Translation and Appreciation of Huang Chu's Ancient Poems "Village Horse Crossing Mountain Path" and "Chrysanthemum"

Wang Yucheng, a poet and writer in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Traveling in the village, crossing the mountain path, and blooming in Huang Zhi". The full text of his ancient poems is as follows:

The horse crossed the chrysanthemum and crossed the mountain road, leaving the horse to walk freely.

Listen to the sound of thousands of valleys at night and watch some peaks silent in the sunset.

The leaves of huanghuali are as red as rouge, and the fragrance of buckwheat flowers is as white as snow.

What happened? I was suddenly disappointed. The original tree of the village bridge is like my hometown.

order

Village Trip is one of the representative works of Wang Yucheng's lyric poems in the Northern Song Dynasty. Based on the rural behavior, this poem vividly depicts the charming scenery of Shan Ye and truly expresses the poet's homesickness with implicit poetic language. In poetry, scenery description is combined with lyricism. Scenery writing is the foreshadowing of lyricism, and lyricism is the end of scenery writing. The changing process of the poet's mood from carefree to disappointed is vividly reflected in this "two combination". This is a picturesque poem by autumn scenery, and it is also a touching homesick song. From this, we can get a glimpse of the freshness and simplicity of Wang's poems.

To annotate ...

(1) Xinma: Ride a horse and walk at will. Nocturnal walking: refers to the pleasure of reveling in the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers.

(2) Morning and evening: refers to the sound of autumn. Lai, the voice of nature.

(3) Li Tang: Li Du, also known as Pak Lei and Baitang. Deciduous tree with excellent wood and red leaves.

(4) Buckwheat: Millet, with small white flowers in autumn and black-red triangle fruit.

5] Primitive tree: a tree on the meta-leaf. Originally, vilen.

translate

The horse is walking on the mountain road, the chrysanthemum is yellowish, and it is intentional to walk freely. Thousands of valleys echo, listen to the night, and watch several peaks silently in the sunset. The fallen leaves in Li Tang are as red as rouge, and the fragrant buckwheat is as white as snow. What makes me suddenly feel blue when I sing a poem? It turns out that the small bridge in the country is like my hometown.

Distinguish and appreciate

Wang Yucheng claimed that "Ben and Lotte are backward, and daring to be beautiful is the forerunner". This poem is elegant and refined in style, clear and easy to understand, and won the charm of Bai Juyi and Du Fu's poems. The first dynamic description of the scenery: Jin Ju blooms, the flower diameter is fragrant, the horseshoe is broken, and the chrysanthemum is beautiful. The word "Wanhe" in "Zhuan Lian" refers to the majestic mountains. "Sound" refers to mountain springs, waterfalls and running water. The phrase "several peaks are silent" describes mountains in human form, which is ingenious in conception. Qunfeng can't say it, but it is called "speechless". Sunset in the West is more affectionate to the mountain in the evening. People forget what to say to the mountain, and the mountain is silent to people. The two have a harmonious relationship and seem to have a tacit understanding. The neckline is bright and bright, and the "rouge color" and "white snow fragrance" are red and white, and the color is overflowing; "Leaves falling" and "flowers blooming" are opposites, and things are natural and thoughtful. The abrupt turn of the tail couplet leads to the author's homesickness and seclusion with "melancholy", which contains the feeling of relegation and frustration and wandering in a foreign land, with strong homesickness and light and dignified taste.

Village Trip is a seven-character poem written by Wang Yucheng when he was demoted as the envoy of Shangzhou in the second year of Chunhua (99 1). It's about the night view of the mountain village, and the season is autumn. The content of the poem is probably that the poet is riding a horse, enjoying the scenery along the way and listening to the sound of the valley at dusk. While enjoying the scenery and reciting poems, the author suddenly found that the bridges in the village and the trees on the Yuan Ye are very similar to those in his hometown, which led to homesickness.

The poem first describes autumn scenery in detail, and then expresses the author's love for the countryside and nostalgia for his hometown by using the small bridge in the village and the trees on the Yuan Ye in front of him. This touching way of writing, first describing the immediate scenery, and then expressing your thoughts and feelings arising from these scenery, can make the structure of the full text more organized and arouse readers' interest in reading.

The first paragraph of this poem is about the writer riding a horse to enjoy the autumn scenery. It was fun, but later, because he saw bridges and trees, he remembered his hometown. In this way, the first paragraph and the last paragraph of the poem can be compared, so that readers can better understand the author's nostalgia for his hometown.