Drinking in the lake is clear after the rain.
Su Shi
The water is bright and sunny, and the mountains are cloudy and rainy.
If there are more dead beauties in the West Lake, C+ is so appropriate.
Notes on works:
① Drinking Lake: Drinking water on the West Lake. Lake refers to the West Lake in Hangzhou.
② Chu Qing: It began to clear up at first. Clear, an "eye".
(3) Tumbling: The appearance of flashing waves.
Fang Hao: It looks beautiful.
⑤ Empty Mongolia: Describe the confused appearance of drizzle. Xie Xuanhui's poem: "The sky is like mist". Meng, a "Meng".
⑥ Odd: wonderful, which is synonymous with "good" in poetry.
⑦: The famous beauty stone of Yue in the Spring and Autumn Period.
8 light makeup: elegant and simple makeup.
Pet-name ruby thick wipe: rich and gorgeous dress. Wipe and apply grease and powder.
Indication: It looks good, too.
Vernacular translation:
On a sunny day, the West Lake is rippling with blue waves. Under the sunshine, it is radiant and beautiful. When it rains, the distant mountains are shrouded in misty rain, and their eyes are confused. The hazy scenery is also beautiful. If the beautiful West Lake is compared to a beauty, she will always be beautiful whether it is light makeup or heavy makeup.
Creative background:
Su Shi was the judge of Hangzhou generals in the fourth and seventh years of Zongshen Xining (A.D. 107 1- 1074) and wrote a lot of poems describing the scenery of the West Lake. This song was written after a summer tour in the sixth year of Xining (AD 1073).
Appreciation of works:
The first half of the poem describes not only the scenery of the West Lake, but also the sunny and rainy state of the West Lake. "Clear water is good" describes the clear water of the West Lake: in the bright sunshine, the West Lake is rippling and sparkling, which is very beautiful. "The Mountain is Strange when it Rains" describes the mountains on rainy days: under the cover of the rain curtain, the mountains around the West Lake are charming, as if nothing had happened, very wonderful. From the title, we can know that the poet spent a whole day in the West Lake. It was sunny in the morning, then cloudy, and it began to rain after dusk. In the eyes of poets who are good at appreciating nature and have deep feelings for the West Lake, whether it is water, mountains, sunny or rainy, it is beautiful and wonderful. From the praise of "Beautiful Eyes" and "Strange Rain", we can imagine the lakes and mountains in different weather, as well as the happy encounter when poetry enters the play, its free and easy character and open mind. The scenery written in the first half is a scene corresponding to communication, with broad and bold feelings, blending scenes and relative scenes between sentences. The beautiful scenery of the West Lake is written, and the poet Su Shi's feelings are expressed incisively and vividly.
In the second half of the poem, the poet did not closely follow the first two sentences, and further described the sunny and rainy days of lakes and mountains with a pen. Instead, he took appearance as the god and only used an ethereal metaphor to convey the charm of lakes and mountains. Between the carrier and the noumenon, except for the West Lake, which literally has the same word "West", the poet only pays attention to the present beauty of the West Lake, and the charm of Fengshen is similar to the beauty imagined by the stone. It is precisely because the West Lake and Xizi are beautiful, so for the West Lake, whether it is sunny or rainy, or for Xizi, no matter whether it is light makeup or heavy makeup, it can not change its beauty, but only increase its beauty. There are two diametrically opposite explanations for this metaphor: one is that the poet "takes the West Lake on a sunny day as a light makeup, and the West Lake on a rainy day as a heavy makeup"; One said that the poet was "more sunny than heavy makeup and less rainy than light makeup". Both theories have their own opinions and evidence. But for talented poets, this is a clever metaphor, and an occasional poem is just a temporary heart and scenery. From the beautiful scenery of the West Lake to calligraphy, the embodiment of beauty, from the "sunny side" and "strange rain" of the West Lake, it is always appropriate to imagine calligraphy. When it comes to metaphor and writing, I'm afraid it may not be rigid. When appreciating this poem, if we must let the heavy makeup return to sunny rain, it may damage the integrity of metaphor and the ethereal beauty of the poem.
Here, the poet expressed a temporary talent, but this metaphor, as Chen Yan said in Song Poetry, "became an evaluation of the West Lake". Since then, people often take "Xizi Lake" as another name for the West Lake. Su Shi himself is very proud of this metaphor, which has been used many times in his poems. Later generations appreciate this metaphor more deeply and often mention it in poems. Wang Wengong, in the compilation and annotation of Su Wenzhong's Gong Shi, called this poem a "masterpiece" that was unprecedented and never came again. One of its characteristics is its versatility. It is not a scene or a temporary scene of the West Lake, but a comprehensive portrayal and evaluation of the West Lake, with artistic life beyond time. The spread of this poem adds luster to the scenery of the West Lake.
In addition, the greatest artistic success of this poem is the use of a large number of rhetorical devices.
Intertextuality, such as "water Ming Che, mountains and sky are rainy." The first half of the sentence omits the "rain monster" and the second half omits the "sunny side". Whether it is sunny or rainy, the scenery of the West Lake is beautiful. It can't be understood as: the water in the West Lake is just sunny, and the mountains in the West Lake are just beautiful rain.
Duality, such as "water Ming Che, rainy mountains." Yes, they have similar meanings and complement each other. Because of "beautiful water", "beautiful mountain sky", "sunny face" and "rain monster", they are independent of each other, forming an idyllic scenery map, creating a mysterious artistic conception and expressing the author's yearning for the West Lake.
Metaphor. In poetry, "West Lake" is compared to "learning Chinese characters", that is, stone. Su Shi compared the natural beauty of the West Lake to the natural beauty with his wonderful observation. It is a very appropriate metaphor to form a vivid and sensible image of the West Lake and create a more realistic artistic conception through clever metaphor. The West Lake is also called Xizi Lake, and the name comes from the metaphor in this poem. The West Lake is also icing on the cake, and its reputation is getting bigger and bigger.