Plum Rain
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty | Author: Liu Zongyuan
The plum rain welcomes the rain, and the sky is boundless in late spring.
The sorrow is deep in the ape's night, and the dream is broken in the chicken's morning.
The sea fog reaches the Antarctic, and the river clouds darken the north.
The plain clothes are now gone, not the dust of the imperial capital.
Writing Rain
Appreciation
The first couplet depicts a real scene. When the plums are ripe, it is the late spring season in the south of the Yangtze River. It rains continuously and the earth is vast. This plum rain sometimes lasts for more than ten days or even more than a month. In such a season, a person who has lived in the south of the Yangtze River will also feel depressed, let alone an exiled prisoner who "is not a real official". I am even more uncomfortable with the dullness of the rainy season, and am even more worried. In this couplet, the author writes about the "borderless" plum rain, which sets the tone of "sadness" for the poem. This "sorrow" weighs heavily on the poet's heart and cannot be shaken off, driven away, or resolved. The couplet describes the desolation of Liuzhou. You can hear the cries of apes at night, and you are awakened by the sound of chickens in the distance in the morning. It is said that there are few people. Sorrow and dreams are the portrayal of the poet's frustrated mentality. The neck couplet describes the weather scene, which is hazy and gloomy, which is a symbol of the poet's situation at this time. Allusions to the last couplet. Lu Ji's poem: "There is a lot of wind and dust in Beijing, and the plain clothes turn into silk." The clothes that literally say white turned black, but it was not stained by the dust of the capital, but the climate of the border town. The implication is that from now on he will have no chance to enter Beijing - his political future is so slim, and his heart must be sad.
This poem uses symbolic techniques to express the author's boundless homesickness and sorrow through the vast drizzle; the misty, heavy drizzle is the author's deep and deep homesickness. The author uses the scenery to express his emotions, the feelings arise with the scenery, the scenery changes with the feelings, and the scenes blend together. A "sorrow" and a "dream" in the poem illuminate the author's writing intention, closely linking the emotions with the scenery, giving it a unique and melancholy style.