There are some plums in the corner, and cold ling opens them alone.
I knew from a distance that it wasn't snow, because there was a smell coming.
This poem by Yongmei is about plum blossoms in early spring. Although there are only 4 sentences and 20 words in the whole poem, it vividly depicts the charm and fragrance of plum blossoms in early spring. The first two sentences, "Plum blossoms are in the corner, and cold ling blooms alone", describe the chilly early spring season, and everything does not sprout except a few plum blossoms in the corner. These two sentences describe plum blossom, not its shape, but its spirit. The word "corner" indicates the position; "Individually opening" and "counting plum blossoms" take care of each other, conveying the message that plum blossoms are the best in the world. The word "cold ling" interprets time and highlights Chun Mei's personality in full bloom in the cold. But it is not the first time that these two poems write that plum blossoms bloom regardless of the cold. Other poems have been described before. For example, the poem "Early Plum" written by Xie, a poet in the Southern Dynasties, said: "Spring comes early, but you don't doubt the cold. I'm afraid no one will look after I fall into the flowers. It closely follows the word "early" and expresses people's psychological state with words such as "doubt" and "fear" to personalize plum blossom, thus vividly embodying its noble character of resisting snow and welcoming the spring.
Compared with the first two sentences, the last two sentences are more novel and unique, which are "not the snow in the distance, but because there is a faint fragrance". "Knowing from a distance is not snow", focusing on people's visual image, implicitly wrote the purity and whiteness of plum blossoms. Although this poem denies that the plum blossom in the corner seen by the poet in the distance is snow, it actually reflects the color of plum blossom as white as snow in twists and turns. Imagine, if this plum blossom is not white, but red or other colors, will the poet associate it with snow? It is precisely because plum blossoms are like snow that the poem "Early Plum" by Zhang Qian, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, "I don't know if it will bloom soon, but I doubt that it will disappear after the winter snow". It is wrong to regard plum branches as snow branches to reflect the characteristics of early blooming in Bai Mei, giving people a feeling of "wrong" and a sense of strangeness in "wrong".
The poem "Far from Snow" not only implicitly describes the purity and whiteness of plum blossoms, but also indirectly shows that the poem "The corner is in full bloom against the cold plum blossoms" written in the first two sentences is actually vaguely seen by the poet from a distance, and together with the next sentence "For the sake of fragrance", it writes the fragrance of plum blossoms and appeals to people's sense of smell. There is an internal relationship between poetry and poetry, which shows the rigor of the whole poetry structure.
The poet wrote to Mei without using any adjectives or splashing ink like a cloud, but skillfully and naturally used two poems: "Like the most extraordinary" (in Wang Anshi's language) and "Far knowledge". There is a causal relationship between these two poems. It is precisely because of the fragrance of plum blossoms that the poet "knows from a distance that it is not snow." If plum blossoms have no fragrance, when poets vaguely see them in the distance, they will inevitably mistake them for snow branches. Writing plum blossom in two mutually causal poems has received excellent artistic effect, which is similar to Zhang Wei's poem "Early Plum".
Of course, this poem of "a bosom friend in the distance" does not necessarily mean that the poet really smells the fragrance of plum blossoms in the distance, and thus draws the conclusion that it is Mei Xue Fei, but only writes in vain, which greatly expresses the rich fragrance of plum blossoms.
Significance: If the plum blossom sung in this poem "Plum Blossom" not only makes people appreciate its blooming charm, but also leaves a distinct impression of its fragrance and good color, then this poem itself is as pleasing to the eye and artistic beauty as the plum blossom it sings.
Writing background: The writing background of this poem is over half a year old. Wang Anshi, who has been lazy for a long time, has resigned twice and taken on two important tasks.
Wang Anshi (102 1- 1086) was a statesman, thinker and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the third year of Jiayou (1058), he advocated political reform, demanding to change the situation of "accumulating poverty and accumulating weakness", implement the policy of enriching the people in Qiang Bing, restrain the merger of bureaucratic landlords, and strengthen the ruling power, so as to prevent large-scale peasant uprisings and consolidate the rule of the landlord class. In the second year of Zong Shenxi Ning (1069), he took part in political affairs. The following year, he became prime minister, relying on Zongshen to carry out political reform. And support Xihe and other five States to improve the situation of fighting Xixia. The new law was opposed by conservatives. Xining was dismissed in seven years. Re-phased in the following year; After nine years' resignation, he still lived in Jiangning (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) and was named Shu Gong.
It shows his positive attitude of not forgetting politics and refusing to be detached from things. On the other hand, due to the increasingly vacillating religious sects in implementing the new law, Wang Anshi's situation became more and more difficult, and he had to turn to Buddhism to relieve his mental depression. Wang Anshi's poetic styles in his early and later periods are quite different. In the early stage, I mainly studied Du Fu's spirit of caring about politics and sympathizing with people's sufferings. In his later poems, along the road of Du Fu's "poetic style getting older and refined", he kept improving in antithesis, allusion and meter. It also absorbed the advantages of Wang Wei's poems and further improved the artistic beauty.