The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think about your hometown. Li Bai
The image of the bright moon can be seen everywhere in Tang poetry. Most of the poems describing the bright moon are to express the sadness of separation and homesickness. This is still common in poems after the Tang Dynasty, such as "When will the bright moon come? Ask the blue sky for wine" (Su Shi's "Shui Tiao Ge Tou, when will the bright moon come"). "Where can I wake up from my drunkenness tonight? On the bank of willows, with the dawn wind and the waning moon" (Liu Yong's "Yulin Ring"). "Twenty-four bridges are still there, the waves are swaying, and the cold moon is silent" (Jiang Kui's "Yangzhou Slow") and so on. From this, it can be said that the image of the bright moon in Tang poetry has penetrated the homesickness and nostalgia of the ancients. Due to the inheritance of aesthetics in literary works, this aesthetic consciousness is still retained and developed in later literary works, thus gradually forming a relatively stable and distinct aesthetic emotion and aesthetic psychology in our national literature.
Moon - Missing relatives on the moon - triggers feelings of separation and homesickness.
1. "Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think of your hometown." (Li Bai's "Quiet Night Thoughts")
2. "The east wind blew again last night in the small building, and the motherland cannot bear to look back in the bright moonlight." (Li Yu's "Poppy Poppies")
Note: Looking at the moon and thinking about the motherland shows the unique pain of a king who has subjugated his country.
3． "There is a bright moon on the sea, and it is the end of the world at this time. Lovers complain about the distant night, but they miss each other at night.
The candles are extinguished with pity and the light is full, and the clothes are covered with dew. I can't bear to give them away, but I still have a good night's sleep. "(Zhang Jiuling's "Looking at the Moon and Huaiyuan")
Note: This is a poem about missing people far away on a moonlit night. Missing each other under the moon brings deep feelings and resentment; looking at the moon expresses my feelings and my thoughts are graceful. This has been the case since ancient times. "The bright moon rises over the sea, and the end of the world is at this moment." The background is vast, the scenery is emotive, and the artistic conception is powerful. It is a good saying that has been recited through the ages. It doesn't have any fancy words, but it is natural. When we see a bright moon rising from the sea, such poems will blurt out, taking us into a quiet and beautiful realm. Perhaps, this is the enduring artistic charm of famous poems and masterpieces. The poet embodies the feeling of longing for people far away in the moonlight. The moonlight is speechless but understanding, making people miss and comforting. It spreads its brilliance gently and evenly to every corner of the world, making people pray in their hearts: "I hope people will live long and live thousands of miles away."
4. "The dew is white tonight, and the moon is bright in my hometown." Du Fu's "Moonlight Night Remembering My Brother"
Note: It has always been highly praised by people and has become an eternal masterpiece of writing about the moon. According to "Annotations to Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty", the dew turns white all night long, but tonight coincides with the White Dew Festival, so it is said that the dew turns white from tonight. The moon is unknown everywhere, but my heart is in my hometown. Therefore, it is said that the moon is bright in my hometown. The scenes in the two poems blend together, and the origins of the poems are vividly remembered. Structurally, these two sentences are in a four-sentence pattern: "The dew/is white from tonight, and the moon/is bright in my hometown." The rhythm is very beautiful. Even now, you can often hear people saying "the moon is the brightness of my hometown".
5. "The tide of the Spring River reaches the level of the sea, and the bright moon on the sea rises with the tide. The twinkling waves follow the waves for thousands of miles, but there is no moon on the Spring River." Zhang Ruoxu's "Moonlight Night on the Spring River"
Note: The first four sentences imply what we are talking about. The moonlit night chanted is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, because it can be seen from the poem that the water here is wide, the spring tide is high, the river and the sea are connected, and the bright moon rises with the tide. The moon is getting higher, and the bright and clear light rushes with the spring tide, shining for thousands of miles. This is clearly a description of the scenery, but it actually embodies the emotions in the scenery. Because the tide rises and falls at a certain time, the tide is often associated with oaths in traditional Chinese classical poetry. The words "the bright moon and the rising tide" written in this poem should be before and after looking at the sun. The rising tide reminds people of separation and the vows they made when parting; the full moon makes people long for the reunion of their loved ones. "Where is the spring river without the moon" uses the form of a question to reveal the feeling of longing for relatives who do not know where they are tonight. At the same time, it also reminds us of the scene where guests face the bright moon and are plagued by the pain of missing their loved ones. .
