The poet misses the children at home and may still play and tease crickets at night. When I am lonely, I fantasize about my family. The scenery of Xiaosuo reminds me of the fun of playing.
This poem is a line in Ye Shaoweng's work "What I See in the Night Book" in the Song Dynasty.
original text
What you read in the night book
Ye Shaoweng [Song Dynasty]
The rustling leaves send the cold sound, and the autumn wind moves the guests on the river.
I know that children choose to promote weaving, and a lamp fell on the fence at night.
translate
The rustling autumn wind blows the plane leaves, bringing chills, and the autumn wind blowing on the river can't help but miss my hometown.
Suddenly I saw a little light under the fence in the distance. I thought it was children catching crickets.
To annotate ...
Rustle: the wind.
Guest feeling: the homesickness of passengers.
Pick: Pick and move.
Promote knitting: commonly known as cricket, and some areas are also called cricket.
Fence: A fence.
The Origin of Jing Yi Xiao Ji
Seven-character ancient poetry of literary genre
works appreciation
This poem is about what you saw in the autumn night and expresses your homesickness. Wu Ye's phrase "chills" cleverly describes the keen feelings of travelers who go to Qiu Lai in summer.
Plants and flowers wither, which is a remarkable sight in autumn. In poetry, "Wu Ye" with phenological characteristics is often placed in a typical environment on a stormy night to express the sadness in autumn. Wei's poem "Autumn Night in Nangong, My Brothers and Students" wrote: "This is a stormy night, and I am unhappy." This artistic technique has been adopted.
This poem puts overlapping onomatopoeia words at the beginning of the sentence, which arouses readers' auditory images from the beginning, produces autumn images, and reflects the silence of autumn night with sound. Then use the word "send" to express movement in silence, and lead to "cold sound" in the rustling of falling leaves, which seems to contain biting cold; The method of hearing causing tactile synaesthesia renders the sadness of the environment.
The second sentence is followed by the word "autumn wind on the river", which not only points out the starting point of autumn wind, but also further sets off the cold atmosphere. The autumn wind has arrived, and people are in other places, which touches the homesickness. The word "send" and "move" are used vividly. The former means "shock" in autumn, while the latter means "sadness" in autumn.
The autumn breeze aroused the traveler's loneliness. Hans Zhang, a native of A Jin, was an official in Luoyang. Seeing the autumn wind, he resigned and went home because he missed the water shield soup and bass in his hometown. The author of this poem heard the voice of autumn wind during his trip, which touched his feelings and disappointed him.
On the surface, the four sentences about children's encouragement and promotion seem to have nothing to do with "guest affection" In fact, they use their children's happiness-carefree, to foil their loneliness and sadness.
Poetry shows nostalgia for childhood. The children caught at night to promote knitting reminded the poet of his childhood. Write the voice of autumn wind first, then listen to the feeling of this voice. At the end of the poem, write down what you see outdoors. This poem is fluent in language, distinct in layers, with a turning point in the middle, and sentence breaks and meanings run through it. Poets are good at euphemistically expressing the unspeakable feelings of autumn night travelers through artistic images without falling into the realm of decline. The last word is light and far-reaching and chewy.
Brief introduction of the author
Ye Shaoweng, a poet in the mid-Southern Song Dynasty, was born in Longquan. The ancestral home is Jian 'an (now Jian 'ou, Fujian), surnamed Li, and the heir is Longquan (now Lishui, Zhejiang) Ye. The year of birth and death is unknown. He used to be a junior official in the imperial court. His knowledge came from Ye Shi, who lived in seclusion for a long time by the Qiantang West Lake. He had close contacts with Zhen and made friends with Ge.