"When is the spring flower and autumn moon?" It is a word written by Li Yu, queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. This word is the author's last work and a sad song of life. By comparing the sharp contradiction between the eternity of nature and the impermanence of life, the author expresses the sorrow of life failure after the national subjugation.
Full text: When is the spring flower and autumn moon? How much do you know about the past? The small building was easterly again last night, and the old country could not bear to look back on the moon. ? Carved fences and jade bricks should still exist, but Zhu Yan changed them. How much sadness can you have? Like a river flowing eastward.
Translation:
Spring flowers bloom every year, and autumn moon shines every year. When does the time end? In the past years, there were too many sad memories. Last night, the east wind started again in the small building, and I climbed the building to look at the moon, so I couldn't help looking back at my old country.
In the past, the finely carved railings and jade steps in Jinling City should still be there, but the people living in them have changed. To ask how much sadness you have in your heart is probably as endless as the surging spring water flowing eastward.
Extended data:
"The small building was easterly again last night, and the country could not bear to look back at the middle of next month." If you drag out an ignoble existence, the spring breeze blows again and the spring flowers bloom again. Recalling the Southern Tang Dynasty and Li's hometown-the old country died early. The author lives in a prison house, listening to the spring breeze, looking at the bright moon, and being moved by the scene before him, he is so sad that he can't sleep at night.
The word "you" shows that this situation has happened many times, and this mental pain is really unbearable. "You" points out the time series changes of "Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon", and the poet lived in the Song Dynasty for another year, which aggravated the sadness revealed in the last two sentences and also led to the poet's memories of the past of the motherland.
The whole poem uses clear, concise, beautiful and fresh language, and uses various rhetorical devices such as metaphor, analogy, comparison and questioning to highly summarize and incisively express the author's true feelings. The deep feeling of this word is really like a raging river, and it is desperate to rush out. Few monarchs above swords in history dare to express their hatred of national subjugation so boldly.
Li Yu's devotion to this pure feeling is probably Wang Guowei's "childish words" out of "a pure heart", which cost the author his life. French writer Miao Sai said: "The most beautiful poems are the most desperate poems, and some immortal chapters are pure tears." This word is such a work.