Picking mulberry seeds·It’s a good time to visit the West Lake during the Qingming Festival. Original text:
It’s a good time to visit the West Lake during the Qingming Festival, full of prosperity. Fight over whose family it is. Green willows and red wheels drive the carriage. Tourists are leaving at dusk, waking up drunk and noisy. The road turns and the embankment slopes. There are always flowers all the way to the top of the city. Picking mulberry seeds·Good comment on West Lake during Qingming Festival
Translation During Qingming Festival and Shangsi Festival, the scenery of West Lake is very beautiful. Everywhere you look is a prosperous scene. Whose carriages and horses are fighting for the lead? A car with red wheels and golden flowers ran around the willow trees beside the road in order to get ahead. Tourists go back together at dusk. The awake ones, the drunk ones, greeted each other and made a lot of noise. From the sloping embankment of the West Lake to the city head, there are flowers blooming along the way.
Notes 1 Shangsi: The name of the festival. In ancient times, Si day in early March of the lunar calendar was regarded as Shangsi. On this day, people often went to the waterside to swim to eliminate bad luck. 2. Fight for the road: tourists and vehicles compete to go first. 3 Zhu Lun: A wheel painted red. Made in Han Dynasty, the chariot used by the prefect was painted with red paint on its wheels. 4. Cart: A car decorated with gold thread patterns. This sentence means that the car with the red wheel is passing under the green willows. 5. Xiangjiang: accompany each other, carry each other, that is, hold hands. 6. Drunken people and sober people. Picking mulberry seeds, enjoying the West Lake during the Qingming Festival
This poem describes the lively and prosperous scene of spring outings in the West Lake during the Qingming Festival. It describes the beauty of the West Lake from the side and depicts the joyful atmosphere of the spring outings. In ancient times, the first ten days of the third month of the lunar calendar was regarded as "Shangsi". There has always been a custom of going for an outing to the waterfront on this day. Volume 2 of "Meng Liang Lu" contains: "On March 3rd, the story of drinking wine in a meandering stream began in the Jin Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty gave a banquet to Qujiang River, and the whole city drank and went out, which is also the meaning." "Tokyo Menghua" "Records" also records: "The surrounding fields are like a market. Often under the fragrant trees or among the gardens, cups and plates are arranged to encourage each other. The song of the capital, ***, fills the garden pavilions and returns at dusk." This is It can be seen that it is a grand scene of people enjoying spring outing in the countryside. West Lake has charming scenery and is the best place for tourists. Look at the green willows, cars like flowing water, horses like dragons, vying for the road, and the shore of the West Lake, full of tourists, all kinds of people are enjoying the beautiful spring scenery. The poet himself also took a Zhu Lundian car to join the happy spring outing.
The upper part of the poem depicts a picture of a spring outing in the West Lake during the day. The next film depicts the scene of tourists returning. At sunset, those who have sobered up and those who are still drunk will return home. From the sloping embankment of the West Lake to the city head, there are flowers blooming all the way. "There are always flowers all the way to the top of the city." This refers not only to the blooming flowers on the roadside from the West Lake to the foot of Yingzhou City, but also to the fact that all the tourists along the way return home with hairpins on their heads. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, people had the custom of picking flowers for hairpins, regardless of men or women. For example, Du Mu wrote in "Nine Days Qi'an Climbing High": "It's rare to smile in this world, and you must return home with your head full of chrysanthemums." Su Shi's "Ciyun Su Bogu's Master Book Chongjiu" said: "A heavy bun is not too full of yellow chrysanthemums. There is also a sentence in Liu Kezhuang's "Shangsi": "When I return home in the evening, I am still in a state of madness, and my scarf is covered with wild flowers." It can be seen that "there are always flowers up to the top of the city", which is about people's spring outing. Returning home, the scene of people returning to the city with hairpins on their heads.
The Qingming Festival is the time when ancient people went to the waterside to play. In such a tourist season, coupled with the West Lake as a tourist attraction, it is really a good time to be beautiful. The combination of the two makes the lively scene extraordinary. What this word expresses is a grand scene, and "full of prosperity" is the core of the whole word.
