"Xiao Xiao": the sound of wind.
What I saw in the night book
(Song Dynasty) Ye Shaoweng
The swaying Wu leaves sent cold sounds, and the autumn wind on the river moved the guests.
I know that there are children picking and knitting, and a light falls on the fence late at night.
Translation
The rustling autumn wind blows the Wuye leaves, sending bursts of chill. The tourists who are traveling abroad can't help but miss their hometown.
Suddenly I saw lights under the fence in the distance, thinking it was children catching crickets.
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Appreciation of Works
This poem was written by the poet when he was visiting a foreign land and feeling the autumn in a quiet night. It expresses the sorrow of traveling and the deep homesickness. . The grass and trees are withered, the flowers are withered, the autumn wind on the river is chilly, the wu leaves are rustling and the heart is cold. The word "send" in the poem makes people feel like they hear the sound of cold air biting the bones.
This poem uses overlapping onomatopoeia at the beginning of the sentence, which arouses the reader's auditory image association from the beginning, creating an image of desolate autumn air, and using sound to reflect the silence of the autumn night. Then use the word "send" to show movement in the silence, eliciting a "cold sound". The rustling sound of falling phoenix leaves seems to contain a biting cold air; the synesthesia method of hearing and touch is used to exaggerate the desolation and coldness of the environment.
The second sentence highlights "autumn wind". "The moon is cold and the wind blows on the river", the autumn wind coming from the river triggers the lonely feelings of the tourists. Zhang Han, a native of Jin Dynasty, was an official in Luoyang. When he saw the autumn wind blowing, he missed the water shield soup and sea bass in his hometown, so he resigned and went home.
The author of this poem heard the sound of autumn wind, which affected his emotions during the journey and made him feel sad to return home. These two sentences use "wu leaves", "cold sound" and "autumn wind on the river" to express the coldness of autumn. They are actually used to set off the desolation of the guest's mood. Then the word "moving" is used to reveal the "guest feeling", and the scene is so natural and appropriate that it reveals the depth of sorrow.
In three or four sentences, it moved from the court to the outdoors, making a big jump. These two sentences are inversion sentences. According to the order of meaning, they should be moved back and forth. The poet was overwhelmed with thoughts and found it difficult to fall asleep. He turned around and walked outdoors to relieve his lingering thoughts and sorrows. However, the night scene in front of him gave him a new feeling. In the vast darkness of the night, aren't the lights flashing between the fences the "children's weaving"? This carefree, lively and innocent behavior is in sharp contrast to the poet's sadness and depression.
A light in the dark night showed fragments of childhood life on the screen of the poet's mind. The scene before his eyes and the feelings in his heart met, making the poet fall into deep thoughts about his hometown. He used "a lamp falling on the fence" as a metaphor for his "loneliness at the end of the world", using the scenery to convey a sense of hometown. It is related to the sentence "on the river" and concludes the whole article. It makes people feel full of autumn thoughts and makes people daydream.
The poem reveals nostalgia for childhood life. Children catching and weaving at night evoke the poet's memories of childhood life. This poem first writes about the sound of the autumn wind, and then writes about the emotion of hearing the sound. The last two sentences are about what is seen outdoors. The language of this poem is fluent, with clear layers and a turning point in the middle. The sentences seem to be broken but the meaning runs through. The poet is good at euphemistically conveying the hard-to-express taste of travelers on an autumn night through artistic images, without falling into the state of decay. In the end, the scene is used to express feelings, and the words are light and far-reaching, making people chew on them.
About the author
Ye Shaoweng, a poet in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, was born in Longquan, Chuzhou. His ancestral home is Jian'an (now Jianou, Fujian), his surname is Li, and he is descended from the Ye family in Longquan (now Lishui, Zhejiang). The year of birth and death is unknown. He once served as a minor official in the imperial court. His learning came from Ye Shi, who lived in seclusion on the shores of West Lake in Qiantang for a long time. He had close contacts with Zhen Dexiu and sang with Ge Tianmin. There are "Records of Hearings and Seeings of the Four Dynasties" and "Jingyi Xiaoji".
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yeshu Seen