I walked through Jiangnan.
The appearance in the season is like the opening and falling of lotus flowers.
If the east wind does not come, catkins will not fly in March.
Your heart is like a little lonely city.
Like a bluestone street facing the night.
Without a sound, the spring curtain in March can't be lifted.
Your heart is a small closed window.
My dada horseshoe is a beautiful mistake.
I am not a returnee, I am a passer-by. ...
Appreciation (Ren Hongyuan)
Mistake is a famous poem widely read by Zheng Chouyu. There are many comments and praises. Among them, Dr. Huang Weiliang, a famous theorist of Hong Kong poetry, talked about the reading method of this poem in How to Read New Poetry, which is very enlightening.
Mr. Crystal thinks that the woman and "I" in the poem miss each other. "The mistake is only formed because the girl's heart is tightly closed; In other words, she had another hope and another expectation. At the moment when the poet missed the surprise, in the eyes of the girl, she was not a passer-by, but' a passer-by ...' "From this analysis, Mr. Crystal obviously thought that the mistake was caused by women; In other words, she took the initiative in the poem.
Huang Weiliang believes that "I" riding in the south of the Yangtze River is the active figure. "I" peeked into a woman's inner world, not only knowing that this woman is waiting in loneliness at the moment, but also knowing that she has been waiting for a long time (so I said "the season looks like a lotus"). "I" is what women expect every day, and it is very possible. Readers may wish to imagine such a story: "I" broke up with a woman and rode to Jiangnan. Women expect "me" to come back in loneliness, and "me" has a deep understanding of this. She always pays attention to the footsteps on the bluestone road and is ready to welcome people back at any time. Finally, I rode a horse. For her, the hoofbeat is beautiful, because the person who is looking forward to it every day is back. However, "I" just passed by and "crossed Jiangnan" non-stop. She misunderstood. Readers can imagine that she is naturally disappointed and sad. This "beautiful mistake" is caused by "I". This poem begins with the action of "I" and ends with the statement of "I". This poem "I" in King's Landing controls the ups and downs of women's feelings. "I" played a trick on her, as if heaven had played a trick on people. Men in Zheng Chouyu's love poems like to manipulate women, showing unparalleled majesty. That's what Xiao San wrote about. Another poem by Zheng Chouyu, The Slave Outside the Window, is also beneficial to the author's annotation.
The poem "Wrong" can be said to inherit the tradition of Chinese palace resentment and funeral march's poetry. Wang Changling lamented Ban Jieyu's fall from grace, saying, "Jade is not as beautiful as the color of Western jackdaw in the west, but it still bears the shadow of Zhaoyang." Zhu Qingyu wrote that ladies-in-waiting were full of bitterness, saying that things in the palace had lust, and parrots dared not speak before. "He knows how to complain about a love poem and make it a swan song." Mistakes are also better than implicature and gentleness.
The poet hates himself, not himself. His strength lies in the last two lines, especially the number of "beautiful mistakes". As far as common sense is concerned, it is contradictory to call mistakes beautiful. However, just appreciating "beautiful mistakes" from contradictory words can't make full use of this language. The hoofbeat is beautiful, because the woman thinks that the newcomer is a returnee, but the scene is reversed instantly. "I" is not a returnee but a passer-by, which is where the "mistake" lies. At first, the beauties represented by "Dada's horseshoe" were Fu's "painting incense burner" and "luminous glass wine"; The "mistake" represented by "not a passer-by" is like "violating the pillow", such as the succession of scenes of "urging you to drink pipa immediately", which has produced a high degree of drama. This poem begins with the vast south of the Yangtze River as the background, then moves to the small town with key points, then moves to the street, moves to the curtains, moves to the window leaves, and finally falls on the horseshoe. At the same time as the sound of hooves, it is the sound of hooves. After waiting for so long, it is dusk, and "I" refused to stay. "I am a passer-by"-the camera zooms out, windows, curtains, streets, towns ... return to the vast space of Jiangnan, echoing the first sentence "I hit Jiangnan"
(Selected from Appreciation Dictionary of Chinese and Foreign Modern Lyric Masterpieces, Academy Press, 1989 edition)