Three scenes: the general indulges in drinking and sex, which leads to a waste of combat preparations, the border soldiers waste their years and achieve nothing, and the survivors long for recovery but their hopes are in vain.
Three things: a red door, a stable horse, and a broken bow.
"Moon over the Mountain" was written by Lu You, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. "Guan Shan Yue" fully embodies the basic content and spiritual essence of Lu You's patriotic poetry. It is a work that perfectly combines ideological and artistic qualities. It is full of the poet's thoughts of caring for the country and loving the people, with deep feelings of sorrow and anger, which makes people cry when read.
Excerpts from the original text:
Fifteen years after He Rong issued the imperial edict, the general was approaching the border empty-handed without fighting.
The wealthy clan sings and dances, the stable horses are fat and dead, their bows are broken.
Translation:
The edict to negotiate peace with the Jin people has been issued for fifteen years, and the general came to the border in vain without fighting.
In the spacious and magnificent aristocratic mansion, songs and dances were performed to the beat, while the fat horses in the stables died silently, and their bowstrings were broken. Extended information
Although "Guan Shan Yue" not only writes about the ruling group, but also about the soldiers and survivors, there is a clue running through it from beginning to end - the Southern Song Dynasty issued an edict and an army, which is the first chapter of the poem. One sentence pointed out. It is precisely because of the imperial edict and the army that the generals did not fight in vain, the soldiers were not allowed to go into battle while they were young and strong to kill the enemy, and the remaining people were not allowed to liberate themselves from the dire straits of foreign rule.
The poet's ideological tendency is very clear. This is the condemnation of the Southern Song Dynasty group's policy of compromise and surrender, the deep sympathy for the patriotic soldiers and survivors who fought against the enemy, and the incomparable hatred for the invaders expressed in the poem. .
Because it expresses these thoughts, "Guan Shan Yue" embodies the progressive content and spiritual essence of Lu You's patriotic poetry. The patriotism in Lu You's poems is often reflected in his resentment that his ambitions have not been fulfilled.
In the poem "Guan Shan Yue", although it does not directly express this point as in poems such as "Shu Anger", it still expresses this point in the poem "The general is facing empty without fighting" and "The stable horse is fat and dead, and the bow is broken." Sentences such as "Who knows the heart of a strong man in the flute" and "The sky above the sand illuminates the human bones" also imply the grief and anger of having no way out and unrealized aspirations. The poet is closely connected with the soldiers who resisted the Jin Dynasty.
Every four lines of the poem are divided into one level. The three levels respectively select the different situations and attitudes of three characters under the same moonlit night. As the structural framework of the whole poem, the language is extremely concise and general, but the connotation is very rich. Deep and wide. On one side are the civil and military officials in wealthy houses, singing and dancing with no thought of returning to the country; on the other side are the soldiers guarding the border, who are bored and have no way to serve the country.
On one side are the remnants of the Central Plains, who endure humiliation and criticism, their eyes blurry with tears, and long for reunification. These three scenes constitute three contrasting pictures, which denounce the Southern Song Dynasty court's attitude of being timid and indifferent to the national calamity. They express the depression of the patriotic soldiers who have no way to serve the country and the people's desire for recovery in the Central Plains. They embody the poet's concern for the country. the patriotism of the people and their desire for reunification.