Excerpt from The Great Cold
[Song] Land tour
The cold snow has not subsided, and the closed house cannot come out,
Poor Cut Cloud Crown, bureau this room for knees.
My car is hanging, I am driving for a long time,
Whiskers take a part, relatively all day long.
Translations
In the cold season, the snow has not yet melted; the weather is extremely cold, and it is impossible to go out when closed.
It's just a pity that the tall cut cloud crown is cramped here, and the living room is small, with only two knees.
"I" am old, has "hung the crown" and "hung the car", can cause retirement; "my" frame, and has not been loudly drunk for a long time.
Holding the whiskers in hand, take out a book; relative to them, a pair is a whole day.
exegesis
Cut Cloud Crown: High title.
Knee-tolerant: Only two knees are allowed to describe the small room.
Fit: Fit.
Driving: Horses;
Whisk (zhǔ): Duster made of the tail of the elk.
The ancients often used its tail tied to a slender wooden stick as a kind of insect repellent and dusting tool similar to masson pine, called "tail".
Appreciation
This is a big cold poem by the Song Dynasty poet Lu You.
In the cold season, the snow has not yet melted; the weather is extremely cold, and the doors are closed and you can't go out. This is written "The Great Cold Weather". On this cold day, the snow has not yet melted, and it is still cold and windy outside, and the cold is abnormal. Such a cold weather, can only close the house to withstand the cold, go out only to feel the cold forced. The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic says, "In the winter of March, this is called closure." Go to the cold to warm, no leakage of skin, closed to the cold, this is the way to cultivate tibet. Of course, Lu You certainly did not say it from the perspective of health maintenance, but from the perspective of his poverty and quietness.
It's just a pity that the tall cut cloud crown is cramped here, and the living room is small, with only two knees. This is written "Ambition cannot be achieved". Su Shi wrote in the "Journey of the Dragon Well in the Rhyme of the Repeated Characters": "Then he cut the crown of the cloud and gave the young curiosity to be convinced." "Cutting the cloud crown, here ostensibly refers to a kind of hat, but in fact it involves the level of "hanging crown" to shi. In ancient times, retirement was called "hanging car". In the "Book of Jin, Volume 45, Biography of Liu Yi", it is written: "Former Zheng Wugong was over eighty years old and became a Zhou Situ, although he passed the year of suspension, he will be available." "The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi once wrote "Ten Songs of Qin Zhongyin": Hang the crown Gu Cuixuan, hang the car and cherish the Zhu wheel." Hanging crown "hanging car" is the meaning of retiring to the age of seventy.
Is Lu You willing to retire at home? No, his ideals, his ambitions, lie in the preservation of the Song Dynasty, in the recovery of the Central Plains, and in the progress. "Hanging crown" and "hanging car" were not what Lu You had in mind. "Hanging the crown" so early, I am really unwilling. Although the house is small and poor for life, these are nothing, but the "Northern Expedition" in my heart has not yet been completed, and I am really unwilling.
"I" am old, has "hung the crown" and "hung the car", can cause retirement; "my" frame, and has not been loudly drunk for a long time. This is written "To the Unwilling". In fact, it is a kind of self-deprecation. Lu You did not actually reach the age of retirement, but the imperial court only let him retire early. Here is the right thing to say, Huai Cai did not meet, ambition is difficult to reward full of grief and indignation, jumping on the paper.
Holding the whiskers in hand, take out a book; relative to them, a pair is a whole day. This is to write "the emptiness of the years". Is it just to be a student in the village house? No, "I" have greater ambitions and feelings, "I" can do more for the country, but "I" do not want to just grow old. "Relatively all day long", just a kind of helplessness, leaving only a sigh.
"When you are old, you must say goodbye to old age, and you must retire in name only." Lu You is neither "old-yearly" nor "famous", and the great cold for poets is not only the cold outside the body, but also the cold of the heart that has no way to serve the country. I hope that in the cold season, everyone can go along with their wishes, be full of hope and confidence in the future, work hard, and meet the most beautiful self.
Author: Yan Yong, Master of Arts. Columnist of "Daily Appreciation" on the learning platform of the Central Propaganda Department. He is a member of the Chinese Poetry Association, a member of the Jiangsu Writers Association, and a member of the third batch of the National Young Writers Class. He has published a collection of literature and history, "Taizhou History: The City by the Salt River", a collection of essays "Reading Travel", and an essay collection "Fengyun Taizhou". He has published more than 500 articles. He is currently the editor of the newspaper.