The vernacular interpretation of "Zhuzhi Ci" by Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty:
The Yangliu River is green and the water is wide and flat. I can hear the lover singing on the river. The sun rises in the east and it starts to rain in the west. It is said that it is not sunny but it is still sunny.
Original text:
The willows are green and the Qingjiang River is level, and I hear the sound of people stepping on the Langjiang River.
The sun rises in the east and rains in the west. There is no sunshine but there is sunshine.
"Bamboo Branch Ci" is a poetry composition by Liu Yuxi, a litterateur in the Tang Dynasty. Among Liu Yuxi's handed down works, there are eleven poems about bamboo branches, divided into two groups, and these two poems are one of them.
The first poem is about the mood of a girl immersed in first love. She loves someone, but she doesn't know the other person's attitude for sure, so she has both hope and doubt, joy and worry. The poet uses her own tone to successfully express this subtle and complex psychology.
The second is that it does not use homophones to write an implicit love story like the first song, but hearing the singing of the Ba people while living in Sichuan naturally triggers nostalgia. The style of the whole poem is bright and lively, with a strong flavor of life and distinctive folk custom characteristics. Extended information
Writing background:
Liu Yuxi served as the governor of Kuí Prefecture from the first month of the second year of Changqing to the summer of the fourth year of Changqing, Emperor Mu Zong of the Tang Dynasty, and wrote eleven poems of "Zhuzhi Ci" .
The eleven "Bamboo Branch Poems" are divided into two groups. This is one of them, written after the other nine ("Nine Bamboo Branch Poems"). It was about the time when the poet completed the first group of nine poems and then started again. After the composition was completed, I did not want to add ten or eleven poems after the first nine poems, so I titled it "Zhuzhi Ci".
Article appreciation:
This is a poem describing the love between young men and women. It describes the inner activities of a girl in first love who hears her lover's singing on a clear spring day when the willows are green and the river is as flat as a mirror. This poem uses the changeable spring weather to create a pun, and uses "clear" to express "emotion". It has implicit beauty and is very appropriate and natural for expressing a woman's shy inner feelings. The last two sentences have always been favorite and quoted by people in later generations.
Using homophonic puns to express thoughts and feelings is a commonly used expression technique in Chinese folk songs from ancient times to modern times. This poem uses this method to express the love between young men and women, which is more appropriate and natural, both implicit and clear, with harmonious syllables and a folk song style, but it is written more delicately and implicitly than ordinary folk songs. Therefore, it has always been loved and recited by people.