2. Original text
Inlaid harp
I want to know why my Jinse has fifty strings, and each string has a youthful interval.
Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, was bewitched by butterflies, and cuckoo crowed in the imperial spring.
Mermaids shed pearl-like tears on the moon-green sea, and the blue fields breathed their jade to the sun.
A moment that should last forever? Before I knew it, it had come and gone.
3. Translation
Why do exquisite musical instruments have fifty strings, each of which reminds me of my youth?
Zhuang Zhou danced in his sleep and turned into a butterfly, hoping that the emperor would entrust his hatred to Du Fu.
The moon, the sea and Jiao Ren shed tears, and the jade in Lantian can only turn into smoke when it is warm.
Why do you want to recall this scene at this time, just because my heart was just at a loss at that time.
4. Brief analysis
Jinse is one of the representative works of Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The title of the poem is Jinse, but it is not a poem about objects. It's just an untitled poem with the first word as the title according to the convention of ancient poetry. This poem is one of Li Shangyin's most difficult works, and the poet has always lamented that "a Jin Se is difficult to understand". In the poem, the author recalls his youth, grieves his unfortunate experience, and places his sadness and resentment on it. He borrowed a lot of allusions such as Zhuang Sheng's dream butterfly, cuckoo's crying blood, tears in the sea, fertile land, etc., and used metaphor and imagination to transform his auditory feelings into visual images, creating a hazy realm by combining fragments of images, and conveying them with the help of visually sensible poetic images. The whole poem is colorful, subtle and profound, sincere and touching.