Original text:
Jinse [Tang Dynasty] Li Shangyin
I want to know why my Jinse has fifty strings, and each string has a youthful interval.
Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, was bewitched by butterflies, and cuckoo crowed in the imperial spring.
Mermaids shed pearl-like tears on the moon-green sea, and the blue fields breathed their jade to the sun.
A moment that should last forever has come and gone before I know it.
Translation:
Why do exquisite musical instruments have fifty strings, each of which reminds me of my youth?
Zhuang Zhou danced in his sleep and turned into a butterfly, hoping that the emperor would entrust his hatred to Du Fu.
Things change, the bright moon is in the sky, and Jiao Ren's tears are beads; Lantian is sunny and warm, and you can see good jade and good smoke.
Such feelings, do you want to feel endless regret at the beginning of today's memories, that is, it was already embarrassing at that time.
Appreciate:
Jinse is Li Shangyin's masterpiece. Everyone who loves poetry is happy and happy, and it is the most famous. However, this is the most difficult poem to explain. Some people say that it is a love poem for a maid named "Jinse" in Linghu Chu's family; Some people say that this is a poem in memory of the late wife Wang.
Others think that the four poems in the middle can meet the four feelings of appropriateness, resentment, clarity and harmony, and can be inferred as poems describing music; There are also many sayings, such as alluding to politics and writing autobiographical poems. For thousands of years, there have been many different opinions. Generally speaking, most people say "mourning" and "self-injury".
Interpretation of the original text of Jinse and its creative background.
Original explanation:
This poem has always had different annotations. Or think it is a mourning work, or a patriotic work, or a literary theory, or a tribute to Shi Er. But I think this is the greatest mourning for the dead. Some people think that the first 50% off harpsichord is 25, suggesting that the deceased woman is 25 years old. This is a bit far-fetched
However, it is true that the first couplet mourns the early death. Zhuan Xu indirectly describes the joys and sorrows of life by Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly and Wang Di's Raven. The allusion of the necklace couplet with shark tears and jade smoke vaguely depicts the coldness of the world, which is beyond our reach. Finally, I wrote about my casual love before my death, and recalled my melancholy and unforgettable feelings after my death.
Creative background:
This poem was written in the author's later years, and the specific creation time is unknown. There are always different opinions about the creative intention of the poem Jinse. Or think it's patriotic, or think it's in memory of his dead wife, or think it's self-mutilation, compared with literary talent, or think it's a pen to express his thoughts on Shi Er. Historical Records is a banjo recorded by Zen Buddhism, which is generally 25 strings later.
However, this poem was written after the death of Li Shangyin's wife, so 50 strings have the meaning of broken strings (once the 25-string Gusser string is broken in half, it is 50 strings), but even so, every string and syllable of it is enough to express the yearning for that wonderful time.