Night rain
Bai Juyi
lěnɡ
I was shocked, my pillow was cold,
Ye Shengtao Chó n ɡ
It snows heavily at night.
Xiwen Geru Shē n ɡ,
When I heard the sound of bamboo folding,
Chu ā n ɡ Hu mí n ɡ
See you again.
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I have people I miss deeply, but I am far from home.
My feelings are deeply engraved in my heart.
My hometown is so far away that I can't go back. Not a day goes by without seeing it.
I feel extremely painful inside, but I have nowhere to resolve it. I think about it day and night.
My future seems to be confused and hopeless, sleeping alone in an empty room.
Autumn hasn't come yet, but it's already stormy.
I have never studied the Dharma of an ascetic monk, so it is hard to forget the past!
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The first sentence comes straight to the point, and the things to be described are written out, and the strong emotional color is immediately displayed in front of the reader without the need for image rendering. The four sentences are in the same form, but they have deep feelings. The first sentence mentioned people's yearning and distance, which is a flat overview. So far, I have not mentioned what kind of people they are and how much they miss her. The second sentence focuses on missing, and the degree of missing is not deep.
At this point, the center of the whole poem has pointed out the framework, which is clear, but only a picture. If compared with painting, composition, or sketch before meticulous painting, the lines are concise and powerful. The third sentence is the expansion and extension of the first sentence, which shows the remoteness of hometown, more precisely, the deep nostalgia for hometown life and people. The fourth sentence is an extension of the second sentence. One or three sentences are realistic, and both hometown and people exist objectively. The second and fourth sentences are empty, and the things in memory and the feeling of colic are the poet's subjective feelings. One is solid, the other is virtual, rendering atmosphere. At this point, the line drawing has been dyed and a faint color has appeared. Yin and Yang, warm and cold colors are initially distinct. Poets give "people" a gap and "things" a knot. "Separation" and "knot" are all cold words, giving people the feeling that a pair of lovestruck lovers are separated by the living point. The poet vividly wrote his fiery feelings in two cold words, but the fiery was defeated by the cold. At this time, it naturally leads to his feeling of colic, which touched the readers. Here, the poet used another moving verb "look forward". My hometown is far away, so I can't look at it, but I still have to look at it. Even if I can't see it, my heart has already returned to my lover in my hometown.
The first four sentences are about a long-term state. From the sentence "It's like this", the poet began to describe a rainy night scene. When describing the scene of rain at night, the author cherishes words like gold. He only used two sentences and twenty words. These two sentences do not write thoughts, thoughts, people or things, but only describe many images, lights, halls, days and storms in concise words. A situation word shows that what these four sentences describe is further increased on the premise of the first four sentences.
So emotionally, it is also increased by the thoughts of the first four sentences. A "situation" replaces a thousand psychological descriptions. Night is time. Before "night", the poet used a noun as an adjective to describe "night" and "residual lamp". It must be late at night when the lights are on at six o'clock in the evening. The poet can't sleep at night and misses his lover for a long time. Under the dim light of the residual lamp, the long wick makes the light flicker, and the poet is extremely sad about this scene. He didn't say anything, and naturally he was silent. Silence made the room look "empty" and lonely. "Empty" is not necessarily a real lack of furniture, but a lack of "people".
An "empty hall" is not necessarily an "empty hall", but also a loss in the poet's heart. Autumn, Ignorance and Storm are more harmonious with the scenery. The word "Cang Cang" is not only a description of the wind and rain, but also the poet's mood at this time. These two sentences, without missing a word, dyed every word of the poet's yearning, and the dyed line drawing has basically been colored. The last sentence can be said to be the finishing touch, and the whole poem is pushed to a climax by using the writing method of expressing one's mind directly. Want to forget, but can't forget, want to forget, but dare not forget. The poet's unforgettable love ended in vain, and countless thoughts, where to talk.
