Lipper
Gou Jian, the king of Yue, broke Wu's return, and the righteous returned home.
Maid-in-waiting is like a flower in Man Chun Hall, but only partridges are flying today.
Explanation of words:
⑴ Gou Jian defeated Wu: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu competed with Vietnam for hegemony. In 494 BC, Gou Jian, King of Yue, was defeated by Fu Cha, King of Wu. After that, he fought hard for 20 years and destroyed Wu in 473 BC.
⑵ Jinyi: Chinese clothes. "Historical Records of Xiang Yu": "Wealth does not return to the hometown, like clothes embroidered at night, who knows?" Later, it evolved into the phrase "returning home with clothes on".
⑶ Chuntang: Palace.
(4) partridge: the name of the bird. It looks like a hen with a quail head, white spots on its chest like pearls, and purple waves on its back hair. The cry was piercing, and the voice was like "I can't be a brother."
Translation:
After Gou Jian, the King of Yue, destroyed the State of Wu, all the soldiers returned to their hometown in rags. The palace is full of maids as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, and now only a few partridges are flying in the old site of the city.
Background introduction:
This is a nostalgic work by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This is what he wrote when he visited Tang Yue (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), where he felt the famous events in ancient history. During the Spring and Autumn Period, wuyue and China competed for southern hegemony and became feuds. Gou Jian, King of Yue, was defeated by Fu Cha, King of Wu, and returned to China in 494 BC. In 473 BC, Wu Gui was defeated. This is the content of "Vietnam's visit to ancient times".
Central idea:
This poem expresses the poet's lament over personnel changes and impermanence by describing the prosperity of the past to the ruin of today.
Appreciate:
The first sentence pointed out the meaning of the problem and explained the specific content of the historic site. Write two or three sentences about soldiers returning home and Gou Jian returning to the palace. Destroy the enemy, avenge the shame, and all the soldiers are happy; Now that the war is over, everyone has been rewarded. They are not wearing real armor, but jinyi. Only the word "Jinyi" can make the King of Yue and his soldiers come back proudly, full of the joy and pride of the winner. After the King of Yue returned to China, he was ambitious, not only boasting, but also enjoying it. As a result, beautiful women filled the palace, surrounded him and waited on him. The word "spring" in "Spring Temple" should be "flower-like" to describe beautiful times and scenes, not necessarily spring. Only by writing this, the situation of the King of Yue throwing away the past desperate eating and drinking has been fully demonstrated. The city is full of golden warriors, and the palace is full of maids.
This scene is very prosperous, beautiful, lively and happy, but the sentence suddenly turns and everything written on it is written off. The victory, power, wealth and glory that once existed in the past were just a few partridges flying around the old city site. This sentence describes the personnel changes, ups and downs of impermanence, expressed by lamentation. Rulers of all ages hoped that their wealth and splendor would be the inheritance of future generations, but the poem truthfully pointed out the disillusionment of this hope, which is its positive significance.
Through specific scenery, the poet made a sharp contrast between the prosperity of the past and the desolation in front of him, which made readers feel particularly profound. Generally speaking, it is difficult to highlight an environment directly, but the effect can often be greatly enhanced through comparison. Therefore, describing desolation through lively scenes makes readers feel even more miserable. The contrast between the prosperity of the past written in front of this poem and the desolation written behind it is extremely strong. The more you write in front, the more you turn behind. In order to fully express the theme, the poet also made arrangements for the artistic structure of this poem that are different from the general seven wonders. Generally speaking, the turning point of the Seven Wonders is arranged in the third sentence, but the first three sentences are all in an angry state, and it is not until the fourth sentence suddenly turns to the opposite side that it is particularly powerful and energetic. This kind of writing is not a poet with rich brushwork, so it is difficult to write freely.
The focus of this poem is to describe the past prosperity clearly, trying to use three-quarters of the space to render it, and to write the future desolation with the conclusion, thus obliterating it and leading it to the theme, which fully embodies the ever-changing artistic skills of the poet.
About the author:
Li Bai (70 1-762), the word Taibai, was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty, and was called "Poet Fairy" in the history of China. His ancestral home was in Ji Cheng, Longxi (now Tianshui City, Gansu Province), and he moved to Broken Leaf City in Central Asia (now tokmak City, Chuhe Prefecture, Kyrgyzstan) at the end of Sui Dynasty, where Li Bai was born. His poetic style is bold and unconstrained, with rich imagination, natural and fluent language and harmonious and changeable melody. He is good at absorbing nutrition and materials from folk songs and myths, which constitutes his unique magnificent and gorgeous color and is the new peak of active romantic poetry since Qu Yuan.
Later generations called Li Bai and Du Fu "Du Li". The overall style of his poems is fresh and elegant, which not only reflects the prosperity of the times, but also exposes the debauchery and corruption of the ruling class, showing the positive spirit of despising the powerful, resisting the traditional bondage and pursuing freedom and ideals.
Li Bai lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He had the progressive ideal of "helping the poor" and "settling down in peace", and he struggled to realize this ideal all his life. A large number of his poems not only reflected the prosperity of that era, but also exposed and criticized the debauchery and corruption of the ruling group, showing the positive spirit of despising the powerful, resisting the traditional bondage and pursuing freedom and ideals. In art, his poems are novel in imagination, strong in emotion, magnificent in artistic conception and fresh and lively in language, forming a bold artistic style and reaching the peak of positive romantic poetry in ancient China. There are more than 900 poems, including Li Taibai's poems.