Appreciation: "A monk from Shu hugged the green robe and went west to Mount Emei. He waved his hand for me, and it was like listening to the pine trees in thousands of valleys. The guest's heart was washed by the running water, and the remaining sound was the frost bell. I didn't realize the dusk in the green mountains and the autumn. "How dark are the clouds?" is a poem "Listening to Shu Monk Jun Playing the Qin" by Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty. It is written about the poet listening to a monk playing the piano in Shu. The sound of the piano is beautiful and fascinating.
The two sentences in the first couplet "Shu monks hugged the green silk and went west to Mount Emei" mean that the piano player came from Mount Emei, Sichuan. There is not much pen and ink in this couplet, but the luthier is described in a magnificent manner. It can be seen that the poet admires the luthier very much.
At the same time, the poet grew up in Sichuan and naturally has a unique feeling for his hometown of Sichuan. This connection shows that the luthier comes from Mount Emei, Sichuan and is the poet's hometown. On the one hand, it shows that the poet has a good impression of the luthier because of this. On the other hand, it also reveals the poet's love and nostalgia for his hometown.
In the chin couplet about playing the piano, the poet uses "like listening to thousands of pines" to express the excitement and momentum of the piano sound, highlighting the extraordinary sound of the piano, making people truly appreciate the sonorous and powerful sound of the piano.
The sound of the piano in the neck couplet washes away the mind, making people feel relaxed and happy after listening to it, but the meaning is still unfinished. The sentence "the guest's heart is washed by flowing water" is an allusion to "high mountains and flowing water". Through implicit and natural expressions, the poet not only expresses the sound of the piano as smooth and graceful as flowing water, but also implies that he and the piano player are like close friends and have the same perception and experience of music.
The sound of the piano gradually floats into the distance in "The lingering sound of the frost bell", and finally it chimes with the sound of the bell at dusk, suggesting that it is getting late.
The last couplet is "Unconsciously the twilight in the green mountains, how dark the autumn clouds are." After listening to the Shu monks playing the piano, the poet looked around and found that the green mountains had been shrouded in a layer of twilight without knowing when, and the gray autumn clouds The sky is densely covered. I never thought that time really flies by! This couplet not only describes the superb skills of the piano player, making the listener forget about time, but also creates an artistic conception of broad-minded, far-reaching and endless charm.
In the entire poem, the poet only uses "Wanhe Pines" to describe the sonorous and powerful sound of the piano. In addition, he does not spend more pen and ink to describe the sound of the piano. He devoted a lot of writing to "the listener's feeling of listening to the piano" and "the emotional exchange between the listener and the piano player".
The poet finished writing in one go. The whole poem is flowing, smooth and clear. Rhymed poetry pays attention to rhythm, antithesis, and strict form, but the poet's five-meter poem is fresh, bright, and natural, as if he didn't put any effort into it. This kind of natural beauty of "hibiscus emerges from clear water and is naturally free from carvings" is far better than carving, and is more touching.
Source: "Listening to Shu Monk Jun Playing the Qin" by Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai
Listening to Shu Monk Jun Playing the Qin
Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
A Shu monk holds the green feather in his arms and descends westward to Mount Emei.
Waving your hand for me is like listening to thousands of pines.
The guest's heart is washed by the running water, and the remaining sound is the frost bell.
Unconsciously, it is dusk in the green mountains, and the autumn clouds are darker.
Notes
1. Green Qi: the name of the piano. Jin Fu Xuan's "Preface to Qin Fu": "Sima Xiangru has green qi." Xiangru is from Shu, and the player who plays it is a Shu monk, so he cuts it with green qi.
2. 1: Particles that strengthen the tone.
3. Wave your hands: play the piano with your fingers.
4. Flowing Water: According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, one could hear the music of Boya's harp, sometimes focusing on mountains, sometimes on flowing water, and Boya was promised to be a close friend. See "Liezi Tang Wen Chapter". The word "flowing water" in this poem is a pun, which is not only a reference to the sound of the monk playing the piano, but also an allusion to Boya's good playing. .
5. Frost bell: refers to the sound of a bell. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" states: "There are nine kinds of frost in Fengshan, which is the sound of frost." Guo Pu's note: "When frost falls, the bells ring, so it is known." Entering the frost bell: the lingering sound communicates with the bell, and is also a metaphor for entering the ears of the person who knows the sound.
Vernacular interpretation:
Shu monk Jun holds a green Qiqin in his arms. He comes from Mount Emei in the west.
He waved for me and played a famous song, and I seemed to hear the wind in the pines and waves.
My soul seems to be washed by running water, and the lingering sound echoes the autumn frost bell.
Unconsciously, the green hills have been covered with twilight, and the autumn clouds seem to have dimmed a few layers.
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Comments from famous experts on "Listening to Sichuan Monk Jun Playing the Qin":
Yu Biyun's "A Brief Introduction to Poetry": The first half of this poem is a question. Of course, it was only the monk from Shu who played the harp and whispered something to his ears. For those who are learning to write poetry, if they want to turn this sentence into four lines of good poetry, they almost don’t know where to start. Let’s take a look at the beginning of the sentence. It is said that the Shu monk holding the guqin has been in Emei since the beginning.
The following three or four sentences are like a river flowing out of a dragon gate for thousands of miles. The pine waves are used to describe the clear and clear sound of the piano, and the "ten thousand valley pine trees" are used to describe the grand and far-reaching sound of the piano. The syntax is turbulent and powerful. The five sentences describe the sublime beauty of the harp, and those who hear it are like running water washing their hearts. This is the positive side of listening to the harp. The six sentences use "frost bell" as a metaphor for the harp, which is clear and distinct, and does not use common things as an analogy. It is the end of the poem listening to the harp. At the end of the sentence, I listened to the piano and my heart was intoxicated. I didn't realize that the mountains were dusk and the clouds were deep, as if I had forgotten the taste of meat after hearing the Shao.
Kondo Yuancui's "Li Taibai's Poems": Yan Canglang said: It sounds clear and clear, just like the pine breeze.
Poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties compiled by Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty: as numerous as pearls, as cold as jade in the mouth, this is the elegant and clear sound.
Song Zongyuan's "Net Master Garden Tang Poetry Notes": The rhyme is resonant and resonant, and he is the one who can get the sound beyond the strings.
Gao Buying's "Essentials of Poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties": When the energy is flowing freely, there is a condensed brush in it, so it will not flow smoothly.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Listening to Sichuan monk Jun playing the piano