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Overall Appreciation
The weather is cold and spring is deep, and the scenery is pleasant, so the first two sentences of the poem describe the scenery first.
"There are flowers flying everywhere in the spring city, and the cold food and the east wind keep the willows from slanting." The poet stands high and has a broad field of vision, and the whole city can be seen. The word "Spring City" is highly condensed and gorgeous. "Spring" is a natural season, and the city is a human city. The combination of the two presents an infinitely beautiful landscape. "Flowers flying everywhere" is a typical picture captured by the poet. The feeling of spring is strong, covering the whole city. The poet does not say "flowers are flying everywhere", because that is just a general summary, but "flowers are flying everywhere". This double negative sentence structure greatly strengthens the affirmative tone and effectively highlights that the whole city is full of flowers. A grand occasion to be immersed in the rich spring atmosphere. The poet does not say "flowers are blooming everywhere", but "flowers are flying everywhere". In addition to the strong dynamic of the word "fly", which helps express the vitality of spring, it also illustrates how precise the poet's wording is when describing the time sequence. . "Flying flowers" are fallen flowers flying in the wind. This is a typical late spring scene. Instead of saying "falling flowers" and saying "flying flowers", this is to express flowers but covertly express wind. The word "fly" has far-reaching implications. It is no exaggeration to say that this poem has been passed down through the ages, mainly because of the aphorism "Spring City is full of flying flowers", and the most eye-catching thing in this poem is the word "fly".
"The cold east wind blows the willow tree". The spring breeze blows throughout the city and naturally blows into the imperial garden. The weeping willows in the garden also fluttered in the wind. The wind is invisible and shadowless. Its existence can only be indirectly felt by the flying flowers and the slanting willows. According to this, a "slant" character also indirectly writes style.
The third and fourth sentences are mostly believed by commentators to be a metaphor for the privileges of the palace and the special favor of eunuchs. "At dusk, candles were passed around the Han Palace, and light smoke dispersed into the houses of the five princes." The realistic element is the main one. In the system of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor declared an edict on Qingming Day and gave fire to elm and willow trees to his ministers to show his favor. On the cold eclipse day, fire is prohibited in the world, but candles can be lit in the palace. "Candles are sent to the Han Palace at sunset". The emperor authorized the important ministers "Five Marquises" to make an exception and light candles, and send the candles directly from the palace. Naturally, not many people can receive the honor of being given a candle by the emperor. No wonder the "light smoke" floating along the way from the Han Palace (actually referring to the Tang Dynasty palace) to the house of the five princes attracted the poet's special attention.
Because the last two sentences are intended to describe palace life and are written in a light and frivolous way, they have always been highly appreciated. ?[7]?
Appreciation differences
Some people think that the whole poem is just a realistic depiction of the royal family's style using line drawing techniques, and is full of intoxication with the spring scenery of the imperial capital and the peace of the prosperous age. of singing. ?[8]?From the supreme ruler to ordinary court officials, everyone prefers this poem. It is difficult to explain that the poet's original intention contains satire?[7]?; but some people think that this is a satirical poem with clever and implicit writing style. The author later The two sentences describe the scene at night, intending to use the past to satirize the present. By depicting a candle-passing incident, the emperor's favor to the eunuch, who was a close confidant, was exposed, and the eunuch's abominable face was fully exposed, achieving the purpose of ridicule; some people think that the author's original intention may not be to ridicule, but the image he captured is very Typical, thus making readers realize more than the work. Because the author did not deliberately seek depth, he just immersed himself in the images and emotions that moved him and turned them into poems, which made the poems more subtle and full of charm, making them superior to many deliberately satirical works. ?[5]?
