Source: Young Children Making Ice by Yang Wanli in Song Dynasty
Original text:
The youngest son has no ice in the golden basin, and the colored silk is worn as a silver pheasant. (Andrew: Andrew)
Tap the ice gently, the sound of wood passing through the forest. When the viewer is absorbed in the sound of wood, he suddenly hears another sound-the sound of ice falling to the ground, such as the sound of broken glass. (Glass 1: Glass)
Translation:
When the children get up in the morning, they pick the ice cubes frozen in copper pots and wear them with colored threads as pheasants.
The sound of knocking went through the Woods like jade Qing, and suddenly the ice gong broke and fell to the ground, making a sound of death.
Precautions:
Children: Young children, children.
Deicing: In this case, the children scoop ice from a copper basin, which has formed solid ice since morning.
Pheasant: refers to an ancient musical instrument similar to gong.
Qing: a four-tone ancient percussion instrument, shaped like a ruler and made of jade, which can be hung on the wall.
Glass: refers to an ancient natural jade, also called water jade, not the present glass.
Creative background:
This poem was written in the spring of six years (1 179), and Yang Wanli was appointed as the secretariat of Changzhou.
Appreciate:
The whole poem absorbs instantaneous scenes and avoids direct description. It uses the vivid voice and appropriate metaphor of "crossing the forest" to explore the interest of children with the eyes of the elderly.
One or two sentences: "Children's golden pots produce ice, and colored silk wears silver pheasants." In ancient times, metallic things were collectively referred to as gold, which here refers to copper pots. Take off, detach, take out. Dawn, early morning. Pheasant (pronounced zhēng), Gong. It is said that when children get up in the morning, they will take the ice cubes frozen at night out of the copper basin and wear them as silver gongs with colored silk thread. It can only freeze when it is cold, and the ice is very cold, but children get up early to play with it and write that children are not afraid of cold; What's so interesting about a cool piece of ice? Yes, you can wear silk as a gong. Only children can think of this, and it is a "colorful" line and a "silver" gong, and it is very beautiful. It shows that the child is both naughty and clever.
The third sentence, "Knocking into a jade chime rings all over the forest", chime (pronounced qìng) is the name of a musical instrument, which was often carved from jade in ancient times. Hang it on the shelf and knock it with something. This sentence describes in detail the scene of children playing with ice like silver gongs. He said that he was running around in the Woods with a "silver gong" in his hand. The "silver gong" made a beautiful music like jade. There is no doubt that this voice is crisp and pleasant, and it travels far. The word "wear" means that someone is running in the forest and there is the spread of sound. The poem vividly depicts the cheerful mood of children getting a "silver gong", which makes people want to see his ecstatic figure.
The fourth sentence is "Suddenly the glass broke". Unexpected circumstances happened, and the development of poetry experienced twists and turns. Glass refers to natural jade and beautiful stones in ancient times. Break ground, land, break ground. It means; The ice in the child's hand suddenly fell to the ground and broke, which sounded like a gem falling to the ground and breaking. What is the mood of children? The poet didn't write it, but as you can imagine, he must feel suddenly and regretfully. First of all, he just stood there and looked at the broken ice on the ground. Almost at the same time, the sound that reached my ears was so wonderful and unexpected. Maybe he will turn grief into joy in an instant and jump and jump with joy. This last sentence is unexpected and reasonable. Heavy ice, carried by silk thread, falls naturally. In winter, the ground is frozen hard, and the ice is hard and brittle, so it is easy to break when it falls to the ground. But children don't think about it, just run and knock happily and break it. Vividly painted the innocent and lovely image of the child, full of fun and endless aftertaste, giving people a beautiful enjoyment.
The scene of children making ice in the poem is full of fun: psychologically, it is cold to "make ice" and childlike innocence is hot; In terms of color, the gold plate is colored with silver ice; Formally, it is a "silver plate" with a "gold plate", which is round; On the sound, there is a high-pitched sound of "jade sound through the forest", which suddenly becomes a crisp sound of "broken glass". The whole poem is full of sense, good in sound and meaning, and pleasing to the ear, which vividly shows the children's full interest in taking ice as a pheasant and enjoying themselves.
The whole poem highlights a "naive" word. Childishness and fun can make a child forget the cold in winter and keep his vitality and happiness as always. There are many similarities in psychological characteristics between children and the elderly, and only in this way can the scene of children "performing ice" be meaningful in the eyes of the elderly.
It is based on this psychological characteristic that the young and the old are interlinked that Yang Wanli turned childlike interest into poetic interest through the technique of "taking the young as the old". On the one hand, he described the details of the "deicing" action from the perspective of children's psychology; On the other hand, based on the psychology of the world, we should feel and appreciate the details of their behavior, so that the childishness of children and the "naivety" of the old people can set each other off and become poetic. Only when the poet sincerely respects the innocence of children can he describe their interest in playing ice so vividly.
About the author:
Yang Wanli (112710/October 29th-1June 2006 15), whose real name was Ting Xiu, was called. Jishui, Jizhou (now Tang Qiu Village, huangqiao town, Jishui County, Jiangxi Province). Famous poets and ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty, together with Lu You, You Mao and Fan Chengda, are called "Four Poets of Zhongxing". Scholars call Song Guangzong "Mr. Chengzhai" because he wrote the word "Chengzhai". Yang Wanli wrote more than 20,000 poems in his life, and 4,200 works were handed down from generation to generation. He is regarded as a generation of poets. He used simple language, fresh and natural, full of humor, and created a "sincere style". Most of Yang Wanli's poems describe natural scenery and are good at it. He also has many chapters reflecting people's sufferings and expressing patriotic feelings. He is the author of Zhai Chengji and so on.