"With Huang Zi Wen Xiao Han"
[Song] Liu Chang
Yin old suspicious dragon battle, the wind is high and timid.
The dry puffs do not rest on their own, and the birds compete to rely on each other.
The seasons are turbulent, and the career is tight.
Lamentations to the wife, I also wear cattle clothes.
Translations
Yin qi decays, yang qi returns, yin and yang qi fight suspected to be two dragons fighting each other; cold winds rise, and birds are afraid to fly at sea.
The dried grass is still self-reliant, and the birds that return home are competing to rely on each other.
Time flies, like flowing water, which alarms my heart; life is limited, and although the grass is broken, it can still be entrusted.
Singing sad songs to my wife and children, my path to school is as poor as a cow's clothes.
exegesis
1. Yin aging: Yin qi decays, yang qi returns.
2. Dry grass: refers to dry grass. The cause is also a metaphor for uncertain whereabouts.
3. Jìn(jìn) door: Stain the gaps in doors and windows with dirt.
4. Lamentations: Sing sadly.
5. My Way: Interpreted as my doctrine or proposition.
6. Cow clothes: metaphor for poverty. It also refers to the poor.
Appreciation
This is a small han poem by the Song Dynasty poet Liu Chang. Liu Chang only lived for 49 years in his life, but Ouyang Xiu praised him, saying, "From the ancient and modern biographies of the Six Classics of the Hundred Classics, down to astronomy, geography, medicine, numerology, floating map, and Lao Zhuang's theory, everything is known; it is the article You Min Zhan."
Because of his erudition, he and his younger brother Liu Shu were jointly known as the Second Liu of the Northern Song Dynasty. Although Liu Chang was full of economics, his career had not been smooth, and he could only achieve a small official of the category of Cai Zhou Tongju. From his poem "Little Han", we can feel his poverty and loneliness as a reader.
The first link, the yin old suspicious dragon battle, the wind is high and the sea is flying. That is to say, the yin qi decays, the yang qi returns, and the yin and yang qi fight each other suspected of being two dragons fighting; the cold wind rises, and the birds are afraid to fly on the sea.
At the beginning of the word "yin old", you can kill as many poets as you want. The first is to point out that in the cold season, the yin qi declines and the yang qi rises. The second is to form a good confrontation with the next sentence "wind high". The third is that the word "yin old" appears very frequently, and non-polymaths cannot do it.
The jaws are united, the dry puffs do not rest on their own, and the birds compete with each other. That is to say, the dried grass is still self-reliant, and the birds that return home are competing to rely on each other. This is to write about the changes in phenology during the little cold season. "Dry peng" points out the season and echoes the small cold season; "returning to the bird" indicates that it is dusk. "Not self-sustaining" means a state of dryness, which is obviously a personified expression. What does not stop is actually the poet himself, explaining his state of wandering around as an official. "Competing for dependence" is a kind of perception and performance of birds for small cold and cold. It is also a poet's desire for his loved ones to be reunited.
I am still floating in the eunuch sea, drifting around, unable to go home for a reunion, but the birds can still return to the nest every day to reunite, is he not as good as the birds?
Neck link, the season is shocking, the career is supported. That is to say, time flies, like flowing water, which alarms my heart; life is limited, and although the grass is broken, it can still be entrusted. The withering and unceasing, the birds are dependent on each other, which triggers the poet's lament about time. In the blink of an eye, how many years have passed since I left my hometown, are my relatives at home okay?
The season is a famous sentence that is widely quoted by later generations. Career refers to the career of an official. 墐扉, which refers to the use of dirt to stuff the gaps in doors and windows. Xie Huilian's "Snow Endowment" of the Southern and Northern Dynasties has the sentence "Kitato 墐扉".
After being an official for a lifetime, in the end, I still have to return to my hometown, but the doors and windows in my home are so dilapidated, and I still need mud to stuff the gaps in doors and windows. Here it can be understood that the poet is honest and honest, and the sleeves are clean, which can also be reversed to show that the official position of the poet is indeed not high.
Tail lian, lamentations to the wife, I dao also cattle clothes. That is to say, singing sad songs to my wife and children, the path of my main school is as poor as a cow's coat.
A "mourning" word can feel the unfairness of the poet's heart. A "my way" can be said to be the poet's recognition of his own lofty ambitions.
My way is also a cow's clothes, so that people feel the poor life of the reader, just like Yan Hui, "a piece of food, a scoop of drink, in the dark alley, people are overwhelmed, and they will not change their happiness." ”
Since the ancient literati are poor, ancient and modern are also one. Reading the tail link, I can't help but cover up and sigh for it.
About author:Yan Yong, Master of Arts, member of Jiangsu Writers Association, student of the third batch of the National Young Writers Class. He is currently the supplement editor of Taizhou Evening News and the editor of Daohe. He has published a collection of essays, "Reading Travel", a collection of literature and history, "Taizhou History: The City by the Salt River", and an essay collection "Wind and Rhyme Taizhou".