Li shangyin
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 has come and gone before I know it.
Jinse is one of the representative works of Li Shangyin, a poet in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Although this poem has a title, it is also classified as "untitled" poem. The reason is that "this ethereal and profound realm is the unique flavor of untitled poems." The whole poem is filled with the poet's feeling of indifference and loneliness, and full of deep regret that his ambition is hard to pay. Low style, confused and hazy. Just because he hates deep feelings, he uses the voice of "Jinse" to convey it.
The first couplet is inspired by things, and symbolizes its endless life with an unprovoked "Jinse". "Jinse" is a beautifully decorated musical instrument. According to legend, the ancient musical instrument was fifty strings. Playing the harp will definitely arouse people's sad mood, thinking about "time" and feeling dejected. Poets use this as a metaphor: how many syllables are rich on the strings, how many are like the complicated past of life. The poet looked back on the past with excitement. Li Shangyin was in the middle and late Tang Dynasty of political corruption. Although he was ambitious, he was always rejected and humble in the process of nepotism. Therefore, it is difficult to achieve ideals and ambitions, and it is inevitable to show sentimental emotions. Du Fu also has this kind of sentimental sadness in Qujiangdu wine: "When will this money be drunk next to a beautiful person?" And this kind of confused artistic conception often causes readers endless reverie. Zhu Yizun once wrote in Li Yishan Poetry Review: "Therefore, there is no cause", which means that the string is broken. "That's all, it is enough to show that poets always avoid speaking frankly whenever they feel and express their feelings, or express their feelings and praise things.
Zhuan Xu skillfully used Canon. Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, is bewitched by butterflies, which is based on the story of Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly in Zhuangzi's Theory of Everything. Zhuang Zhou, a Warring States thinker, once saw himself become a butterfly in his dream, and when he woke up, he thought, but I don't know whether Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he became a butterfly or the butterfly dreamed that he became Zhuang Zhou, which is very confusing. The "I" who enjoyed the scenery in my dream suddenly turned into a "thing" to please in my dream, and finally it was illusory and beautiful. It can be seen that the poet has completely fallen into a state of confusion. Looking at the sentence "The cuckoo cries in the spring of the Emperor Wang", the poet hopes that the emperor can incarnate the cuckoo, on the one hand, to express his good memories of the ideal "spring" and "love years"; On the one hand, because of the disillusionment of beautiful ideals and feelings in reality, he sang his own sorrow with the cuckoo's cry. Therefore, the allusions of become a butterfly and Du Yu in Zhuang Zhoumeng have aroused the poet's infinite sadness. A complicated string awakened the butterfly's dream, and the unspeakable resentment seemed to smell the melancholy voice of the cuckoo and send it back to spring; The legend of neckline evolution. "Mermaids drop pearl-like tears into the moon-green sea, and blue fields breathe their jade to the sun", which are two magnificent pictures in folklore. The former one took the deep blue sea and a bright moon in the sky as the background and shaped the image of "Jiao Ren crying"; The latter, with the beautiful mountains and warm sunshine in Lantian as the background, shaped the image of "Yushan generating smoke". The poet's original intention is to express his feelings: "Jiao Ren's tears" refers to his sad and lonely situation, which has entrusted the useless hatred of the legacy of the sea; The image of the beautiful jade being buried and the smoke rising from the kitchen shows that a person's talent is buried but difficult to hide. Li Shangyin has been paying close attention to the rise and fall of the country with deep anxiety, longing for the "revival" of the dynasty, loudly calling on the rulers to wake up, and strongly hoping that he can do his duty to save the peril. However, under the oppression of decadent forces, his desire to govern the country can only be turned into dreamy acacia tears.
The tail is straight to express one's mind. If the former Sanlian poets endowed this poem with an artistic style of suggestive color, with the characteristics of euphemistic lyricism, implicit artistic conception and clever allusion, then the last two sentences just directly tell their feelings: shouldn't they forget this feeling when they recall it today? In fact, at the time of the incident, I was already very confused. As Zhang Zhongxing said: "In retrospect, the old love is unforgettable, but everything seems to have happened in a previous life." (Poetry Reading and Writing)
In a word, Jinse uses metaphors, allusions, symbols and other artistic expressions to express ethereal meaning; Create a colorful artistic conception, sad and blurred. Readers taste it, like drinking old wine, like being intoxicated.