The explanation of Luo Yin's ancient poem "Snow" is as follows:
1. Original text and meaning:
(1) Original text: Even if there is a good harvest, what will happen in a good year? If there is a poor person in Chang'an, the auspiciousness should not be too much.
(2) Meaning: It is said that auspicious snow heralds a good harvest. What will happen in the good harvest? There are poor people in Chang'an City, so I think there shouldn't be too much snow.
2. Full text appreciation:
"Snow" is a five-character quatrain composed by Luo Yin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem is titled "Snow", but its intention is not to chant the snow scene, but to use the topic to express the poet's anger and dissatisfaction with the rulers, and to reveal the poet's deep sympathy for the poor people.
Whether snow is a good omen or a disaster, the poet has no intention of engaging in such a debate. What he felt disgusted and indignant was that those high-ranking officials and nobles who had plenty of food and clothing and no worries had no identical feelings or language with the poor, but they pretended to care most about good harvests and care about the poor. The most concerned face of the reader.
So he seized on the topic of "good harvest" and cleverly wrote a negative article, tearing off the masks of those "benevolent people" and exposing their dignity to the broad daylight. Not only is it full of the poet's hatred, contempt, and anger, but it also shows the poet's humorous, cynical character everywhere.
Introduction to the poet Luo Yin and the characteristics of his poetry:
1. Introduction to the poet Luo Yin:
Luo Yin, whose real name is Heng, whose courtesy name is Zhaojian, and whose nickname is Zhaojian. Jiang Dongsheng was born in Xincheng, Hangzhou (now Xindeng Town, Fuyang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province). Literary man, poet, and poet in the Tang Dynasty. Luo Yin was born in a Han Confucian family. He studied hard when he was young, and he was intelligent and capable of writing. However, his road to the imperial examination was bumpy. He was a Jinshi after ten attempts, but failed to get the rank.
Later, he worked in Huai and Run towns, but was not satisfied. During the Guangming Rebellion, Luo Yin was blocked from going north, so he lived in seclusion in Jiuhua Mountain in Chizhou. In the third year of Guangqi's reign, he surrendered to Qian Liu, King of Wuyue, and served successively as Qiantang Ling, Si Xunlang, and Gishi. He died in the third year of Kaiping in Liang after the Five Dynasties.
2. Characteristics of Luo Yin’s poetry:
What is most appreciated by poetry critics among Luo Yin’s poems is his sad, angry and cold poems that praise history and recall ancient times. Luo Yin's poems about praising history and remembering ancient times inherited Zuo Si's tradition of praising epic poems in style. They used the past to satirize the present and cleverly reversed the verdict. They were unique among the many mediocre poems about praising history and remembering ancient times in the late Tang Dynasty.