Shui Diao Ge Tou (When will the bright moon come out)
Song Su Shi
When will the bright moon come out? Ask the sky for wine. I don’t know what year it is today in the palace in the sky. I want to ride the wind back home, but I'm afraid of the beautiful buildings and jade buildings. It's so cold at high places. I dance to clear my shadow, so it doesn't feel like I'm in the human world.
Go to Zhu Pavilion and arrive at Qihu. There shouldn't be any hatred, why would you prefer to do things differently? People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, and the moon waxes and wanes. This is a difficult thing in ancient times. I hope that people will live long and travel thousands of miles to meet Chanjuan.
Appreciation
This popular Mid-Autumn Festival poem was written in the ninth year of Xining (1076), the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, which was the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Bingchen year. Works by Su Che.
The whole word uses image description and romantic imagination to describe, express and discuss the Mid-Autumn Moon, from the connected categories of heaven and earth, moon and people, space and time. Thinking, sublimating his feelings for his brothers to the philosophical level of exploring optimism and misfortune in life, expressing the author's optimistic and broad-minded attitude towards life, his best wishes and infinite love for life.
The first film expresses the poet's ideological activities from being born in the world to loving life, focusing on the sky. The opening sentence "When will the bright moon come?" borrows the poetic meaning of Li Bai's "When will the bright moon come in the blue sky? I will stop drinking today and ask." By asking questions to the blue sky, the reader's thoughts are directed to the fairy world in the vast space. "I don't know what year it is today in the palace in the sky." The following sentences are full of twists and turns, full of ups and downs. It illustrates the author's deep confusion in the choice between "being born out of the world" and "joining the world", that is, between "retreating" and "advancing", "official" and "hidden". The poet's question about the moon is the question and exploration of the bright moon. It is extraordinary, abrupt and straight.
The words "I want to ride the wind back home, but I am afraid that it will be too cold in the beautiful buildings and jade buildings at high places". The writer's yearning and doubts about the fairyland of the Moon Palace embody the double contradiction between the author's birth and entry into the world. psychology. "Dancing to clear the shadows, how does it seem to be in the world", the poet's worldly thoughts have defeated the worldly thoughts, showing the poet's persistence in life and love for the world.
The next piece blends realism into freehand brushwork, turning scenery into emotion, expressing the poet's interpretation of the joys and sorrows of the world, focusing on the human world. The three sentences "turning around the Zhu Pavilion, looking down at the door, illuminating the sleepless people" actually describe the scene of the moon illuminating the world. The moon attracts people, implying the author's vast thoughts. "There shouldn't be any hatred, why will it be so long when we say goodbye?" The two sentences follow the line of "Shine without sleep", and the writing is vivid and frustrating. On the surface, it is annoying that the moon shines on people, and it adds to people's resentment that "the moon is full and people are not round", but deep down This is a poem that embraces the heart and expresses the author's longing for his relatives by seeing the moon. "People have joys and sorrows, and the moon waxes and wanes. It is difficult to complete this matter in ancient times." The lyricist's explanation of the joys and sorrows of the world shows that the author has formed a free and broad-minded approach due to the influence of Zhuangzi and Buddhist thought. Keep your mind open to all humiliations, forget gains and losses, and detach yourself from things. Comparing human sorrow, resentment, and injustice as social phenomena with the natural phenomena of the moon, such as the moon and the moon, as one, and seeking comfort. At the end, "I hope you will live long and travel thousands of miles to visit the beautiful lady", which brings out a higher level of thought and sends out deep condolences and wishes to all the departed relatives in the world (including my own brothers), adding a positive and energetic spirit to the whole poem. meaning. The second part of the poem, with its wide open and close strokes and strong and vigorous writing power, highly summarizes the intricate changes in the world, heaven, and nature, and expresses the author's yearning for a beautiful and happy life. It is both philosophical and emotional.
This poem is a representative work of Su Shi's philosophical poems. The words fully reflect the author's comprehensive understanding and understanding of the eternal universe and the complex and ever-changing human society. It is a small summary of the author's worldview made through the observation of the moon and people, which is enough to summarize the whole. . The author admires the changes in ancient and modern times, laments the changes in the universe, and is tired of the ups and downs of the official world. In the artistic conception of the bright moon in the sky, aloofness and vastness, he infiltrates a strong philosophical meaning, reveals a wise philosophy of life, and achieves a high degree of harmony between man and the universe, nature and society.