Partridge day
◎ Li Qingzhao
On a cold day, Xiao Xiao is on the window (1), and the sycamore should hate the night frost. The wine is more like the bitter tea (2), and the dream is more like the brain incense (3).
Autumn is over, the days are still long, and Zhongxuanhuai is far more desolate (4). It is better to follow the pre-division of the former drunken (5), Mo Negative East Hedge Chrysanthemum Yellow (6).
【Notes】
(1) Cold day: the sun in late autumn. In the late autumn frost morning, because the temperature is very low, people can not feel the heat of the sun, so the word people call the sun at this time called the cold day. Window: A window ledge carved with a chain pattern. (2) Alcohol: When drinking ends. Tuan Cha: Tea Cake. Tea can dissolve wine, especially like bitter tea, indicating that the wine is particularly drunk; drinking too much, it indicates that the melancholy is deep. (3) Rui Brain: Also known as Dragon Brain, the name of the spice, that is, ice chips. (4) Zhongxuan Huaiyuan: Wang Cang, the character Zhongxuan, a native of Gaoping, Shanyang, one of the seven sons of Jian'an, once wrote "Climbing the Tower" to express the feelings of nostalgia. (5) Casual points: casual. (6) East hedge: refers to the place where chrysanthemums are planted.
【Translation】
As the cold sun rises and the light slowly climbs up the carved windows, the sycamore should hate the frost falling at night (knocking out its own leaves). After drinking the wine, I prefer the strong and bitter tuancha, and when the dream is broken, it is only advisable to light the incense (to drive away the sorrow).
Autumn is over, but the day is still long, and Wang Yue's "Climbing the Stairs" is homesick and far away (but cannot return) can only feel more desolate. It is better to drink the bottle of Chinese wine until you are drunk, and don't live up to the golden chrysanthemums in the east fence.
【Appreciation】
This is a nostalgic poem, composed by the lyricist in his later years. The lyricist combines scene writing, narrative and nostalgia to express a strong sense of nostalgia.
"Cold day Xiao Xiao on the trivial window, sycamore should hate the night frost", the first two sentences of this word write autumn scenery, cold day Xiao Xiao, sycamore frost, a miserable cold. "The wine is more like the tea bitter, the dream is more than the brain fragrance of Rui", "the wine is the end of the drinking. "Tuan Cha" is tea cake. Because he was full of sorrow, he borrowed wine to pour sorrow. This drink did not stop, and he was drunk so much that he had to quench the wine with tea. "Rui Brain", the name of incense, also known as dragon brain, is distilled from dragon brain wood. After getting drunk, I fell back to sleep, and when I woke up, I smelled a strong fragrance, which was very pleasant. Here the lyricist writes mourning with pleasure, the joy of tasting tea, the joy of smelling incense, and the lyricist is just pretending to be happy, hoping to dissolve the inner sorrow.
"Autumn is over, the day is still long, Zhongxuan Huaiyuan is even more desolate", "Zhongxuan" is Wang Yue, wrote the famous "Climbing the Stairs", expressing the depression of unpaid ambition and homesickness. The lyricist here feels himself in a homesickness. "It is better to get drunk before the separation, Mo negative East Hedge Chrysanthemum Yellow", returning home is both a fantasy, it is better to drink at will against the bottle of Chinese and American wine, do not live up to the great autumn light of the East Hedge Yellow Chrysanthemum blooming, here the lyricist pretends to be transcendent, self-forgiveness, which implies infinite sorrow.