original text
Li Bai was just about to leave when he heard a farewell song from the shore.
Even if the Peach Blossom Pond is deep, it is not as deep as Wang Lun's sending away my love.
Appreciate:
This poem is a farewell poem written by Li Bai to Wang Lun, a local friend, when he visited Taohuatan in Jingxian (now southern Anhui). The first two sentences of this poem describe Wang Lun's seeing Bai off while sailing, and simply and naturally express Wang Lun's sincere feelings for Li Bai. The last two sentences first praise the profundity of the Peach Blossom Pond with "deep thousands of feet", and then turn the intangible friendship into tangible thousands of feet Pond with the word "less than", which vividly expresses Wang Lun's sincere and profound friendship for Li Bai. The language of the whole poem is fresh and natural, and the imagination is rich and strange. Although there are only four 28-character sentences, it is one of the most widely circulated famous poems of Li Bai.
Two sentences in the poem describe the farewell scene. "Li Bai will leave by boat" means that the poet will leave Taohuatan by boat. That kind of language flows out smoothly without thinking, showing a natural and unrestrained manner of being impulsive when it comes and returning when it is over. The words "suddenly smell the song on the shore" and "suddenly smell" show that Wang Lun's arrival is really unexpected. I heard it before people arrived. From the warm and hearty singing, Li Bai expected that Wang Lun must have come to see me off. This farewell shows that Li Bai and Wang Lun are both informal, happy and free people.
"Peach Blossom Pond is deeper in thousands of feet than in Wang Lun", and the second half of the poem is lyrical. The third sentence is connected from a distance, which further shows that the ship is placed in Taohuatan. "Deep thousands of feet" not only describes the characteristics of the pool, but also indicates the conclusion.
"Peach Blossom Pond" is so profound that it touches people's feelings. Unforgettable Wang Lun's deep affection and deep affection are naturally linked. At the end of the sentence, "not as good as Wang Lun's" broke out. By comparing things, it vividly expressed sincere and pure affection. The pool is as deep as thousands of feet, so how deep is the friendship between Wang Lun and Li Bai? Interesting. Shenqing Deqian appreciates this sentence very much. He said: "If Wang Lun's love is compared to a pool of thousands of feet, it is a common language. The wonderful scene is just in a transition. " Obviously, the beauty lies in the word "less than", and the beauty lies in replacing metaphor with metaphor, turning intangible friendship into a vivid image, ethereal and memorable, natural and true.
The traditional view of China's poetry is implicit. Yan Yu, a poetic theorist in the Song Dynasty, put forward four taboos in writing poetry: "The language should be straight and the meaning should be shallow. Avoid dew in the pulse, and the taste is short. " Shi Buhua, a poet in A Qing, also said that poetry "should not be expensive". However, the performance characteristics of Li Bai's "To Wang Lun" are: frankness, directness and implicitness. Its "language is straight" and its "pulse is dew", but its "meaning" is not shallow and its taste is stronger. When the ancients wrote poems, they generally avoided calling them by their names, thinking that they had no taste. But To Wang Lun begins with the poet calling his own name and ends with calling the other person's name. On the contrary, he is honest, kind, free and easy, and very affectionate.
translate
Li Bai was about to leave by boat when he heard singing on the shore.
Even if the Peach Blossom Lake is as deep as thousands of feet, it can't compare with what Wang Lun did to me.
Vernacular translation
I was getting on the boat when I was about to untie the cable and set off when I heard melodious singing from the shore.
Look at the Peach Blossom Pond again. Although there is thousands of feet, how can we be grateful to Wang Lun?
To annotate ...
Wang Lun: Li Bai's friend.
Will want to travel: Dunhuang wrote a book "Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty" as "Desiring to Travel Far".
Tagge: A popular folk song and dance form in the Tang Dynasty, holding hands and touching the ground with two feet as the beat, singing while walking.
Taohuatan: It's 100 miles southwest of Jingxian County, Anhui Province. The unified yearbook calls it unfathomable. Deep thousands of feet: The poet used an exaggerated metaphor to describe the friendship between Wang Lun and thousands of feet.
Less than: less than.
Creation background
This poem was written by Li Bai when he traveled from Qiupu to Taohuatan in Jingxian County (now Anhui Province) in the 14th year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (755). When Li Bai visited Taohuatan in Jingxian County (now Anhui Province), he forged a deep friendship with Wang Lun. During the reign of Tianbao in Kaiyuan, Wang Lunling made Jingxian County, and Li Bai "waited for it, and money could not bear to be divided". According to this poem or when visiting for Li Bai, Wang Lun lived in Taohuatan.
Review of past dynasties
Comment on Tang Poetry: Good sentences are well-intentioned, then put them down and achieve them again. Only the love in Peach Blossom Spring can remain unchanged for thousands of years. Isn't He Yun a poet?
Interpretation of Tang poetry: Taibai is not true to the scenery, handy, so it is absolutely eternal. Later generations have an effect, such as "If you want to know the water depth, you should be far away". The language is not bad, but it is always a glass of willow.
Zhou Jing said: if you don't carve or cut, you will naturally make a sound. The words are from the heart, so it is wonderful. Zhou Wei said: At the top of the mountain, there are hundreds of feet without branches, while at the foot of the mountain, there is no shadow. What does this poem mean? Trying to imitate is ugly.
Tang Poetry: If Wang Lun's feelings are compared to thousands of feet, it is an ordinary language, and the wonderful scenery is just in a transition.
Notes on Tang Poetry in Master Garden: Love depends on quips.
"A Brief Record of Poetry Change": Wang Lun's affection for seeing each other off is very deep, so it is tasteless to say it directly. Take the Peach Blossom Pond as a foil, full of twists and turns.
Brief introduction of the author
Li Bai (70 1-762), whose real name is Taibai, was named a violet layman. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.