Xin Lei’s annotations are introduced as follows:
Original text of the work:
Creation is speechless but has feelings, and spring is born every time when the cold comes.
Thousands of red and purple arrangements are waiting for the first sound of new thunder.
Explanation of words
1. Creation: refers to the sky. The ancients believed that heaven created all things. Also known as "creation".
2. Every time: always there.
3. Thousands of reds and purples: refers to the situation when hundreds of flowers bloom in spring.
4. Appropriate and obvious. Also known as "writing".
5. New thunder: the first thunder of spring. This symbolizes that spring will come soon.
Vernacular Translation
The Creator has no words but is aware. Whenever the cold winter comes to an end, spring will sprout.
Thousands of red and purple flowers are all ready, vying to bloom in anticipation of the thunder.
Appreciation of Works
This poem is smooth and natural, with no difficult words or sentences, making it easier to understand. In terms of artistic conception, the poet is unique and creative, which brings new ideas to the expression methods of poetry.
First of all, the poet's empathetic technique endows nature with human emotional activities and thinking abilities. "Creation is speechless but has emotions." As the creator, heaven, that is, nature, does not originally have human emotions and thoughts. In the poet's writings, nature can not only think, but also contain feelings for human beings without words. This is manifested in humans who are afraid of the cold. At the most difficult moments, nature will turn from winter to spring and bring warmth.
Not only that, but colorful flowers are also deliberately arranged to please and comfort humans. All this happened just after the spring thunder exploded.
The movement of the four seasons of nature is originally the law of nature and has no emotions at all. The poet consciously projects human emotional activities into nature, so that nature has ideological and emotional activities that resonate with the poet. Therefore, the nature described by the poet is actually the nature transformed by the poet's thoughts. This natural picture expresses the poet's pursuit and admiration for a new social environment and new living atmosphere, and also inspires readers' desire for a newer, nobler and better life.
Secondly, the poet skillfully uses the most fertile moment as an aesthetic method when dealing with the transition of emotions throughout the poem. The poet does not write about the joyful scene after the new thunder, but focuses on the critical moment before the new thunder explodes, when everything is ready and waiting, making the picture more suspenseful and dramatic. Because creation is sentient, spring comes after the cold, and flowers of all colors are in bud, and nature seems to be in a state of stillness for a while.
This is the calm on the eve of great changes, the silence before the first spring thunder. Therefore, in the calmness and silence, lies the great change that is about to break out. In terms of people's emotions, only moments like this are the most tense and imaginative. The poet seized this fertile moment on the eve of the first spring thunder, which can better express his desire for spring and his desire for a new living environment.
Because the poet cleverly used empathy and fertile moments to describe the emotional ups and downs at the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Although the poem is short, it is meaningful and fresh and has been sung by people.