Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night
Du fu in Tang dynasty
Good rain knows the season, when spring comes.
Sneak into the night with the wind, moisten things silently.
The wild path is dark, and the river is bright.
Look at the red and wet place, the flowers in Jinguancheng are heavy.
This poem was written in the spring of the first year of Baoying (762), and Du Fu lived in Chengdu Caotang. From last winter to February this year, there was a drought in Chengdu, so Du Fu was very happy when the spring rain came. He described a drizzle on a spring night with the joy of a long drought. Poetry is written from hearing to vision and even psychological feelings, from night to morning, with rigorous structure, delicate description and bright artistic conception. There is no need for words like joy and joy in the poem, but it reveals a happy atmosphere everywhere. This is a masterpiece depicting the rainy scene on a spring night and showing a happy mood.
When the spring rain floated down, the poet was even more surprised, even lying in bed listening, completely sleepless, eager to have a good play, lest it suddenly stop, so he pushed the door and looked out, looking at the boundless spring rain, and saw the dense spring rain, which the author pleasantly associated with the spring scenery of Jinguan City the next day.
Poetry is praising the lofty quality of Spring Rain's obscurity and selfless dedication. The description of this love for the spring rain is so delicate and realistic, full of twists and turns, which can't help but make people marvel at Du Fu's artistic skill in observing things and feelings. No matter in tempering words, or in capturing images and describing details, it embodies the superiority of observing words and observing colors and being meticulous. By comparing and appreciating Du Fu's poems with his gloomy style, we will certainly deeply understand another life interest in Du Fu's poems. Or good rain knows the season when spring comes.
Sneak into the night with the wind, moisten things silently.
The night is dark and the river is bright.
Look at the red and wet place, the flowers in Jinguancheng are heavy.
To annotate ...
1. Yes: just.
2. Occurrence: Promote plant growth.
3. sneak in: secretly, quietly.
4. Moisturize: nourish plants with rain.
5. Path: A path in the country.
6. flower weight: flowers look full and heavy because they are stained with rain.
7. Jinguan City: another name for Chengdu.
The couplet "Look at the red and wet place at dawn, flowers weigh heavily on Jinguan City" is the poet's imagination: at dawn the next day after the spring rain, the whole Jinguan City must be a scene of flowers, and the wet, heavy and red flowers must be more attractive. If the flowers are like this, the crops in that field will surely grow sturdily. Spring rain has brought vitality to the earth and brought people the hope of a bumper harvest. How can a poet not praise the spring rain?