Nongbing
Dynasty: Dai (generation) Author: Yang (generation) Wan (generation) Li (generation)
Child (Zhi Zi) gold (zǐ) basin (pén) take off (tuū) mat (xi) ice (nɡ),
Color (cǐ i) silk (s) thread (chuān) with (qǔ) as (dānɡ) silver (yín) and (zhēnɡ).
Knock (qiāo) into (chénɡ) jade (yù) and (qìnɡ n ɡ north) through (chuān) forest (lín) and ring (xi m n ɡ).
Suddenly there was a sound, and the glass shattered the ground.
Translation:
When the children get up in the morning, they take off the ice cubes frozen in the copper pot and wear colored thread as a piano. The sound of knocking went through the Woods like jade Qing, and suddenly the ice gong broke and fell to the ground, making a beautiful sound like jade.
Precautions:
Naive: refers to naive children.
Deicing: In this case, the children scoop ice from a copper basin, which has formed solid ice since morning.
Pheasant: refers to an ancient musical instrument similar to gong.
Qing: a four-tone ancient percussion instrument, shaped like a ruler and made of jade, which can be hung on the wall.
Glass: refers to an ancient natural jade, also called water jade, not the present glass.
Pheasant: Silver Zheng.
Glass one: glass.
Appreciate a child making ice;
The whole poem absorbs instantaneous scenes and avoids direct description. It uses the vivid voice and appropriate metaphor of "crossing the forest" to explore the interest of children with the eyes of the elderly.
The scene of children making ice in the poem is full of fun: psychologically, it is cold to "make ice" and childlike innocence is hot; In terms of color, the gold plate is colored with silver ice; From the morphological point of view, it is a "silver pheasant" that emerges from the "golden plate" and is round; On the sound, there is a high-pitched sound of "jade sound through the forest", which suddenly becomes a crisp sound of "broken glass". The whole poem is full of sense, good in sound and meaning, and pleasing to the ear, which vividly shows the children's full interest in taking ice as a pheasant and enjoying themselves.
The whole poem highlights a "naive" word. Childishness and fun can make a child forget the cold in winter and keep his vitality and happiness as always. There are many similarities in psychological characteristics between children and the elderly, and only in this way can the scene of children "performing ice" be meaningful in the eyes of the elderly.
Based on this psychological characteristic, Yang Wanli transformed childlike interest into poetic interest by "taking childhood as the old". On the one hand, he described the details of the action of "deicing" from the perspective of children's psychology; On the other hand, based on the psychology of the world, we should feel and appreciate the details of their behavior, so that the childishness of children and the "naivety" of the old people can set each other off and become poetic. Only when the poet sincerely respects the innocence of children can he describe their interest in playing ice so vividly.
Yang Wanli (1 127- 1206), a native of Jishui, Jizhou (now Jiangxi), was a scholar in Shaoxing for twenty-four years (1 154). He died in Kathy's second year at the age of 80. There is a biography of the history of Song Dynasty. Together with Lu You, Fan Chengda and You Mao, they are called the four great poets of ZTE. His poems are self-contained, which is called "Chengzhai Style". Zhai Chengji has a total of 133 volumes. Qiangcun series is a volume of Chengzhai Yuefu.
This poem was written in the spring of six years (1 179), and Yang Wanli was in Changzhou. It is an ancient custom to shoot spring cattle. On the day before the spring, local cattle were used to beat the spring to welcome it and persuade farmers. Cattle that play in spring are also made of reeds or paper. Generally speaking, the local governor whipped the spring cattle three times with colorful whips, returned to the department after the ceremony, and then the farmers beat the spring cattle to pieces. This poem tells the story of children whipping spring cattle in imitation of adults, which aroused the poet's association with bumper harvest.