For example, the directional word "east, west, north and south" appeared in ancient poetry. When we understand it, we should not simplify it, only understand it from the expression of the word, but choose a reasonable explanation from the accumulation of our national traditional culture, taking into account its rich meaning.
"West Window", of course, is the window near the Western Wall. However, with the appearance of Li Shangyin's poems "When to Cut Candles at the West Window, But Talk about Late Rain" and "A Note to a Friend in the North on a Rainy Night", the meaning of "West Window" has been extended and its connotation has been enriched, and it has become a place where friends meet and lovers cut candles at night. Similarly, with the story that Qin Gui and his wife conspired to kill the patriotic general Yue Fei under the "East Window", the "East Window" became a place where bad people did bad things. That's how the idiom "caught in the window" came from.
A few days ago, a friend wrote a song "The Order of the South Tower" on the Internet, which contained these two sentences: "I have no words to enter the South Tower, it is calm and the lights are soft." My evaluation of her is:
"Although the word is good, the south tower is not used well! Words in a language are changeable, and there is generally no need to worry, think, grieve or suffer. South stands for joy, laughter, redness and omen; The west stands for sadness, crying, whiteness and business! Like your poem "Spring Complaint", you need to use the West Building to have an atmosphere! I don't know "there are tall buildings in the northwest, and some people are worried upstairs". People who are worried are not necessarily in high-rise buildings in the northwest, but are only rendered by context.
She replied: "This word rhymes with a blogger, and the original word is also West Building". It shows that her blog friends still know the usage of locative words.
Why do you want to give an example of "there are tall buildings in the northwest, and people upstairs are worried" to comment on a sentence of my friend? This is because the image of "Northwest" has involved the profound cultural characteristics of the Chinese nation. In the long history, due to the dominant position of small-scale peasant economy, the income of the whole society has to wait for the weather, which forces people to think about the relationship between subject and object, man and nature. Therefore, in the Han dynasty, a systematic and rigorous ideological system of "harmony between man and nature", "interaction between man and nature" and "harmony between man and nature" was formed. At that time, people generally had an idea that people's joys and sorrows were related to color, orientation and rhythm. For example, among the five emotions, the south represents happiness; The east stands for anger; The west stands for sadness; North represents fear; Chinese stands for thinking. Among the five tones, south stands for laughter; East representative shouted; West stands for crying; North stands for moaning; Chinese stands for Song. Other five colors and five laws have corresponding joys and sorrows.
A friend has read these ancient poems: "A pair of storks came from the northwest." Double stork; Lonely Grave in Northwest China and Kong Rong's Miscellaneous Poems; "There are clouds in the northwest, and the pavilion is like a car cover." Cao Pi's Miscellaneous Poems; "There are weavers in the northwest, colorful." Cao Zhi's miscellaneous poems ... The "northwest" in these poems is not necessarily in the "northwest", but the poet uses this positional noun to form the image in the poem to render or express the depressed cold atmosphere and sad mood.
Du Fu's poem "Cottage is Blown by Autumn Wind": "There is no dry place at the head of the bed, and the feet are like hemp in the rain." Among them, the word "house leakage is partial to continuous rain" has always been interpreted as house leakage is partial to continuous rain, but it is not the case. "House leakage" is a noun at first, which is the specific name of the northwest corner of the house. Er Ya Shi Gong: "The southwest corner refers to Guangdong, the northwest corner refers to house leakage, and the northeast corner refers to officials ..." The first meaning of the article "House leakage" in the revised Ci Yuan is "the northwest corner of the house. The ancients built a bed by the north window of the house. Because there is a skylight in the northwest corner, the sun shines into the room, so it is called house leakage. In metonymic rhetoric, this poem quotes two specific places in the room, "bedside" and "room leak", which refer to the whole room, not the whole. There is no dry place in the whole house, but it still rains. " The words "it rains all night" and "northwest" are equivalent words. In fact, the poet used the word "Northwest" to express the bitterness and sadness of life.
Coincidentally, recently, Benbo wrote a friend's seven-rhythm poem and recited a play about swimming in Dalian, entitled "Pleasure by the Sea":
Say goodbye to the north and go to the east embankment, and see the empty line across Wanxi in the distance.
The seagulls in Tiger Beach are drifting away, and the Gold Coast is addicted.
Jump into the high tide water, clap your hands and ask your friends to surf with you.
Dalian is hard to forget. I often laugh at western Liaoning in my dreams.
A friend asked me, "Dalian is in Liaodong Peninsula. How did Mr. Wang move it to western Liaoning? " I couldn't help laughing and admiring the way my friend read the poem carefully. Why do I use "to western Liaoning" instead of "to Liaodong" in the last three words of this poem? First, what needs to keep up with the rhythm must be the word "west", and no other word can replace it. The second is the word "West", which means that the connotation mentioned above has the meaning of missing and sadness. Dalian is such a beautiful place that I had a good time there. I'm afraid it's hard to walk again, so I have to meet you in my dream! Laughing in a dream is actually worse than crying at the author. This is "write a funeral with joy, mourn Syaraku, and double the sorrow and joy". If you want to write about sadness, write about happiness: I will never see it again after leaving that place in Dalian, but as I said just now, there is another place to see, and that is my dream. "West" is not necessarily included in "Western Liaoning" here, but it can refer to the whole Liaohe River Basin. This is not a story made up by Ben Bo, let alone a fabrication. This is recorded.
The whole Tang poetry only records the poet Jin Changxu's "Spring Complaint";
"Get rid of the oriole, get rid of all the music on the tree. When she dreamed that she went to meet him in Liaoxi camp, they woke her up. "
This poem is about a woman who misses her husband who went to western Liaoning, but she doesn't write about how she misses him from the front, but writes about her dream of going to western Liaoning to see her husband through clever artistic conception. But at dawn, the songbirds woke up with a good dream, so they hurried from the tree to the oriole and all their music trees. The word "Liaoxi" in the poem is also an extension of its locative words. I'm not sure if it's a place in western Liaoning. Because the people of the Tang Dynasty fought in Liaodong, didn't Xue conquer the East in history? He went directly to Korea, which is today's Korea. Poor boudoir dreamer, I miss the bones of western Liaoning!