Light and fat
The road is full of arrogance, and the saddle horse shines in the dust.
If I ask what he is doing, he is called an internal minister.
Zhu Fu is a doctor, and Zi Shou is a general.
He boasted about going to the military banquet and rode away like clouds.
Zun Lei overflows with nine treasures, and eight treasures are found in land and water.
Break the Dongting tangerine fruit and cut the Tianchi scales into pieces.
Feeling satisfied after eating and feeling refreshed by drinking wine.
There is a drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and people in Quzhou are cannibals!
Solution to the problem
"Light fat" is taken from "Riding a fat horse, wearing light fur" in "The Analects of Confucius·Yong Ye", which is used to summarize the luxurious life. "Light Fatty" is the seventh poem in a group of ten poems in Bai Juyi's "Qin Zhongyin". The preface of "Qin Zhong Yin" says: "On the occasion of Zhenyuan and Yuanhe, I was in Chang'an. When I heard and saw it, there were people who were very sad. Because I sang about it directly, I named it "Qin Zhong Yin"." This group of poems is Bai Juyi's "for that time" It is an important embodiment of the literary proposition of writing poems based on "things". Each poem is highly targeted, and its satirical exposure of social ills is extremely sharp and profound. The poem "Light and Fat" focuses on exposing those eunuchs who were favored by the emperor. They did not care about the life and death of the people and lived a luxurious and luxurious life all day long. The poem also used contrasting techniques to reveal the problems in feudal society. The conflict between the ruling class and the people.
Sentence Explanation
The road is full of arrogance, and the saddle horse shines in the dust. If I ask what he is doing, he is called an internal minister.
(Those people) were so arrogant that they walked all over the road, and the horses they rode were so shiny that even tiny dust particles could be seen. (The poet) asked a passerby who those people were, and the passerby replied that they were all eunuchs, the emperor's ministers. "Minister" refers to eunuchs.
Zhu Fu is a doctor, and Zi Shou is a general. He boasted about going to a banquet in the army and rode away like clouds.
They wear red ribbons, which represent the status of doctors, and purple ribbons, which represent the status of generals. They boasted that they were about to attend a banquet in the army, which would be large in number and grand. "Zhu Fu", a vermilion-colored printed silk rope. "Purple Ribbon", purple printed silk rope. The two colors of red and purple can only be used by high-ranking officials. "Xi", all.
Zun Lei overflows with nine treasures, and eight treasures are found in land and water. The fruit is broken into Dongting oranges, and the Tianchi scales are cut into pieces.
The wine glasses are filled with fine wines, and the tables are filled with delicacies from all over the world. There are oranges grown by Dongting Lake as fruit and fish from the sea as meat. "罇" and "罍" are both wine vessels. "Jiu Ying" is the name of fine wine. "荍", finely chopped fish. "Tianchi", sea. "Scale" refers to fish.
Feeling satisfied after eating and feeling refreshed by drinking wine. It was a drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and people in Quzhou were cannibals!
They are still calm and contented when they are full of food, but they look even more arrogant when they are drunk. (However) This year there was a severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and tragic scenes of cannibalism occurred in Quzhou. "Comfortable", calm and contented. "Quzhou" was the name of the state in the Tang Dynasty, and its administrative seat is now Qu County in western Zhejiang.
Comment
"Light Fat" is a realistic poem that describes the true face of society in the mid-Tang Dynasty. The poem uses the method of contrast to juxtapose two completely opposite social phenomena without any explanation or comment, but allows readers to draw the appropriate conclusions through sharp contrasts. This can make people accept the ideas that the poet wants to explain better than making direct comments, and is therefore more convincing. The last two sentences directly tell the story, and the strange peaks rise up, causing the whole poem to ripple, and making the readers thrilling.
Bai Juyi
About the author
Bai Juyi (772-846), whose courtesy name was Letian and also known as Xiangshan Jushi, had a poor family and experienced many hardships in his early years. Zhenyuan Jinshi, awarded the title of Secretary Provincial Secretary. During the Yuanhe period, he served as Dr. Zuo Shiyi and Zuo Zanshan. Later, he offended the powerful and was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima because he petitioned to severely arrest the murderer of the assassination of Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng. He served as the governor of Hangzhou during the Changqing period, the governor of Suzhou in the early Baoli period, and later became the minister of the Ministry of punishment. In the theory of poetry creation, he puts forward the idea that "articles are composed according to the time" and "poems are composed according to the situation". The language of his poems is popular, and it is said that even old women can understand it. As famous as Yuan Zhen, he is known as "Yuan Bai" in the world.