1 1 April 4th is a stormy day.
Lu You (Southern Song Dynasty)
Stiff 1 Lying in a remote village without feeling sorry for yourself, 2 thinking about defending the country and 3 taking turns to go into battle.
Lying in the middle of the night listening to the wind and rain, the iron horse (5) glacier dream.
[Edit this paragraph] Poetry Notes
① jiāng: lying stiff and unable to move. This means that the weather is very cold.
② No self-mourning: No self-mourning.
③ Guard the wheel platform: guard the edge (jiāng). Luntai, the place name of the Western Regions in Han Dynasty, is now luntai county, Xinjiang. Here generally refers to the frontier defense stronghold in the north.
④ midnight (lán): late at night.
⑤ Tiema Glacier: Wearing armor and holding weapons, riding a war horse in armor on the battlefield and heroically killing the enemy.
6 isolated villages: remote villages. At the time of writing this poem, Lu You was nearly seventy years old, living in his hometown of Yin Shan (now Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province), but still eager to serve his country.
[Edit this paragraph] Translation
I lay quietly in a lonely and desolate country and didn't feel sad.
Still thinking about defending the country.
Late at night, I was lying in bed and heard the sound of wind and rain.
I dreamt in a daze that I rode an armored horse across the frozen river and came to the northern battlefield.
[Edit this paragraph] Writing background
This poem was written in the third year of Shaoxi in Song Guangzong (A.D. 1 192), when the poet was 67 years old and lived in his hometown of Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). The original poem * * *, choose the second one here. Compared with the poet's other poems for the aged, this poem is unique in writing. Its main feature is to express feelings in dreams. Before Lu You, there were many excellent poems about dreams. Li Bai's poem "Climbing Mount Tianmu in a Dream" depicts a fantastic and colorful dream. Du Fu's poem "Two Dreams of Li Bai" describes the poet's dream of parting and friendship with Li Baixing. Su Shi's poem Jiangchengzi (Ten Years of Life and Death) describes the poet's dream of mourning his dead wife. The dreams in Lu You's poems are mostly patriotic dreams. There are nearly a hundred poems about dreams in Lu You's "Poems of Jian Nan". In the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Yi once commented on Lu You's poems in Volume 6 of Ou Bei Shi Hua: "That is, if you remember dreams, there are 99 complete works." Life is as calm as a dream! There must be a poem without a title, so I entrust it to my dream. "This commentary believes that Lu You's poems and dreams are not all portrait dreams, and some belong to dreams and dreams. This is quite insightful In fact, Lu You's poems record dreams, some are portrait dreams, and more are dreams and nostalgia. Of course, it does not rule out both. This song 1 1 The Wind and Rain on the 4th of April seems to be a work that depicts dreams as well as dreams.
[Edit this paragraph] Appreciate
This is a patriotic poem written by Lu You, who is nearly seventy years old, lying in a cold quilt on a stormy cold night, supporting his aging body.
The first two sentences of this poem directly express the poet's own feelings. "Sleeping stiff" tells the poet's old feelings, while "lonely village" shows a state of isolation, which is extremely "stiff" and "lonely". Why not "feel sorry for yourself"? Because the poet's passion for patriotism has reached the level of selflessness, he no longer pays attention to personal health and living environment, but has the spirit of "thinking for the country and guarding the wheel platform". However, he doesn't know that the reality is cruel and independent of human will. All he can do is "think". These two sentences focus on the word "thinking", which shows the poet's unswerving ambition to serve the country and his concern for the country and the people!
The last two sentences are the deepening of the first two sentences, which are vividly written around the word "dream" The poet's concern for national affairs led to the dream of a military campaign, which reappeared his ambition of "guarding the wheel platform" in the form of a dream. Dreaming reflects the sadness of political reality: the poet's desire to serve the country was rejected, and he could not kill the enemy. His feelings of protecting the enemy could only be reflected in his dreams. However, the poet "has no self-pity", but his heart of serving the country and killing the enemy is even stronger. I think about it every day and dream every night. Therefore, the dream of "Tiema Glacier" fully shows the poet's strong patriotic thoughts and feelings.
[Edit this paragraph] Author introduction
Lu You (1125-1210) was born in Yin Shan, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Patriotic poets in Southern Song Dynasty. Father Lu Zai is an intellectual with patriotic thoughts. Family education made Lu You set up the thought of worrying about the country and the people and the ambition of killing the enemy and serving the country from an early age. He studied tirelessly since he was a child, and he was able to write poetry at the age of twelve. He also studied sword and art of war. Around the age of twenty-five, he learned a lot from a patriotic poet, and he benefited a lot. From then on, the patriotic tone of his poetry creation was determined. Throughout his life, he used poetry as a weapon, repeatedly calling for national reunification and expressing strong patriotic feelings. He actively advocated anti-gold, but was slandered by the capitulators in power and was finally ousted. Nevertheless, Lu You's belief in recovering the Central Plains remains unchanged.
[Edit this paragraph] Other works
There are Collected Works of Weinan, Poems of Jiannan, Books of Southern Tang Dynasty, Notes of Laoxue Temple, Travel Notes of Shanxi Village, Rain on Jianmen Road, Illness, Guan Shanyue, Sleeping in Shuicun, Book Anger and Spring Rain in Lin 'an in Early Autumn.
His five poems are: Bu Operator (by the broken bridge outside the post), Night Tour Palace (when the snow clears), Confession of Love (when Wan Li is looking for a seal), Queqiao Fairy (when the eaves are quiet) and Hairpin Phoenix (with bare hands); One of his articles: A Journey to the Xiaogushan.