Appreciation of the full-text translation of Ren Xuqing's masterpiece (Qu Dajun)

Ren Xu's Tomb-sweeping Poetry Series: The Complete Poems of Tomb-Sweeping Day: Ren Xu's Tomb-sweeping Poetry, dawn is dim, dusk is boundless, but I don't know that spring is deep. Falling flowers have tears because of wind and rain, and birds are ruthless since ancient times. The old country is like a dream, and Chinese characters are lost. Dragons and snakes return everywhere, and cold food is eager every year. Appreciate the environmental atmosphere in the first part, suggesting the struggle and your own mood. The light clouds floating in the morning will be gloomy in the evening, and the sad people will not realize that time has entered the late spring. The first sentence not only talked about the actual weather, but also talked about the inner feelings: the gradual infiltration of the Qing forces has covered the world. Environmental description plays a certain role in rendering atmosphere. In the last sentence, the word "sorrow" was pointed out, which revealed the melancholy and the loss of time. Zhuan Xu used pun to write the present reality. "Tears" describe dew on flowers. The author uses crying "fallen flowers" as a metaphor for frustrated anti-Qing people, and uses proud "singing birds" as a metaphor for trying to help the villains in the Qing court. This writing style is commonly used in China's classical poems, and Qu Yuan often uses fragrant flowers and smelly grass to compare loyalty and treachery. That "a bird and a phoenix, the day is far away." Swallows and blackbirds, nests and altars. Xinyi, Shen Lu, is sparsely populated. The smell is discharged at the same time, and the fragrance must not be diluted, which is the ancestor of this structure. This way of writing can express the author's distinct love and hate. Necklace has strong feelings, full of feelings of unfulfilled ambitions. Acts and Once Again turned the restoration of ideals into utopian sentimentality, and people with lofty ideals expressed their grief in vain. There is a deep resentment of "why do you hate your country so much? It's all in Dajiangdong", and there is also a deep resentment of "Wan Li hates Taiwan's postal service, and the bright moon shines homesick for three years", which is generous and tragic and unforgettable for a long time. The tail couplet reveals disappointment. The "dragon snake" here is metonymy, referring to people with lofty ideals. "Dragon and snake have nowhere to return" means that anti-Qing people can't find a home because of the great cause. "Cold food makes people sad every year" means that the adherents of the former Ming Dynasty, including themselves, feel sad every year during the Cold Food Festival. Thus expressing the hopeless resentment against the Qing dynasty. The whole poem is full of the hatred of national subjugation and the feeling that it is difficult to return to heaven, which is caused by the characteristic season and specific environment; The fortitude between the lines and the fighting spirit of "life is worse than death" are really shocking. Qu Dajun, known as the leader of the "three great poets" in Lingnan poetry circle, had a great influence on modern Lingnan poetry style. Creative background Qingming is an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, which marks the past of dry winter and the arrival of warm spring. On this day, people go hiking, sweeping graves, and going to graves. This is a day to pay homage to and cherish the memory of relatives, friends and comrades. On this day, everyone will put on wicker, and wicker will be inserted at the door of every household; And fireworks are forbidden, so it is also called "cold food". Scholars of past dynasties also left many poems about Qingming. For example, Du Mu's "It rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die" [1]? Han Yi's "Spring City is full of cold food and Dongfeng Willow" [2]? , the song dynasty "heartbroken, wicker new day and night" [3]? , Zhang Ji "Try Wu Men County Guo, Qingming has new smoke" [4]? In the Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian's "Happy and Clear Festivals, Laughing peaches and plums, Nothing but Sorrow in Noda Wasteland" and Yang Wanli's "Spring Breeze in Grass, Old Buildings" [5]? , Cheng Hao's "don't stop drinking, maybe the wind will turn red" [6]? Chen Zilong's "Swallows don't return to the castle, willows turn east today" are well-known sayings. As a poet of adherents, Qu Dajun touched the scene on this day, linked the season with his own struggle, and expressed his deep resentment and sorrow for the Qing Dynasty.