In his anthology, "Antique, Elegance for a Long Time" is arranged as the frontispiece
Elegance for a long time (the first part of "Antique")
Author: Li Bai
Elegance for a long time, but who is Chen 1 in my decline? Wang Fengwei is a creeping weed, and the Warring States period is full of hazelnuts 2.
dragons and tigers eat each other, and soldiers fight to catch crazy Qin 3. What is the sound? I am sad about the poet 4.
Yang Ma stirs up the ebb and flow. Although the abolition of prosperity has changed, the charter has also fallen.
since Jian' an came, beauty is not precious. The sundae restores the ancient times, and the hanging clothes are expensive.
You belong to Xiuming, and you jumped on the scale of * * *. Wen Xiang Bing Huan, the stars Luo Qiumin 1.
I aim to delete 11, reflecting thousands of spring. If the sage stands, he will never write again.
all notes
1. Elegance: a part of The Book of Songs. This generation refers to the Book of Songs. Work: Xing. My decline: The Analects of Confucius: "Confucius said: I am very weak." Chen: The Book of Rites: "Tell Taishi Chen to write poems to observe the folk customs." Li Bai's intention is: poetry and Taoism have been in a slump for a long time, but my age will decline. Who said this intention?
2. Feng Wang: The Book of Songs Feng Wang, which also refers to The Book of Songs. Wei creeping weed: buried in obscurity. This is the same as the last sentence "Don't do it for a long time". Duo Jingzhen: Describe the chaotic situation.
3. Two sentences: Dragon and Tiger: Describe the warring states period, in which heroes fought against each other and fought until Qiang Qin unified the six countries.
4. Two sentences: Elegant and upright poems like The Book of Songs declined, while Qu Yuan opened a new literary era with his plaintive works.
5. Yang Ma's sentence: It is said that Yang Xiong and Sima Xiangru, writers of the Han Dynasty, revived the decaying literary world and created a broad new literary world.
6. Charter: this refers to the system of laws and regulations, which refers to the statutes and norms of poetry creation. Decline: extinction.
7. Jian 'an: The title of Xian Di at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (196-219), when there were three Cao writers and seven sons. Qili: The words are gorgeous.
8. sundae: this refers to the Tang dynasty. Yuangu: ancient times, ancient times. Hanging clothes: "Under the Yi Cohesion": "Huangdi, Yao and Shun hang clothes and rule the world." It means to govern by doing nothing. Muslim: simple and natural, as opposed to beautiful. See Li Bai's "Tian En Liu Yelang reminisces about the past and gives Jiang Xiawei a good sacrifice", "Clear water gives hibiscus, and natural carving".
9. Quncai sentence: Literati are in the heyday of Xiuming. Genus: Coincidence. Yao Li: Metaphor shows talent.
1. Literal sentences: the meaning and predicate complement each other. Qiu Min: Autumn sky.
11. Delete: Preface to Shangshu: "Confucius, the late king ... deleted 3 Poems, revised the Spring and Autumn Annals according to historical records, praised the Book of Changes, and ignored the Nine Hills."
12. Xi Sheng: I hope to reach the realm of saints. Get Lin: Fourteen Years of Mourning for the Duke in the Spring and Autumn Period: "I got Lin when I was hunting in the west, and Confucius said,' I am poor.'" Legend has it that Confucius revised the Spring and Autumn Annals, so he stopped writing and didn't repeat it. Because he thinks that it is not a good omen for Qilin to be caught unexpectedly. The above four sentences mean: Li Bai wants to follow Confucius, and he has made a statement in order to be immortal.
There are different opinions about the writing time of this poem. Before the Tianbao Anshi Rebellion, it was based on the phrase "My decline". One said that "it is an early work of' big talk'" (Pei Fei's "Li Bai and Historical Figures", published in the third issue of Literary Heritage in 199). As for poetry, Yu Pingbo's "The First Interpretation of Li Bai's Ancient Style I" says: "The general idea of this article is only two sentences in Mencius (under Li Lou):' The trace of the king disappears and the poem dies, and the poem dies and then the Spring and Autumn Annals is written'" (in the Collection of Li Bai's Research Essays published by Zhonghua Book Company). Wang Yunxi's "Two Problems in Li Bai's Ancient Style I" holds that "since Jian 'an came, beauty is not precious", including Jian 'an poems. The meaning of "I aim to delete narratives" is to delete narratives and compile poems, not to show praise and criticism by making history, as Yu Pingbo said (see the first issue of Tianfu New Theory in 1988). Wang also said in A Brief Talk on Li Bai's Literary Thoughts (A Restricted View of China's Ancient Literary Theory published by Qilu Bookstore): Li Bai highly praised the elegance and correctness of the Book of Songs, mainly attaching importance to the tradition of elegance and contrast. He expressed his admiration for Confucius' career in Spring and Autumn Annals, but actually he still wanted to inherit the tradition of beauty and praise and criticism in The Book of Songs. "Poetry in the Tang and Song Dynasties" Volume 1: "The poems in Ancient Style are more than fun. This article is all about fu style, including the origin of elegance, and the meaning of the book is clear ... It refers to Daya, aiming at deleting the narrative, tracing back to coquettish, overlooking the six generations, taking beauty as the base, halal as the price, and the meaning of the poem is clear."