Du Fu: Painting Eagle

Painted eagle

Author: Du Fu

Original text:

Plain practice frost, eagle painting extraordinary.

A man shrugged his head and thought of a sly rabbit, while a man looked like a worried Hu.

Optical rotation can be picked up and called Xuan.

When you hit every bird, your hair and blood will spread out to smooth the weeds.

Precautions:

1, Su Lian: white silk for painting. Wind and frost: refers to cold air in autumn and winter. Here, the eagle in the painting is depicted as fierce as a murderous look with wind and frost.

2. Painting: painting and sketching. Special: special, different from ordinary people.

3, shrug: that is, squat. It's your way of converging your body and getting ready for battle. Want to be cunning: I want to catch a cunning rabbit.

4, sideways: strabismus. Like sadness: describe the eagle's eyes as blue and sharp. Because the Hu people's eyes are blue, which is a metaphor. Worried Hu: refers to the worried Hu people. Sun Chu's Ode to the Eagle: "In the depths of Emei, there seems to be sorrow."

5. Knock: Silk rope refers to the rope tied to the eagle. Rotation: the metal rotating shaft refers to the metal ring tied to the other end of the eagle rope. It can be lifted.

6. porch: the window column in front of the hall refers to the place where the eagle is hung. The situation is overwhelming: the eagle in the painting is lifelike and ready to go.

7. When: Andrew, where to get it. There is a meaning of if here. Hit ordinary birds: catch ordinary birds.

8. Pingwu: Grassland.

Translation:

There is a chill of wind and frost on the white silk.

It turns out that the painting eagle is vigorous and extraordinary, as if it were born with wind and frost.

Bow up as if to catch a sly rabbit,

The eagle's eyes look sideways, much like the monkey's.

The eagle can remove the copper ring tied to the private rope.

The painted eagle hanging on the pole can exhale quickly.

When to let such an extraordinary goshawk fight with its wings,

Sprinkle the blood on the hair of those "every bird" on Yuan Ye.

Appreciate:

This painting poem was probably written in the last year of 7 13-74 1 (kaiyuan period), and it is an early work of Du Fu. At this time, the poet was young, full of ideals, living a "happy" life, full of youthful vitality and enterprising heart. Through the description of eagle painting, the poet expressed his passion of hating evil and his ambition of Lingyun.

This is a poem with an inscription, "Every sentence is an eagle and every sentence is a painting" (Du Shijie). Cao Huma, a contemporary of Fang Bing. With the help of an eagle, the author expressed his ambition. By depicting the majestic posture, flying expression and fighting passion of the eagle in the painting, the song is wonderful (Yingsui), thus showing the author's high-spirited and energetic mind and contempt for mediocrity when he was young.

Poems with paintings are a unique national style in China's painting art. After finishing their works, ancient literati painters often wrote poems on the screen to explain the painting meaning and get the effect that poems and paintings complement each other. Painting with poetry began in the Tang Dynasty, but at that time, it was only poetry that praised painting, and it was after the Song Dynasty that poetry was really engraved on painting. However, the poems on paintings by poets in the Tang Dynasty had a great influence on later paintings. Among them, the number and influence of Du Fu's poems on paintings never surpassed him in the whole Tang Dynasty.

The whole poem consists of eight sentences, which are divided into three layers: one or two sentences are the first layer, pointing out the topic. In a surprised tone, it is said that there is a sudden wind and frost chill on the white painting silk. This chill was immediately pointed out in the second sentence: It turned out that the vigorous and extraordinary painting eagle was like the wind and frost rising, praising the artistic effect produced by the special skills of painting. This poem begins with an inverted sentence. Du Fu's "Song of Jiang Painting Eagle" begins like this: "Gong Chu painted eagle with horns, murderous and deep." Start with the eagle painted by the eagle painter, and then describe the cold air produced on the screen. This is a positive growth. The reason why this poem is called "inverted method" is because it is written first and then "painted eagle" is pointed out. This technique, combined with the use of a pen, effectively depicts the imposing manner of painting an eagle and attracts readers. This technique is well used in Du Fu's paintings. For example, "Song of Liu Shaofu's New Painting in Fengxian County" begins: "There are no maple trees in the class, and there are smoke in the mountains and rivers, which is strange." "Painting the Stork" begins by saying: "Storks are born in halls of high learning, and their bones are cool in autumn." "Ten Rhymes of Painting on the Tuojiang River in Minshan" begins by saying: "Tuoshui is located in the north hall of Minshan." These poems can have an artistic effect of pulling one hair and moving the whole body.

