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Author: Wang Wei
Original text:
You have just come from our hometown, and we must understand the world.
When you pass by my window, are plum blossoms blooming?
Precautions:
1, Jun: Your honorific title.
2, hometown: hometown, here refers to the author's hometown.
3. Tomorrow: When you come.
4. Windows: Windows with carved patterns.
5, cold plum: plum blossoms in winter.
6. Has it blossomed? Has it blossomed? There are (zhuó) flowers, which bloom. Not, used at the end of the sentence, is equivalent to "no" and expresses doubt.
Poetic:
You just came from our hometown,
You must know the people in your hometown.
I'm sorry, when you came to my carved window,
Is that wintersweet blooming?
Appreciate:
This poem expresses the author's tastes and tendencies. It is natural for poets to miss their hometown; Another example is plum blossom, which is beyond words. This poem is both flexible and natural.
The lyric hero in the poem ("I", not necessarily the author) is a person who has lived in a foreign land for a long time. Suddenly, he met an old friend from his hometown. The first thing that aroused him was a strong homesickness, eager to know the scenery and personnel of his hometown. The first two sentences vividly express this feeling of "I" in a form close to the natural state of life without modification. The word "hometown" appears repeatedly, showing homesickness: "You should know" and so on. However, it shows a desire to know the countryside, revealing a childlike innocence and kindness. Simply describing my feelings, psychology, demeanor and tone in a specific situation is actually a very frugal pen and ink.
There are a long list of questions about "things in my hometown". In the early Tang Dynasty, Wang Ji wrote an article "Seeing the Villagers in the Hometown of Meditation", from the old son of a friend, the nephew of a clan brother, the new trees in the old garden, the width of Mao Zhai and the density of willows to the flowers in the garden, which has not been completed so far. However, the "I" in this poem put aside these things and asked each other alone: When you passed my silk window, was the plum blossom in full bloom? As if the hometown is memorable, it is the cold plum in front of the window. This is very unnatural. But this is not a pose.
A person's nostalgia for his hometown is always associated with people, events and things closely related to his previous life. The so-called "homesickness" is completely a kind of "thinking in images", and all the people who are homesick come up with concrete images or pictures. Old friends in my hometown, mountains and rivers, local conditions and customs are all worth remembering. However, it is often some seemingly ordinary trivial events, which cause cordial nostalgia, such as Han Mei at this window. It may contain intimate and interesting events in family life in those days. Therefore, this cold plum is no longer an ordinary natural thing, but a symbol of hometown. It's poetic and typical. So this cold plum naturally became the concentrated sustenance of my homesickness. In this sense, it is completely in line with the logic of life to ask "cold plum blossoms"
There are often such unpretentious and poetic works in ancient poetry. It seems so simple that it doesn't need any skills, but it actually contains the most advanced skills. A poem like Han Mei, through special embodiment, is a typical skill, but this skill embodies a plain and homely form. This is the so-called combination of cleverness and simplicity. Wang Ji's poem "Ask a Villager who Meditates His Hometown" may be simpler than this poem, but its series of questions are far less artistic than Wang Wei's. Isn't news worth pondering?
"You come from my motherland, tell me what happened! "This sentence seems to ask about my hometown, but the poet only asked about" hometown "in general, but what should I ask? The poet's heart is full of questions and he doesn't know where to ask. So we can imagine the poet's hesitation and the other's surprise. " When you pass by my window, are plum blossoms blooming? "This question confuses the other party and asks about things rather than personnel. Is the plum blossom in bloom at this moment? Presumably, readers are also surprised by this. But this is the question, which is very interesting and memorable. In fact, the poet's real purpose is where the plum blossom is. I don't know where to start with what the poet wants to say and ask, but his homesickness lies in this casual question. This is a blank left by the poet to the reader's imagination.