Lingbi goose shuier
Cao Qing Xue Qin
Apricot curtains attract guests to drink, and you can see a villa.
Lingbi Goose Water, Sang Yu Yanziliang.
A bed of spring leeks is green, and ten miles of rice flowers are fragrant.
In prosperous times, you don't have to plow and weave.
This is a five-character poem written by Lin Daiyu on behalf of Jia Baoyu, which depicts the beautiful scenery of the "Huange Villa" in the Grand View Garden. The title of the poem was designated by Princess Yuan. This is a very excellent poem about scenery.
At the beginning, the poet cut into the topic of poetry in two sentences with concise and clear brushstrokes. The phrase "Apricot Curtain", on the one hand, not only conveys the vibrant atmosphere of spring breeze, apricot red and willow green, and wine flags flying; On the other hand, it is a clever combination of the word "apricot curtain" in the poem title. The sentence "in sight" describes the faint scenery of the grange in the distance, and expresses the poet's yearning for the pastoral farm life, thus clarifying this poem. Such a poem is divided into two sentences, and the syntax is round and natural.
The following four sentences in "Lingbi" describe the villa scenery in the eyes of guests: here, geese play freely on the clear water covered with Lingbi leaves and floating leeks, and swallows rush out of the mulberry forest and build nests between the beams to keep warm; In the endless fields, strips of leeks grow green in the spring breeze, and a rice field is filled with the fragrance of pollen, which seems to indicate a bumper harvest. In this ideal "promised land", everything lives happily and peacefully.
From the perspective of landscape painting, the poet's brushwork is quite delicate: he pays attention to the alternation of movement, the coordination of color and taste, and the combination of point and surface, especially the two sentences of "Lingbi", which are all composed of nouns. Without high language skills, the use of this special grammar is difficult to succeed. But for a talented woman like Lin Daiyu, it is just a trick.
The last two sentences of the poem: "You don't have to be busy with farming in the prosperous times", and the whole poem ends with "ode to the sage", which is the so-called "music ends in elegance". In Ode to Saints, the poet praised the peaceful and prosperous times without famine and cold, which is a whitewash of reality. It shows that Lin Daiyu, as an educated woman, still lacks sufficient understanding of the social reality at that time, that is, "water is not collected early, rats steal bees, and the people are in trouble."
The first couplet of this poem, the first sentence begins with "Apricot Curtain" and the next sentence begins with "In sight", cleverly contains the theme and depicts the prospect of the villa. The two teams in the middle are fighting. Couplets use nouns instead of verbs to combine several images to form a vivid farm picture. Necklaces are changed into normal word order, which makes them read smoothly. Tail couplets can especially reflect Daiyu's cleverness. This poem is based on allusions, exquisite brushwork, suitable for both movement and movement, harmonious in color and taste, and full of a complacent atmosphere of Shan Ye.