"Jinse has fifty strings for no reason, each string and one column reminds me of my good years" means: Jinse, why do you have fifty strings? Every string and every section makes people nostalgic for the golden years.
Jinse: a gorgeously decorated se. Se: A plucked string instrument, usually with twenty-five strings.
Unprovoked: For no reason. Words of resentment.
Fifty Strings: Here are the words of Tuogu. The author's original intention is also to say that Jinse should have twenty-five strings.
Li Shangyin’s wife passed away in his later years, so the twenty-five strings were broken and turned into fifty strings. The breaking of the strings means the loss of his wife, and the renewal of the strings means remarriage. But in this poem, Li Shangyin is full of In memory of his late wife. Extended information
1. Source of the poem
"Jin Se has fifty strings for no reason, one string and one column reflects the past" comes from "Jin Se" written by Li Shangyin in the Tang Dynasty. The original text is as follows:
"Jin Se"
Tang Dynasty: Li Shangyin
The Jin Se has fifty strings for no reason, and each string and one column reflects the past.
Zhuang Sheng was fascinated by butterflies in his morning dream, and looked forward to the emperor's spring heart in love with cuckoos.
The moon in the sea has tears, and the sun in Lantian is warm and jade produces smoke.
This feeling can be recalled later, but it was already at a loss.
2. Translation
The meaning of this poem is:
Jinse, why do you have fifty strings? Every string and every section makes people nostalgic for the golden years.
My heart is like Zhuangzi, confused by the butterfly's dawn dream; and like the hope that the emperor turns into a cuckoo, expressing the sadness of spring heart.
The bright moon shines high in the sea, and the sharks cry and their tears turn into beads. The red sun is warm in Lantian, and smoke can be seen in Liangyu.
How can we recall the joys and sorrows today? But back then, we were careless and at a loss.
3. Appreciation
The poet borrows a lot of allusions such as Zhuang Sheng's Dream of Butterflies, Cuckoo's Cry of Blood, Tears of Tears in the Sea, and Smoke from Fertile Fields. He uses metaphorical techniques, uses association and imagination, and combines the auditory sense with Feelings are transformed into visual images, and a hazy realm is created through the combination of fragments of images, thereby conveying the sincere, intense and profound thoughts with the help of visible and perceptible poetic images.
***Four allusions are used to present different artistic conceptions and emotions.
Zhuang Sheng’s dream of butterflies represents the trance and confusion of life.
Wang Di Chunxin includes the persistence of hard pursuit.
The tears of sea sharks have a vast loneliness.
The warm day in Lantian conveys a warm and hazy joy.
The images extracted by the poet from the allusions are so magical and ethereal. His soul slowly opens to the readers, and the beauty of Chinese years and the feelings of life are all integrated into it, but they can only be comprehended. Speech.
4. Introduction to the author
Shang Yin, courtesy name Yishan, nicknamed Yuxi (Xi) Sheng and Fan Nansheng, is a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home is Qinyang, Hanoi (now Jiaozuo City, Henan Province). Born in Xingyang, Zhengzhou. He is good at poetry writing, and his parallel prose has high literary value. He is one of the most outstanding poets in the late Tang Dynasty. He is known as "Xiao Li Du" together with Du Mu and "Wen Li" together with Wen Tingyun.