Who reads the west wind alone?
The rustling yellow leaves closed the window.
Thinking about the past and the future, the sun sets.
I can't sleep when spring comes.
Gambling books makes tea fragrant.
Happiness will not last long.
Li Qingzhao and her husband are both famous scholars. They are congenial in temperament and have deep feelings. Both of them love reading and have a lot of books. If they read too much, they will start gambling together. What are they betting on? Not memory. When one person asks about the allusions or contents in a book, another person must answer in which book the allusions were recorded, especially the position and pages of the book on the shelf.
If the answer is wrong, you should pour the tea in the cup into your clothes as punishment. It is conceivable that two people make such a bet, the loser pours tea into his arms, and the other person does not clap his hands and laugh, which is warm and touching. This is the sentence between the lines, "betting on books makes tea fragrant."
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This is a eulogy.
Shang Kun wrote about loneliness and desolation after losing his wife. The first sentence begins with the feeling of seasonal changes. The west wind is getting tighter and the chill is invading people. In late autumn, if in the past, Lu would urge poets to add clothes to avoid catching cold and getting sick. But at this time of the year, Lu has been buried in the loess, separated by Yin and Yang, and she can no longer make the bed for the poet and care about him.
"Who reads the west wind alone?" The answer to this rhetorical question is self-evident, mixing the ambivalence of expectation and disappointment. Wang Guowei said in "Words on Earth": "All scenery words are sentimental words." The opening "West Wind" laid the sad tone of the whole poem. In winter, when the west wind blows cold and the yellow leaves whisper, the poet closes the window, and a person feels particularly cold, but who cares? The poet knows that it is "cold alone" and no one cares, but he is determined to give birth to the question of "who cares".
This first sentence alone has already hurt people's hearts, and future generations can't help but feel the same. The word "cool" not only describes the weather, but also describes the poet's mood.
Xia Gan naturally wrote the poet's recollection of the past. The whole word is matched with scenery; From the west wind and yellow leaves, I feel lonely and miss my dead wife; Following the feeling of missing his dead wife, he gave birth to memories of his dead wife's life scene; In the end, two life fragments have endless regrets.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Huanxisha Who Read the West Wind and Cool Alone