The bustling features are first reflected in the description of tourists, which is also the focus of the work. Firstly, there are many tourists, and secondly, they are happy. There were so many tourists that I wrote in the poem: "Who is fighting for the road? Green willows and red wheels guide the carriage." This sentence describes two different types of tourists, one is a car traveler and the other is a hiker. If there are too many cars, people will scramble for directions; if there are too many pedestrians, there will be a scene of "fighting for the road." The last two sentences use only a few numbers to show a busy tourist scene. In addition, the word "noisy" in the next film highlights the number of tourists from the perspective of sound. In a remote place like the West Lake, it feels like there are a lot of people. It is conceivable that the scene of pedestrians coming and going is imaginable. . How to see the joy of travelers? From the above description of pedestrians "fighting over whose car is in the way", a cheerful and lively atmosphere can be conveyed, and then the word "wake up" when tourists return at dusk, which even more expresses the different characteristics of tourists. Demeanor. This is reminiscent of Ming Dynasty writer Zhang Dai's vivid description of various moon-viewing people in his article "West Lake Half July": some of them "sing in a low voice", some "drink noisily and pretend to be drunk", and some "Welcome guests to drink" and "Sleep soundly in the boat". The word "wake up drunk" in this poem evokes associations similar to these scenes. From the way tourists return, it seems that some of them are dedicated to sightseeing and enjoying the spring scenery; some are enjoying the scenery and drinking. After getting drunk, they each had fun in their own way and returned home enjoying themselves. In short, tourists gathered together and they were laughing and talking.
The prosperity is reflected in the description of the scenery and characteristics of West Lake itself. Although this is not the focus of the work, it is an indispensable part of the bustling scene. The Qingming Festival is already the time of late spring, but there is no sense of desolation in the work as the flowers fade away, and instead it presents a grand scene with rich colors. In the sentence "Green willows and vermilion wheels drive a mother-in-law carriage", the poet uses green willows and vermilion wheels to oppose each other, which not only describes the luxury of the mother-of-pearl carriage, but also sets off the lushness of the willow trees, the bright colors and the strong feeling of spring.
The concluding sentence of the poem follows the meaning of "tourists are about to leave at dusk" and describes the scenery seen on the way back. The road turns sloping and there are flowers all the way. Is this a flower on a branch or a flower falling on the ground? The poet didn't write it clearly. He only left a impression on people. He only felt that the eyes were full of colorful flowers and the whole space was filled with spring flowers. The bustling flow of people and flowers all over the ground merge into one, and the atmosphere is very warm. This reminds us of the words written by Ouyang Xiu in another song "Picking Mulberries": "The tourists have dispersed and the music and songs have dispersed, and then they can feel the spring sky." This word "empty" shows the poet's original view from the perspective of opposition. The extremely deep feeling of the grand occasion shown in the poem also shows that the poet has an inseparable connection with the meaning of spring. Therefore, this word captures these two aspects and simultaneously expresses the prosperity of Yingzhou West Lake. This word runs through the "busy" and "noisy" festival atmosphere from beginning to end, drawing readers into this atmosphere and enjoying the joy of the festival. After reading this poem, look back at the first sentence: "The West Lake is so good during the Qingming Festival." It is not difficult to see that the author uses the prosperity of the festival to praise the beauty of the West Lake. Each sentence in the poem has rich connotations, and the whole poem constitutes a vivid and magnificent picture of spring outing.
The whole poem vividly depicts a custom painting of the West Lake in Yingzhou during the Qingming and Shangsi periods through close-up shots of Zhu Lundian's chariots fighting for the road and tourists returning with hairpins. This song "Picking Mulberries" is written with joyful scenery, unique style, and many touching features. Picking mulberries and visiting the West Lake during the Qingming Festival is a good creative background.
In the third year of Huangyou (1049) of the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu went to work in Yingzhou. The West Lake in Yingzhou was a tourist attraction at that time. Ouyang Xiu was intoxicated by the beautiful scenery there. He chose Yingzhou as his residence in his later years. He visited the place many times and wrote ten poems "Picking Mulberries" to sing about the beautiful scenery of the West Lake. These ten poems have beautiful artistic conception and different styles. This song "Picking Mulberries" is one of them.
Poetry works: Picking mulberry seeds·It’s good to go to the West Lake during Qingming Festival Poetry author: Ouyang Xiu, Song Dynasty Poetry classification: Qingming Festival, spring outing, writing about water, West Lake