Analysis:
HanYueFu ChangGeHang
Introduction to the work:
Yuefu in the Han Dynasty was originally an official position in charge of music in ancient times. There was a "Yuefu Order" in the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty. The Yuefu in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was large in scale, and its function was to take charge of the music used in the court and collect folk songs and music. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, all poems sung by Yuefu organs in Han Dynasty were called Yuefu poems.
The basic principle of Han Yuefu's creation is "feeling sad and happy, starting from things" (Art History and Literature awarded by Han Dynasty). It inherits the fine tradition of realism in The Book of Songs and reflects the social reality of Han Dynasty extensively and profoundly. The most outstanding artistic achievement of Han Yuefu lies in its narrative. Secondly, he is good at selecting typical details and expressing his character through his words and deeds. Its forms are five-character, seven-character and miscellaneous words, and it is particularly noteworthy that a number of mature five-character poems have been produced in Han Yuefu. The vast majority of Yuefu poems handed down from the Han Dynasty have been included in Yuefu poems compiled by Guo Maoqian, a Song Dynasty poet.
Original text:
The trees in the garden are lush, and the crystal dew rises in the sun.
Spring fills the earth with hope, and everything presents a scene of prosperity.
I am always afraid that when the cold autumn comes, the trees in Ye Er will turn yellow and the grass will wither.
The river runs to the sea, and when will it return to the west?
A lazy youth, a lousy age.
Precautions:
This poem is selected from Han Yuefu. Yuefu is a royal musical organ established since the Qin Dynasty. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a large number of poems were collected from the people, which were rich in content and wide in subject matter. This poem is one of them.
Long song line: the name of the Han Yuefu tune. Sunflower: an ancient vegetable. X: I did it. Yangchun: It's spring, with plenty of sunshine and abundant dew. B: spread and spread. Deze: Enze. Autumn Festival: Autumn. Festivals, seasons, festivals. Yellow: yellow. Flower: the same as "flower". Decline: For rhyme, it can be read as archaic. Hundreds of rivers: countless rivers. Sichuan, rivers. Acts 23: In vain, useless.
Today's translation:
Sunflowers in the garden are lush and soaring in the crystal morning sun.
Spring scatters hope all over the earth, and everything shows prosperity.
I am always afraid that the cold autumn will come, the leaves will turn yellow and the grass will wither.
When can a hundred rivers run to the sea and return to the west?
If young people don't work hard in time, they will only regret it for a lifetime when they are old.
Appreciate:
This poem begins with "Sunflowers in the Garden", and then the water flows to the sea and never returns, indicating that time is like running water and never returns. Finally, we should persuade people to cherish their youth and work hard, and don't wait until they are old to regret it. This poem uses things to express meaning. First, it uses the sunflower in the garden as a metaphor. "Green" means it is flourishing. In fact, under the sunshine and rain in the whole spring, everything is scrambling to grow. Why is this happening? Because they are all afraid that autumn is coming, they all know that autumn wind will wither a hundred herbs. The rhythm of life in nature is like this, and so is life? If a person doesn't work hard when he is in a good time, it will be too late to regret when he is old. This poem thinks that life is fleeting from the beautiful scenery of youth in front of us, and encourages young people to cherish time, make warnings and inspire people to forge ahead.
Brief comments:
This is a famous Yuefu poem in Han Dynasty. The poem uses a series of metaphors to show that we should cherish time and work hard as soon as possible. The first four sentences of this poem paint us a beautiful spring scene. There are dewdrops on the green sunflowers in the garden. After sunrise, the dew dried and the sunflowers were bathed in the sun. Everything in the world is blessed by the rain and dew of nature in spring, shining with unparalleled brilliance. However, when autumn comes, they will lose their bright luster, turn yellow and fade. Everything has ups and downs, and people also have a process from adolescence to old age. Time is like the water of a big river, which flows eastward into the sea and never returns. If you don't cherish time and work hard when you are young, you will only be sad when you are old!
Postscript of the author of Lian Sheng's novel Long Songs —— Let's take this as the writing background.
