Poetry of the soul
Ruan Ji [Wei and Jin Dynasties]
Can't sleep at night, sit up and play the piano.
Thin curtains look at the bright moon, and the breeze blows on the chest.
Lonely in the wild, birds are singing in Beilin.
What will you see when you are wandering, and you will be sad when you are worried.
To annotate ...
Midnight: Midnight, Midnight.
Curtains: Curtains.
Jane: According to. Here, the moon shines on the curtains.
Lonely flood calls to the wild, and birds sing in the north forest: write the plaintive cries of birds in the distance, indicating that the night is bleak and restless, symbolizing abnormality. Gu Hong, a lost goose. Number, call. Birds flying, birds still flying at night.
Wandering and seeing? Lonely and sad: it means that people are restless and birds are singing, so what will you see? It's really sad that the scene is so bleak.
Modern Translation of Ancient Poetry
On a cool night, it was already midnight. I couldn't sleep for a long time, so I got up and played the piano. The bright moonlight shines on the thin curtains, and the chilly and cold night wind blows slowly, shaking my skirt. A wild goose wailed in the wild, and birds in the Woods flew around in fear, and the cry came from the Woods from time to time. A person lingers in the dark, but what can he see and solve? Only sadness accompanied me to be sad.
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Ruan Ji (2 10-263), Chen Liuwei (now Weishi County, Henan Province), was a writer and thinker at the end of Wei Dynasty and the beginning of Jin Dynasty. Son of Ruan Yu, one of the seven sons of Jian 'an and one of the seven sages of bamboo forest. Ruan Ji was a famous figure in Wei and Jin Dynasties. He advocates the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi in thought, is bohemian in behavior, and opposes hypocritical ethics. "Biography of Ruan Ji in the Book of Jin" said that Ruan Ji "had the ambition to help the world and belonged to Wei and Jin Dynasties. There are many reasons in the world, and few celebrities have all the people. Therefore, because he is isolated from the world, it is normal to drink alcohol. " From this perspective, his debauchery is a passive resistance under political repression.
Eighty-two poems of Ruan Ji's Yong Huai are the general theme of the poet's life poems. It was not written in a moment, similar to "miscellaneous poems". This paper describes the poet's inner anguish that he couldn't find a way out in troubled times. Some of them reflected the dark political reality at that time, some criticized the hypocritical ethics, some expressed their feelings, made comments and wrote their ideals, but they were inevitably negative and decadent. This is the first poem, the scene of the poet playing the piano, which expresses loneliness, loneliness, sadness and anxiety that can't find a way out of life.
"I can't sleep at night, sit up and play the piano." The poet begins with the word "night", which provides readers with a clear concept of time. Although it describes a very common dynamic phenomenon, it euphemistically expresses the poet's very complicated feelings. The poet's actions, behaviors, sights, sounds, mental states and other scenes all took place at this specific time. Literally, the poet wrote about himself on a cool night. It's midnight, but he can't sleep. In desperation, he just got up and played the piano. As we know before, the poet was originally a "peaceful" and "drunk as usual" person, but he couldn't sleep for a long time that night, just got up and played the piano. From this dynamic process, it is not difficult to imagine the poet's extremely uneasy mood at the moment, as well as the inexplicable endless sadness. It can be seen that the word "night" has the function of commanding the whole article in structure, leaving readers with profound suspense.
"The thin curtain looks at the bright moon, and the breeze blows on the chest." The following is what the poet saw and felt when he wrote the first two sentences. The cold moonlight on the "thin curtain" and the slow "breeze" that stirred the skirt, in the moonlight and breeze, a person played the piano without a complaint. The atmosphere I saw was cold; I feel lonely and desolate.
The two scenes of "Lonely in the Outfield and Birds Singing in the Northwood" have been pushed from close-up to distant view, from vision and touch to hearing, from the close-up of moonlight and breeze in the narrow room to the wailing of "Lonely in the Outfield" and the screaming of "Birds Singing in the Northwood" in the open outdoor background, adding a bit of desolation and confusion. This situation not only did not dispel the loneliness in the author's heart, but deepened the author's anxiety and sadness.
"I will see what I will see, and I will be sad." Bright Moon, Breeze, Lonely Hong and Sweet Bird are the bosom friends they are looking for. At this point, the poet can't help but wander. Even so, what will he see? Only "sad alone" The poet stopped writing while writing. From this sentence, we can easily understand that the poet's emotional thoughts seem to be stranded in that endless sad psychological state.