Deng Taibai Peak was written by Li Bai, and was selected as the whole Tang Poetry (Volume 180). This poem describes the author's whispering and fantasy wandering in heaven when he boarded Taibai Mountain and Taibai Star, vividly shows the majestic scenery of Taibai Mountain towering into the sky, and implicitly expresses the author's melancholy mood that he can't realize his political ideal. With rich imagination, the whole poem vividly reflects the poet's dissatisfaction with the dark reality and his yearning for the bright world, and fully embodies the characteristics of romanticism.
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Dengtaibai Peak (1)
Author: Tang Libai
Taibai peak is in the west, and the setting sun is poor.
Taibai spoke to me (3) and opened the sky for me (4).
I am willing to go by the wind [5] straight out of the clouds.
You can get close to the moon by raising your hand, and there seems to be no mountain obstacle to fly forward.
If you don't go to the martial arts, when will you return it?
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(1) Taibai Peak: Taibai Mountain, also known as Taiyi Mountain and Taiyi Mountain. In Meixian County and Taibai County of Shaanxi Province today. This mountain peak is very high and is often covered with snow. South of Wugong Mountain, Qinling Mountain is famous for its beautiful peaks.
(2) Poverty: Exhausted. It means to the top.
⑶ Taibai: This refers to Taibai Star, namely Venus. This refers to the immortal.
(4) Tianguan: the ancient star name, also known as Tianmen. "Jin Shu Tian Wenzhi": "In the East, the two stars in Jiaosu are Tianmen, and Tianmen is also Tianmen. Therefore, the ecliptic has passed, and what seven nights have done. " This refers to the imaginary entrance to heaven.
5] wind: a breeze. A slight wind.
[6] Wugong: This refers to Wugong Mountain, which is located in the south of Wugong County, Shaanxi Province.
Vernacular translation
Climb Taibai Peak to the west and reach the peak at sunset. Taibai Star greeted me and wanted to open the sky for me. I want to fly away in the breeze and fly among the clouds. Raise your hand to get close to the moon, and there seems to be no obstacle to flying forward. Once I leave the martial arts, when can I return it?
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When Li Bai entered Beijing in the first year of Tianbao, Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (742), he was full of ambition. However, due to the fatuity of the imperial court and the exclusion of powerful people, his political ambition could not be realized at all, which made him feel depressed and depressed. In this mood, the poet wrote a poem "Climbing the Taibai Peak".
"Taibai Peak is in the west and the setting sun is poor." The first two sentences of the poem set off the majestic Taibai Mountain from the side. Li Bai climbed Taibai Mountain from the west and didn't reach the top until sunset. Taibai peak is high in the clouds and snows all year round. As the saying goes, "Kung Fu is too white to die for 300 days." The mountain is steep, but Li Bai wants to climb to the top. The word "poor" shows the poet's enterprising spirit. The sentence "Taibai Peak is in the west" is the way to get to the point, preparing for writing stars and the moon below.
The climb was spectacular, and the poet imagined it, as if he heard: "Taibai spoke to me and opened the sky for me." Taibai star confided in him and told him that he was willing to open the door of heaven for him. The friendship between the poet and the stars is very cordial and touching, full of human feelings. Li Bai has always loved the bright moon and shining stars, and often personified them: "When is there a moon in the blue sky?" I'm going to stop for a cup of coffee today and ask. (Drinking asking for the moon) Until I raised my glass, I asked the bright moon to bring me my shadow and make the three of us. "(Drinking the Bright Moon Alone) The poet seems to be greeting his bosom friend Yue Ming and talking about love with * * *. In this poem, Taibaixing greets and talks with him actively, and is willing to "create the world" for it. The poet's imagination is novel, vivid and interesting. Here, Li Bai did not directly describe the majestic Taibai Peak, but only wrote the scene of his whispering with Taibai Star, vividly showing the majestic posture of Taibai Mountain. This is a technique of turning reality into emptiness and taking emptiness as reality. Some of Li Bai's other poems also describe the magnificence of Taibai Mountain, but they are very realistic, such as Five Ancient Poems: "Taibai is not pale, and the stars are in the forest. Three hundred Li in the sky, you will die. In Shu Dao Nan, the steep and majestic Taibai Mountain is also described positively: "The Dabai Mountain, to the west, has only one bird path so far, which can reach the top of Emei. "Although it's the same description object, Li Bai uses a variety of expressive techniques according to the different requirements of poetry content, giving readers a sense of novelty. When the poet climbed Taibai Peak, the door of heaven was opened again, so he fantasized about wandering in heaven: riding a breeze, floating high, flying freely, passing through dense clouds, going straight into space and heading for the moon.
"I want to go with the wind and go straight out of the clouds", and "wind" means breeze. This kind of image is free and light, like a wild and unrestrained style, and its realm is extremely open. The poet is on cloud nine and has the idea of being born. "Willing to go by Lingfeng" uses the meaning of "Fu Liezi rides the wind and Ling Ran is good" in "Zhuangzi Xiaoyao Tour", but it is used flexibly and naturally here, showing no trace of axe chisel.
"Raise your hand for nearly a month, and there is no mountain to go forward." The artistic conception of these two sentences is somewhat similar to "aiming at the distance, wanting to ascend to heaven and embrace the bright moon" (seeing off Minister Shu Yun at Xie Tiao Villa in Xuanzhou). The poet is full of lofty sentiments and ambitions, flying over the mountains and hands in the air, soaring towards the bright moon, dreaming of getting rid of the secular vulgarity, pursuing the free development of personality and moving towards a bright and ideal world. The above four sentences, with lofty artistic conception, strange imagination, magnificent image, novel artistic conception and positive romantic spirit, are the climax of the whole poem.
However, Li Bai is unwilling to leave this world, divorced from reality, and never to return. He asked in the poem, "When can I return to martial arts?" Just as Li Bai fantasized about flying away from Taibai Peak and walking around the moon, he looked back at Wugong Mountain, but he was thinking, "Once I leave, when can I come back?" A kind of nostalgia for the world and yearning for something arises spontaneously and deeply haunts the poet's mind. In Chang 'an, although Li Bai "went in and out of the Hanlin", however, "ugliness is in the same column, harm can be slandered, and aphorisms are not there, so the emperor used them with caution" (Preface to Li Caotang Collection). Poets are not valued, so they are unhappy. Climbing the Taibai Peak and dreaming of wandering away from the world is the image reflection of this depressed mood. "When will it be returned?" He expressed in detail his subtle and complicated psychological state of wanting to stay and be born into the WTO, which is endless and thought-provoking.
Pi Rixiu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, said, "When you talk about heaven and earth, you think of ghosts and gods. When you read them, you will be attracted by octupole. When you measure them, you will be aboveboard. What is really not secular is Li Taibai. " This poem has this romantic creative feature. With the help of rich imagination, the whole poem suddenly gallops across the sky and looks back at the world. The structure jumps up and down, up and down, ups and downs, ups and downs, vividly reflecting the poet's dissatisfaction with the dark reality and longing for the bright world.