Jiangxia presented Wei Nanling with ice
Li Bai
Hu Jiao’s horse was startled by the dust rising,
Hu Chu drank his horse’s Tianjin water.
You are approaching Jiuquan for Zhangye,
I traveled nine thousand miles across Sanba.
The heaven and the earth are new and wide,
The night man moves in and brings the frost and cold.
The memory of the old friend in the west is invisible,
The east wind blows the dream to Chang'an.
Ningqi suddenly met here,
The surprise was as vague as falling smoke.
Jade flutes and gold pipes are noisy at the four feasts,
After all the hard work, I can’t make a long sentence.
Yesterday, I embroidered clothes and poured them into green bottles.
How can I say that I am as sick as peach and plum.
In the past, I rode the Emperor's Dayuan horse.
Now I ride on the princes' gate.
When Lai met Nanping, he was in a state of disarray.
Fu Jianfu held the Qing theory.
It’s like the mountains are covered with thousands of miles of clouds.
Looking around at the blue sky relieves people’s boredom.
When people are bored, their hearts are also depressed,
The hardships last long.
Chou comes to drink two thousand stones,
The cold ashes are warm and the sun is springing.
The monkey can ride a horse when he is drunk.
He is a charming and wise master.
The Toutuo clouds and moons are full of monk energy,
How has the landscape ever satisfied people?
Otherwise, we would sing bamboo pipes and play drums to play in Cangliu.
We would call for the daughters of the south of the Yangtze River to sing and sing.
I will smash the Yellow Crane Tower for you,
You will also knock down the Parrot Island for me.
The struggle for supremacy in Chibi is like a dream,
And one must sing and dance to escape worries.
Appreciation of Li Bai’s Poems
In the second year of Qianyuan (759) of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai encountered an amnesty on his way to exile in Yelang and regained his freedom. He stayed in Jiangxia (the seat of governance is now Wuchang, Wuhan City, Hubei Province). During his stay, he met Wei Bing, a friend of Chang'an who was then the county magistrate of Nanling (now part of Anhui). Having just encountered the amnesty, he suddenly met an old friend, which made him extremely pleasantly surprised and filled with grief and anger. He couldn't help but complain to his friends, which became this painful and intense political lyric poem.
The poem begins with a flashback. This is a reminiscence of the past. During the Anshi Rebellion, you went to Zhangye, while I took refuge in Sanba, north and south, and had no chance to meet. But when the rebellion first subsided and Suzong returned to the capital, I was in jail, covered with frost and dew, wandering through the night, thinking that my remaining life would be miserable. Thinking of the old friends in Chang'an, I must accompany them back to the court at this time, feeling proud of the spring breeze, but I will probably only be able to see them in my dreams. Who would have thought that I would be lucky enough to be pardoned and meet an old friend from Chang'an whom I had no hope of meeting again. This really makes people overjoyed, surprised, and confused. Li Bai was a pardoned prisoner, and Wei Bingxian was a demoted official. At the banquet where they met, the crowd was noisy, and how could they describe each other's experiences in one sentence? In the surprise, the poet pinned down the unfortunate experiences of himself and Wei Bing; in expressing his confused thoughts, there was a satire on Suzong and the court. This description of surprise seems like a dream, but it is actually a heartbreaking confession of waking up from a big dream. The patriotic ambition and the ambition to save the world have turned into a naive dream and a real tragedy.
The poet is sincerely grateful to his old friend for his comfort. At the banquet the day before yesterday, dignitaries poured wine for themselves and were treated with great courtesy. However, they just admire my talent and name, how can they really understand me? And I am "as sick as a peach and a plum", so what more can I say? Of course, "If you don't say anything, you will make mistakes." The world will eventually understand me. My past and present honors and disgrace will be understood by you.
Not long ago, I received some frank explanations from Li Zhiyao, the prefect of Nanping, which opened my mind. Today, I heard your honest words here again. It is like the clouds and mist in the deep mountains have been cleared away, making people suddenly see the clear sky. The sky dispels the depression in my heart.
From the sentence "Yesterday" to the sentence "Looking around", although the poet's tone is relatively calm, it makes people strongly feel the deep depression in his heart that cannot be relieved, just like the depression before a thunderstorm.
The last paragraph is unrestrained and unbridled, with strong grief and indignation pouring out, like a torrent of depression in my heart bursting out. The anguish and toil are constant and constant. I can only drown my sorrow with wine and drink heavily. In the Han Dynasty, Han Anguo was imprisoned and his self-confidence could be rekindled. When Shan Jian was guarding Xiangyang in the Jin Dynasty, he often got drunk and said, "If he can ride a horse again, he will ride upside down for free" ("Shishuo Xinyu·Ren Dan"), Don't have the suave style of a virtuous master.
It is better to travel around the mountains and rivers, but the mountains and rivers are like the famous ancient temple Toutuo Temple near Jiangxia, full of ascetic monks, how can it satisfy people's hearts.
So, where is the way out? It is better to float around in a boat, sing pipes and drums, and sing and dance for fun; abandon all yearnings and pursuits without leaving any trace; regard the political reality of strife and ambition as a dream and ignore it in your heart; let singing and dancing relieve the sorrow of separation. Bar! The poet rejected his past self-adapted hobbies, which was an explosion of extreme depression and fierce and indignant resistance. In these last fourteen sentences, the tone becomes more and more intense. The spear points directly at dark politics and cold reality.
"I will smash the Yellow Crane Tower for you, and you will knock down the Parrot Island for me." This is the most emotionally charged verse in this article, and it is also a famous line that has been passed down throughout history. "Yellow Crane Tower" is famous for the immortals riding cranes to the sky, and "Parrot Island" is named after Mi Heng, who wrote "Ode to Parrots" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, was killed on this island by Huang Zu. A fairy that makes people yearn for, a touching feeling that cannot be encountered, although it is a legend and history, it entrusts the feelings and experiences of Wei Bing and Li Bai. Traveling to immortality is not the ideal of a person with lofty ideals, but an ordinary choice; it is a natural phenomenon since ancient times to avoid encountering phenomena that are not originally manifest. With the feelings of a confidant, Li Bai expressed great anger at each other's misfortunes, so he wanted to "beat the Yellow Crane Tower to pieces" and "throw down the Parrot Island", no longer have illusions, and no longer seek depression. However, the Yellow Crane Tower cannot be broken, and the Parrot Island cannot be brought down. The poet's great anger contains helpless lament.
This poem expresses true feelings, but its conception is strange and romantic.
The poet grasped the tragic meaning hidden in the comedy of unexpectedly meeting Wei Bing in Jiangxia, and exaggeratedly conceived and presented it as an awakening from a dream. It begins with a sudden surprise like a dream, to awakening in a cold situation, and ends with grief and indignation after awakening. This makes the experiences of the poet and Wei Bing have typical significance and truly reflects the causes of the tragedy of the times. The poet is resentful, sad and indignant, but also sad and desperate. Therefore, the ups and downs of his emotions allow people to clearly see his still-lasting character of "not interfering with others and unyielding to himself", "helping the common people" and "all over the world". The ambition of "purity". This is the work of the poet in his later years. Compared with his earlier works, his thoughts are more mature, his art is more sophisticated, he is arrogant and unruly, his suave style is still the same, his personality is outstanding, his writing style is bold and unrestrained, and he is full of strong emotions.