In the second year of Su Zonggan Yuan, Du Fu abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown to live in Chengdu Caotang. One day, several uninvited guests went to Du Fu's house to make friends with Shi. Du Fu lives in poverty, so he really can't provide better meals to entertain his guests. Mrs. Du was overwhelmed with anxiety.
While wondering, Du Fu found a handful of leeks, two eggs and a large plate of bean curd residue in the kitchen. He immediately turned his worries into happiness, smiled and whispered a few words to his wife, and invited the guests to sit down and chat.
After a while, Mrs. Du served three dishes and one soup. The first bowl is fried leek with two egg yolks on it; The second bowl is also fried leek with protein on it; The third bowl is steamed bean curd residue, with nothing on it; Finally, there is a big bowl of leek bean curd soup with several white eggshells floating on it.
Du Fu said to the guests with his fist: "It is a great honor for you to come to my humble abode, and specially prepared a poem banquet to show your heart." Just as the guests were wondering, Du Fu picked up chopsticks and pointed to the first bowl of vegetables. This is called "two orioles singing green willows".
Pointing to the second bowl of vegetables, he said, this is "a line of egrets going up to the sky"; Pointing to the third bowl of vegetables, this is "the window of Xiling contains snow"; It refers to the last bowl of soup, saying that it is "Wan Li ship at the door with Wu Dong". At this time, the guests suddenly realized and applauded.
In 762 AD, at the height of the Tang Dynasty, Chengdu Yin entered Korea. At that time, due to the "Anshi Rebellion", Du Fu once avoided Zizhou. In the second year, the rebellion was put down and Yanwu returned to Chengdu. Du Fu also returned to Chengdu Caotang. At that time, he was in a good mood Faced with the vitality of this school, he couldn't help writing this poem.
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Du Fu's quatrains:
"Two orioles sing green willows, egrets sky-high." Outside my window is the snowy Western Hills. My door often says "goodbye" to ships sailing eastward.
Two orioles sang softly among the green willows, and a neat team of egrets went straight into the blue sky. Sitting by the window, you can see the snow accumulated all the year round on Xiling Mountain, and ships from Dongwu, thousands of miles away, are parked in front of the door.
Xiling: Qinling Mountains; Snow in Qian Qiu: The snow on the ridge does not melt all the year round, so it is commensurate with the next Millennium; Wan Li Ship: refers to ships coming from afar, and Wan Li refers to distant places.
This poem "Jueju" was written when the poet lived in Huanhuaxi Caotang, Chengdu, and described the beautiful spring scenery around the Caotang. Poetry cuts in with vibrant natural beauty, creating a fresh and relaxed atmosphere. In the first two sentences, the poet described this beautiful scene in an implicit way from different angles.
Cui is new green, which is the color when everything recovers and germinates in early spring. "Two" and "one" are relative; Horizontal and vertical, it opens a very beautiful natural landscape. In this poem, the word "Ming" is the most vivid, and the oriole is described more vividly by anthropomorphic methods, and the birds are in pairs, which constitutes a vibrant picture full of festive atmosphere.
The oriole sings on the willow, which is the vitality of moistening things quietly. The next sentence uses more obvious movements to write the vitality of nature. Egrets flying in this fresh sky is not only a comfort of freedom, but also an upward struggle.
Furthermore, the first sentence says that the oriole sings on the willow, and the next sentence says that the egrets fly to the sky, which broadens the space a lot. From bottom to top, from near to far, the poet's tangible vitality fills the whole environment and shows the prosperity of early spring from another angle. This quatrain is a scene, but it is integrated, and it is the poet's inner state of mind that plays a connecting role.
On the surface, it presents a vibrant picture, but in the cheerful and bright scene, it entrusts the poet with the loss of time, loneliness and boredom, and even writes the poet's complicated mood when there is a glimmer of hope. Beyond that kind of hope, it is more the poet's sadness about disappointment and indifference to whether hope can be realized. It is the theme of this poem to pin the poet's complicated feelings on the fresh and brisk scenery.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-four quatrains