The author of "The Moon Pearl Has Tears in the Sea" is Li Shangyin, and it comes from "Jin Se".
1. Original text
There are fifty strings of brocade strings for no reason, each string and one column reminds me of the past. Zhuang Sheng was obsessed with butterflies in his dawn dream, and looked forward to the emperor's spring heart with cuckoos. The moon in the sea sheds tears, and the warm sun in Lantian produces smoke. Can this feeling be remembered? It was just that I was at a loss at that time.
2. Appreciation
This is an allegorical poem. The poem uses a lot of symbols and metaphors to connect the fifty strings of Jinse with the fifty years of life. , expressing feelings about the brevity of life and the fleeting time. At the same time, he also expressed his feelings about the illusion and impermanence of life through the allusions of Zhuang Zhou dreaming of butterflies and cuckoos crying blood.
In addition, this poem is also full of strong mystery. The four lines in the middle can be consistent with the four tones and emotions of Sui, resentment, purity, and harmony, so it can be inferred that it is a poem describing music. ; In addition, there are many other theories such as allusion to politics and self-narrative poetry creation.
3. Creative background
The creative background of "Jin Se" is that Li Shangyin experienced political setbacks and marital misfortune in his later years, and had a deeper understanding of life. Perception and experience. He used Jinse as a metaphor to express his feelings about the passage of time, the short life and his recollection of the passing years.
About the author
1. Biography
Li Shangyin (about 813-about 858), named Yishan, also known as Yuxi (Xi) Sheng and Fan Nansheng. A famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, his ancestral home was Qinyang, Hanoi (now Jiaozuo City, Henan Province), and he was born in Xingyang, Zhengzhou. He is good at poetry writing, and his parallel prose has high literary value. He is one of the most outstanding poets in the late Tang Dynasty. He is known as "Xiao Li Du" together with Du Mu and "Wen Li" together with Wen Tingyun.
Because the style of poetry is similar to that of Duan Chengshi and Wen Tingyun of the same period, and all three of them were ranked sixteenth in their families, they were collectively called the "Thirty-sixth Style". Because he was caught in the partisan struggle between Niu and Li, he was very frustrated in his life. After his death, he was buried in his hometown Qinyang (now the junction of Qinyang and Boai County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province).
2. Introduction to works
The main works include "Night Rain Sends to the North", "Le Youyuan", "Su Luo's Pavilion Sends Love to Cui Yong and Cui Gun", etc.