Meaning: When will this year end? How many past events do we know! Last night, the spring breeze blew again from the small building. How could I bear the pain of recalling my homeland on this bright moonlit night?
The finely carved railings and jade steps should still be there, but the person I miss is already aging. Ask me how much sadness is in my heart, just like the endless spring water flowing eastward.
From: "The Poppy: When Will the Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon Come" is a poem written by Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, before he was poisoned to death. It can be called a fatal poem. Original text:
Poppy · When is the Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon
Five Dynasties: Li Yu
When is the Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon? How much do you know about the past? There was an east wind in the small building last night, and the motherland could not bear to look back at the bright moon.
The carved railings and jade inlays should still be there, but the beauty has been changed. How much sorrow can you have? Just like a river of spring water flowing eastward.
Extended information:
Creative background:
This word and "Langtaosha·Gurgling Rain Outside the Curtain" were both written before Li Yu was poisoned to death. In the third year of the Taiping and Xingguo reign of Emperor Taizong of the Northern Song Dynasty (978), it had been nearly three years since Li Yu returned to the Song Dynasty.
In the third year of the Taiping and the rejuvenation of the country, Xu Xuan visited Li Yu on the order of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty. Li Yu sighed to Xu Xuan: "I killed Pan You and Li Ping by mistake, and I regretted it endlessly!" It was probably in this state of mind. , Li Yu wrote the poem "Poppy Beauty".
Appreciation:
The whole poem starts with questions and ends with answers; from asking about heaven and people to asking about oneself, it flows through the melancholy and exciting tones and twists and turns. The free artistic structure allows the author's melancholy to flow throughout, creating a refreshing aesthetic effect.
Admittedly, Li Yu's longing for his motherland may not deserve sympathy. The past events he misses are inseparable from the imperial life of "carved railings and jade bricks" and the palace secrets of morning and evening affairs. However, this popular masterpiece is indeed unique in art: "Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon" attract many people to beauty.
The author earnestly hopes that it will "end" soon; the "east wind" in the small building brings the message of spring, but instead causes the author to sigh that he "cannot bear to look back", because they all remind the author that characters are human beings. The touch of evil brought out his sorrow of being imprisoned in a foreign country.
The author's state of mind is real and profound when he describes the transformation of the ruler of Jiangnan, who was surrounded by pearls and greenery and cooked gold and jade, into a prisoner who sang songs and cried. The concluding sentence "A river of spring water flows eastward" is a famous sentence that uses water as a metaphor for sorrow, which implicitly shows the continuous flow of sorrow.
Endless. Compared with it, Liu Yuxi's "Bamboo Branch Diao" "the water flows endlessly like Nong's sorrow", which is a bit blunt, while Qin Guan's "Jiangchengzi" "is like a spring river full of tears, endless flow, and many sorrows", which is also fair. Too much, but weakens the touching power.
It can be said that the reason why Li Yu's words can arouse widespread popularity depends, to a large extent, on the concluding sentence's contagious and symbolic metaphor, which expresses his sorrowful thoughts. Both figurative and abstract: the author did not clearly write down the true connotation of his melancholy thoughts.
Reminiscent of the lavish and hedonistic life of the past, but only showed its external form - "just like a river of spring water flowing eastward. In this way, people can easily get some spiritual resonance from it and borrow it To express similar emotions.
Because although people's sorrows have different connotations, they can all have the external form of "just like a river of spring water flowing eastward". Because "images are often greater than thoughts", Li Yu. This word can produce a resonance in a wide range and has been passed down through the ages.