Appreciation of the original translation of "White Plum", the meaning of the complete poem "White Plum"

Wearing this body in the ice and snow forest, it is different from peaches and plums mixed with fragrant dust;

Suddenly, the fragrance spreads all night long, spreading like spring throughout the universe.

Author: Wang Mian, a poet, writer, calligrapher and painter of the Yuan Dynasty, whose courtesy name was Yuanzhang and whose name was Zhuoshi Shannong. He was a native of Zhuji, Zhejiang. Born into a farm family. His father died when he was young, so he herded cattle in the Qin family. He used his time to paint lotus flowers every day, and went to the temple to read under the bright lamp at night. He was profoundly knowledgeable, capable of poetry, and had plum blossoms in his youth. He lives in seclusion in Jiuli Mountain and makes a living by selling paintings. Painting... Translation:

White plum blossoms grow in the woods with ice and snow. They are not mixed with peach and plum blossoms and fall into the dust of the world.

Suddenly, the fresh fragrance of this night spread out, spreading like a new year in the world. Notes:

①To put in, to put in. This body: refers to white plum.

②Hong: mixed. Fragrant dust: fragrant dust.

③Qingxiangfa: refers to the plum blossoms opening and the fragrance spreading. ④ Qiankun: heaven and earth. Appreciation:

From the point of view of the poem's major conception skills, this is a poem that "supports objects to express aspirations". The poet uses plum blossoms to describe himself, and uses the nobility of plum blossoms to express his persistence in sentiments and not to follow the world. The complicit Gaoge Yuanzhi. In the specific expression method, the poem contrasts the ordinary peaches and plums in the world with the white plums in the ice and snow forest, thereby setting off the elegance and nobility of the plum blossoms. Through reading and analysis, we know that the main artistic techniques of this poem are: supporting things to express aspirations, contrasting and setting off.

"This body is wrapped in a forest of ice and snow." In terms of color, "ice and snow" shape the "white" of "this body"; in terms of character, "ice and snow" shape "this body" "To express perseverance and endure the cold, the poet uses personification to compare the plum tree to himself. ? Already expressed the purity of white plum blossoms, and then used peaches and plums as contrast. Young peach trees and plum blossoms are the most beautiful among flowers, and their fragrance is fragrant. Unfortunately, the struggle for spring is too bitter and they cannot be spotless. "Mixing fragrant dust" means "mixing fragrant dust" with "different peaches and plums" means mixing fragrance with dirt, that is, "harmony with its light, the same dust", "harmony with light and dust, cannot be a bright thing." In contrast, plum blossoms It can be completely different from the popular customs, so the word "qingxiang" can only belong to plums, but not to peaches and plums.

"Suddenly, the fragrance spreads all night long, spreading like spring throughout the universe." Maybe it's just the poet who drew a plum blossom under the lamp. But the poem creates this idea: suddenly in one night, the white plum blossoms all over the world bloomed, the fragrance overflowed, and the jade world became clear. This poem gives people a sense of contradictory unity of high moral character and great ambition, unconventional yet worldly, which is exactly the portrayal of Wang Mian's personality.

The first two sentences describe the character of plum blossoms that are pure and pure, proud of frost and snow, and do not compete with other flowers. The last two sentences use plum blossoms to describe people, describe their own interests, ideals and ambitions, and eulogize the heroic behavior and spirit of sacrifice that benefit the general public. This article expresses the poet's own aspirations and character through the chanting and description of plum blossoms.