Qian Qi
Xiaoxiang, why wait for nothing?
The water is green, bright and covered with moss on both sides.
Twenty-five strings playing jathyapple,
I can't get rid of my grievances, but I can fly.
Distinguish and appreciate
The poet lived in the north, and when he saw the geese returning to the north, he touched his feelings, so he wrote this song "Returning Wild Goose".
As a migratory bird, it is a normal natural phenomenon that geese return from south to north whenever spring comes, but the poet insists on asking, "Why does Xiaoxiang wait for it?" The water is green, bright and covered with moss on both sides. "These two sentences are inverted sentences.
It means: "Xiaoxiang water is clear and sandy, the banks are covered with moss, the water is warm and full, and the scenery is beautiful." These geese just perch. Why do you want to fly back casually? "
The ancients generally didn't know much about the life habits of geese. They think that when they fly to Yan Hui Peak, south of Hengyang County, Hunan Province, they will not fly south, and they will return to the north in the next spring. Xiaoxiang is in the south of Dongting Lake, with warm water, plenty of food and good climate. The ancients thought it was a good place for geese to spend the winter, so the poet imagined that geese came from Xiaoxiang. Du Mu's poem "Early Goose": "There are few tireless Xiaoxiang people, and the water is rich in rice and raspberry moss." That's what I said.
The last two sentences were answered by the poet Dai Yan: "It is difficult to clear up grievances when playing jathyapple on 25 strings." These two sentences are based on the legend of Xiang Ling Gu Se. In ancient times, the goddess Xiang Shui was good at playing drums and piano. At first, the harp had fifty strings. Because the goddess played in a melancholy tone, God ordered them to be changed to twenty-five strings. The title of Qian Qi's leading poem of Kao Chin-shih is "Xiang Gu Ling Se". There are two sentences at the end of the poem: "No one can see it at the end of the Song Dynasty, and there are several peaks on the river", which is a famous sentence describing the color of the item. Here, on behalf of Da Yan, the poet replied: "Xiaoxiang was originally a good place, but the water god in central Hunan often played drums and played the piano under the moon, and his voice was sad and he flew back to find a better place to live."
Although the night scene of Xiaoxiang and the muffled voice in the poem are imaginary words, through such questions and answers, the goose is written as a creature familiar with music and full of emotions.
This poem has rich imagination and clear artistic conception. On the surface, writing about geese is actually how poets feel on a spring night. The poem doesn't say what this feeling is. It is precisely because I didn't make it clear that I left readers with unlimited imagination.