Li Bai: "Qiupu Song" (14th of the 17th choice of ***)
The fire in the furnace shines on the sky and the earth, and the red stars are scattered in the purple smoke.
On a bright moonlit night, the song moves the cold mountains!
Qiupu, the name of the county, belongs to Chizhou (in the southwest of Guichi County, Anhui Province today). According to "New Book of Tang" Volume 41 "Geography" 5: "Qiupu,...there is silver , there is copper."
This article is about the smelting scene. At the beginning of the poem, a steaming smelting scene is painted: the furnace fire is blazing, shining through the sky and the earth, and it is bright; if you look closer, you can see red sparks intertwined with purple furnace smoke. In the first sentence, the word "zhao" is used in the middle to connect the fire with the vast world. It can be seen that the fire is burning and the pillars of fire are soaring into the sky and covering the earth.
In the second sentence, the word "chaos" is used in the middle to describe the scene of fire and smoke flying together, colorful and shining everywhere.
The third and fourth sentences are written about the smelting workers based on the magnificent scene above. "Nanlang": refers to the young caster. Nan: Usually blushing due to shame. Here it means being red by fire. In fact, their faces were flushed red by the firelight. From this close-up of the head, the smelter's strong physique and his simplicity, diligence, enthusiasm, boldness, and vitality seem to appear before our eyes. The three words "Mingyue Night" are a further foil and rendering of "Nang Lang": the clean and bright colors of the bright moon are set off against the person who is illuminated by the rich colors of red stars and purple smoke, which also makes this person more lively. Powerful and energetic. Although it cannot be said that it does not play a role in describing the environment, from the artistic conception of the poem, it focuses on showing the human style. The next sentence, "Songs move the cold mountains," vividly describes the scene of the smelting workers singing loudly while working. The songs floated on the cold Qiupu River and shook the cold mountains and rivers. We might as well say: the first two sentences of the poem describe the "shape" of a person; the last two sentences describe the "spirit" of a person - allowing the person's spiritual temperament and broad mind to be revealed more deeply.
In ancient Chinese poetry, poems that reflect the lives of workers are really rare; those written with a rich poetic flavor are almost unique. As for Yang Qixian's annotation of Li Bai's poems, he regarded it as the fire for refining elixirs; Xiao Shizan annotated Li Bai's poems as the fire of fishermen. Just as Wang Qi said: "These two fires can illuminate the heaven and the earth." The modern Qu Yuanyuan and others also said in "Li Bai Ji Collation": "Sou Shen Ji" records: "Tao An Gong, the founder of Liu'an "Ye. Several lines of fire, once the fire spreads, purple reaches the sky." (Volume 1) The scene when writing the drum is consistent, which can be proved by experiments. "Mei Yaochen, a tile-burning worker in the Northern Song Dynasty." "Potter" uses a sharp contrast between "no tiles on the house" and "living in a building with scales" to show the hardship of workers.
Li Bai’s poem started from another aspect, praising the scene of labor, embodying his heroic sentiments in the colorful and magnificent scenery of red stars, purple smoke, bright moon, mountains and rivers, and conveying poetic meaning in contrasting, embellishing, setting off, etc. Expression techniques, thus freely portraying the lifelike beauty, vigor and heroic appearance of ancient Chinese smelting workers!