Original text:
Arrive in Baidicheng/Baidixiang Jiangling early.
Author Li Bai, Tang Dynasty,
Translation comparison
Early in the morning, I bid farewell to Jiangling city, which is high into the sky, thousands of miles away, and the boat is only one day away.
The cries of apes on both sides of the strait are still unconsciously crowing in their ears, and the canoe has passed the heavy green hills.
Appreciate:
The word "colorful clouds" in the first sentence describes the high terrain of Baidicheng, which is ready for the whole article to describe the dynamic of fast walking of underwater boats. The word "room" in Colorful Clouds is taken as the meaning of partition. The poet looks back at Baidi City above the white clouds, and everything before seems to have happened in a previous life. When it comes to describing the height of Patty City, the speed of water travel is in the gap. If you don't write the height of Baidicheng, you can't reflect the big gradient gap between the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Baidicheng is high in the sky, so the following sentences describe the speed of the ship, the short journey, and the crowded ears (apes) and eyes (Chung Shan Man), all of which have landed. "Colorful Clouds" is also a description of the morning scenery, showing a fine weather from gloomy to bright. At this dawn moment, the poet bid farewell to Baidicheng in a hurry with excitement.
The second sentence "a thousand miles" and "a day" contrast the distance of space and the brevity of time. Here, the ingenious place lies in the word "back". "Return" means return. It not only shows the poet's joy of traveling thousands of miles a day, but also reveals the joy of forgiveness. Jiangling is not Li Bai's hometown, but the word "return" is as kind as going home. The word "return" is vivid in the dark, which deserves readers' deep thinking.
The realm of the third sentence is even more wonderful. In the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in ancient times, "there were often high apes whistling". The poet said, "I can't stop crying", because he is driving a fast canoe on the Yangtze River, listening to the cries of apes on both sides of the strait and looking at the mountain shadows on both sides. More than one ape's cry, more than one mountain shadow. Because of the speed of boats and pedestrians, the cries and mountain shadows become "one piece" between eyes and ears. This is how Li Bai felt about the shadow of the ape mountain when he left the gorge. Sitting on this boat, which is like an arrow leaving the string and flowing downstream, the poet feels extremely carefree and excited. In Qing Dynasty, Gui Fu spoke highly of this sentence in Zapu.
In an instant, the "canoe" has passed the "Chung Shan Man". In order to describe the speed of the ship, the poet added the word "light" to the ship itself in addition to the ape sound and the mountain shadow. It is clumsy to say that the ship is fast; And the word "light" has different meanings. When the Three Gorges was in danger, the poet went upstream, not only feeling that the ship was sinking, but also feeling sluggish. "Three dynasties scalpers, it is too late. Three times, I don't feel my temples become silk "("On the Three Gorges "). Now downstream, as light as nothing, the ship is fast, as readers can imagine. As soon as the "Chung Shan Man" ended, the canoe entered a smooth road, and the poet's pleasure of going through all kinds of hardships and setting foot on the road naturally showed itself. These last two sentences are not only a description of the scenery, but also a comparison, an expression of personal feelings and a summary of life experience. They are exquisite and incoherent.
The whole poem gives people a feeling of straightforwardness and ethereal. But we can't fully understand the whole poem only by looking at the bold momentum and elegant brushwork. The whole poem is permeated with a sudden passion after hard years, so there is pride and joy in grandeur and quickness. The pleasure of the clippers left a broad imagination space for readers. In order to express this carefree mood, the poet also deliberately uses the rhymes of "emptiness", "return" and "mountain", which makes the whole poem particularly melodious, light and long.
About the author:
Li Bai (70 1 ~ 762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.
First Coming to Baidicheng is a four-line poem written by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, when he returned from exile in 759. This is one of Li Bai's most widely circulated poems. This poem describes the Yangtze River from Bai Di to Jiangling, with fast-flowing water and ships flying. The first sentence is about the height of Baidicheng; The second sentence is written in Jiangling Road, and the ship is fast; Three sentences fly into the boat, accompanied by the sound of mountain shadows; Four sentences write that the boat is as light as nothing, pointing out that the water is like diarrhea. The whole poem combines the poet's happy mood after forgiveness with the grandeur of the countryside and the smooth and light sailing along the river. With exaggeration and whimsy, the writing is graceful and elegant, shocking the world, unpretentious, arbitrary and natural. Yang Shenzan, a Ming scholar, praised him: "You were scared to cry by the wind and rain!"