The original text of "Like a Dream: The Rain and the Wind Drizzled Last Night" by Li Qingzhao, a female poet in the Song Dynasty:
The rain and the wind blew last night, and I couldn't get rid of the residual wine after a deep sleep.
When I asked the person behind the curtain, I found that Begonia was still the same.
Do you know, do you know? It should be green, red and thin.
Translation:
Although it rained sparsely last night, the wind kept blowing hard. Even though I slept all night, I was still drunk. I asked the maid who was rolling up the curtain how the situation was outside. She said that the crabapple flowers were still the same as yesterday. Do you know? Do you know? At this time, the green leaves should be luxuriant and the red flowers withered.
This poem "Xiao Ling" belongs to Li Qingzhao's early works. "Xiao Ling" mainly describes the destruction of Begonia after a night of wind and rain. The poet Li Qingzhao could not bear to watch the scene after the Begonia was destroyed.
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Creative background
This song "Like a Dream: Rain and Wind Last Night" is Li Qingzhao's early work. According to the "Concise Chronology of Li Qingzhao" compiled by Chen Zumei, this poem was written around the third year of Yuanfu (1100) of Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty.
Comments from famous writers
Modern Hu Yunyi's "Selected Poems of the Song Dynasty": Before the overthrow of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao's poems contained many poems about drinking and cherishing flowers, reflecting her extremely leisurely and elegant life. mood. This poem uses only a few words of dialogue to twist and turn to express the protagonist's mood of cherishing flowers, and it is so vividly written. "Green, fat, red, thin" is a concise and vivid term.
Modern Jin Jicang's "Detailed Explanation of One Hundred Poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties": This poem euphemistically expresses the hostess's cherishment of flowers in a few words. It is euphemistic, lively, simple, concise, and extremely expressive. wonderful.
Modern Wu Xionghe: This poem expresses the love for flowers and spring, as well as the unique concern and sensitivity of women. There are only thirty-three characters in the whole poem, and it cleverly expresses a question and answer with the person who rolled up the curtain. The questioner is very emotional, but the answerer is light-hearted, so the two sentences "Do you know, do you know" are forced out, and the writing is flexible and affectionate.
The phrases in the words are cleverly constructed, with "sparse rain", "sudden wind", "heavy sleep" and "remaining wine" all in the same sentence; in the sentence "green fat, red and thin", green replaces leaves, and Although red is used on behalf of flowers, it is common in poetry in the past, but the word "red" is connected with "thin", and the word "thin" is used to resemble the begonia, which changes from flourishing and beautiful to haggard and scattered, making it appear sad and sad. The wording is also very precise, and it is used in rhetoric. Something new has been created.
Modern Wu Xiaoru's "Poetry Collection": This poem is written by the author in a fresh and elegant way, and the words written in the poem are all boudoir nicknames. It is said that it is better than a thrush. , so third parties are absolutely not allowed to intervene.
Modern Zhou Ruchang: A small order, only six sentences long, is like a picture, and there is dialogue, and it also explains the ins and outs of the matter. This may be a "lens" expression method that can only be qualified by the conditions of modern film art, but it is actually a work "written" and "acted" by a female lyricist nine hundred years ago.