The Meaning of "Listening to the Rain" in Ancient Poetry

Interpretation of "Listening to the Rain" in vernacular: When I was a child, I listened to the rain on the tower, lit a red candle in the dim light and hung a light curtain. Middle-aged people, on a boat in a foreign country, are watching the drizzle, the vast river, the water and the sky, the west wind, and a lonely goose that has lost its flock moans. Now, people are old, with white hair on their temples, and they are alone at the monk's house, listening to the drizzle. The experience of life's joys and sorrows is ruthless, so let the rain drop by drop on the steps until dawn.

Listening to rain generally refers to "young beauty listening to rain", which is a word created by Jie Jiang, a poet in the Song Dynasty.

This word takes "listening to the rain" as the medium, which summarizes the special feelings of teenagers, prime of life and old age, and integrates decades of time and space: teenagers only know how to chase laughter and enjoy themselves; Wandering in the prime of life, feeling lonely and sad; The loneliness of old age and the joys and sorrows of life are all reflected in the rain. In the structure, the words are connected in series by "listening to the rain". The upper and lower pieces are integrated into one, with ups and downs.

Original text:

Listening to the rain song upstairs, the red candle is faint. In the prime of life, the boat is listening to the rain, the river is wide and the clouds are low, and the broken geese are called the west wind.

Now listening to the rain monk Lu, there are stars on his temples. Sorrow and joy are always ruthless until dawn.

Extended information Jiang Jiesheng worked as a scholar in Cheng Chun, Song Duzong for about ten years during the Song and Yuan Dynasties (1274), and died in the Song Dynasty a few years later. During the war years, his life was a life of wandering and suffering. This sentence is his self-report for the rest of his life. He also wrote a poem "The Story of He Xinlang after the War", which can be mutually verified with this poem. These two words may have been written after Song's death.

From the unique perspective of "listening to the rain", the poet introduced three pictures of "listening to the rain" in turn through the leap of time and space, which infiltrated and integrated the joys and sorrows of his life.

This word was written from me in the past to me today, and it was written by age; But its writing trigger should be from me today to me in the past, and the time is reversed.

It should be the present self, not the past self, that occupies the main position in words. Therefore, following the above two pictures plays the role of foil and foil.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-The Little Mermaid Listening to the Rain