The original poem is from Li Shangyong written by Li Bai in Tang Dynasty. The original poem goes like this:
Dapeng rises with the wind one day and soars into Wan Li. If the wind weakens, it can still lift away the turbulent current.
When the world saw my unchanging tone, it sneered at all my big words. Fu Xuan can still fear the afterlife, but her husband can't be young.
The meaning of this poem is:
One day, Dapeng will fly with the wind, go with the wind and go straight to the outside of the cloud nine. When the wind stopped, Da Pengfei came down and raised the water in the river and sea.
People in the world will always sneer at me when they see my high-profile singing. Confucius also said that "the afterlife is terrible, how can we know that it is not now", and a gentleman should not look down on young people.
In order to help understand this poem, I sorted out the difficult words and notes:
1, up: up.
2. Li Yong (678—747): Zi Taihe, a native of Jiangdu, Guangling (now Jiangdu County, Jiangsu Province), was a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. He used to be the secretariat of Yuzhou.
3, shaking: a big whirlwind from the bottom up.
4, false order: if, even if.
5, but: arouse.
6. Cang Li: The sea.
7. constant: often.
8. Special tune: words and deeds of different customs.
9. Yu: I.
10, big talk: talk big.
1 1. Fu Xuan: Confucius. During the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong, Confucius was honored as Fu Xuan.
12. Fu: the general name of ancient men, referring to Li Yong.
This poem was written by Li Bai when he was young:
Li Yong was the secretariat of Yuzhou (present-day Chongqing) from the seventh year (7 19) to the ninth year (72 1) of Xuanzong in Tang Dynasty. When Li Bai visited Chongqing, he paid an audience with Li Yong. Li Yong was unhappy because he was informal and talked about Wang Ba. According to the history books, Li Yong was "quite conceited" (Biography of Li Yong in Old Tang Dynasty). He was conceited and had a good reputation, but he had reservations about being young and backward. Li Bai was dissatisfied with this, and when he left, he wrote this poem "Li Shangyong" in a rather rude manner to show his return.
By portraying and praising the image of Dapeng, this poem expresses Li Bai's great ambition and strong desire to use the world, and is very dissatisfied with Li Yong's attitude of looking down on young people, showing Li Bai's spirit of being brave in pursuit, confident and conceited, and not afraid of vulgarity:
Dapeng is an image that Li Bai often uses to describe himself in his poems and Fu. It is not only a symbol of freedom, but also a symbol of shocking ideals and interests. In the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725), Li Bai, a young boy, wandered out of Sichuan and met Sima Cheng, a famous Taoist in Jiangling. Sima said that Li Bai "has a kind of spirit, which is comparable to that of a wanderer in the octupole", and Li Bai immediately wrote "Dapeng Bird Fu" (later changed to "Dapeng Fu"), comparing himself to the Dapeng bird in Zhuangzi's "Happy Wandering". According to the tone of this poem, it is straightforward and not modest, so some predecessors suspected that it was not the author of Li Bai, and some thought it was to argue for Li Bai's works.
The opening of the whole poem is passionate and high-profile, and the first four sentences are compared with "Dapeng". The image of Dapeng often appears in Li Bai's works. Dapeng is a divine bird in Zhuangzi Xiaoyao. It is said that this divine bird is "I don't know its thousands of miles", "If its wings hang clouds in the sky", its wings shoot water for three thousand miles and soar to nine Wan Li. Dapeng is a symbol of freedom in Zhuangzi's philosophy system, and Li Bai was deeply influenced by it. Therefore, Li Bai's works always have the most romantic fantasy, always full of contempt for the strong and the pursuit of freedom.
"Dapeng day with the wind, soaring nine Wan Li. If the wind stops, it can still lift away the raging water. " Li Bai compared himself with Dapeng, described the majestic scene of the legendary Dapeng bird when it took off and fell, and even showed the poet Li Bai's ambition to rise to the sky at this time. Li Bai wrote in the third and fourth sentences of his poem: "If the wind stops, it can still stir the turbulent water." Even if the wind stops and Dapeng falls, it will stir up waves in the rivers and lakes. If Li Bai compares himself to Dapeng, then Li Yong is naturally a strong wind that Dapeng borrows from. Li Bai made it clear here that even without Li Yong's help in the future, he can have extraordinary influence in politics. This extraordinary courage can only be summed up in one word "crazy".
The last four sentences of the poem are an answer to Li Yong's snub attitude: "Tianxia" refers to ordinary people at that time, obviously including Li Yong. Because this poem is written directly to Li Yong, the wording is euphemistic, and on the surface it only refers to "Tianxia". "Abnormal tone" refers to speaking very much. Li Bai's grand ambitions are often not understood by the world and ridiculed as "big talk". Li Bai obviously didn't expect that celebrities like Li Yong were as knowledgeable as ordinary people, so he refuted the story that a saint knew how to pull out the afterlife.
"Fu Xuan can still fear the afterlife, and her husband can't be young." These two sentences mean that Kong still thinks that his future life is awesome. Are you better than a saint? Men should never despise young people! The last two sentences are not only a mockery and satire of Li Yong, but also a response to Li Yong's frivolous attitude, which is quite unruly and shows boyish spirit.