Cold grass: autumn grass
Moss: A green moss color.
Drunk: It makes people intoxicated.
Beautiful image: beautiful figure
Mark: Shadow.
Mao (g o) fairy: a fairy dressed in white, Mao, an ancient white silk product.
Feathering: Taoism calls immortality or soaring "feathering", which means you can go to heaven by becoming a bird.
translate
The sunset shines on the autumn hay, and the courtyard door is closed. The stems and leaves of begonia are lush and green, covering the whole flowerpot. Her spirit is like jade, unparalleled, and her bones and muscles piled up like snow are particularly intoxicating. Small stamens are fragrant and delicate, and the shadows of flowers in the dead of night are mottled like tears on the moon. Don't say that begonia can fly away like a fairy in clothes. She accompanied me to sing softly at dusk.
background
This poem comes from the thirty-seventh chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions: Autumn Frost Zhai accidentally married Haitang Society, and Yuan Ye proposed chrysanthemum. Baoyu had just been beaten, and his father "prude" ordered an errand and chose to get up on August 20. After Jia Zheng left, Baoyu wandered around the garden every day, which really wasted his time and added years. On this day, Baoyu's "son" Jia Yun gave Baoyu two pots of "precious" Bai Haitang. On the same day, Tanchun became interested in poetry, so he wrote to Baoyu, stating that he wanted to set up a poetry club. "Widow" Li Wan suggested, "When I came here just now, I saw them carrying two pots of white seawalls. This is a good flower. Why don't you just recite him? " So they took this opportunity to set up Haitang Society.
Li Wan became the president, responsible for commenting on poetry, limiting spring rhyme and supervising the spring field. Why these three people? Look at the original text: Li Wan said, "When the club is established, we will make a liquidated damages contract. I have a big house there, but I have a club there Although I can't write poetry, these poets enjoy it. As a host, I naturally become elegant. If you want to promote me as president, I naturally don't have a president. If you must invite two vice presidents, please invite two pedants of Lingzhou European Association, one is a topic and the other is a transcription supervisor. We can't stop the three of us from doing it. If we encounter a relaxed rhyme, we will also write a song casually. All four of you must be restricted. If there is, get up; If you don't follow me, I won't dare to attach myself. " Cherish the lazy poems in spring, and Lin Xue is in the front. Hearing this, it was to his liking, and both of them said it was excellent. Obviously, they just come to make up the numbers, and their poetry level is not high.
Most of the poems written by sisters in the garden are "sentimental" and have their own interests. Zuo Gong endowed everyone's thoughts, feelings, character and destiny to his poems. Bai Haitang sang here, and Chrysanthemum sang later.
Make an appreciative comment
Tan Chun's Bai Haitang, with noble spirit and pure muscles and bones, blooms in sunny days after rain, which can be described as graceful and moving. At the same time, this song "Ode to Bai Hai Tang" is also her personal portrayal.
The first sentence "cold grass in the setting sun with heavy doors and moss full of rain pots" expresses feelings through the environment.
"Jade is difficult to compare with cleanliness in spirit, and snow is easy to fascinate the bones and muscles". The first half of the sentence echoes Tan Chun's judgment that "only when you are abstinent". The second half of the sentence is a further description of her image of "cutting shoulders and waist, slender figure, duck egg face, fine eyes, eager to fly, the essence of literary talent, forgetting the customs". Here, white jade and snow are used to express the spiritual world of Tanchun.
"My heart is a little weak, and I am marked with a beautiful image in the middle of the night", which means that the flowers are extremely delicate, and the moon in the middle of the night reflects the beautiful image of Bai Haitang. "Weak Heart" reminds people of a kite with a broken thread, and the riddle of Tanchun: "The child is on the back, and Qingming makeup is the most suitable. When the hairspring is weak, don't complain to the east wind for parting. The answer is a kite.
"Don't say that the white fairy will fly to the sky, but she is singing with me affectionately in the dusk." . "The diaosi fairy comes out of the cage" makes people think of marrying far away. Tan Chun endowed Bai Haitang with his own feelings. In fact, he was praising himself with Bai Haitang. It seems sad to get married in spring, but I think it is the best destination.