Appreciation of the original text and translation of "Ji Shi"

The wind is clear and powerful, and the sunset is bright.

The noble family and country are rewarded, and the battle of life and death is fought by a barge ship!

Hu Jia’s eternal hatred is like a moon over the city.

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Immediate poems: those that take current things as their subject matter are called "instant poems".

Jiao: That is, the horns drawn in the army.

睷素: filial piety. When this poem was written, the poet's parents failed to resist the Qing Dynasty and died for the country.

Ge Chuan: Refers to the navy that resisted the Qing rebels.

Hujia: a wind instrument popular in the northern part of the Great Wall and the Western Regions in ancient times.

Creative background

The three poems "Ji Shi" were written by the author after he joined the anti-Qing rebel army in the third year of Shunzhi (1646). Here is one of them. At that time, Nanjing, the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty, had been destroyed by the Qing army, King Lu fled to the sea, and the author's father was defeated and died for his country. He wrote this poem with extreme sadness and indignation.

Appreciation

At the beginning of the poem, the phrase "Although there are three households in Chu, Chu will surely die if Qin is destroyed", to point out the theme, and use the urgent and passionate "How extreme is the feeling" , "The Qi is Not Peaceful" sets the tragic and exciting tone of the whole article, expressing the author's strong patriotic sentiments of vowing to destroy the Qing people and restore the Ming Dynasty. Next, he entered the scene from emotion and wrote: In the strong wind, the sound of distant military horns came; in the blood-red sunset, bright and bright battle flags fluttered. Wearing plain white mourning clothes, I was determined to avenge my country's shame and avenge my father; I drove a sturdy warship and fought to the death with the enemy in the vast misty Taihu Lake. This magnificent scenery brings out the author's fierce feelings of avenging his country's humiliation and reviving the country, and fighting a life-or-death battle! At the end, through the description of the sound of Hujia, the cold moonlight, and the desolate scene all over the city, it brings infinite misery and desolation.

The first three-part couplet directly expresses the ambition to fight against the enemy and restore the country, while the second and fourth couplets describe the majestic and tragic scenes. The scenes blend together to form a unique chain of reflections and an interactive and flowing charm. It is convenient to express the poet's inner depression and unforgettable hatred for his family and country. The sentimental scene in "A piece of moon comes over the city" makes the poem more open and thoughtful. It seems that the poet's ambition to restore the country and the hatred of his family and country are blended together, filling the space between heaven and earth.