"Watching and Praying for Rain" is a work by Li Yue, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai never wrote a poem with this title.
This poem mainly uses contrasting techniques.
Watch and pray for rain
The leafless soil of mulberry sticks produces smoke, and the flute greets the dragon in front of the temple.
Watching singing and dancing in several places in Zhumen, they are afraid that Chunyin will swallow the orchestra.
Appreciation:
Through the comparison of two different life scenes and different thoughts and feelings on the day of drought, the sharp class contradictions in feudal society are profoundly exposed. The famous folk song "The red sun is burning like fire" in "Water Margin" is very close to this poem in theme and technique, but they are also different. The language of folk songs is bright and pungent, and the method of comparison is more straightforward; while the language of this poem is subtle and tortuous, and the method of comparison is more tactful.
This is a poem of compassion for farmers, describing the emotion of watching the spring drought and praying for rain. The first two sentences describe the scene of farmers praying for rain during the spring drought, and the last two sentences describe the scene of rich families watching singing and dancing. This poem reveals the class antagonism and the disparity between rich and poor at that time by describing two different lives during a long drought and no rain. The farmers are worried about their livelihood for the year due to the drought, but the rich and powerful are afraid of getting wet due to cloudy and rainy weather. Such a sharp contrast reflects the author's incomparable indignation at the debauched life of wealthy families and his deep sympathy for the suffering life of farmers. The language of the whole poem is implicit and the style is euphemistic.