Guancang Sea 1
Eastern Han Cao Cao 2
East of Jieshi 3, with 4 views of the sea.
Water Ho 5 Shu 6, Yamashima 7.
Trees are overgrown and lush with grass8.
Autumn winds are 9, and flood waves 10 are rising.
The 11th trip of the sun and the moon, if 12 is out of it;
Star Han 13 is brilliant, if out of it.
Lucky 14 15 to 16 Ya, song in Yong Zhi 17.
【Notes】
1 GuancangHai: "Guancanghai" is a chapter in Cao Cao's "Step Out of xiamen xing"; "Stepping out of xiamen xing" is the old title of Lefu, the whole poem is ordered, and it is divided into four chapters such as "Guancang Hai", and the whole poem is not created at one time. "Guancang Hai" was written in the autumn of the twelfth year of Jian'an (207), on the way back to the division after the victory of the Northern Expedition against Wuhuan. Canghai: the sea, also used in ancient times to refer to the East Sea; 沧: through the "Cang", dark green.
2 Cao Cao: Zi Mengde, Xiao Zi Ah Qi, a native of PeiGuo County (present-day Bozhou, Anhui), was an outstanding politician, military strategist, and writer of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the founder of the Cao Wei regime.
3 Jie (jíe) stone: Jieshi Mountain is located in the north of changli county in present-day Hebei Province, composed of hundreds of large and small mountains, the main peak Sendai peak is also called "HanWu Peak", "Niangniang Peak", looking like a stone jie (stone stele), and like a stone pillar, hence the name. In the nearby sea, there are two boulders that protrude from the sea, the high statue stele and the low statue head. Some people say that the stone refers to the one that is high. From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, these two boulders began to gradually sink into the sea.
4: Conjunctions, used to connect two actions and indicate a conditional or purpose relationship between the two. The actions before the word "with" are mostly the conditions or premises of the subsequent actions, and the actions after them are mostly the purposes or results of the previous actions. Here it can be understood as "borrowing", "so", etc.
5 HO: How.
6 Ripples: (Water waves) Ripples.
7 竦峙 (sǒng zhì): Towering, erect; 竦, towering; 峙, upright.
8 Abundance: Thick and lush.
9 Shaw: An elephant word that describes the sound of the wind blowing on the trees.
10 Flood Waves: Big Waves.
11 Sun And Moon: Sun and Moon.
12 If: As if.
13 Star Man: Milky Way, Heavenly River.
14 Lucky: Lucky, lucky.
15 Even: Very.
16 to: Pole.
17 Song with Chant: Use poetry to express mood and ambition. The last two sentences are clichés at the end of the poem, which have little to do with the content and feelings of the whole poem.
The gist of the poem is: I ascended the stone to the east to see the sea. The sea is so vast that the mountain island stands tall. Trees grow densely and continuously, all kinds of weeds are dense and lush, the autumn wind blows through and makes a muffled sound, and the magnificent waves rise in waves. The movement of the sun and moon seems to start here, and the brilliant Milky Way seems to originate from the sea. I was so lucky that I sang my mood and ambition in poetry.
The poem was written in the autumn of the twelfth year of Jian'an, when Cao Cao was on his way back to Wuhuan. At this time, the remnants of Yuan Shao's forces have been basically eliminated, the north has been reunified again, and the poets who are full of ambition face the majestic autumn seascape in front of them, and their state of mind naturally resonates, and nature is more open and open, and it is probably impossible to think of poetry. Through this poem, the reader can clearly experience a wave of heroism and grandeur that embraces the world and swallows the universe. This is naturally the aura of the poet who takes the unification of the world as the ideal and is full of confidence in himself at this moment.
The whole poem is mainly based on writing scenes, and the first two sentences explain the location of their own viewing of the sea. The poet said that he climbed the Jieshi Mountain and looked out at the sea, the vast sea surface of the water rippled, and the mountain island towered nearby. This is the whole scene that the poet saw when he ascended jieshi mountain. The five to eight sentences are the description of the specific scenes of grass and trees, autumn winds, and waves, and in the autumn wind, the grass and trees are luxuriant and the waves are rising, not only do not have the meaning of sadness and depression, but reveal infinite vastness and vastness.
At this point, the scene in front of you has been unavailable, and it is difficult to continue to write, and it is generally aria to this point, often looking back at its own journey, or imagining a brilliant future. But the poet did not abandon the magnificent scene in front of him, but relied on the scenery in front of him, that is, the reality into the void, associated the movement of the sun, moon and stars with the sea, collected the heavens and the earth in his heart, and then began to associate and ask: The sun and the moon rise in the east and set in the west, and the brilliant starlight of the Milky Way is the result of the sea swallowing up all things? This kind of questioning has obviously gone far beyond the level of worldly merit, and it vaguely reveals the meaning of the philosophical and ultimate "heavenly question". Reading this, the reader seems to hear a giant with the top of the sky asking questions to the universe, and the voice echoes in the sky. Writing in this way undoubtedly makes both the poet and the poet complete a sublimation to a higher realm.
During the Wei and Jin dynasties at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were frequent wars, and at that time, poetry often had a sense of tragedy and desolation, or the sorrow of not encountering talents. However, although the poem describes the autumn scenery, it has no sad meaning, and the poet focuses on writing about the endless vitality between heaven and earth, and the endless pride in his heart. The huge waves are churning, the sun and the moon are sinking and floating, such a majestic and magnificent poetic realm, only a person with a broad mind and temperament like Cao Cao can dare to imagine and create it.