Lotus picking song
Bai Juyi [Tang Dynasty]
The rhombic leaves are full of light and wind, and the boat is deep in lotus.
Every lang wants to bow his head and laugh, and Biyu scratches his head and falls into the water.
Translation and annotation:
Translation:
The rhombic leaves float with the water waves, and the lotus leaves sway with the wind; Deep in the lotus, the lotus picking boat flies briskly.
The girl who picked the lotus met her sweetheart and wanted to talk to him, but she bowed her head and smiled shyly, but she didn't want her Hosta to fall into the water.
Precautions:
Yíng: lingering, rotating, lingering.
(zh ǐ n): swaying.
Ticket: Two ships meet.
Scratching one's head: another name for hairpin.
Jasper head: that is, jade hairpin, referred to as jade head.
Appreciate:
Lotus picking song is an old topic in Yuefu, and it is one of the seven songs in Jiangnan Lane. The content mostly describes the scenery of Jiangnan water town, the working life mode of lotus picking women and their pursuit of pure love. Poems describing the life of picking lotus appeared very early. There are also lotus picking songs, lotus picking in Jiangnan, and lotus picking! Between the fish who hit the lotus leaf: the fish who hit the lotus leaf east, the fish who hit the lotus leaf west, the fish who hit the lotus leaf south, and the fish who hit the lotus leaf north. "
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there appeared many famous works about the life of picking lotus, such as Song of Xizhou, Picking lotus in Autumn South Pond, and Lotus Over the Head. Bow your head and get lotus seeds, clear as water. "In the Tang Dynasty, lotus picking became a fashion, and many famous writers, such as Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Wang Changling, Rong Yu, Cui and Huang Fusong, all wrote lotus picking poems. Bai Juyi's Song of Picking Lotus is particularly delicate and touching.
Bai Juyi's poem is about the first love of a girl picking lotus. She is happy and shy, like a person on paper, ready to come out. In particular, the details of the last two sentences are vivid and vivid, like a spirit bead, which makes the whole work shine at the moment.
"The rhombic leaves are full of light and wind, and the boat is deep in lotus." Write a graceful lotus leaf dancing in the wind, a boat drawn leisurely from the depths of the lotus, and the picture is full of movement. Water chestnut leaves shake with the wind and waves. On the endless clear water, the water chestnut leaves are green and the breeze is blowing gently. Water waves float, green leaves sway with the wind, water chestnut leaves float on the lake with green waves, and lotus flowers sway with the wind.
It is precisely because of the shaking of green leaves that people can see the "boat in the depths of lotus leaves" Deep in the lotus, it means that the lotus is lush and vast, while "the boat is connected" tells readers that there are activities. It's like a series of long shots in a movie. You can look at the scenery first, and then show the activities of the characters inside, giving people a real feeling.
"If you want to talk, bow your head and laugh, and scratch your head and fall into the water" is a continuation of "a boat in the depths of the lotus", which has changed from writing about scenery to writing about people in the scenery. Deep in the lotus, the sky is covered and the breeze is blowing gently, which is an excellent place for boys and girls in the water town to have private meetings after work. It is not said here whether they are looking for it intentionally or unintentionally, maybe both. The poem only describes the details of two actions: I can't stop and scratch my head and fall into the water, and vividly depicts an infatuated, shy and lovely girl image.
When lovers meet, they talk happily and have a thousand words, but here and now, the shy girl can't say a word, but she can only bow her head and smile; And she was so absorbed that she even scratched her head in the water. These are the patterns that first-love girls only have when they are shy and slightly nervous, which are carefully captured and vividly reproduced by poets.
"Picking Lotus Songs" is a folk song genre, but Bai Juyi did not fall into the stereotype. Just four sentences, 28 words, vivid and interesting, in-depth and vivid. This poem uses old Yuefu poems to describe the love between men and women, the shy expression of a girl who wants to talk and bow her head, and the detailed description of scratching her head and falling into the water are all natural and realistic and meaningful. It's like an endless picture, which makes people never tire of reading it.