This word is a lament for life. By contrasting the sharp contradiction between the eternity of nature and the impermanence of life, the author expresses the sadness of feeling the loss of life after the subjugation of the country.
"The Poppy: When Will the Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon Come" is a poem written by Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, just before he was poisoned to death. It can be called a fatal poem. The language of the whole word is clear, concise, graceful and fresh. It starts with questions and ends with answers. It moves from asking questions about heaven and people to asking questions about oneself. Through the melancholy and exciting tones and the twists and turns and free-flowing artistic structure, the author makes the author Peiran Moyu's melancholy runs throughout, creating a refreshing aesthetic effect. ?
The original text is as follows:
When did the spring flowers and autumn moon come? How much do you know about the past? There was an east wind in the small building last night, and the motherland cannot bear to look back at the bright moon!
The carved railings and jade inlays should still be there, but the beauty has been changed. How much sorrow can you have? Just like a river of spring water flowing eastward.
The translation is as follows:
When will this year end? How much do you know about the past? Last night, the spring breeze blew again from the small building. On this night with the bright moon in the sky, how could I bear the pain of recalling my motherland!
The finely carved railings and jade steps should still be there, but the person I miss is already aging. Ask me how much sadness is in my heart, just like the endless spring water flowing eastward.
Words and Sentences Notes
⑴ Poppy: Originally a Tang Jiaofang song, later used as the name of the song. At the beginning of this tune, Xiang Yu's beloved concubine Poppy died, and a flower bloomed underground, so she was named after it. It is also known as "Yijiang Spring Water", "Yuhu Water", "Wushan Twelve Peaks", etc. Double tone, fifty-six characters, four sentences each in the upper and lower parts, all with two oblique rhymes converted into two flat rhymes.
⑵: End, end.
⑶Old Country: A guide to Jinling (now Nanjing), the old capital of the Tang Dynasty.
Extended information:
This poem and "Langtaosha·Gurgling Rain Outside the Curtain" were both written before Li Yu was poisoned to death, in the third year of the Taiping Xingguo reign of Emperor Taizong of the Northern Song Dynasty (978) , it had been nearly three years since Li Yu returned to the Song Dynasty. In the eighth year of the Kaibao reign of Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty (975), the Song army captured Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Yu surrendered and the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed.
Three years later, in the third year of Taiping and Xingguo, Xu Xuan visited Li Yu on the order of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty. Li Yu sighed to Xu Xuan: "I killed Pan You and Li Ping by mistake, and I regretted it endlessly!" Probably In this state of mind, Li Yu wrote the poem "Poppy Poppy".
The reason why Li Yu's words can arouse wide public response is, to a large extent, due to the contagious and symbolic metaphors used in the concluding sentence to both visualize and express his sorrow. Abstraction: The author did not clearly write the true meaning of his melancholy - nostalgic for the hedonistic life of the past, but only showed its external form - "just like a river of spring water flowing eastward.
This way It is easy for people to get some kind of spiritual echo from it and use it to express their own similar emotions, because although people's sorrows have different connotations, they can all have the external form of "just like a river of spring water flowing eastward". Because "images are often greater than thoughts", Li Yu's words can have a wide range of resonance and have been passed down through the ages.
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