What does Li Shangyin mean by this poem?

Jiao Shan

Never wear a long rope,

It's hard to hate water when it goes to the clouds.

If you want to buy the sea from Magu,

A cup of spring dew is as cold as ice.

Author: Li Shangyin Dynasty: Tang Style: Seven-character quatrains

Measure:

○ Pingsheng ● Pingsheng ⊙ Pingkecuo △ Yunping ▲ Yun Yun

The rhyme of this book is: 25 paths; Can be "eight more nine clear ten steamed".

Never wear a long rope,

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It's hard to hate water when it goes to the clouds.

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If you want to buy the sea from Magu,

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A cup of spring dew is as cold as ice.

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Precautions:

Ma Gu: She is a fairy in ancient myths and legends. She claimed to have seen the sea turn into a mulberry field in a short time.

Appreciate:

Put the problem directly in front of people from the beginning. It is precisely because the passage of time can't be stopped. Seeing the silence in eastern Sichuan and the sight of white clouds returning to the mountains can't help feeling, and the center is disappointed all the time. From the cordless love for the Japanese to the hatred for the cloud, the feelings have sunk to the lowest point, and it seems that they have not exhausted their resources. However, the poet suddenly had a whim from "hate" and turned out a new mirror with a bright future.

"If you want, Magu will buy the sea." Here, I decided that the sea belongs to Magu and thought of buying the whole sea from Magu. At first glance, this fantasy seems a little sudden, but in fact it is born out of the poet's imagination of "tying the long rope of the sun" and "water goes to the cloud to return", and the stream of time that "the deceased is like this" finally flows into the sea, so this endless sea is the confluence of time; If you buy the sea, you will always control and possess it, so that there will be no more water to hate. This kind of imagination, naive to the point of approaching fairy tales, is surprisingly bold; It twists and turns to the extent of burying thoughts, but it has its own fantasy logic.

The last sentence is even more surprising. Can the sea be "bought"? The poet did not give a direct answer, but presented a meaningful image to the reader like an illusion-a cup of spring dew was as cold as ice. The vast sea that just appeared in front of us suddenly disappeared, leaving only a cup of cold spring dew.

This is an extreme exaggeration of the rapid change of things and the rapid passage of time in the universe. The word "cold" reveals the ruthlessness of time, the ruthlessness of natural laws and the poet's helpless disappointment. The fantasy and boldness of "I want to buy the sea for my aunt" and the fantasy and magnificent imagination of "a cup of spring dew is as cold as ice" fully reflect the poet's artistic imagination and creativity. This absurd imagination and conception are quite similar to Li He's, from which we can see his influence on Li Shangyin.

Comments:

The title is "Salute to the Mountain", which means to pay tribute to the famous mountain. Judging from the content described in the poem, it is the feeling when climbing a mountain to watch the water go to the clouds and return to the sunset. To write an ancient theme in such a novel, romantic and poetic way, perhaps we can just borrow a sentence from Li Deyu, a contemporary poet, to evaluate it: "Although the sun and the moon are ancient, the situation is always new, so it is a spiritual thing."

The passage of time has made many people with lofty ideals through the ages generous and sad. Li Shangyin's poems are full of romantic whimsy, which is refreshing, although it is still such an eternal cosmic phenomenon.

Voiceover:

The mythical Magu once found that the sea water around Penglai Fairy Mountain was half as shallow as it was not long ago, and probably the sea would become land again. The poet took advantage of this, shortening the process of turning the sea into a field to an instant, and making people realize that a cup of spring dew in front of them is just a relic of a sudden change in the vast sea, and even this cup of spring dew will disappear in an instant.

Someone once pointed out the idea of buying the sea in a poem and Li He's "Bitter Days are Short". "If there is a tree in the east of the world, Candle dragon will be next. I will chop off the dragon's feet and chew the dragon's meat so that it can't go back at night. The meaning of "natural old people don't die, and few people don't cry" is similar. The poem "A cup of spring dew is as cold as ice" is very incisive in the comparative analysis of Li Jia's sentence "A glass of water is poured in a dream".

Comments:

Fu Xuan's "Nine Songs" said: "The scenery is bright at the end of the year, and the long rope is tied to the sky?" It is a naive fantasy for ancient people to try to stay in time and tie long ropes to the sun. But where can I find such a "long rope" Fu Shi said "An De", which has revealed that this hope is difficult to realize; Shi Li went one step further, saying that "there has never been a long rope tied to the sun" and simply denied the idea of tying a long rope to the sun.