I want to know why my Jinse has fifty strings, and each string has a youthful interval.
Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, was bewitched by butterflies, and cuckoo crowed in the imperial spring.
Mermaids shed pearl-like tears on the moon-green sea, and the blue fields breathed their jade to the sun.
A moment that should last forever? Before I knew it, it had come and gone.
Translation:
Why does this exquisite instrument have fifty strings? Every string and column of the instrument reminds me of my youth.
Zhuang Zhou danced in his sleep and turned into a butterfly, hoping that the emperor would pin his hatred on Du Fu.
The moon on the sea is high in the sky, and Jiao Ren's crying tears have turned into pearls; Lantian Mountain is sunny and warm as spring, and you can also see good jade and smoke.
Where is this feeling that I feel infinitely sorry in retrospect? In fact, it was already overwhelming.
Jinse is Li Shangyin's masterpiece, but it is also the most difficult poem to explain. Some people say that this is a love poem for a maid named "Jinse" in Linghu Chu family; Some people say that it is a mourning poem for the late wife Wang; Others think that the four poems in the middle can meet the four feelings of appropriateness, resentment, clarity and harmony, and can be inferred as poems describing music; There are also many sayings, such as alluding to politics and writing autobiographical poems. There have been different opinions for thousands of years, but most of them are "mourning" and "self-injury".