Who knows, the real writing of warm words is hidden in the cold and snow? Throughout the ages, there have been countless poems about chanting snow, and it is the lonely and cold spiritual background that evokes the resonance of people's hearts with ice and snow. It is precisely because of this resonance that poetry can trigger an avalanche of the soul with simple symbols.
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Liu Zongyuan's "Jiang Xue" is a poem that uses snow to write the inner loneliness. "A thousand mountain birds fly to extinction, ten thousand paths of people disappear, a lonely boat, a lonely boat, fishing alone in the snow of the cold river." Thousands of mountains and thousands of paths have returned to silence, and only the "lone boat Kasawong" fishes alone in the vast river snow. This picture depicts the deep loneliness of the heart. Loneliness is enough to make the wounds of the heart faintly painful, and the cold from the snow is more like hitting an old disease. This cold is not just physical cold, but also a psychological experience. If a person's heart is burning with a raging fire, burning with the enthusiasm of ideals, burning with the love and warmth of the world, it will never be truly cold. At this time, Liu Zongyuan was relegated to the remote Yongzhou because of the failure of the Yongzhen reform, and was estranged from his political enemies and relatives and friends, and he felt that he was exiled and tasted the loneliness of the world. "All scenery is love language", the figure of the lonely snow fishing in the silent world is actually a portrayal of his lonely state of mind. We feel that the world is cold and thin, and the blood is abandoned to the wilderness, and the ideal road, the hero's poor road, the beauty's twilight, and the ice and snow will be infected and stinging when they meet. Therefore, the cold river snow caused by not the cold of the single skin, but a kind of ancient cold and lonely avalanche, hitting every passerby with a wound.
It is this coldness that touches our nostalgia, and we will yearn so much for the "green ant new wine, red clay small stove." Late in the day, I want snow, and I can drink a cup of nothing" (Bai Juyi's "Ask Liu Nineteen") In the warm scenery of the snow. Snow is actually the best image to create warmth. If it weren't for the arrival of the snow night, the red stove and green wine would only be brightly colored items, but the snow night would make them immediately carry the temperature. If it were not for the arrival of the snow night, drinking would be just an ordinary gathering of friends, but the package of the snow night would turn the drinking in the hearth into a kind celebration and a warm sharing. This little poem brings people the warmth of the heart. The feeling of snow's skin rings the lonely bell in people's hearts, but it stimulates our deep desire for warmth and love. Loneliness and coldness have been conjoined babies since ancient times. If there is no snow, how can we feel cold, and if it is not cold, how can we see the longing for warmth and love in our hearts? It is in this cold and cold snow that we really see warmth, just as in the chaotic world, we see the peace. Who knows, the real writing of warm words is hidden in the cold and snow? Only then can we unlock the code of the spirit of this poem, and see the eternal chanting, loss and search of the human heart.
"The mountains are far away at dusk, and the white houses are poor in the cold. Chai Men smell the barking of dogs, and the wind and snow return to people on the night. Liu Changqing's "The Master of Furong Mountain in every snow" made that snowy night more than a thousand years ago become eternal. Why did that dog bark make people feel so warm, and why was the person who returned from this stormy night so touching? Because of the darkness that night, because the cold evoked by the snow hit the hearts of many wandering displaced people. The return of the snowy night has suddenly put away the wandering of the "twilight mountains" and the lonely cold of the "cold white house and poverty", and the poet who belittled the stranger no longer looks for a home in the snowy night, because the home has been found. In this short text, it shows the figure of the poet looking for a home in the twilight mountains and the wind and snow, and it is also a portrait of the soul looking for a home in the wandering and displacement. If "twilight" and "cold weather" evoke everyone's homeless wandering, then "returning home on a snowy night" evokes everyone's desire to return home. If it is not this snow, how can we see our homelessness; if it is not this snow, why should we seek that eternal destination? This eternal chant echoes that of the German poet Rilke: "Whoever does not have a house at this time does not have to build; he who is lonely at this moment is lonely forever.". Such a snowy night, who does not want to return!
"Once upon a time, Willow Yiyi." Now I come to think, rain and snow. The snow in "Shijing Xiaoya Tsevi" evokes the deep nostalgia of the soldier who has not returned for a long time, and reminds him of the spring willows in his hometown. It is snow that exposes the dilemma of people's survival, shows the nostalgia of people's hearts, and drives our eternal desire for warmth.
Ancient snow, it has fallen for a thousand years. Are we still on snowy nights today, or are we already home?
(Original title: Snow and Warmth in Ancient Poems)
Source: Beijing Daily by Cao Lu
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