Lu You
Several thatched huts by the lakeside, thousands of volumes of books do not help the poor.
As the swallows go and the swallows come, the days pass, and the flowers bloom and fall, which is the spring.
I am delighted to meet my life-long friend at the beginning, and I am surprised to see someone who is not an old man.
Self-laughing will destroy your heart, but your heart will still be there, and you will forget yourself because of your high generosity.
This poem was written in the late spring of the third year of Qingyuan (1197). It expresses the melancholy of wasting years because of unrecognized talents, and the emotion of sacrificing one's life to serve the country but not getting it.
The first couplet of the poem summarizes the poverty-stricken life in Pingju Township and the depression of not being able to use talents. He lives leisurely on the shore of Jinghu Lake, with several thatched houses and a collection of thousands of books, but he is inevitably poor. He has many military strategies and economic talents, but nowhere to put them to use. The following turns to the sigh of late spring, the swallows have gone and the swallows have come, but I still live like this; the flowers bloom and fall, it is late spring in March, another spring has passed, but life is still the same. Living idle and doing nothing is self-evidently depressing. At the end of the 16th year of Chunxi (1189), it has been eight years since Lu You was impeached and returned to his hometown while serving as a doctor in the Ministry of Rites and a reviewer of the Academy of Records. Although time continues to pass, he has never forgotten current events. "My heart is in Tianshan, and my body is in Cangzhou." This is the reason why he can't calm down.
The second half of the poem closely follows the first half. "It's a pleasure to meet a lifelong friend when I start editing" and take care of the "thousands of volumes of books". "Open" means to open the book. Opening the book and reading it is like meeting an ancient person whom you have admired all your life, and you can't help but be very happy. The next sentence "Looking at the water will surprise people who are not old." Using water as a mirror, the hair on the temples has faded, and the years are ruthlessly urging people to grow old. Even I am surprised. This is a reference to the two words "Swallows are gone and swallows are coming" and "flowers are blooming and falling". Sentence meaning. "曩 Sui", the past years. The tail couplet used a self-deprecating tone, saying that although he was living in a deserted village, his ambition to restore the Central Plains was still there, and he still wanted to sing generously and sacrifice his life to serve the country. At this time, the poet was already seventy-three years old, but he wrote numerous patriotic poems. For example, in "Long Song Xing", he expresses his long-cherished ambition of "I hope that I will live on credit for a long time, so that I can see Ping Hu Nian"; in "Shu Anger", he laments: "Guanhe has endless things since ancient times, who would have expected that now it is just sitting back and watching!" They are It is in the same vein and closely related to "Late Spring". The sentence "Who would have expected to stand by and watch now" can be used as a footnote to "Late Spring".
This poem is very general and lyrical, and its conception is particularly ingenious. The first four sentences summarize rural life. The sentence "Opening" corresponds to the first couplet, and the sentence "Zhao Shui" corresponds to the couplet. Naturally, it leads to the lament that "the heart is still there when one laughs at oneself, and forgets oneself due to high generosity". The title of the poem is "Late Spring", but the poet did not describe the scenery of late spring in detail. He only used things that are characteristic of the late spring season, such as "swallows disappear and swallows come" and "flowers bloom and fall", to express his feelings and vent his inability to achieve his ideals. Realized melancholy. In the history of Chinese poetry, there are countless poems with the theme of late spring, some of which describe the scenes of late spring, or lament the spring, cherish the spring, lament the old and complain about poverty, but this poem is unique in expressing patriotic feelings, which is what Lu You's poetry has The power of moving art.