Appreciation of Wang Guowei's poem "Man Ting Fangshuibao Ancient City"

Man Ting Fangshuibao Ancient City

Qing Dynasty: Wang Guowei

The water holds the solitary city, the clouds are far away, and the weeping willow stars crow. At the beginning of the late tide, the setting sun overflowed and the sand was flat. Bai Niao strolled away, and Tingzhou was boundless outside. The west wind is spreading eastward, flying like snow, and Ran Ran is sailing.

Tianya, still reminiscing about the past, fragrant dust with the horse, the bright moon peeping at the car. Gradually, in the autumn mirror, change the years in the dark. Even if the strip is intact, it will be awkward to climb back. What a nice person, a corner of Zhu Lou, leaning against the sunset alone.

translate

Running water surrounds the lonely city, the clouds in the distant sky have dispersed, and several crows are perched on the willow tree. At night, when the tide receded, there were undulating ripples on the beach by the river, and the setting sun shone on it, as if on the water waves. I don't know where Bai Niao started and flew away peacefully. There are endless reeds in Tingzhou, which is a shelter for waterfowl. The west wind blew and the reeds danced. In the distance, a ship left Ran Ran, and the white sails became smaller and smaller until they disappeared from sight.

Now in the distance, recalling the past. The Lantern Festival is so lively, the girl carriage and the bright moon are in the sky. Time has passed, and time is gone forever. At that time, Huan Wen lamented that the willows he planted had long been useful, but people were old. Now I also have a feeling that where people are, I just climbed a tall building and leaned against the railing to watch the sunset, leaving me alone.

To annotate ...

① Man Fang Ting: epigraph name, also known as Lock Balcony, Man Ting Frost, Xiaoxiang Night Rain, Talking about Tongxiang and Man Ting Flowers, etc. 95 words with two tones, the first four rhymes and the last five rhymes. There are still some people who don't connect Ye Yun into five-character sentences, and there are other rhyming words, which are called "tune Man Ting" in Yuefu elegant words.

② Garrison (shù): Barracks and cities along the border.

③ Flat sand: waterfront beach.

(4) Bai Niao: generally refers to white birds. Youyou: A state of leisure. T Ρ ng (tρ ng) state: a small state in water. Jiān jiā n: refers to plants such as water chestnuts and reeds.

⑤ Flying flowers: This refers to reed flowers. Ran Ran: Move slowly.

6 fragrant dust and bright moon: on the fifteenth night of the first month of the Tang Dynasty: "Dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one after another."

⑦ Article: refers to willow branches. Here, I use Shi Shuo Xin Yu: "When Huan Gong marched to Jincheng in the north, he saw that there were about ten willows planted in the past, and he said,' How can people be inferior when the trees are like this!'" "Climbing the branches and holding the strips, tears streaming down my face."

8 Why: Where. Zhulou: A tall building. Leaning against the sunset: refers to leaning against the building to see the sunset.

Make an appreciative comment

This song * has a quiet and leisurely scenery, which is quite "without me"; In the following film, I recalled the sadness of introducing the autumn wind into teenagers' interest. At the end, the image of the leaning person responded to the front scenery, indicating that the front scenery was seen by the leaning person. So as to guide readers to go back and savor the scenery of the last movie, and find that the original movie is not a simple "no self", it hides a lot of sadness and helplessness in the quiet and distant scenery.

A series of three images of "the water embraces the lonely city, the snow is far away, and the weeping willow stars crow" constitute a leisurely and quiet picture: the flowing water surrounds the lonely city, the clouds covering the distant sky have dispersed, and crows inhabit the willow tree in twos and threes. These three groups of scenery can remind people of their hometown, the expectation of recruiting people from afar and the yearning for a peaceful life. Therefore, they seem to be carefree, but in fact they are the origin of wandering worries. "The evening tide begins to ebb, the sunset overflows and the beach flattens" adds a sense of movement to this quiet and peaceful picture through an overflow.

"Bai Niao wanders away, beyond Tingzhou, it is infinite" is the rotation of the camera, and waterfowl and endless reeds also inherit the following sentence. "From the west wind, flying flowers are like snow." Obviously, the flying flowers here are not catkins in spring, but reed flowers in the previous sentence, which gives the whole picture a hazy color. On this distant and hazy water, Ran Ran's "Sailing Away" is the author's recollection of some past events in his distant and hazy memory.

The next film, Tianya, Reminiscent of Time Past, naturally shifted the focus of description from scenery to emotion. "The fragrant dust follows the horse, and the bright moon peeks at the car" is recalling the past and writing about the fun of the Lantern Festival. This sentence is obviously adapted from two poems by Su Weidao in the Tang Dynasty, "Dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one". No matter how happy the year was, when the autumn mirror gradually changed the years, people's interest was greatly bent, that is to say, "even if the strip is intact, it will climb again." "A corner of Zhu Lou, lonely leaning against the sunset glow", that is, through a lonely figure leaning against Zhu Lou, looking at the sunset glow, wrote a sad autumn mood very implicitly. "Where are people?" People look far from the high-rise building in sad autumn, and he blends into a painting with this lonely landscape.

Creation background

This word was written by Wang Guowei 1905 when he left Nantong for Suzhou. At that time, Wang Guowei was far away from his family and taught alone in other places. He used this word to express his inner loneliness.