Unfolding the vast volume of poems, there are poems about the moon everywhere, and there are many famous works: some describe its graceful and charming posture, some express the feelings of lovesickness and parting, or sentimental life experience and wandering. Suffering can express one's open-minded and unrestrained mind, one's ambition to help the world and serve the country, or one can express one's thoughts on the universe, society and life.
In traditional Chinese culture, the image of the moon often becomes the carrier of human thoughts and emotions, and its connotations are very rich. In many poems about the moon, the poet blends the moon into his inner thoughts and emotions, and makes the moon and inner thoughts and emotions complement each other, creating many beautiful aesthetic artistic conceptions, and integrating the literary taste, ideological connotation and art of the poem. Achievements have been raised to an extremely high level.
Due to the different moods of the authors, the image of the moon often expresses different connotations in different ancient poems, reflecting the richness of its connotations. The image of the moon has many different connotations in the hearts of poets: beauty, freedom, purity, beauty, eternity, desolation, tragedy, joys and sorrows, etc., all of which are expressed. The different connotations of the moon form different aesthetic conceptions and highlight the different feelings of poets. In this regard, we should guide students to accumulate knowledge. Otherwise, it is easy to make the mistake of swallowing everything and applying it mechanically.
1. Use the moon to exaggerate the quiet atmosphere and highlight the leisurely and broad-minded feelings
In the eyes of people who are calm, leisurely, optimistic and broad-minded, the image of the moon has become a quiet, elegant, and broad-minded person. Synonymous with leisure and ease.
In many ancient poems, literati often use the bright moon to exaggerate the quiet atmosphere and express the leisurely, detached and broad-minded feelings.
For example, Wang Wei's "Autumn Dwelling in the Mountains": "After the new rain in the empty mountains, the weather comes late in autumn. The bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring rocks flow up. The bamboos return to the Huannu, and the lotus moves down the fishing boat. The spring fragrance is random Rest, the king and his grandson can stay.”
“The bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring flows over the rocks.” This is such an elegant, clear and interesting picture! Here, everything seems comfortable, fresh and lively, filled with the poet's love for natural landscapes and the elegant feelings of seclusion among mountains and rivers.
Another example is Wang Wei's "Birds Singing Stream": "People are idle, osmanthus flowers are falling, and the night is quiet in the spring mountain sky. The moonrise scares the birds, and they are always singing in the spring stream." In this poem, the moon is used as a symbol. Dynamic forms appear, and the word "surprise" breaks the tranquility and awakens a world of interconnectedness. In the quiet spring mountain sky at this night, the appearance of a bright moon adds to the tranquility and elegance!
There are many other ancient poems that chant the moon to exaggerate the quiet atmosphere and highlight the leisurely and broad-minded feelings, such as: "In the Sand Road"); "The bright moon has not yet risen high above the mountains, and the auspicious light is producing white hair" (Su Shi's "He Zi Sees the Moon from the Mid-Autumn Festival"); "The moon rises above the east mountain, wandering among the bullfights" ("Qian Chibi Fu"), etc.
2. The moon is used to convey the feeling of lovesickness and to express the feeling of homesickness and nostalgia
In the eyes of those who are far away from home and relatives, the image of the moon may be the symbol of the love in the world of lovers. Painful longing for lovesickness, or it may contain infinite longing for hometown, relatives and friends. Among the many ancient poems about chanting the moon, this category is the most numerous.
Judging from the shape and changes of the moon phases, the full moon is like a disk, round and round; the waning moon is like a hook, incomplete. The moon is round and missing, and missing and round again, which naturally arouses people's imagination and associations. On a quiet moonlit night, bathed in the quiet and soft moonlight, people can easily fall into deep thought, develop reverie, and have lingering and distant feelings. People who are away from home look up at the bright moon, and their thoughts often fly across the space, thinking of their hometown, relatives and friends who are also illuminated by this bright moon.
