Yu Shinan endowed Linchi bamboo with ①
verdant shoots and ②, and the vertical color reflected the clear pool.
the wave is full of wind shadow, and the flow shakes to prevent the branches from being exposed.
Long Lin ③ overflows the valley ④, and the phoenix wings ripple.
if you want to know the nature of winter, you can only know it when you are cold.
Notes
① Should be made: Poems should be made. In ancient times, courtiers served poems written and reconciled by the emperor. After the Tang dynasty, most of them were arranged in five words, six rhymes or eight rhymes. Most of the contents are eulogies, and a few also state some expectations of the emperor.
② tip: impact, meaning insertion. Cloud quality: in the clouds.
③ Long Lin: used to refer to water waves. That's what the phoenix wings in the back mean.
④ Mang Valley: It is taken from the legend of Ling Lun. Ling Lun, a musician of the Yellow Emperor, was sent to the valley where all kinds of exotic bamboos grew to cut bamboo and make a set of flutes.
Appreciation
This poem should be made by Yu Shinan and Emperor Taizong. Taizong's poem said: "The chastity barrier is curved, and the green leaves bear the frost. Divide the dragon shadow and wait for Fengxiang in the pool. "
In this poem, Yu Shinan first depicts the image of bamboo. Looking up, it is green and towering into the sky. Overlooking, reflecting in the pool, the magic color is clear. Breeze blowing, water rippling, bamboo shadows rippling, graceful. The bamboo in front of us is like the scales of a dragon swimming in the valley, and the reflection in the water is like the wings on the back of a phoenix skimming over the water. Give dragons and phoenixes to correspond with the dragons and phoenixes in Taizong's poems. But to know the cold tolerance of bamboo, you can only see it in winter.
Coupled with the dew mentioned in the second sentence, the poet not only pointed out the tenacity and endurance of bamboo, but also implicitly pointed out the mistakes in Taizong's poems, because Taizong wrote the theme of bamboo's cold tolerance in spring or summer. Implicit without trace, really clever!