When * * * cut the candle at the west window, but talk about the rain at night.
This poem "A Message to Friends in the North on a Rainy Night" is a famous work by Li Shangyin, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty. The poem intentionally repeats the word "late rain" and combines the real world with the virtual scene: rain is not only the realistic environment when the poet writes in a foreign country, but also the topic the poet talks about when he envisions returning to his hometown in the future and facing his wife in the light. The short 28 words not only show the desolation of the journey in the rain and the uncertainty of the return date, but also imply the warmth of cutting candles and talking at the west window in the night rain. These two totally different scenes and emotions just constitute the basic connotation of the "rain" image in China's classical poems.
Qu Yuan 'an, a poet at the end of the Warring States Period, reflected the beautiful and sad image of Wushan Goddess (Jiuge) in the cold environment of "thunder fills the rain, jade (ape) sings at night" and "the mountain slopes are steep and cover the sun, and it rains a lot". However, this kind of poem set off by the rain scene was rare in the subsequent Han and Wei Dynasties, until the poet He Xun of the Southern Dynasty wrote a famous sentence, "Night rain drops empty the steps, and morning light." It can be said that He Xun discovered the delicate charm of the rain image and showed it in a beautiful and vivid style. Since then, rain, as a natural phenomenon, is almost always used in poetry to express sad atmosphere and lonely feelings, and is often associated with themes such as parting, wandering and loneliness.
Although the actual parting may not happen in the rain, the poetry with the rain as the background is obviously more artistic:/view/9756D53887C24028915fc3d3.html.