Su Luo's Pavilion cares about Cui Yong and Cui Gun
Li Shangyin
Series: Ancient poems about describing autumn
Su Luo's The pavilion expresses my love for Cui Yong and Cui Gun
The bamboo dock is dust-free and the water sill is clear, and the lovesickness is separated from the city.
The autumn clouds linger and the frost flies late, leaving the withered lotuses to listen to the sound of rain.
Notes
1 Cui Yong and Cui Gun: Cui Rong’s sons and Li Shangyin’s cousins.
2 Bamboo dock: the high ground beside the pond where bamboo grows
3 water threshold: the waterfront railing
4 far away: far away
5. The autumn clouds linger and the frost flies late: The autumn clouds linger for days, and the frost period comes late.
6 Hearing the sound of rain: Only people who have been tossing and turning all night can hear the sound of raindrops.
Translation
The bamboo forest is like a screen, without dust,
The green railings, the pool water is rippling,
The clear blue waves, the sky is inspiring,
Thinking back to that, the Cui brothers,
The city gates are stacked on top of each other, and they are separated by deep barriers.
The clouds are endless, like sad autumn clouds,
Even more embarrassing, the late frost and wind are bitter and tight,
A few leaves are left behind, and the remaining leaves are covered with lotus flowers.
Wait for the autumn rain, and the drops of rain will beat until dawn.
Appreciation
Reading Li Shangyin’s poems can only be about understanding and tasting. Only by striving to grasp the aesthetic image of the poem and mobilizing readers' own similar psychological experiences can communication be possible, and other methods are ineffective. For example, who are Cui Yong and Cui Gun in this poem, what is their family background, and what is their relationship with the poet? There is no need to look for answers to these questions, or even ask them at all. With the text code provided by the poet, readers can completely imagine a bamboo dock with dense phoenix tails, which is so quiet and unworldly. What is very strange and very reasonable is that the more quiet the place, the thoughts just seem to have wings and fly, even if the object of longing is separated by several mountains, rivers and cities. Thick clouds lingered, and the late frost left a few withered lotus leaves dancing in the wind, sounding like autumn rain.
One late autumn night, the poet Li Shangyin stayed in the garden pavilion of a family named Luo. In the loneliness, he missed his distant friends and listened to the rustle of the autumn rain falling on the withered lotus. He wrote this The most charming poem. Cui Yong and Cui Gun in the title of the poem are the two sons of Cui Rong, the poet's acquaintance. This poem is the poet's sentimental work during his journey after bidding farewell to Cui Yong and Cui Gun.
The first sentence writes about Luo's Pavilion: Green bamboos surround the spotless dock, and outside Luo's Pavilion faces the clear lake. Green bamboos and clear water make this pavilion particularly quiet and elegant. The poet feels far away from the hustle and bustle when he is in it.
Then he writes about the poet's longing for his friends: Luo's Pavilion where the poet is currently staying and Chang'an where the Cui brothers live are separated by many cities and long distances. The poet's longing is like the wind. The floating hairspring floats leisurely towards Chang'an where my friend is. The poet feels lonely because of the tranquility of the realm, and slightly melancholy because he has no friends to enjoy the tranquility. "The autumn clouds persist and the frost flies late" returns to the scene in front of us, exaggerating the atmosphere and heightening the mood. It's late autumn, but the weather has been hazy for days, threatening rain, so the frost has come late. The sky was misty, and the poet, who was already sleepy because of lovesickness, couldn't help but feel even darker, and this mood in turn increased the concentration of lovesickness.
The poet stayed at Luo's Pavilion temporarily during his journey. The weather here in the recent period, including the late frost period, naturally led to speculation. The basis of this speculation is "the autumn clouds never disperse" and "leave the weather". "Withered lotus". On the one hand, this sentence sets the stage for the last sentence (because "the autumn clouds do not disperse", there is "rain"; because "the frost flies late", there are "remaining lotuses"), on the other hand, it also exaggerates the atmosphere and heightens the emotion. effect.
The last sentence is the highlight of the whole article. It describes the poet's change of mood when he listens to the sound of rain hitting dry lotuses. It turned out that the poet had been thinking about his friends who were far away in the city. He was so far away that he did not pay attention to the change of weather. Unknowingly, it began to rain lightly, and the raindrops fell on the dry lotus, making a patchy sound. The poet unexpectedly discovered that the sound of the bleak autumn rain beating on the remaining lotuses had a special kind of beauty. The dry lotus leaves give people a sense of decay and decay, and there is no value in "keeping" them. However, as a person who stays up all night longing for his friends while traveling, listening to the clear rhyme of the dry lotus autumn rain makes him feel a little comforted and understands his lovesickness. Lonely, so I am grateful that the dead lotus "stayed". "Stay" implies a kind of unexpected joy. And what the poet "heard" was not just the sad sound of rain. The delicate charm of dry lotus and autumn rain is difficult for ordinary people to understand. This monotonous and desolate sound only adds to the loneliness of the environment, thus deepening the longing for friends.
Although this poem describes the scenery of the autumn pavilion and the rain at night, and it is written vividly and picturesquely, it is not a scenery poem, but a lyric poem.
What he saw and heard in "Su Luo's Pavilion" is the basis for "to cherish". The word "love" is slightly revealed, and the last two sentences imply the meaning of staying up all night. The poet's feeling of missing friends is implicit in it. It can be said that it is based on the scenery. Expressing feelings and embodying feelings in scenery. The artistic conception of the poem is delicate and clear, and the mood contained in it is extremely profound.
Li Shangyin is a genius who created a generation of poetry. Behind masters like Li Du, Han Bai, and others, creation is extremely difficult. Perhaps it can be said that Li Shangyin had his own unique choice that was inevitable. Compared with his predecessors, he may not be broad enough and optimistic enough, but he has finally opened up a new path. This not only means that he changed the direction of poetry creation, making it inner and personal, but also means that he found a new aesthetic balance, a new kind of aesthetic balance between the galloping of mental images and the control of physical images. way of creating imagery. If we can sum it up in one word, we can say that Li Shangyin's poems have the implicit beauty of music, which just reflects the unique artistic spirit of Chinese culture.