep peacefully and listening to the rain with purple plugs are real. Between the virtual and the real, it will be difficult to sleep peacefully due to the confusion of separation, and the sleepiness will fall into the dream of the border city. The raindrops at the third watch will wake up the dreamer. After waking up from the dream, he will recall the lights of the red building. The writing is as clear as before, making the reading feel like being there. Xia Qian wrote the book because he could not help but miss his lovesickness. The details of "sealing the title with his hands" and "the two characters of mandarin duck and ice" not only describe the severe cold weather in the frontier fortress, but also describe the different kind of warmth in the severe winter. Read There is a feeling of warmth like spring. The sentence "Heaven will bring sadness to passion" is a warning in the article. Although it is called "Heaven will", it is actually "man-made", because it is not sadness that brings passion, but passion that brings sadness.