The swallow grass is like blue silk, and the green branches of Qin mulberry are low.
From "Spring Thoughts" by Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
The swallow grass is like bisi, and the green branches of Qin mulberry are low.
When you return home in your arms, it’s time for my concubine to lose her heart.
If you don’t know the spring breeze, why should you enter the Luo curtain?
Appreciation
This is a poem that describes the mood of a missing woman. The first two sentences are inspired by the spring scenery of Yan and Qin, which are far away from each other. They describe a missing woman who is alone in Qin and is moved by the scene. She misses her husband who is garrisoning in Yan all day long, looking forward to his early return. The third and fourth sentences are derived from the first two sentences. They continue to write that the swallow grass is green and green, and the husband must miss him. At this time, Qin Sang is already low and the concubine has broken her heart, which further expresses the feeling of missing her wife. The fifth and sixth sentences use the psychological activities of missing her wife when the spring breeze stirs the silk curtains to express her noble sentiments of perseverance and perseverance in love. The whole poem uses scenery to express feelings, which is euphemistic and moving.
Li Bai wrote a considerable number of poems describing the psychology of missing a woman, and "Spring Thoughts" is one of the famous ones. In classical Chinese poetry, the word "spring" often contains a pun. It not only refers to spring in nature, but also can be a metaphor for the love between young men and women. The "spring" in the title of the poem "Spring Thoughts" contains two meanings.
The first two sentences: "Swallow grass is like blue silk, Qin mulberry has low green branches", which can be regarded as "Xing". The interesting sentences in the poem are usually based on what you see before you, and you can pick them up at random. However, these two sentences are based on the spring scenery of Yan and Qin, which are far apart, which is quite unique. "Swallow grass is like blue silk" must be out of the longing woman's suspense; "Qin Sang low green branches" is what the longing woman has witnessed. Arranging the distant view and the close-up view in one picture, and writing them all from the side of the missing woman, seems a bit awkward from a logical point of view, but from the perspective of "writing love", it is acceptable. Passed. Just imagine: In mid-spring, when the mulberry leaves are luxuriant, the missing woman who is alone in Qin is moved by the scene. She looks forward to the early return of her husband, who is working and garrisoning in Yan. When Yan Di's husband sees the silk-like spring grass now, he will inevitably have the idea of ??returning home. Seeing the spring grass and thinking about returning home, I came up with the words "The Songs of Chu: Recruiting Hermits": "The kings and grandsons have traveled here and never returned, and the spring grass is growing luxuriantly!" The first sentence uses the words of "Chu Song", which is natural and has no trace. The poet skillfully grasped the complicated emotional activities of the missing woman, used two spring scenes to evoke lovesickness in two places, integrated imagination and memories with the real scene in front of him, and constructed fiction based on the facts, creating a wonderful realm of poetry. Therefore, it not only plays the role of heightening the emotional atmosphere that ordinary sentences can play, but also conveys the sincere feelings of the beloved woman towards her husband and the intimate relationship between their husbands and wives, which is not easy to do with ordinary sentences. Arrived. In addition, these two sentences also use homophonic puns. "Silk" is a homologue to "thinking", and "branch" is a homologue to "knowledge". This is consistent with the relationship between thinking and "broken heart" below, which enhances the musical beauty and implicit beauty of the poem.
The three or four sentences directly follow the logic of the Xing sentence, so I still write from the two places: "When the king returns home, it is the time when my concubine has a broken heart." The husband and the spring wife return, which is enough to comfort the person who has passed away. feeling of sadness. It stands to reason that the heroine in the poem should feel happy, but the next sentence uses the word "broken heart" to express it. This seems to go against the psychology of ordinary people, but if you carefully understand the above sentences, you will find that this The writing goes a step further in expressing the feelings of the missing woman. Xiao Shiyun of the Yuan Dynasty commented on Li Bai's collection: "The ground in the north of Yan is cold, and grass grows late. When the Qin land is soft and mulberry is low and green, swallow grass will grow, and the husband will be eager to return home, just like swallow grass. "Fang Sheng. I have been thinking about you for a long time, just like Qin Sangzhi has turned green." This comment reveals the subtle relationship between the sentence and the poem. The seemingly unreasonable places in the poem are precisely where the emotions are strongest.
As the old saying goes: "It's easy to get bored when you see a lot of love, but it's easy to change when you see a little love." The valuable thing about the heroine in this poem is that the love becomes deeper despite the distance, and the traces are sparse but the heart remains unwavering. The last two lines of the poem are: "If the spring breeze blows into the boudoir and the curtains are lifted, why do you want to enter the curtain?" The poet captures the psychological activities of the missing woman at the moment when the spring breeze blows into the boudoir and lifts the curtain, showing her loyalty and perseverance to her love. of noble sentiments. Xiao Shiyun said: "The last sentence is a metaphor for the purity of the heart, which cannot be moved by external things." He just said it. From an artistic point of view, these two sentences make the passionate lady speak to the ruthless spring breeze, which seems to be unreasonable. However, they are used to express the mood of the lady in a specific environment of staying alone in the spring breeze, which makes people feel real and believable. letter. The spring breeze is sultry, the spring thoughts are lingering, and the spring breeze reprimands, that is why we are determined and alert. This is the perfect ending.
Unreasonable yet wonderful is a common artistic feature in classical poetry. It is not difficult to see from this poem by Li Bai that the so-called irrational and wonderful means that in the description that seems to go against common sense and common sense, various complex emotions are expressed more deeply.
From the imagination, the swallow grass is still budding, and the Qin mulberry tree whose branches and leaves have turned green because spring comes earlier than in the north, evoke the pain of missing each other in the two places, and strongly feel the love at the same moment. The sorrow of her husband's "return of love" and her own "broken heart". But the spring breeze blows the tents at this moment, how can people endure it? The ***'s mentality is portrayed in a delicate and realistic way.