Spring Day
Zhu Xi
On the beautiful Surabaya shore, the boundless scenery is new.
It’s easy to recognize that in the east wind, spring is always spring.
Comments
1. Victory Day: A good day with sunny weather.
2. Xunfang: spring outing, outing.
3. Sishui: the name of the river, in Shandong Province.
4. Easy: ordinary, easy. Easy to recognize means easy to recognize.
5. Dongfeng: spring breeze.
Appreciation of ancient poems
People generally think that this is a spring outing poem. Judging from the scenery written in the poem, it is very similar to this.
The first sentence is "Shengri Xun Fang Surabaya", "Shengri" refers to a sunny day and points out the weather. The Surabaya waterfront points out the location. Looking for fragrance means looking for beautiful spring scenery, which highlights the theme. The following three sentences are all about what Xunfang saw and gained. The second sentence of the boundless scene is a new one, describing the initial impression gained from watching the spring scenery. Use boundless to describe all the scenery within sight. It not only writes about the return of spring to the earth and the natural scenery taking on a new look, but also writes about the author's refreshing and joyful feeling when he goes on an outing.
In the third sentence, it is easy to know the Dongfeng side. The literacy in the sentence inherits the word "Xun" in the first sentence. Easily recognized means that the face and characteristics of spring are easily identifiable. The east wind side also refers to spring. The fourth sentence "A thousand purple and red colors are always spring" means that these colorful scenes are all dyed by spring light, and people know spring from these thousands of purple and red colors. This specifically explains why you can easily recognize the Dongfeng side. The colorful colors in this sentence reflect the new situation in the second sentence. The third and fourth sentences use figurative language to specifically describe the new situation and the gains from seeking fragrance.
From a literal point of view, this poem seems to be about the impressions of spring outing, but upon closer inspection, the location of the search for fragrance is the shore of Surabaya, which was occupied by the Jin people when the Song Dynasty was crossing south. Zhu Xi had never gone north, so of course it was impossible for him to travel to the shores of Surabaya to sing and sing in spring. In fact, the word Sishui in the poem refers to Confucius, because in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius once taught students by singing string songs between Zhu and Si. Therefore, the so-called seeking fragrance refers to seeking the way of a saint. The colorful colors represent the richness of Confucianism. The poet compares the way of the saint to the spring breeze that stimulates vitality and dyes all things. This is actually a philosophical poem that embodies truth and interest in images.