Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
Author: Du Fu
Original text:
Huang Siniang's family is full of flowers, and thousands of flowers are low.
The butterflies dance all the time, and the charming warblers just crow.
Translation
Flowers in Huangsi's maiden cover the path, and thousands of flowers bend their branches low from the ground.
The butterflies in the fragrant flowers are flying all the time, and Oriole, who is free and soft, is just crying with joy.
Note
Huang Siniang: Du Fu's neighbor when he lived in Chengdu Caotang. Path (xΡ): path.
linger: I am reluctant to leave.
jiao: cute. Cha-cha: onomatopoeia, which describes the harmonious and pleasant sound of bird calls. When we say "Cha Cha" is a Tang dialect, it just means it.
Appreciation
The sixth song "Looking for Flowers" went to Huang Si's maiden. This poem narrates the scenes and feelings in Shang Huashi, the maiden of Huangsi, describes the splendid spring scenery around the thatched cottage, and expresses the love and comfort for beautiful things. The beauty of spring flowers and the cordial harmony between man and nature are all on paper. The first sentence points out that the place to find flowers is on the path of "Huangsi Niangjia". This sentence is written in poems with people's names, which has a strong interest in life and quite a folk song flavor. The second sentence "thousands of flowers" is the embodiment of the word "full" in the previous sentence. "The branches are pressed low", depicting the flowers bending the branches heavily, and the scenery seems vivid. The words "pressure" and "low" are used accurately and vividly. In the third sentence, the colorful butterflies on the flower branches wander around, and they "linger" because of their love for flowers, suggesting that the flowers are fragrant and fresh. The flowers are lovely, and the butterfly's dance is also lovely, which inevitably makes the strollers "linger". But he may not stop, but move on, because the scenery is infinite and there are still many beautiful scenery. "All the time" is not an occasional sight. With this word, the fun of spring is rendered. Just as it was pleasing to the eye, a string of beautiful songs from Oriole happened to wake up the poet who was intoxicated with flowers. This is the artistic conception of the last sentence. The word "jiao" describes the soft voice of warbler. "Freedom" is not only an objective portrayal of Jiao Ying's posture, but also conveys the author's psychological pleasure and relaxed feeling. The poem ends in the sound of Yingge "Cha Cha", which is full of lingering charm. This poem is about enjoying the scenery, and this kind of theme is common in the quatrains of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. However, it is rare to see such a poem with very subtle depiction and unusually beautiful colors. For example, "So people are on the peach blossom bank until the stream flows in front of the door" (Chang Jian's "Looking for Li Jiuzhuang in Three Days"), and "Last night, the wind opened the peach well, and the moon in the front hall of Weiyang was high" all seemed "beautiful"; After Du Fu's "full of flowers", he added "thousands of flowers" and butterflies and songs, and the scenery was beautiful. This kind of writing is unprecedented. Secondly, people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty paid great attention to the harmony of poetic tone. Their quatrains can often be stringed, so they are very harmonious. Du Fu's quatrains are not written for singing, but purely reciting poems, so there are often awkward sentences. In this poem, the sentence "thousands of flowers are pressing down the branches" should be used as a flat word according to the law. However, this kind of "contradiction" is by no means an arbitrary destruction of melody, and the overlapping of "thousands of flowers" has a kind of oral beauty. However, the word "Duo" of "Thousand Flowers" and the word "Si" in the same position in the previous sentence, although both belong to the same sound, are different from each other in rising and falling tones, and their tones still change. It's not that poets don't pay attention to the musical beauty of poetry.