Valley rain
【Tang Dynasty】 Liu Yuxi
Divide the yin and cherish, and the late scenery is good to meet.
The forest is smoking and the wind is blowing, and the loutai valley is raining and sunny.
Translations
Every moment of time should be doubly cherished, and the evening scenery of the twilight is also suitable for the welcome.
In the middle of the barren forest and mountains, the warm southeast wind has blown, and in front of the pavilions, the beautiful valley rainy season ushers in the sunny weather.
exegesis
Late view: Refers to the evening daylight. Woodland: A mountain field overgrown with trees. Smoke Wind: Warm south or southeast wind.
Appreciation
This is a Guyu poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi.
Liu Yuxi is a poet of the Haofang school, known as "Shihao". Like "Since ancient times, autumn is sad and lonely, I say that autumn is better than spring dynasty", this Gu Yu poem changes the theme of traditional spring injury, and turns to high spirits, full of cherishing time and loving the beautiful emotions of the present.
"Divide the yin and cherish it, and the late scenery is a good occasion." These two sentences mean that every minute of time should be doubly cherished, and the evening scenery of the twilight is also suitable for coming to greet and enjoy. This is the time when it is written "The Time of the Valley Rain". When the rainy season of the valley arrives, it is already the tail of late spring. As spring is about to pass, the poet feels that we should cherish the last spring light even more, and must not be sad about spring and miss the late scenery.
Although the spring light is short, we must still cherish it; although the evening scene is late, it is still necessary to meet it, which is the attitude that life should have, and we must face it calmly at any time, live optimistically, and embrace life.
"The forest is smoking and the wind is blowing, and the rain in the Loutai Valley is sunny." These two sentences mean that in the barren forest and mountains, the warm southeast wind has blown; in front of the pavilion, the beautiful valley rainy season ushered in the sunny weather. "The forest and the smoke are windy, the Loutai Valley is rainy and sunny", these two sentences are very similar to Meng Haoran's poem "Visiting the Mirror Lake with Cui Twenty-one, Sending Bags, and He Ergong", "The sails are sent by the wind, and the spring is raining in the valley", but the "woodwind" is changed to the "smoke wind" that symbolizes the coming of summer, and the "spring greeting" is changed to the "building platform" that expresses the location of the space.
Why love time and love chi jing? Because the gentle southeast wind in the forest is so intoxicating, because the sunset in front of the terrace is so beautiful. Du Mu's famous sentence "But the tincture will be rewarded for the festival, and there is no need to climb the hated sunset" Must have been born out of this.
This five-in-one poem, short and long, and just 20 words show the cuteness, beauty, and clarity of Gu Yu, embodying the poet's broad mind and heroic and optimistic spirit.
Author: Yan Yong, Master of Arts. He has published nearly 100 poem reviews on the "Learning to Strengthen the Country" learning platform. He is a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, 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". Published more than 1,000 articles. He is currently the editor of the newspaper.