From: Zhang Servant Shooting Competition (Part II)
Author:
Lu Lun (739-799) was born in Zhou Pu (now Yongji County, Shaanxi Province). Tang Dynasty poet, one of the ten talented people in Dali. At the end of Tianbao in Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, he was a scholar and an official to a school doctor. He died soon. He is the author of Lu Hubu's Poems.
Translation:
In the dark forest, the grass was suddenly blown by the wind, so the general quickly drew his bow and shot an arrow in the dark. Dawn searched for the white arrow shot last night and inserted it deeply into the boulder.
Appreciate:
This frontier poem describes a general who killed a tiger. It is based on the biography of General Li written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, and records the deeds of the famous Li Guang at that time. The original text is: "When you went hunting widely, you saw a stone in the grass, thinking it was shooting tigers, and the stone in the middle (zhòng) had no arrow. You see, it is also a stone. "
The first two sentences of the poem describe what happened: in the middle of the night, the forest was dark, and suddenly the wind was blowing hard, and the grass was shaken by the earthquake; A white tiger fainted at the frogman landing place. At this moment, the general is flying through the forest. He is quick-sighted and quick-footed, and he bows and shoots arrows. ...
As a result of the last two sentences, the next morning, the general remembered what happened in the forest last night and came to the scene along the original road. He couldn't help being surprised: in the bright morning light, he clearly saw that he had shot a boulder instead of a tiger.
Fear crouched there silently, and the white arrow went deep into the stone edge! Please note that the place where the arrow enters is not a cave, a gap or a stone surface, but a narrow and sharp stone edge-what a great arm strength and martial arts it takes!
Someone wants to ask, why didn't the general kill the tiger until the next morning? The original story didn't tell me that it was a stone the next day! This is the poet's artistic treatment. First, it can show the general's confidence. It has always been very popular. Are you afraid it won't die or run this time?
Second, it can increase the intuition of the image and make people see it more clearly. If you watch it that night, of course, you can find that this is a misunderstanding, but it is difficult to achieve the vivid effect of the current picture.
Poetry pays the most attention to implication and emphasizes the implication. Seeing the description of the arrow hitting the stone in the poem, we naturally associate it with: What would it look like if it was really a tiger? What happens if you shoot enemy soldiers and horses on the battlefield? Thus, the image of a general with high martial arts, bravery and good fighting skills stood in front of our eyes.