A gift for Wang Lun.
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
Li Bai was just about to leave when he heard a farewell song from the shore.
Even if the Peach Blossom Pond is deep, it is not as deep as Wang Lun's sending away my love.
Precautions:
Li Bai was about to go by boat when he heard singing on the shore.
Wang Lun: Li Bai's friend. Will want to travel: Dunhuang wrote a book "Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty" as "Desiring to Travel Far". Tagge: A popular folk song and dance form in the Tang Dynasty, holding hands and touching the ground with two feet as the beat, singing while walking.
Taohua Lake (tán) is deeper than thousands of feet and not as good as Wang Lun.
Taohuatan: It's 100 miles southwest of Jingxian County, Anhui Province. The unified yearbook calls it unfathomable. Deep thousands of feet: The poet used an exaggerated metaphor to describe the friendship between Wang Lun and thousands of feet. Less than: less than.
Appreciate:
In 755 AD (Tianbao 14th year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty), Li Bai visited Taohuatan from Qiupu (now Guichi, Anhui Province) to Jingxian County (now Anhui Province), where Wang Lun often brewed his own wine to entertain him. When he left, Wang Lun came to see me off again, and Li Bai wrote this poem to leave. The first half of the poem is narrative: first write about the people who are leaving, and then write about the people who are seeing them off, showing a picture of parting. The first sentence "by boat" means waterway; "Will want to go" means that the canoe is ready to go. This sentence makes the reader seem to be saying goodbye to the people on a ship that is about to leave the shore.
"Suddenly I heard the song on the shore", and then I wrote goodbye. The second sentence is not as direct as the first sentence, but with a curved pen, just saying that I heard the song. A group of villagers walked and sang to the beat to see me off. This seems to be beyond Li Bai's expectation, so he said "suddenly smell" instead of "far smell". Although this poem is more subtle, I only hear its voice, but people who have not seen it are already coming out. Wang Lun's arrival was really unexpected. Smell it before people arrive. This farewell shows that Li Bai and Wang Lun are both informal, happy and free people.
The second half of this poem is lyrical. The third sentence is connected from a distance, which further shows that the ship is placed in Taohuatan. "Deep thousands of feet" not only describes the characteristics of the pool, but also indicates the conclusion.
"Peach Blossom Pond" is so profound that it touches people's feelings. Unforgettable Wang Lun's deep affection and deep affection are naturally linked. At the end of the sentence, "not as good as Wang Lun's" broke out. By comparing things, it vividly expressed sincere and pure affection. The pool is "deep in thousands of feet", and the friendship between Wang Lun and Li Bai is bound to be deeper. This sentence is intriguing. Shenqing Deqian appreciates this sentence very much. He said: "If Wang Lun's love is compared to a pool of thousands of feet, it is a common language. The wonderful scene is just in a transition. " The beauty here lies in the word "less than", and the beauty lies in replacing metaphor with metaphor, turning intangible friendship into a vivid image, ethereal and memorable, natural and true. The poet was very moved, so he praised Wang Lun's admiration and love for the poet with two lines of "Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, and Wang Lun loves me less", and also expressed Li Bai's deep affection for Wang Lun.
This poem is deeply appreciated by later generations, and Peach Blossom Pond Water has become a common language for later generations to express their feelings. Because of this poem, there are many beautiful legends and relics in Taohuatan area for tourists to visit, such as Tage Anting engraved with "Tage Ancient Shore" on the east coast and Diaoyutai under the rainbow stone wall on the west coast.
The traditional view of China's poetry is implicit. For example, Yan Yu, a poetic theorist in the Song Dynasty, put forward four taboos in writing poetry: "The language should be straight and the meaning should be shallow. Avoid dew in the pulse, and the taste is short. " Shi Buhua, a poet in A Qing, also said that poetry "should not be expensive". However, the performance characteristics of Li Bai's poem are: frankness, directness and less implication. Its "straight language" and its "pulse dew" are not shallow, but its "meaning" is stronger. Its "straightness" contains feelings, and the true feelings flow from the depths of the soul, so it is very artistic.
In addition, when the ancients wrote poems, they generally avoided calling them by their names, thinking that they were tasteless. This poem begins with the poet calling his own name and ends with calling the other person's name. On the contrary, it is sincere, kind, free and easy, and very affectionate.
