Water is difficult to cross, and water is a barrier. Yan Shu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, lamented this barrier, saying, "If you want to send a crayon without a ruler, you will know that the mountains are long and the waters are wide" (butterfly lovers). But more than a thousand years ago, Yan Zhu was deeply lamented by an unknown poet. His lament traveled through time and space and touched countless descendants:
The Millennium is frost. The so-called Iraqis are on the water side.
Tracing back from it, the road resistance is long; Swim back from it, in the middle of the water
-"The Book of Songs Qin Feng Jiajian"
Who are the so-called Iraqis? Some people say they are visiting friends, others say they are looking for sages. From the perspective of modern people, perhaps the lover is the most suitable. In the morning, the reeds are green and lush, and the white dew condenses into frost. The poet goes to the water to find the right person. He searched along the winding waterfront, and the road was difficult and far away; He searched along the DC waterway, but the man seemed to be surrounded by water, which was beyond his ability. The boundless artistic conception of the Millennium and the hopeless pain separated by a water still disappoint readers after thousands of years.
This is not freedom in the world. There is a poem about Cowherd and Weaver Maid blocking Tianhe in Nineteen Ancient Poems at the End of Han Dynasty:
Distant Altair, Jiao Jiao Hehan girl. Skillful hands, make a loom. There is no chapter all day, and tears are pouring down. What's the difference between a clear river and a shallow one? Between water and water, there are no words.
Jiaxu is about the hero's pursuit of women. This poem describes the weaving life of the weaver girl from the perspective of women, and writes that she has no intention to knit because of lovesickness, and tears are pouring down her eyes. The most touching thing is that the poem does not describe the vastness of the river, but emphasizes that it is "clear and shallow". They are not far apart, but they can only look at each other through lights and flashing water. This is a heartbreaking pain and a regret at the end of time.
The barrier meaning of water image appears repeatedly in later generations' poems: "Farewell sorrow here and sail across the river" (Li Bai's "Farewell my brother with Wang Changling to Guiyang"), "The source of Zhejiang water is quite hateful, and Qian Shan is divided into two townships" (Fang Gan's "Uncle Sun"), "I miss it, and the twilight is heavy" (Liu Yong's "Lin Yuling" is on the water side until today. (homesickness)
However, from another perspective, water can flow, so water has the meaning of communication. Du Fu's thoughts:
Bitter memory of Jingzhou drunk Sima, the official wine is always open. Where does Jiujiang wake up at sunset? Sleep a few times in the column.
Poor hug, want to seek peace. Therefore, instead of flowing through Qingtang Gorge, Rock Gorge and Swirling Gorge, it is better to flow through brocade water and tears.
Du Fu, who lives in Shu, misses his friends in Jingzhou and wants to say hello, but he can't find the messenger. On the contrary, Jinjiang in front of the gate (that is, Jinjiang, a tributary of Minjiang River in the south of Chengdu, Sichuan, named after Jin Zhuo, and Du Fu Caotang is on the riverside) flows into the Yangtze River, flows through the Three Gorges, and can reach Jingzhou. The poet imagined that his tears of missing his friends were dripping into the brocade water, and he could flow eastward with the water until his friends were there. Here, the Yangtze River is no longer a barrier, but a medium for poets to convey their feelings. This kind of using water image as a medium to communicate emotions is also very common in poetry. For example, we are familiar with the lonely sail crossing the blue sky, but the Yangtze River is flowing in the sky (Li Bai's "Yellow Crane Tower in Yangzhou Farewell to Meng Haoran"). The boat my friend took has disappeared from sight, but the Yangtze River in front of me has flowed to the sky. That's where the lonely sail leaves. Isn't the endless river like the poet's constant parting? "Last year in Yangzhou, send the Yellow Crane Tower. Seeing the sails go far away, my heart flows by the river "(Li Bai's" Jiangxia Tour ")," The cup is as deep as last year. Try to pour the bridge into the water and arrive in the middle of Hunan tonight "(Chen's Linjiang Xianzi) more directly expresses the spreading significance of the water image.
