Li Shangyin, the author of "Jin Se"? During the Tang Dynasty
The Jin Se has fifty strings for no reason, and each string and column reflects the past.
Zhuang Sheng was fascinated by butterflies in his morning dream, and looked forward to the emperor's spring heart in love with cuckoos.
The moon in the sea has tears, and the sun in Lantian is warm and jade produces smoke.
Can this feeling be remembered? It was just that I was at a loss at that time. Vernacular interpretation:
Why does the exquisite zither have fifty strings? Every string and string reminds me of my youth.
Zhuang Zhou actually knew that he was just a butterfly who longed for freedom, and hoped that the emperor's beautiful heart and actions could move the cuckoo.
The shadow of the bright moon in the sea is like a pearl turned into tears. Only in Lantian at that time and place can the good jade like smoke be produced.
Those beautiful things and times can only remain in memories.
At that time, those people thought those things were just ordinary, but they didn't know how to cherish them. Extended information
Creative background:
Li Shangyin is talented and sharp in literary thinking. He passed the Jinshi examination in his early twenties. However, he was envied and failed in the Hongke University examination, and his talent was never seen again. In the "Niu-Li Party Struggle", the two parties are in a dilemma. The two parties are suspicious and repeatedly rejected, making it difficult to achieve their ambitions. He lost his wife in middle age and was criticized for writing poems to express his feelings. This poem was written around the author's later years. There have always been different opinions on the creative intention of the poem "Jin Se".
Some may think it is a patriotic piece, some may think it is a work to commemorate the deceased wife, some may think it is a self-inflicted injury to one’s life experience and compare oneself to literary talents, or some may think it is a pen to express longing for a child. "Historical Records·Fengchan Shu" records that the ancient zither had fifty strings, but later it was generally twenty-five strings. However, this poem was written after the death of Li Shangyin's wife, so fifty strings means broken strings (it is said that if a twenty-five-string ancient zither string is broken in half, it is called fifty strings). But even so, each string of it, Every syllable is enough to express my longing for those beautiful years.