when * * * cuts the candle at the west window, but talks about evening rain.
This poem note on a rainy night to a friend in the north is a famous work by Li Shangyin, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty. The poem intentionally repeats the word "evening rain" and combines the actual scene with the virtual scene: rain is not only the realistic environment when the poet is writing in a foreign country, but also the topic that the poet talks about when he envisions returning to his hometown in the future and facing his wife under the lamp. A short span of twenty-eight characters not only shows the desolation of the rainy journey and the uncertain return date, but also implies the warmth of cutting candles in the rain at night and talking at the west window. These two totally different scenes and emotions just constitute the basic connotation of the "rain" image in China's classical poems.
In the late Warring States period, Qu yuán, a poet, set off the beautiful and sad image of the goddess of Wushan (Nine Songs Shan Gui) in the cold environment of "thunder fills the sky, rain is hidden, and Yu (an ape) chirps and sings at night", and "the mountain is steep and high to cover the sun, and it is dark and gloomy. However, this kind of poem with the rain scene as a foil was rare in the following Han and Wei Dynasties, until the Southern Dynasty poet He Xun wrote a famous sentence, "Night rain drops empty steps, dawn lights leave the room in darkness" ("Leaving and traveling at night"), and through the description of the scene of holding the lamp for a long time and listening to the night rain drop on the stage, he expressed his reluctance and sadness at parting. It can be said that He Xun discovered the delicate flavor of the rain image and expressed it in a beautiful and vivid style. Since then, rain, as a natural phenomenon, has almost always been used in poetry to render a sad atmosphere and express lonely feelings, and is often associated with such themes as parting, wandering and loneliness.
although the actual parting may not happen in the rain, the poetry with the rain as the background is obviously more artistic:/view/9756D53887c2428915fc3d3.html.