"Clear water produces hibiscus, and carving is natural." Later generations love to use Li Bai's words to evaluate Li Bai's poems, which is very learned. Li Bai's improvised poems are meaningful and seem effortless. His feelings are unrestrained, his speech is straightforward, naive and natural, and he is not artificial at all, but he has an unexpected beauty. "Seemingly the most extraordinary", the so-called gorgeous, attributed to plain, this kind of kung fu is extremely difficult to learn. This poem "To Wang Lun" embodies Li Bai's natural and delicate poetic style. Tang Ruxun in the Ming Dynasty said in the Interpretation of Tang Poems: "Lun, the ear of a village, how can it be near white?" It's time to make wine, and it's time to say goodbye to our ancestors. Our feelings are solid and extraordinary. It is too white, unreal and convenient, so it is eternal. "Bai" has hundreds of poems about fighting wine, and he likes to visit famous mountains and rivers all his life. According to Yuan Mei's Addendum to Poems in the Garden in Qing Dynasty, a complete stranger Wang Lun wrote to Li Bai and invited him to visit Jingxian County. The letter enthusiastically wrote: "How is your husband? There are ten miles of peach blossoms here; How about your drink, sir? There are thousands of hotels here. " Li Bai left happily. Wang Lun is a hero in Jingxian County. He is hospitable and charming. So Li Bai asked where the Taoyuan Restaurant was, and Wang Lun replied: "Peach blossoms are also famous for ponds, but there are no peach blossoms; Wanjia, the boss is surnamed Ye Wan, and there is no Wanjia Hotel. " Li Bai laughed. Leave for a few days and write down the poem as a farewell when you leave. This poem is about Wang Lun's delivery of white goods. The poet was very moved, so he praised Wang Lun's admiration and love for the poet with two lines of "Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, and Wang Lun loves me less", and also expressed Li Bai's deep affection for Wang Lun. The first two sentences are narratives. "Li Bai will leave by boat" means that the poet will leave the Peach Blossom Pond by boat. That kind of language flows out smoothly without thinking, showing a natural and unrestrained manner of being impulsive when it comes and returning when it is over. The words "suddenly smell the song on the shore" and "suddenly smell" show that Wang Lun's arrival is really unexpected. I heard it before people arrived. From the warm and hearty singing, Li Bai expected that Wang Lun must have come to see me off. This farewell shows that Li Bai and Wang Lun are both informal, happy and free people. In the secluded mountain village, there is no complicated etiquette sent by the upper class. From the analysis of the poem, Wang Lun was not at home when Li Bai left. Wang Lun came back and learned that Li Bai had left. He immediately rushed to the ferry with wine to say goodbye. Li Bai, who left without saying goodbye, is free and easy and not polite; Wang Lun, who is singing farewell songs, is also generous and enthusiastic, and won't let the children touch the towel. In just fourteen words, they wrote down their optimistic personality and their informal friendship. As the Peach Blossom Pond is nearby, the poet is handy and compares the depth of the Peach Blossom Pond with Wang Lun's affection for him. "Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, not as good as Wang Lun's love for me. Shen Deqian in Qing Dynasty commented: "It is a common saying that Wang Lun's love is better than thousands of feet's love. The wonderful scene is just a transition. The beauty of these two sentences is that the word "less than" connects two unrelated things. Taking thousands of feet Peach Blossom Pool as a reference, it is both vivid and intriguing to turn intangible friendship into tangible. The pool is "deep in thousands of feet", and readers can imagine the depth of Wang Lun's friendship. The poet here and now, the combination of this situation and this scene, these two poems are like blurting out, and their feelings are natural. Poets often use the depth of water to describe the depth of human feelings. If the poet says that Wang Lun's friendship is really as deep as a pool of stagnant water, that's ok, but it's just a general statement, and it's a little deliberately carved. The writing in the poem is like saying goodbye to two friends on the boat. One is "to advise you to drink more" and the other is "one after another". There is an innocent and natural interest in the prospect of spoken language and eyes, which vaguely makes readers see the uninhibited personality of the great poet.
Creative background:
This poem was written by Li Bai when he traveled from Qiupu to Taohuatan in Jingxian County (now Anhui Province) in the 14th year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (755). When Li Bai visited Taohuatan in Jingxian County (now Anhui Province), he forged a deep friendship with Wang Lun. During the reign of Tianbao in Kaiyuan, Wang Lunling made Jingxian County, and Li Bai "waited for it, and money could not bear to be divided". According to this poem or when visiting for Li Bai, Wang Lun lived in Taohuatan.
About the author:
Li Bai (70 1-762), the word Taibai, was a romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty and was praised as a "poetic immortal" by later generations. My ancestral home is Ji Cheng in Longxi (to be tested), and I was born in Broken Leaf City in the Western Regions. At the age of 4, he moved to Mianzhou City, Jiannan Province with his father. Li Bai has more than 1000 poems, among which Li Taibai Ji has been handed down from generation to generation. He died in 762 at the age of 6 1. Its tomb is in Dangtu, Anhui, and there are memorial halls in Jiangyou, Sichuan and Anlu, Hubei.