Original text:
Candle dragon is a cold country, and the light is still blooming.
what's the difference between the sun and the moon? Only the North Wind came up in anger.
Yanshan snowflakes are as big as seats, and they blow off Xuanyuan Terrace one by one.
You miss your wife in December. Stop singing and laugh.
leaning against the door to watch pedestrians, it's sad to miss the Great Wall.
Don't mention the sword to save the border, leaving this tiger with gold and shovel. There are a pair of white arrows in
, and spiders make webs to produce dust.
the arrow is empty, and people die today and never come back.
I can't bear to see it. It's burnt to ashes.
the yellow river holds the soil, but the north wind hates the rain and snow.
Note:
(1) Popular in the North: The title of Yuefu's "Time Scenery Song" is changed, and the content mostly describes the sad feelings of rain and snow in the north wind and pedestrians not returning.
(2) Candle dragon: the dragon in ancient myths and legends of China. People live in the cold door in the far north where the sun is not seen, opening their eyes for the day and closing their eyes for the night.
(3) This refers to Youzhou, which is located in Daxing County, Beijing. An Lushan ruled the north at that time, and it was dark.
(4) Yanshan Mountain: the name of the mountain, on the north side of Hebei Plain. Xuanyuantai, a building commemorating the Yellow Emperor, is located on Qiaoshan Mountain in Huailai County, Hebei Province. These two sentences describe the scene of heavy snow and cold climate in the north with exaggerated tone.
(5) double moths: women's eyebrows. Double moths destroy and frown, describing sadness and melancholy.
[6] Great Wall: It is often used in ancient poems to refer to the northern front. Good, real.
⑺ ③? (bǐngchá): as??. Tiger writing shovel, arrow bag with tiger pattern.
⑻ "Burning it" sentence: From the ancient Yuefu "Thinking": "Destroy it, when the wind blows it up."
⑼ "Yellow River" sentence: "Biographies of Zhu Fengyu, Zheng Zhou in the Later Han Dynasty": "People who are still on the riverside hold the soil to plug Mengjin, and it is common to see that they don't know the amount." This is the opposite of what it means.
⑽ north wind, rain and snow: This is the phrase "the north wind is cool, the rain and snow are foggy" in The Book of Songs, which means that the national crisis is coming and the weather is miserable, so as to set off the tragic experience and desolate mood of Sifu here. Cut and eliminate.
Translation:
Legend has it that in the cold door of the northern country, there lived a Candle dragon, whose eyes were the sun and the moon, and when eyes were opened, it was day, and when eyes were closed, it was night. Even the light of the sun and the moon can't shine here! Only the north wind howled all over the sky. Snowflakes in Yanshan are as big as seats, falling on the Xuanyuan platform one by one. In this icy December, a homesick woman in Youzhou is smiling and frowning at home. Leaning against the gate, she stared at the passers-by and looked forward to her husband's arrival. Her husband went to the Great Wall to fight, and has not returned yet. The Great Wall is a bitter and cold place. Take care, husband. When the husband left, he took the sword in his hand and saved the edge. At home, he left only an arrow bag with a tiger skin and a gold handle, which contained a pair of white arrows and kept hanging on the wall. It is covered with cobwebs and covered with dust. Now his arrow is there, but man will never come back. He has died in the border town! If people don't exist, how can I bear to see this old thing? So I burned it to ashes. Although the Yellow River is deep, it still holds the earth, but only this where will you go's hatred is as overwhelming and boundless as this long north wind, rain and snow.
Appreciation:
This poem takes care of the topic first, and starts from the bitter cold in the north. This is exactly what the ancient Yuefu usually uses. Sometimes, such a beginning has nothing to do with the theme, just as a kick-off. However, this song "Popular in the North" is slightly different. Its efforts to render the rain and snow in the north wind are not only for fun, but also have the function of borrowing scenery to express feelings and set off the theme.