The contradictory meaning of water barrier and communication can be expressed in poems at the same time, and the most typical one is Li Zhiyi's Operator:
I live in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and you live in the lower reaches. I miss you every day, but I don't see you drinking Yangtze River water. The water of the Yangtze River flows eastward for a long time, and I don't know when it will stop, and neither will their lovesickness and parting hatred. I only hope that your heart is the same as mine, and you will not live up to this mutual yearning.
A pair of lovers were cut off by the river and unfortunately drank a river. This river is both a source of pain and spiritual comfort for them. In this contradictory unity of barrier and communication, the poet writes about love with tears in his eyes.
The water that causes estrangement is naturally ruthless water, and the water that communicates emotions is affectionate water. Because of the different functions of water, the image of water also has different emotional meanings. In the second film of BuOperator, the lyrical protagonist compares his resentment towards lovers he can't meet with the river. Rivers flow endlessly, and resentment is endless. Water is characterized by softness and depth. People often say that "tenderness is like water", and the image of water is really suitable for suggesting lingering sadness. Text "Jiangnan Dream": "Wash and dress, and lean on Wangjianglou alone. Thousands of ships passed by, and no one expected to appear. The heartbroken Bai Pingzhou. " The long flowing water reflects the silent sunset, isn't it the lonely and sad feelings of homesick women looking at the boat? This is the water in the eyes of those who lean against the building and hope to return home, while Ouyang Xiu uses the image of distant spring water to express the farewell theme of "going to the sand":
When the museum is destroyed, the bridge is thin. The grass is warm and swaying. Sadness is getting farther and farther away, and the distance is like spring water. Inch by inch, my heart ached, and my eyes were full of tears. The height of the building is not near the dangerous fence. Chunshan is near Pingwu, and pedestrians are outside.
The same woman upstairs, the same spring, this time is the hopeful person, waving a whip in the warm wind and traveling far away. Pedestrians are getting farther and farther away, and her heart is getting deeper and deeper, like a thread, like a spring. Running water can also be compared to acacia. "Fat water flows eastward, and there is no end, and there is no acacia at first" (Jiang Kui's Partridge Sky), the endless period of water is the endless period of acacia. Homesickness can even be turned into flowing water, which flows to the places that poets yearn for: "If you want to know the future and think about the present, the Hanshui River will flow to the east with an inch of heart" (Qian Qi's Autumn Night to Send Zhao Lie to Xiangyang), and "White clouds will go to the west to remember homesickness, and other hearts will flow to the east" (Liu Changqing's Bescangli Bay in Liu Chuan, England). The river here not only provides the poet with a medium to express his feelings, but also becomes the embodiment of his feelings.
Poets especially like to use running water as a metaphor for sadness. Continuous water is like lingering sadness. There are countless famous sentences and articles in this respect:
In spring, the wild peach blossoms on the mountain are bright red, and the Shuhe River beats the cliff on the edge of the cliff. A girl saw it and thought that her husband's love was as fleeting as this peach blossom, and infinite sadness was like this endless river of water.
-Liu Yuxi's Zhi Zhu Ci
Carved fences and jade bricks should still exist, but Zhu Yan changed them. How much sadness can you have? Like a river flowing eastward.
-Li Yu's Young Beauty
But since the water is still flowing, although we cut it with the sword, the sadness is back, although we drown them with wine, because the world can't satisfy our desire, I will let go of my hair and get on a fishing boat tomorrow.
-Li Bai's Farewell Minister Shu Yun of Xie Tiao Villa in Xuanzhou)
Infinite water flow is a metaphor for the length of sadness; A river of spring water is a metaphor for the depth of sadness; The wonderful metaphor of drawing a sword and cutting off water shows that the poet's sorrow is as difficult to cut off as water. The three poets compared sadness with water, and established the relationship between sadness and the similar characteristics of water from different angles. Their poems also became eternal poems describing sadness.
In fact, running water is just running water. Barrier and communication are only the poet's feelings, and sentimentality is not owned by running water. Just the feeling of leaving people, the feeling of poets and the feeling of the world.