The middle four sentences are the second layer, describing the expression of the eagle on the screen, which is a positive article. Zhuan Xu? "Body" is "body". Looking at it horizontally, see the biography of Han Li Guang: "Looking horizontally, it is called the goshawk." See also Sun Chu's "Eagle Fu": "Eyes are deep and eyebrows are like sorrow. "Goodbye Fu Xuan's Poem on Apes:" If you frown, you will be angry if you are worried. "Du Fu's two sentences mean that the eagle's eyes are similar to those of monkeys, and it looks like it is going to catch a sly rabbit, thus depicting the action and psychological state of the eagle before the fight. This is a vivid pen, which makes the painted eagle lifelike at once, just like a real eagle. The "sash" of the neckline is the silk rope for tying the eagle; Spin is the rotating shaft, which is the metal round shaft used by eagles. Xuan Ying is the colonnade in front of the main hall, which refers to the place where the painted eagle hangs. The goshawk with a round metal shaft shines brightly. As long as the silk rope is untied, it can spread its wings and fly. The painted eagle hanging on the porch is full of vigor and vitality, as if it were about to come out to chase the cunning rabbit at once, thus describing the eagerness of painted eagle. Taking the real eagle as the contrast, the author vividly describes the painting eagle with these two poems.

Among the above two couplets, two pairs of words "thinking", "like", "picking" and "calling" depict the painted eagle vividly. Thinking describes its dynamic state, similarity describes its static state, abstraction describes its modality and breath describes its manner. The poet is good at using words. Through these expressive words, the painted eagle is described as a real eagle. It's hard to say whether it's a real eagle or a painted eagle. But judging from the two inferences of "Kan" and "Ke", after all, we are still painting an eagle.

The last two sentences go to the third floor, connecting the preceding with the following, taking the painting eagle as an eagle, and pinning the author's thoughts. "Harmony" means happiness, that is, I hope that the painted eagle can become a real eagle and fly to shoot every bird. (m.taiks.com) For the phrase "hairy blood", see Ban Gu's "Xi Du Fu": "Wind and rain cover the sky." As for Every Bird, Zhang said: "Everything in the world is wrong because of mediocrity, and it has no deep meaning." This is to compare "every bird" to a mediocre person who has misunderstood the country, which seems to have the meaning of eliminating all evils. From this perspective, this poem expresses the author's hatred of evil and ambition to make progress by chanting and painting eagles. At the end of the poem "Yang Jian Draw Twelve Eagles Again", the author also expressed his feelings: "It will be a turning point to get rid of the cunning rabbit for you."

Generally speaking, the poem begins abruptly, first outlining the imposing manner of painting an eagle, then describing the eagle's demeanor from the rise of "extraordinary painting", and then turning from "potential can be called" to the ending, pinning the author's thoughts and revealing the theme. Pu Qilong's Reading Du Xin Jie commented: "There is a tendency to question and answer questions. ? Both "body" and "eyebrow" are painted with real eagles and written by hand. "Removable" and "callable" are seen from drawing an eagle and written in decorative colors. Knot is actually a real eagle soul. Ride the wind and think hard, and evil thoughts are like hatred. "This poem is not only rigorous in composition, but also vivid in image and profound in meaning. It is a masterpiece of painting poetry.