The nostalgia in Li Bai's "Quiet Night Thoughts" was born in this way, "The moonlight is bright in front of the bed, I suspect it is frost on the ground. I raise my head to look at the bright moon, and lower my head to think about my hometown." When the poet "raises his head to look up When the moon shines brightly, a trace of homesickness suddenly arises in my heart. Such a process of inducing homesickness is not only easy for people to understand, but also many people have experienced it personally. This breaks through the emotional gap that may arise between poets and readers due to different life experiences. Therefore, for thousands of years, deep Be loved by people. The moon in the poem is no longer a purely objective image, but an image imbued with the poet's emotions. Among Li Bai's poems, there are a large number of poems that praise the moon, such as: "I send my sorrowful heart to the bright moon, and follow the wind only to the west of the night" (Li Bai's "I heard that Wang Changling moved to the left and Longbiao was far away"); "The lonely lamp Unexpectedly, I am so overwhelmed with thoughts that I curl up my curtains and look at the moonlit sky and sigh" (Li Bai's "Long Love"); "A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without a blind date. I raise my glass to invite the bright moon, and we become three people facing each other in the shadow" (Li Bai's "Drinking Alone under the Moon"). ; "Under the moon, there is a flying mirror, and the clouds are forming sea towers. I still feel pity for the water in my hometown, and send my boat sailing thousands of miles away." (Li Bai's "Farewell at the Jingmen Gate") and so on.
There are many other ancient poems that use the moon to convey the feeling of lovesickness and express the feeling of homesickness. "Tonight in Yanzhou, I can only look at the moon in my boudoir alone" (Du Fu's "Moonlight Night"); "The full moon flies into the mirror, and when I return to my heart, I fold the sword" (Du Fu's "Moon on the 15th of August"); "The bright moon rises on the sea, and the world is at this time" (Zhang Jiuling's "Looking at the Moon and Huaiyuan"); "Where can I miss the Mingyue Tower?" Poor moon wandering upstairs... At this time, we look at each other but don't hear each other, I hope that the moonlight will shine on you" (Zhang Ruoxu, "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night"); "Tonight the moon is bright, everyone looks at it, and I don't know who is missing in autumn thoughts" (Wang Jian, "Fifteen Nights") "Looking at the Moon"); "People have joys and sorrows, and the moon waxes and wanes. It is difficult to do this in ancient times. I hope people will live long and enjoy the beauty of the moon for thousands of miles." (Su Shi's "Shui Diao Ge Tou"); "I rest alone and lean on the high moon tower. , wine enters the heart of sorrow, turning into tears of lovesickness" (Fan Zhongyan's "Su Muzhe"); "The moon in the south of the Yangtze River is like a mirror and like a hook. It's like a mirror but doesn't invade the pink surface, it's like a hook but doesn't hang the curtain head, it always shines on the sorrow of separation. "(Ouyang Xiu, "Wang Jiangnan"); "On the Lantern Festival last year, the lights in the flower market were as bright as day. On the top of the willow tree in the moonlight, people meet at dusk. On Yuan Ye this year, the moon and lights are still there. "(Ouyang Xiu's "Sheng Cha Zi"); "Hate for you is not like Jiang Louyue, north and south, east and west, north and south, east and west, we can only accompany each other without separation. Hating you is like the moon in the river. It is full but it is still a loss. It is full but it is still a loss. How long will it take to be reunited? "(Lü Benzhong's "Picking Mulberries"); "The spring breeze is green again on the south bank of the river. When will the bright moon shine back on me?" (Wang Anshi's "Boating at Guazhou"); "The moon crescents over Jiuzhou. How many families are happy and others are sad?" How many couples are living under tents, and how many are wandering outside? "(Southern Song Dynasty folk song "The Moon Bends over the Nine Provinces") and so on, there are really too many to list.