More than ten years ago,
I have the opportunity to study in Beijing. At that time, the literary atmosphere in Beijing was really strong. Our writer graduate class has gathered the best young writers in China, such as Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Hong Feng, Liu Zhenyun, Chi Zijian and Bi Shumin. Dozens of people soak in the small courtyard wall of Lu Xun College of Literature all day, eating Chinese cabbage, drinking corn porridge and listening to professors and experts. I'd like to have an editor to draft the manuscript, so that I can have a chance to improve my food, eat instant-boiled mutton and drink Hongxing Erguotou in a small restaurant outside. And exercise. The host is Hong Feng. After class, a dozen clumsy men played football on the cement basketball court of tens of square meters, kicking the glass window on one side of the house from time to time, and then paying compensation according to the price. Then there is the Go game, and there is also the Go game. Yu Hua, Chen Hong and I are new learners, and we were infatuated for a while. In the middle of the night, we can hear two male and female students, Yu Hua and Chen Hong, arguing loudly about winning or losing a game of chess ... What else? That is the small talk between classmates, all corners of the country, unrestrained, talking about literature, talking about local conditions and customs, and talking about eat drink man woman. When the northwest man Lei talks about excitement, he will sing "flowers" in southern Jiangxi. Long drawl, desolate and sad, can't be brushed away for a long time.
Studying in this unique atmosphere for three years has made me realize the true meaning of literature. In Beijing, far away from home, I found a foothold in my own literature in the thick and long-standing homesickness. The feeling is "suddenly looking back, that person is in the dim light." Mo Yan found the fertile soil of "Gaomi Northeast of Shandong", and Yu Hua's novels can't be separated from the specific environment of Jiangnan river network. Chi Zijian is still writing about the customs of Mohe, her hometown, and Liu Zhenyun can't live without his birthplace "Tapu" in Henan, which is later the "hometown of Huanghua", and my foothold is Tianmu Mountain in western Zhejiang.
When I was a child, I often heard some old stories about people. During the Anti-Japanese War, Tianmu Mountain was the seat of the administrative office in western Zhejiang, with many troops and various institutions, including drama clubs, newspapers, youth camps and women's camps. At that time, there were many wars, some of which really made the gods cry. My parents and grandparents left many painful memories about the war. There are also a lot of historical materials. No war has recorded so much and left such a complicated and tortuous story as War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. This is a history as rich and vast as the ocean, like a huge open-pit rich mine. Over the years, I have visited many old people and consulted many materials, such as Lin 'an County Records, Yuqian County Records, Changhua County Records, several editions in different years, Hangzhou City Records and Zhejiang Province Records, and also consulted the relevant historical archives of Beijing Library. It is true that Xiaogang Feng attacked the Japanese army in his novel Long Song Xing. The battle was extremely bitter, killing and injuring thousands of people. The Guangxi army, wearing only shorts and shirts, fought the Japanese in the ice and snow. After the war, the bodies of the dead soldiers were collected, and many of them froze to death.
In the summer before graduation, I wrote novels such as Bright Moonlight, Past Events of Viewing Yunshan and so on, which were soon published in Harvest and Tianjin Literature. Then, he wrote dozens of short stories one after another, which were published in more than a dozen journals all over the country, and published a collection of novellas "war stories" and a collection of short stories "The Past of Guan Yunshan", as well as a novel "Running Tired" organized by character stories.
But I always feel that I have not enjoyed myself, and I want to write a long masterpiece that fully reflects that era. 1at the beginning of 998, Huang Yazhou, who just took office to preside over the work of the Provincial Writers Association, came to my house with Sheng Zichao and Hong Zhigang. After listening to me talk about this topic, he strongly encouraged me to write this novel. With the support and urging of my friends, it took me two or three years to finish writing this book and revised it many times under the guidance of the editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of the publishing house. It took five or six years to finally publish it, and finally realized my wish, so I can breathe a sigh of relief.
At this time, I, like a swimmer who has been swimming in rivers and lakes for a long time, finally reached the other shore, dragging my tired feet, sitting on the steaming river bank, looking back at the vast waters with a slight gasp, feeling quiet and happy. I have accomplished a meaningful thing, which I believe is at least valuable to me and to my hometown.