Qin Shi

Abstract: Music is an art that appeals to time, and its image is often abstract and difficult to grasp. It is really not easy to express its beauty in words. There are many poems describing music in Tang poetry, but these three poems, Bai Juyi's Pipa, Han Yu's Listening to the Clever Qin and Li He's Li Ping's Quotations, stand out, inspiring music with words and combining the beauty of words with the beauty of music organically, playing a series of thrilling and soul-stirring movements. It is necessary for poets to write wonderful songs with their wonderful pens in the way of pictographic sound and figurative sound, metaphor and image sound, so that people can deeply understand the supreme realm of music, shock people and cultivate their souls.

Keywords: drawing sound by form and metaphor by context

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Touching pipa

"Pipa Travel" touches the scene and listens to music because of seeing off guests. People who are invited to play because of music, please play when they see players. The poet described the acoustic changes in different levels, which closely linked the life experience and emotional ups and downs of Pipa girls. At first, the songs written by poets are lively and free like the rain (the big strings hum like the rain), lingering whispers (the small strings whisper like secret words), crisp and melodious sounds like pearls on a jade plate (like large and small pearls poured into a plate of jade), and melodious words like Yingying in the flowers (the bottom of the flower slips). Together, they form a kind of soothing, smooth, joyful and * *. Silence is better than sound, and ruthlessness is better than affection. The last sentence of the poem, "We are both unhappy-to the end of the day", truly expresses the author's hidden lament and sadness, which really touches people's temperament.

The poet used profound and appropriate metaphors such as "Guan" and "Silver Bottle" when describing music. Describing the sound of the pipa, the poem uses iconoclastic techniques in many places, and accurately describes the sound as "noisy and serious" and "big beads and small beads". The description of musical language in the poem is also particularly delicate. Poets pay attention to rhythm and rhyme, and choose beautiful and vivid language to describe them. It is the organic combination of the beauty of music and the beauty of words that turns the solidified words into jumping notes, which makes the poem have the melody rhythm of music such as "thinking about sound", "playing incessantly", "choking the spring" and "the silver bottle is broken at first", which makes the poem have a strong appeal.

A long list of weeping ghosts.

Li Pingyou praised Li Pingyou's superb skills by describing the bizarre artistic realm created by Li Pingyou, and also expressed the author's sad mood in a tortuous way. Many images are used in the poem: white clouds, autumn rain, old fish, thin jiaozi, mythical feelings of Hunan and Hubei, Motome, Purple Emperor, tortoise, WU GANG, Jade Rabbit and so on. All these images can give people a special aesthetic feeling. Li was moved by music, even still life and ignorant animals lost their feelings, and even immortals were fascinated by music. Presenting abstract and elusive music and its wonderful artistic effects to readers in a concrete and vivid way, arousing readers' vision and hearing, immersing readers in a strange artistic realm and arousing rich fantasy and imagination. Bring people into an ethereal and supreme artistic realm.

Many metaphors are also used in the poem, which makes the audio and intangible things that appeal to hearing have a concrete and vivid feeling. If the writing sound is crisp and pleasant, it is like Kunshan jade; Write a gentle and moving voice, like Feng Huangming singing; There are positive music and onomatopoeia in the poem, which bring the music to the extreme. Some people say that the description of this poem is "if you are a ghost, if you are stubborn", which clearly points out its characteristics, that is, winning by depicting a cold and grotesque artistic conception is also earth-shattering.

The beating of the poet's thinking activities makes this poem distinctive musicality. The author narrates with the flow of imagination, where the imagination goes, the pen goes. It enriches the artistic conception of poetry in content, makes the artistic conception of poetry have the beauty of flowing and swaying in form, and makes people deeply appreciate the supreme state of music while enjoying poetry.

Amazing talent

This poem is a rare masterpiece describing the piano. The greatest feature of this poem is that it is good at describing sounds, capturing images and expressing subjective feelings through objective images. Poetry uses a series of subtle metaphors to describe the sound of the piano. From the beginning, it closely demonstrated the realm of music by listening to the piano. The first two sentences describe the gentle swaying of the piano (intimate children's talk) until the piano suddenly becomes high (striking and magnificent), and then from soft to soft, the ups and downs reverberate, which is elusive but intriguing. The next few lines are played high in a harmonic overtone, and finally the tone slides from high to low and comes to an abrupt end. When proper limit couldn't lift it any more, it suddenly slipped and finally reached a low point (the power loss plummeted). With different feelings, the tune is constantly changing. It is the author who grasps the characteristics of piano sound and the change of tune, portrays the fleeting sound into a concrete image that can be perceived, and then mobilizes sensory arts such as hearing, vision and feeling, as well as various artistic means such as metaphor and image sound, so as to describe the world of music skillfully and heartily, like an earth-shattering piano piece.

Among the poets in the Tang Dynasty, the poets who imitated music earlier should recommend Li Qi. But judging from the strength of description, these three poems will still be pushed. Although they are all poems describing music, they have their own characteristics. From the different objects they describe, we can generally understand that the beauty of music lies not only in sound, but also in skill and ambition. They interpret music poems from different angles and use different artistic creation techniques. It's a must in the history of ancient poetry I've ever read!