When the children get up in the morning, they pick the ice cubes frozen in copper pots and wear them with colored threads as pheasants.
The sound of knocking went through the Woods like jade Qing, and suddenly the ice gong broke and fell to the ground, making a beautiful sound like jade.
Zhi Zi farmers and soldiers
Yang Wanli [Song Dynasty]
The youngest son has no ice in the golden basin, and the colored silk is worn as a silver pheasant. (Andrew: Andrew)
Tap the ice gently, the sound of wood passing through the forest. When the viewer is absorbed in the sound of wood, he suddenly hears another sound-the sound of ice falling to the ground, such as the sound of broken glass. (Glass 1: Glass)
To annotate ...
Children: Young children, children.
Deicing: In this case, the children scoop ice from a copper basin, which has formed solid ice since morning.
Pheasant: refers to an ancient musical instrument similar to gong.
Qing: a four-tone ancient percussion instrument, shaped like a ruler and made of jade, which can be hung on the wall.
Glass: refers to an ancient natural jade, also called water jade, not the present glass.
The whole poem absorbs instantaneous scenes and avoids direct description. It uses the vivid voice and appropriate metaphor of "crossing the forest" to explore the interest of children with the eyes of the elderly.
The scene of children making ice in the poem is full of fun: psychologically, it is cold to "make ice" and childlike innocence is hot; In terms of color, the gold plate is colored with silver ice; Formally, it is a "silver plate" with a "gold plate", which is round; On the sound, there is a high-pitched sound of "jade sound through the forest", which suddenly becomes a crisp sound of "broken glass". The whole poem is full of sense, good in sound and meaning, and pleasing to the ear, which vividly shows the children's full interest in taking ice as a pheasant and enjoying themselves.
The whole poem highlights a "naive" word. Childishness and fun can make a child forget the cold in winter and keep his vitality and happiness as always. There are many similarities in psychological characteristics between children and the elderly, and only in this way can the scene of children "performing ice" be meaningful in the eyes of the elderly.
It is based on this psychological characteristic that the young and the old are interlinked that Yang Wanli turned childlike interest into poetic interest through the technique of "taking the young as the old". On the one hand, he described the details of the "deicing" action from the perspective of children's psychology; On the other hand, based on the psychology of the world, we should feel and appreciate the details of their behavior, so that the childishness of children and the "naivety" of the old people can set each other off and become poetic. Only when the poet sincerely respects the innocence of children can he describe their interest in playing ice so vividly.