The whole poem runs through Bai Juyi's big, simple and wonderful style. Although it is about love and missing, it is not as graceful as most love poems. The delicate atmosphere is not deliberate, but an emotion and a natural feeling. This poem is not a neat modern poem popular in the Tang Dynasty. It has seven sentences, and the first four sentences use a lot of words repeatedly, which is not in line with the habit of poetry. The description of the image is placed after the narrative, and there are no metaphors and allusions in the whole poem, but a lot of stimulation and comparison. It can be said that there is no rhythm at all, and the most sincere feelings are expressed in the most straightforward language.
Get rid of the entanglement of fame and fortune
People's emotional restraint is not only the influence of family ties, but also practical problems such as secular fame and fortune, longevity and poverty, and the solution of these problems is also the only way for practitioners. Scholars in China have an advantage, that is, since the Spring and Autumn Period, they have been educated by Confucius' thought of taking the world as their responsibility. This is a kind of entanglement like Ceng Zi or Qu Yuan, which can transcend personal fame and fortune with the mind of a big family and country; There is also a personality, which is not detached from the secular world with a bigger goal or mind, but is indifferent to the secular goals from the beginning and can find its own pleasure. This is Yan Hui, the most admired disciple of Confucius.
Bai Juyi wrote in "Two Poems of Master Sending Lang People": "The original clothes are knotted, and the swallows eat them up. Happy but happy, forget about hunger and cold. Who am I today? My virtue is not as good as that of a sage. Fortunately, Hu Wei is uneasy. " Yuan Xian is in rags, and Yan Hui has a harsh diet, but they can happily pursue their own pursuits and forget hunger and cold, because they have a "big heart" and a mind that achieves the integration of heaven and earth: "Life is like a feather in the wind. Or floating in the clouds, or falling into the mud. It's not up to me to take clothes to the world. I am careless, but I am poor when I go. There is no need for foreign things, and the arms will be empty. There is no reason to be angry and stay in your heart. " Between heaven and earth, life is like a feather flying, sometimes it may soar and sometimes it may fall into the dust.
It is not necessarily that my fate is smooth sailing; Wearing cloth clothes and confusing with ordinary people is not necessarily the end of my road. External things don't need to be too persistent, and the heart needs to be empty. Don't let those unhappy things and psychology linger, leading to illness. What should a positive attitude towards life be? "Take off the waist, put down the dust in my heart. Taking a song to the mountains means going home. Climb the jade peak and look for the clear water bank at dusk. I plan to find a secluded place and arrange a loose body. Naturally, it is a mountain temple. You have to understand the truth. " ("You Lantian Mountain Buju") "In the early years, I took the lead and went straight to Xiaoyao. I will be cautious when I am nearly seventy years old, and I will return to the south to meditate. Externally, it obeys the laws of the world, and internally, it is detached from the middle edge of the region. Never tire of entering the market, but never shrink from the lover's world. Since I have this heart, I have no anxiety. If you are out of line, there is no leisure in the rivers and lakes. There is nothing to hide when you are happy or drinking. Sit quietly at night and sleep quietly. Autumn is not bitter for a long night, and spring is not afraid of fleeting time. Appoint old and young, forget life and death. " ("direct gift")
It is not easy for people to live, and it is the way to live. Bai Juyi's practice is to let go of the dust in his heart anytime and anywhere, sing songs on the cliff and go home. I studied Zhuangzi in my early years, and then I began to approach Zen. Don't think too much about advancing and retreating, you won't feel uncomfortable, you won't feel uncomfortable. Especially when you enter a high-rise room in the middle of the night or when the sun is shining, you sit alone for a long time, forgetting external things and clinging to life and death, and feel at ease: "Go out in winter and have a look at the south corner of my house. Sit with your eyes closed and your skin will be healthy. At first, it was like drinking alcohol mash, and it was like being stung by Su. External integration is smooth, and Chinese integration is one. If you forget where you are, your heart is empty. " The atmosphere is charming.