Li Bai is a romantic poet, who often relies on myths and legends. "Candle dragon lives in a cold door, and the glory is still blooming", which is a reference to Huainanzi. The story in Mu Xing Xun: "Candle dragon is in the north of Yanmen, covered in the mountain of Wei Yu, and he can't see the sun. His face is dragon and his body is not enough." Gao You's note: "The dragon holds a candle according to the lunar light, covering thousands of miles, which is regarded as day, night, winter and summer." The meaning of these two poems is: Candle dragon lives in the far north, where there is no sunshine all the year round, and only Candle dragon's sighing distinguishes day and night from the four seasons, instead of the sun, it is just the shimmer from Candle dragon's candle. Although the grotesque myth is not credible, the cold and cold realm it shows has become a real and sensible artistic image with the help of readers' association. On this basis, the author further describes the scene that can show the characteristics of winter in the north: "The sun and the moon shine differently, only the North Wind is angry." Yanshan snowflakes are as big as seats, and pieces of them blow off Xuanyuantai. " These words are very magnificent, and the weather is extremely vigorous. The absence of the sun and the moon not only inherits the first two sentences, but also sets off the "only the north wind" and emphasizes the cold climate. "No anger" writes about the wind, and "heaven comes" writes about the wind. This sentence is extremely described as the north wind is cold. The description of snow is even more atmospheric, imaginative and wonderful, and it is worthy of being a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages. The artistic image of poetry is the unity of the poet's subjective feelings and objective things. Li Bai has a rich imagination, passionate feelings and a free and bold personality, so ordinary things are often unexpected and beyond the ordinary. This is a feature of romanticism in his poetry. Fortunately, these two poems are not only about scenery, but also about feelings. There are two other poems by Li Bai: "Thousands of snowflakes fall from Yaotai, and the fragrance of spring breeze blows off one by one". Both of them write about snow, use exaggeration and even have the same sentence pattern, but they have completely different feelings in readers' hearts. One evokes a strong sense of spring, and the other exaggerates the arrogance of winter. Different artistic effects are due to the author's different feelings. The sentence "simulating snowflakes with seats" is imaginative, wonderful and vivid, which vividly describes the characteristics of large and dense snowflakes and the cold in the frontier. These two poems point out "Yanshan Mountain" and "Xuanyuantai", which refers to the vast northern part of China from the beginning to the Youyan area, and leads to the following "You Zhou Si Fu".
The author uses a series of actions, such as "stopping singing", "laughing", "destroying by two moths" and "leaning against the door to watch the pedestrians", to depict the inner world of the characters and create an image of a worried and worried woman. This thinking woman is thinking of her husband who has not returned from a long trip from the passers-by in front of her eyes; From the bitter and cold scene here and now, I am worried about my husband who is far away from the Great Wall. There is no specific description of the Great Wall here, but the phrase "I miss you, the Great Wall is bitter and cold, and it is sad" can make people think that it must be that the Great Wall is more bitter and cold than Youzhou, which makes Sifu particularly worried. And the bitter cold in Youzhou has been written to the extreme by the author, so the cold of the Great Wall and the dilemma of recruiting people are self-evident. The previous scenery foreshadows the narrative lyric here, and the author's tailoring skills can also be seen here.
"Don't raise a sword to save the border, leaving this tiger with a gold shovel and a hammer", and "shovel and a hammer" are bags for holding arrows. These two sentences are about thinking about a woman and worrying about her husband, but it's a long way to go, so I have to use the quiver decorated with tiger stripes left by her husband to pin my feelings and relieve my worries. Just using the word "sword" here depicts the heroic image of her husband's generosity for his country, which makes people feel sympathy for his unfortunate death later. Because her husband has been away from home for a long time, the white arrow has a cobweb dust knot. Seeing things and thinking about people is already sad, and it is even worse that "the arrow is empty, and people will never come back when they die today", and things are dead and people are hurt. "I can't bear to see this thing, but it will burn to ashes" vividly depicts the desperate mood of thinking women who turn all kinds of sadness, don't hate and worry into extreme pain. The poem seems to be over here, but the poet is more than just a pen. He poured out full of grief and indignation with thrilling poems: "The Yellow River can hold the soil, but the north wind hates rain and snow." "The Yellow River holds the soil" is a classic, which can be found in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Biography of Zhu Fu: "The people who are still on the riverside hold the land to plug Mengjin, but they often don't know the amount." It means that the Mengjin ferry on the Yellow River can't be plugged, so the entering the ocean, never to return's surging Yellow River can't be plugged. Here, it is said that even if the Yellow River holds the earth, the hatred of thinking of a woman is hard to cut, which clearly reflects the depth and breadth of thinking of a woman and her strong feelings of grief and indignation. The north wind is angry, the snow is flying all over the sky, and the bleak scene shows the tragic atmosphere more strongly. It not only takes care of the topic again, but also makes the structure more complete. More importantly, the scenery and emotion blend together in harmony, so that people can hardly tell which is scenery writing and which is lyrical. What a "while this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever" it is to think of the sorrow and resentment of a woman like the endless north wind, rain and snow! At the end, these two poems are like a volcano spouting magma, and like a river breaking through a dike, which has a strong shocking power.