Excerpt from Jinse-Tang Dynasty: Li Shangyin
I want to know why my Jinse has fifty strings, and each string has a youthful interval.
Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, was bewitched by butterflies, and cuckoo crowed in the imperial spring.
Why does a beautiful musical instrument translated in vernacular Chinese have fifty strings, each of which reminds me of my youth? Zhuang Zhou danced in his sleep and turned into a butterfly, hoping that the emperor would entrust his hatred to Du Fu. Things change, the bright moon is in the sky, and Jiao Ren's tears are all beads; Lantian is sunny and warm, and you can see good jade and good smoke. Now recall such feelings, where there will be infinite regret? Even in those days, it was already overwhelming.
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1, golden creative background
This poem was written in the author's later years, and the specific creation time is unknown. There are always different opinions about the creative intention of the poem Jinse. Or think it's patriotic, or think it's a memorial to his dead wife, or think it's a theory of self-injury, or think it's a pen to express your thoughts and treat your children.
The Historical Records of Feng Chan contains 50 strings of Guser, while the latter is generally 25 strings. However, this poem was written after the death of Li Shangyin's wife, so 50 strings have the meaning of broken strings (once the 25-string Gusser string is broken in half, it is 50 strings), but even so, every string and syllable of it is enough to express the yearning for that wonderful time.
2. Appreciation of Jinse
Jinse is Li Shangyin's masterpiece. Everyone who loves poetry is happy and happy, and it is the most famous. However, this is the most difficult poem to explain.
Some people say that it is a love poem for a maid named "Jinse" in Linghu Chu's family; Some people say that it is a mourning poem for the late wife Wang; Others think that the four poems in the middle can meet the four feelings of appropriateness, resentment, clarity and harmony, and can be inferred as poems describing music; There are also many sayings, such as alluding to politics and writing autobiographical poems.