Don't go home when spring comes, although Jiangnan is a good place.
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Spring Goose is a seven-character quatrain written by Wang Gong, a poet in Ming Dynasty. This poem expresses the poet's homesickness by describing Hengyang's return to the wild goose, not loving the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River and returning to Hengyang in spring, and also expresses his yearning for being unwilling to be an official and willing to live in seclusion. The poem is novel and calm.
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Hengyang: It belongs to Hunan Province now. In the south of Mount Heng, there is a mountain like a wild goose, named Yan Hui Peak. According to legend, the big border from the north no longer flies south here, but flies back to the north in spring.
② Chu water: refers to the rivers and lakes in ancient Chu State. During the Warring States period, Chu occupied most of Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Sichuan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Chu here means Jiangnan.
③ Yanshan Mountains: From Chaobai River Basin to Shanhaiguan on the north side of Hebei Plain, stretching for hundreds of miles from west to east. This refers to the northern region in general.
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One night, the spring breeze blew all over Hengyang, and the geese were planning their trip and preparing to fly back to Yanshan from the Chu River immediately. Don't blame me for going back when spring comes. Although Jiangnan is good, it is a foreign land.
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Poems about geese usually use the image of autumn geese flying south to express the nostalgia of northern wanderers for their hometown in the south and their boredom with the harsh environment in the north. This poem, though bitter, is home after all. This poem is unique in conception and its theme is to go up a storey still higher.
The first sentence of the poem cuts into Hengyang from spring, and the tone is full of joy. At the beginning of the poem, the poet said that "the spring breeze arrives in Hengyang overnight", as if "one night" could complete the alternation of winter and spring. At first glance, this seems counterintuitive. When you think about it, it is full of people's relaxed joy about warm wind and spring coming back to the earth, and it also reflects that Yaner has been waiting for the arrival of spring for a long time, so she is particularly sensitive to this. When the warm wind comes, it will be in heaven; The second sentence, in the spring season, the geese didn't win a chance to breathe, but they were eager to leave, thinking about the long journey of "Chushui Wild Goose Mountain" and preparing to fly back to Yanshan immediately from the shore of Chushui. This layer-by-layer jump shows the eagerness of the geese to return home, which can be said to be "moving on the news" without hesitation. "Chu", of course, refers to the south where geese live; And "Yan" is a cold northern country, and the mountains and rivers have different meanings, which just shows that there are many mountains and rivers to experience from south to north. "Wan Li Chang" shows the distance of geese's journey. At this time, Jiangnan, a beautiful woman in spring, just lingered. In this regard, people's confusion naturally turns into a question about geese. Not only poets should be "weird", but even readers should be "weird".
The last two sentences are, of course, the goose's answer-"don't complain about spring, go home." Although Jiangnan is good, it is a foreign land. It is understandable that the poet expresses strong homesickness with the technique of chanting things and the tone of spring geese. But Wang Gong is from Minhou County, Fujian Province, and Jiangnan was originally his hometown. But he said, "Jiangnan is a foreign land." From this point of view, "Chushui" and "Jiangnan" in the poem do not really refer to a certain region or orientation, but only a metonymic statement, which means that the court enjoys prosperity. Therefore, the theme of this poem is not to show his persistent love for his hometown, but to show the poet's desire to resign and retire to seek his spiritual home, and also to show his interest in living in seclusion without being an official.
The uniqueness of this poem lies in its different directions. It is not about autumn geese returning to the south, but about the northern literati's yearning for the southern countryside. Instead, it's about geese in spring. When the spring breeze blows to Hengyang, regardless of the distance and distance from "Chushui" to "Yanshan", they are determined to return to the hard north. The purpose of the poem is not to distinguish the north from the south, but to express that you don't miss the moderate and rich officialdom and are willing to live a lofty life in the country.
The unreasonable structure of four sentences in the poem leads to doubts, which then boils down to the center of the whole poem, which helps to express the theme more clearly, highlight the normal from the abnormal in artistic techniques, and brighten the bottom with anthropomorphic tone after causing surprise, thus strengthening the artistic effect.