Painting a Chicken is a seven-character quatrain written by Tang Yin, a poet in the Ming Dynasty, for his paintings.
This poem depicts the power of the rooster and writes its nobleness. Show the expression, temperament and dawn-announcing nature of chickens. It doesn't talk much at ordinary times, but everyone responds when it speaks, thus expressing the poet's thoughts and ambitions. From this poem, we can also see that the poet's writing characteristics of "not avoiding spoken language" are full of children's songs.
The original text is as follows:
You don't need to cut the red crown on your head, and you will walk in the future covered in white.
I've never dared to speak lightly in my life, and I've told thousands of families to open it.
The translation is as follows:
The red crown on the head does not need to be specially cut, and the rooster comes with snow-white feathers.
It has never dared to sing easily in its life. When it does, the doors of thousands of households are opened.
Extended information:
Painting a Chicken is a poem written by a poet for a cock he painted in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. After painting this tall cock, the poet wrote this poem, and in the era when the internal struggle of the ruling class was rampant at that time, he expressed his will by expressing things and described the cock with white feathers and red crown in popular and fluent words.
"You don't need to cut off the red crown on your head, but walk in the future covered in white", which is the action and manner of a rooster. Wearing a natural red crown that doesn't need to be cut, I was all white and came face to face with great interest. The poet used the contrast of description and color to sketch a big cock with red crown and white feathers, commanding and imposing appearance. ?
"I have never dared to speak lightly in my life, and I have told thousands of families to open it." This is about the psychology and voice of a rooster. The poet's imitation of a rooster reveals its psychological state of not daring to speak easily in its life. When it crows, it means the arrival of dawn. When it blares, every family should open the door to welcome the arrival of a new day.
"Don't dare to speak lightly when standing upright", the poet's poetic path turns sharply, saying that roosters dare not crow casually all their lives. This sentence is restrained and low-key, especially the word "dare not", which is used aptly, paving the way for the conclusion of the fourth sentence and has a contrast effect on the next sentence. ?
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