To Wei Yingwu, a Taoist priest in Quanjiao Mountain
To Wei Yingwu, a Taoist priest in Quanjiao Mountain. This poem is a five-character rhyme poem. The content mainly writes about the autumn wind and rain. The author misses a Taoist priest in Quanjiao Mountain. , the following is the original text and translation appreciation of this poem, you can refer to the appreciation~!
Original text
To the Taoist priest in Quanjiao Mountain
Author: Wei Yingwu
It is cold in the county today, and I suddenly miss the guests in the mountains.
Bundle thorn bushes at the bottom of the stream, and boil white stones when you return.
I want to hold a ladle of wine to soothe the wind and rain.
The mountains are full of fallen leaves, where can I find their traces?
Send the central thought of the Taoist priest in Quanjiao Mountain:
This poem describes the evening of autumn wind and autumn rain. The poet misses a Taoist priest in the mountain and wants to bring wine to comfort his old friend but cannot find him. The emotion embodies the poet's deep feelings and distant taste.
To the Taoist priest in Quanjiao Mountain Translation:
It is very cold in the county house today, and I suddenly thought of the people living in seclusion in the mountains. You must collect firewood at the bottom of the stream and cook some simple meals when you come back. I want to visit you with a ladle of wine to give you some comfort on a stormy night. But when autumn leaves fall all over the empty mountains, where can I find your whereabouts?
Send to the Taoist priest in Quanjiao Mountain Word explanation:
Send: Send as a gift. Quanjiao: Today’s Quanjiao County, Anhui Province, belonged to Chuzhou in the Tang Dynasty.
Junzhai: the Zhaishe of Chuzhou Governor’s Office. Mountain guest: refers to the Taoist priests on the sacred mountain thirty miles west of Quanjiao County.
Jian: A ditch with flowing water in the mountains. bundle: bundle. Jingxin: Miscellaneous firewood. Baishi: "The Legend of Immortals" says: Mr. Baishi was a disciple of his father-in-law, Zhonghuang. He often cooked Baishi for food. Because he lived in Baishi Mountain, people at that time called him Mr. Baishi. This refers to the difficult cultivation life of Taoist priests in the mountains.
Ladle: A dried gourd is hollowed out and divided into two halves, called a ladle, which is used as a vessel for holding wine pulp. Stormy Eve: Stormy night.
empty mountain: empty and silent mountain. Traces: traces of comings and goings.
To the Taoist Priest in Quanjiao Mountain Background:
This poem was written in the autumn of 783 AD (the fourth year of Emperor Dezong's reign in the Tang Dynasty) or 784 AD (the first year of Xingyuan). After the Anshi Rebellion, Xuanzong fled to Shu. Wei Yingwu determined to study, passed the Jinshi Ranking, and was promoted to Luoyang Cheng. He was later forced to resign and served as the governor of Chuzhou. This poem was written when the author was serving as governor of Chuzhou.
Send to the Taoist Priests in the Quanjiao Mountains Appreciation:
The title of this poem is "Send to the Taoist Priests in the Quanjiao Mountains". Since it is a post, I will naturally express my memory of the Taoist priests in the mountains. But remembrance is only one layer, and there is a deeper layer that requires readers to understand carefully.
The key to the poem lies in the word cold. What the whole poem reveals is exactly this word "cold". The first sentence not only describes the coldness of the climate in the county, but also the coldness in the poet's heart. Then, because of these two kinds of coldness, the poet suddenly thought of the Taoist priest in the mountains. The Taoist priests in the mountains went to the bottom of the stream to collect firewood in this cold climate, but when they came back they were boiling white stones. Ge Hong's "The Legend of Immortals" said that there was a Mr. Baishi who tried to cook Baishi for food, so he lived in Baishi Mountain. There are also Taoist practices that require taking quartz. Then it is clear who the guest in the mountain is.
