From: Tang Bai Juyi's Snow at Night
Original poem:
Night snow
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
This night, the pillow was ice, which surprised me. I saw the light snow outside the window.
It's late at night until it snows heavily, because you can hear the sound of bamboo branches breaking from time to time.
Explanation:
I'm really surprised at the cold tonight. The quilt and pillow were cold, and I saw a bright light outside the window.
It's late at night, and I know it's snowing heavily outside. I hear the sound of thick snow breaking branches from time to time.
Stunned: surprised. Pillows: quilts and pillows. Bamboo creaking: refers to the sound of heavy snow pressing bamboo.
Extended data
Bai Juyi's Night Snow was written in the winter of the 11th year of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong (8 16). The poet was 45 years old at that time, and his official position was Jiangzhou Sima. At that time, Bai Juyi was banished to Jiangzhou for writing about the assassination of the Prime Minister. In the cold and silent night, the author felt the snow outside the window and felt more and more lonely, so he wrote this song "Snow at Night".
The first two sentences, "I was shocked and cold, but the window was bright and clean", were all about people's feelings. By "cold", it is pointed out that there is snow, but also implies heavy snow, because life experience proves that the cold in the air is completely absorbed by water vapor and condensed into snowflakes at the first snow, and the temperature will not drop immediately until it snows heavily, which will aggravate the cold in the air.
Not only Cold is about snow, but In a daze is also about snow. The reason why people didn't notice it at first and suddenly woke up when the cold came is because the snow fell silently, which is another feature of writing snow besides "cold".
The last two sentences, "I know it snows heavily at night, but I hear the sound of bamboo folding", are still described in profile here, only written from the perspective of hearing. The sound of snow pressing on bamboo branches indicates that the snow is increasing. The poet deliberately chose the detail of "folding bamboo" to express the word "heavy", which has a different feeling.
The sound of "bamboo folding" sounded in the middle of the night, showing the silence of winter night, and more importantly, writing the poet's sleepless night; This is not only for the "cold pillow", but also reveals the loneliness of the poet when he lives in Jiangzhou.
Bai Juyi was a great poet with great influence in the middle Tang Dynasty. His poetic thoughts and creations, which emphasize popularity and realism, occupy an important position in the history of China's poetry.
Bai Juyi believes that poetry creation cannot be divorced from reality, and must be based on various events in real life, reflecting the social and political situation of an era. He inherited the tradition of "beauty and beauty" since the Book of Songs and attached importance to the realistic content and social function of poetry. Emphasize the role of poetry in exposing and criticizing political abuses.