Artistic Achievements
The artistic achievements of this poem mainly include two points: First, the thoughts are dense and the structure is rigorous. There are only four lines in the poem, but there are many twists and turns. From the content point of view, it shifts from describing scenery to chanting etiquette and customs; from the point of view of space, it turns from the imperial city to the royal garden, and from the imperial palace to the wealthy family; from the point of view of time, it turns from daytime to dusk; from the perspective of emotion, it turns from peace to solemn. And so on and so forth. These multiple turns make the scale of this poem stir up the wind and the basin of water create ripples, and the ups and downs in the short length are intriguing and thought-provoking. "Notes on Tang Poems" commented on this work: "The first sentence teases the cold food, and the second sentence uses the three characters "Yu Liu Xian" as a lead, so that when the candles are passed down to the Han Palace, they will not be sudden." Second, the wording is exquisite and accurate. For example, the characters "Fei", "Xie", "Zhuan" and "San" are not only irreplaceable but also refer to each other. Xu Zeng's "Er'an Shuo Tang Poetry" has a detailed comment on this: "If you don't fly flowers, the word "fly" can reveal the author's intention. At first, I wanted to use the word "open", but the word "open" was not good, so I used the word "fei". The word "open" is dull, but the word "fly" is clever. The word "风" in the next sentence is related to the word "春", the word "willow" is related to the word "花", the word "Yu" is related to the word "Gong", the word "slant" is related to the word "飞", the word "Candle" is related to the word "日木", the word "Smoke" is related to the word "风", and the word "青" is related to the word "风". The character "Light" is related to the character "Liu", the character "Wuhou" is related to the Chinese character, the character "San" is related to the character "Zhuan", and the word "Hanshi" is beautifully layered, like a piece of Sichuan brocade, there is no trace of skipping, a true master."? [8]?
Evaluation of the work
"Criticism of Tang Yin": a common saying.
"Criticisms of Tang Poetry's Correct Speech": Forbidden style does not need to be carved, and wealth and elegance can be seen naturally.
Another compilation of Zaijiuyuan Poems: Junping got his name from the poem "Cold Food". After the death of the Song Dynasty, smoking was no longer banned in the world. Today's people don't know how to drill firewood, and they are not deeply familiar with Tang affairs, so they don't understand this. Poetry is wonderful. For example, "There are flowers flying everywhere in the spring city, and the cold food and the east wind keep the willows from slanting" are still understatements. To "At dusk, candles were passed around the Han Palace, and light smoke dispersed into the houses of the five princes." The first sentence talks about new fire, and the second sentence talks about giving fire. This poem was written in Tianbao. At that time, the Yang family was good at pampering. Guozhong, Qian, and the three aunts of Qin, Guo, and Han were named the five families. They were so powerful and prosperous that no one could compare with them, so they were borrowed from the Five Marquises of the Han Dynasty.
That is to say, when it comes to granting fire, the favor first comes to Qi Wan, and no one else can hope for it. It goes without saying that the rest of the gift will be indiscriminate. The meaning is far-reaching, the support is subtle, and it is truly a legacy of the wind.
"Poetic Talk around the Furnace": The fall of the Tang Dynasty was due to the fact that eunuchs were in charge of the army, and the emperor was responsible for it. In the early days of Emperor Dezong's founding, this poem only had the meaning of the word "Five Marquises", which is similar to the Spring and Autumn Annals of Tang poetry.
"Tang Shi Bie Cai": "Five Hous" may refer to the five princes of the Wang family, or to the five princes of Liang and Hebei who were destroyed by the eunuchs. In short, they first affected the noble family.
"Net Master's Garden Tang Poetry Notes": Instead of banning fire, use giving fire to enhance the beauty (the last two sentences below).
"Commentary on Ten Thousand Quatrains of the Tang Dynasty": It goes without saying that the spirit and bones are superb, but the irony of "Five Lords" is even more subtle.
"A Brief Poetry of Dali": The weather words and tones are from Jiangning and Jiazhou.
"Reading Miscellaneous Works on the Snow Mountain House": Han Junping's "There are no flowers flying in the spring city", which only talks about the wealth of the Hou family, but the sparseness on the opposite side can be seen, and the example of "last night's wind bloomed and exposed the peaches in the well" by the young uncle, The so-called resentment without anger.
"The Continuation of a Brief Introduction to the Poetry Realm": In the twenty-eight characters, I imagine five dramas of spring, eight desolations, the leisure of the court, and the kindness of the nobles, all within the realm of poetry. With a light and elegant pen, the scene of peace is written, and it is suitable to be recited for a while.
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