Meaning: The cicada suddenly wanted to catch the cicada singing in the tree, so he immediately stopped singing and stood silently next to the tree.
"Intent to catch the chirping cicada, suddenly shut up and stand" "from "What I See" by Yuan Mei, a litterateur in the Qing Dynasty.
Original text:
The shepherd boy rides the ox, and his singing shakes the forest.
I wanted to catch the chirping cicada, but suddenly I stood up with my mouth shut.
Translation:
The shepherd boy rides on the back of the ox, and his loud singing echoes in the forest.
Suddenly wanting to catch the cicada singing in the tree, he immediately stopped singing and stood silently next to the tree. Extended information
"What You See" is a five-character quatrain written by Yuan Mei, a writer in the Qing Dynasty. This poem describes a small incident that the author accidentally saw a shepherd boy riding a bull and singing and wanted to capture the cicada. By describing the changes in the shepherd boy's movements and demeanor, it expresses the shepherd boy's innocent, lively, witty and flexible character and love for nature.
It depicts an innocent and happy picture of a shepherd boy in the forest, expressing the author's love for the pastoral scenery. The whole poem directly expresses the feelings of life through the description of the natural environment and social life. It seems to be leisurely and leisurely, but in fact it expresses emotions. The language is lively, free, simple and clear.
Yuan Mei loved life. After resigning from office, he lived in Jiangning. He "lived on the bank of Cangshan Mountain for thirty years" ("Songs by Matsushita"). He advocated the expression of temperament, and most of his writings were the leisurely and ethereal feelings of scholar-bureaucrats. Fluent, novel and dazzling.
This poem is about a scene in life where the poet saw a shepherd boy riding a cow and singing a song. He suddenly heard the cry of a cicada and stopped singing to catch the cicada. After this scene, he became very popular. And create.
Yuan Mei (1716-1797), whose courtesy name was Zicai and whose nickname was Jianzhai, was named Cangshan layman, master of Suiyuan and old man of Suiyuan in his later years. Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). Qing Dynasty poet and essayist. He became a Jinshi in the fourth year of Qianlong's reign (1739) and served successively as magistrate of Lishui, Jiangning and other counties. He had political achievements and returned home at the age of forty. Build a garden at the foot of Xiaocang Mountain in Jiangning and chant in it.
He recruited many disciples and encouraged women to study literature, especially female disciples. He was one of the representative poets during the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods, and together with Zhao Yi and Jiang Shiquan, he was known as the "Three Great Masters of Qianlong". His writings were of his own, and he was as famous as Ji Xiaolan, and was called "Nan Yuan Bei Ji" at that time. There are "Xiaocang Shanfang Collection", "Suiyuan Poetry" and so on.
Reference material: See-Baidu Encyclopedia