The Taoist priest was practicing hard in the mountains. The poet missed his old friend and wanted to send him a ladle of wine so that he could get some comfort from friendship on this cold autumn night. However, the poet further thought that they are all people who live in the mountains and see the water stop. Today they may settle down by this rock, but tomorrow they may move to another cave or some other place to settle down. What's more, autumn is here, the mountains are covered with fallen leaves, and it's not easy to find the road. Naturally, the footprints we have walked are covered by the fallen leaves, so we don't know where to find each other.
Although the poem is written lightly, readers can feel the various fluctuations and repetitions of the poet's emotions. At first, because of the coldness in the county, he thought of the Taoist priest in the mountains, and then he thought of sending wine to comfort him, but finally he felt that he could not find him and was helpless; and the loneliness in the poet's heart could not be relieved.
The poet thought of his friend on a stormy night and wanted to visit him with wine, which shows the deep friendship between the two. The mountains are full of fallen leaves, and I am afraid that I cannot meet them, so I can only send poems to express my feelings, and also reveal a touch of melancholy. The whole poem is written lightly, but it is profound in the plainness, revealing the various fluctuations and repetitions of the poet's emotions. At first, he thought of the Taoist priests in the mountains because of the coldness in the county house, and then thought of sending him wine to comfort him, but finally felt that he could not find them and was helpless. And there is no way to resolve my loneliness.
This poem seems to be a desolate and distant scene, but what inspires people's imagination is a feeling that is plain on the surface but deep in reality. There is emptiness in the desolation, and there is profundity in the plainness. This kind of use of the pen gives people a sense of spiritual movement, which is a clever use of image thinking. In Wei Yingwu's poem, the combination of emotion and image is very natural, which is what the so-called chemical brush means.
Author information:
Wei Yingwu (737～792) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. A native of Chang'an (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province). He was born in a noble family, and from the tenth year of Tianbao (751) to the last year of Tianbao, he entered the palace as Sanwei Lang. After the Anshi Rebellion, Xuanzong fled to Shu. He was homeless and neglected his duties, so he became determined to study. In the thirteenth year of Dali (778), he was appointed magistrate of Hubei County. During the Jianzhong period, he served as the governor of Chuzhou. In the first year of Zhenyuan (785), the governor of Jiangzhou was changed.
In the fourth year of Zhenyuan, he entered the imperial court and became Zuo Si Langzhong. The following year he became the governor of Suzhou. In the seventh year of Zhenyuan, he retired from his post and lived in Yongding Temple in Suzhou. It is known as Wei Zuosi and Wei Suzhou in the world. In his youth, Wei Yingwu served as a guard to Emperor Xuanzong. He lived an informal, arrogant and dissolute life. After middle age, he served as a local official in prefectures and counties for a long time. After witnessing the suffering of the people and social ills, his thoughts gradually matured and he became an honest local governor. His poems were well-known in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi's "Nine Books of the Yuan Dynasty" said: In recent years, Wei Suzhou was not only talented in singing, but also quite modern and satirical. Poems such as "Jade Picking Journey", "Xia Bingge", and "Five Miscellaneous Poems" reveal the hedonistic life of princes and nobles and reflect the sufferings of jade and ice pickers and the poor women. They can be said to be the new style of Yuefu in Yuan and Baixin Dynasties. Voice. However, Wei Yingwu's most praised poems are his landscape pastoral poems, which were later classified into the landscape pastoral poetry school. His representative works such as "Reporting Things from Huaishang to Guangling Relatives", "Sending Li Zhou to the Dusk Rain", "Visiting Kaiyuan Jingshe", etc., describe beautiful and natural scenery, and express feelings that are difficult for people to express in the ordinary. There is also a lot of majestic momentum in his landscape poems, such as "Western Cold Mountain" where the momentum runs from thousands of miles to the river. Lan Hengqiu and Xiong Xiong, and the ground beams are frightened and wandering, which fully demonstrates everyone's handwriting and talent, which is beyond the comparison of ordinary pastoral poets. Wei Yingwu's poetry has the highest creative achievement in the five-character ancient poetry. Its style is leisurely and distant, and the language is smooth and concise. It had a great influence at that time and on later generations.
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