Lin' an in the early spring
Lu You [Song]
For years, the taste of this world was as thin as gauze. Who will be the rider in Beijing?
Living in a small building and listening to the falling spring rain, you will hear the sound of selling apricots in the depths of the alley early in the morning.
Slowly spread out small pieces of paper sideways, every word is organized, carefully boil water and tea under the sun window, skim it and try to taste famous tea.
Oh, don't sigh that the dust in Kyoto will stain the white clothes, and there is still time to return to the mirror house in Lake Ubak.
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In recent years, human feelings are as thin as a veil (the attention to the world/officialdom is as thin as a veil in recent years). Who asked me to ride a horse to Kyoto to pollute the bustling?
Living in a small building and listening to the spring rain all night, tomorrow morning, someone will sell apricot flowers in a deep alley.
Spread out a small piece of paper, leisurely scribble cursive script, and carefully boil water to make tea and skim the foam in front of the window at the beginning of light rain, and taste famous tea.
Don't sigh that the dust in Kyoto will stain the white clothes, and there is still time to return to my hometown by Yinshanjing Lake during the Qingming Festival.
To annotate ...
Ⅷ (Ⅷ): It will clear up after rain or snow.
World taste: the taste of the world; Social feelings.
G: guest room.
Jinghua: The good name of Beijing refers to Lin 'an, the capital at that time.
Deep lane: a long lane.
Ming Dynasty (zhāo): Tomorrow morning.
Short paper: short paper, small paper.
Slant: A diagonal line.
Grass: refers to cursive script.
Sunshine window: a bright window.
Refined milk: the best in tea.
Tea separation: the method of frying tea in Song and Yuan Dynasties. After filling the soup, stir the tea milk with bamboo sticks to make the soup ripple into various shapes.
Plain clothes: used to refer to white clothes. It is used as a proxy here. It is a poet's humble title to himself (similar to "Su Shi").
Dust sigh: sigh because of dust. Suggest that you don't have to worry about the bad atmosphere in Beijing polluting your own quality.
Creation background
In the spring of 1 186 (the thirteenth year of Xichun), the author was called to Beijing and accepted the position of Yanzhou Zhizhou. Before his appointment, he went to Lin 'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) to see the emperor, lived in an inn by the West Lake and was summoned. In boredom, he wrote this famous poem.
Make an appreciative comment
If the author's name is hidden, when we read this song "The Beginning of Spring Rain in Lin 'an", we may think that it was not written by Lu Fangweng who was "an iron horse" and "swallowed the remnants". Although there is apricot blossom-like spring scenery in the poem, it also implies the sentimental feeling of "the taste of the world is as thin as yarn" and the boring mood of "doing nothing to do grass" and "playing with tea", which is very inconsistent with Lu You's majestic and tragic style of singing "defending the country" and "serving the country".
Lu You has not been taken seriously since Xiaozong Xichun summoned him for five years, but he worked as an official twice in Fujian and Jiangxi to promote Changping tea and salt. In the next five years, he stayed away from politics, but he understood the changes in the political arena and the indifference of the world. Therefore, the poem begins with a unique and ingenious metaphor, lamenting that the world is as thin as translucent yarn. So the first couplet began to talk about the thinness of "the taste of the world" and asked "who made the riders in Beijing". Lu You is 62 years old, not only because of his long-term career ups and downs, but also because of his unfulfilled ambitions and various misfortunes in his personal life. The old man, who had a rough life, sighed and expressed his inner feelings about this cold world. This kind of lamentation may be beyond doubt to others, but it is not reasonable for Lu You who died in decadence without feeling sorry for himself and still wanted to defend his country. This letter was sent to Beijing and was appointed as Yanzhou well-known. For Lu You, who has struggled all his life and unswervingly realized the ideal of serving the country, granting him the right to report to the country will actually cause his "who" problem.
Zhuan Xu pointed out "poetic eye", which is also a famous sentence of Lu You. Language is fresh and meaningful. The poet lives alone in a small building and listens to the spring rain all night; The next morning, the sound of selling apricot flowers came from the depths of the alley, telling people that spring was deep. Continuous spring rain is written by the poet's hearing; The faint spring scenery is revealed in the sound of selling flowers. It is vivid and profound. Legend has it that these two poems were later introduced into the palace and praised by Xiaozong, which shows that they were widely circulated for a period of time. People who have been commenting on this poem think that these two sentences are meticulous and appropriate, depicting a bright and vivid picture of spring scenery, but they don't notice that its role in the whole poem is not only to depict spring scenery, but to integrate with the poems before and after. In fact, "the small building listens to the spring rain all night" means that the continuous spring rain is like a sad miss. When reading this poem, don't let go of the word "overnight" easily. It just implies that the poet stayed up all night, worrying about the country and the people, and with the sound of rain, he rushed to his brow. Li Shangyin's "Autumn frost flies late, leaving dry lotus to listen to the rain" is based on the premise of dry lotus to listen to the rain. Lu You writes more implicitly and profoundly here. Although he used more lively words, his intention was to express his depression and melancholy. It was against the background of beautiful spring scenery that he was in sharp contrast with his feeling of loneliness.
Brief introduction of the author
Luyou (1125165438+1October10 65438+1October 26th), the word concept, No. When I was in Song Gaozong, I took the does exam, but my career didn't go well because I was rejected by the traitor Qin Gui. Filial piety makes a scholar. Middle-aged into Shu, devoted to military life. In the second year of Jiatai (1202), Song Ningzong sent an imperial edict to Lu You to Beijing, and presided over the compilation of Xiao Zong and Guang Zong's Records of the Two Dynasties and History of the Three Dynasties. His official position was to be determined. Retire to another country in his later years. There are more than 9,000 poems written today, which are extremely rich in content. He is the author of Poems of Jiannan, Collected Works of Weinan, Book of Southern Tang Dynasty, Notes on Old Ann Studies, etc.