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① Ziyou: Su Shi's younger brother Su Zhe's Ziyou. Mianchi: Mianchi County, Henan Province today. This poem was written by Su Zhe's "Huai Mianchi sends his son to look forward to his brother".
Old monk: Just be idle.
(3) According to Su Zhe's original poem, he wrote: "In the past, Zi Zhan should do it, crossing the temple house in Suxian County, and asking the old monk to be idle."
4 donkey: lame donkey. Su Shi's Note: "Last year, the horse died in Erling (according to the mountain, west of Mianchi) and rode a donkey to Mianchi."
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The keynote of Su Shi's poems is homesickness, because he 19 was appointed as the main book of Mianchi County (because he was the top student in the senior high school entrance examination, he did not take office). In the first year of Jiayou, he and his brother Shi went to Beijing with his father to catch the exam. They passed by here and had a visit to the monk to leave a question. Therefore, he wrote in his poem: "Have you ever been a county magistrate? The wall problem of the old monk's house. " He felt that these experiences were full of accidents. If there is no fate with Mianchi, why are you always associated with it? If we are destined for Mianchi, why can't we stay a little longer? This is the emotion in Su Zhe's poems. From these feelings, Su Shi made further comments on life. These are the first four sentences of this poem. In Su Shi's view, not only the concrete life is uncertain, but also the whole life is full of unknowns, just like the swan goose occasionally stops in the snow during the flight, leaving traces, but when it snows in Hong Fei, everything no longer exists. So, is there a force that dominates this behavior? If life is made up of countless coordinate points, are there any rules for these coordinate points to follow? Young Su Shi expressed such doubts and regrets about life. However, life is unknowable, which does not mean that life is the purpose; Although the past has disappeared, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Take the experience of riding a donkey on a mountain road and bumping on a difficult and rugged mountain road, isn't it an experience, an experience and a wealth of life? Therefore, although life is impermanent, don't give up your efforts; Although many things are accidental, we should not give up the search for inevitability. In fact, without going through some hardships, how can you be admitted to Jinshi and realize your ambitions? This is Su Shi: not only delving into the details of life, but also full of optimism, and his whole outlook on life has been displayed in miniature here.
The reason and interest of this poem are mainly reflected in the first four sentences, and "Snow Mud and Red Claw" is also widely recited as an idiom by later generations. But in writing techniques, it is also quite distinctive. Ji Yun once commented: "The first four sentences entered the law in a single line, and the Tang people were conservative; The artistic conception is the true color of Dongpo. " The so-called "ancient customs of the Tang Dynasty" generally refers to the Yellow Crane Tower in Cui Hao: "In ancient times, yellow cranes carried saints to heaven, but today there is no yellow crane tower. The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years. ..... "As seven laws, three or four sentences should be opposite, but this is a straight line, which is not particular. Su Shi's "On Mud" can also be regarded as antithesis, but its meaning is straightforward, and it is also related to inheritance, so it is "one-way entry into the law". "Artistic conception is unrestrained" means that it is not only elegant literally, but also magnificent in writing, rich in connotation and intriguing, and its works do not seek success. This is Su Shi's "true colors".
Note: Su Shi's younger brother Su Zhe. Mianchi: Mianchi County, Henan Province today. Know it: know it. Crappy, lame.
A brief analysis of this poem is the poet's nostalgia for the past. Use "snow mud and claws" to describe the traces left by people unintentionally, just like Hong Fei stepping on paw prints in the snow. For example, the old monk's new tower and rotten wall are all paw prints on the mud, lamenting the impermanence of life, but the bumpy experience of the past remains in people's memory, and the paw prints in their hearts are indelible. The whole poem is novel in metaphor and ingenious in technique, showing infinite affection for life.
Once, Su Shi and his younger brother Su Zhe (Ziyou) passed by the pond and the horse died on the road. They rode donkeys to a monk temple in Mianchi and wrote poems on the temple wall. Later, Ziyou wrote a poem "Mianchi Nostalgia". Dongpo revisited his hometown, and the old monk who received his whole heart was dead. A new tower was built for the old monk in the temple, and the temple wall where Dongpo brothers wrote poems was also broken! I will never see that old poem again. Dongpo wrote this poem with mixed feelings and felt that life was flying.