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Dapeng rises with the wind one day and soars into Wan Li.
If the wind weakens, it can still lift away the turbulent current.
When people see my unchanging tone, they scoff at all my big talk.
Fu Xuan can still fear the afterlife, but her husband can't be young.
Let's imagine such a scene. When you read a lot of books and proudly express your thoughts to a senior you admire, the other person smiles and tells you that you are a young man, boastful, unconventional, ambitious and unrealistic. How do you feel when you hear this? Grievance? Anger? Or a gentle argument?
Li Bai, who is about 20 years old, has encountered such a thing.
Who is Li Bai? He was born in western China and moved to Jiangyou, Sichuan with his father. There are many great literati in Sichuan, mostly romantic, with strange imagination and unrestrained writing. Sima Xiangru and Yang Xiong in Han Dynasty, Chen Ziang and Li Bai in Tang Dynasty, Su San in Song Dynasty, Guo Moruo and Ba Jin in modern times. The reason why there are so many great literati in Sichuan is related to its human and geographical environment. The environment here is beautiful, there are mountains and water, people like to play around, climbing can relax people's hearts and imagination; The folk customs here are idle, and life is regarded as art. Every family has built their own small homes into gardens and art halls, which has stimulated people's artistic creativity.
What did Li Bai experience before he was 20 years old? He wrote in the article "History of Shang 'an Peichang": "Young Han Changjiang, carrying Liu Jia at the age of five, watching a hundred schools at the age of ten. I have been familiar with it since Xuanyuan. I often cross the classics and make unremitting efforts ... I think that when I was born, I would shoot in all directions, so I know that a gentleman must have ambitions in all directions. "The so-called Liu Jia is Taoist magic seal script and so on. Although these things have no practical use, they can enrich people's imagination. The so-called contention of a hundred schools of thought is a work of contention of a hundred schools of thought. Li Bai belongs to that kind of well-read and doesn't want to know too many students. The tireless production shows that Li Bai is not only good at reading, but also good at transforming reading resources into his own words. Many of Li Bai's famous sentences are from sources, such as "reading and writing are well combined".
Li Bai met Li Yong, a famous calligrapher, around the age of 20. Li Yong is also a wild man. Do you appreciate each other or "repel each other" when you meet Li Bai, who is more wild? As a result, we certainly know that they are mutually exclusive, but the reason is not that they are mutually wild, but that Li Bai's Taoist thought conflicts with Li Yong's Confucianism. Li Yong was 68 years old when he was the magistrate of Beihai, but he would take the initiative to visit Du Fu, 33. However, when he was a secretariat in Yuzhou, Li Bai, about 20 years old, met Li Yong, about 45 years old, but he was cynical.
How did Li Bai respond to Li Yong's taunts? Let's take a look at his Li Shangyong. Once you are ridiculed one day, you can also deal with it.
"One day, Dapeng rose with the wind and went straight into Wan Li." The first sentence was translated into the sentence in Zhuangzi's "Happy Travel": "Peng moved to the south of Ming Dynasty, and the water struck three thousand Li, and those who soared to nine Wan Li went to rest in June", which showed their carefree realm, their lofty pursuit of shocking the world, and also infected the unrestrained style of Zhuangzi and Wang Yang. The books we read when we were young will have a lifelong influence on us. In what way do these books affect us? One is the prototype image, and the other is the personality model. The four novels we read last semester, Jane Eyre, Gone with the Wind, Red and Black, and The Count of Monte Cristo, provided us with four personality models, while the poems we read provided some archetypal images. Although Zhuangzi is a philosophical work, its writing is an image of poetry, so it provides many archetypal images, and Dapeng is the most important one. Li Bai especially likes Dapeng. He used it before this poem and said, "Colorful, but half the world." Before he died, he still remembered, "Big Pengfei shook eight people, and heaven can't destroy them." There is a sharp contrast between the lofty aspirations of young people and the helplessness of the elderly. This is a necessity of life? Or is it Li Bai's personal phenomenon? The first sentence begins well, which is a kind of self-identity. In any case, people should have this confidence.
"If the wind stops, you can still lift away the turbulent current." Although Dapeng has great ambition and poor ability, it also has dependence. This is Gail. Li Bai naturally needs help, such as Li Yong. As the saying goes, "The good wind is strong and sends me to the sky." Li Bai's ambition needs the strong wind in Li Yong, but Li Yong doesn't give it, so once the strong wind stops, his ambition can only be stranded on the shallows like a big ship for a while. However, Dapeng, after all, "has its wings hanging like a cloud", even if it falls, it will turn the water into a huge wave. In other words, whether Dapeng succeeds or fails, it will have an impact on the world and show the significance of Dapeng's existence. What kind of books you read, what kind of personality model or prototype image is printed in your mind, these are too important and will affect your life's fate. "False order" is an adverb, a hypothesis, the first turning point in poetry, a step back, and a strategy of making progress by retreating. Just like telling a story, "breaking the wind" is the first conflict and prepares for further strength. "Youneng" is also an adverb, and "Bo Que" is a great power, which is tragic with the inner power contained in the image of Dapeng.
"When people see my unchanging tone, I scoff at all the big words." Time and Man indicates the change of narrative subject. The narrative subject of the first two sentences is "I", and the narrative subject of the third sentence is changed to "time and people". The "people at that time" were a group divorced from me, and they could not understand my thoughts and ambitions. Such people often appear in poems, such as "people at that time didn't know what to do" and "people at that time always didn't know". Of course, people here naturally refer to Li Yong. This accusation, which extends from the individual to the group, is a good rhetoric, and its criticism is powerful and euphemistic. On the one hand, it doesn't directly point the finger at Li Yong, on the other hand, it refers to Li Yong as a contemporary, and its contempt seems to be hidden. "Big talk" and "special tone" are people's (Li Yong's) criticisms of "me", and "sneer" is the modality when people criticize me. This sentence tells the grievances they have suffered, and there is anger in the grievances.
"Fu Xuan can still fear the afterlife, and her husband can't be young." Finally, historical allusions are used to refute that Fu Xuan is Confucius, and "Fu Xuan can still be afraid of the afterlife" is changed from Confucius' "fear of the afterlife". How do you know that the new guy is not now? "Li Bai's" Watching Hundred Schools "is really not empty talk. Laozi reading and Confucius reading are all good sentences, but they are effortless. "Husband" refers to the elder, not the honorific title. The tone of "can't" becomes soothing and polite. If it is changed to "how can it be", the effect will be completely different, a bit aggressive and rude.
This poem begins with Dapeng's romantic imagination, ends with the teenager's ambition, and has ups and downs in the middle, showing the ambition and wildness of the teenager Li Bai. People should not neglect teenagers, so when they are teenagers, they should set out with wild and lofty aspirations to measure the vastness of the world and the boundaries of life.