"Bitter Cold Chant"
[Tang] Mengjiao
The sky is cold and green, and the north wind is called dry mulberry.
Thick ice without cracks, short days with cold light.
Knocking stones must not be fired, and the strong yin is seizing the sun.
Tune the bitterness and say nothing, and freeze into this chapter.
Translations
The weather was harsh, the sky was dark blue, and the cold north wind was calling among the dead mulberry trees.
A thick layer of ice was formed, and not a single crack could be seen; the winter days were short and the nights were long, with only cold daylight.
They want to knock stones for fire, but they can't succeed; yin qi is in full swing, competing with yang qi that is gradually rising.
The tone of life is too bitter, what else can be said? This poem can only be sung in freezing weather.
exegesis
1. Qingcang: Dark cyan. It is often used to describe tree color, mountain color, sky color, water color, etc.
2. Dry Mulberry: Old mulberry tree.
3. Short days: Winter days are short and nights are long.
4. Knock stone: Knock on the flint stone to make a fire. Time is short.
5. Strong Yin: Yin qi is in full swing.
6. Bitterness: This refers to the tone, the mood is bitter, and here refers to the tone of life.
7. Frozen chanting: refers to the bitter chanting of poetry on a frozen three-foot day.
Appreciation
This is a big cold festival poem by Mengjiao. Great cold means that the weather is extremely cold. Folk proverb cloud: "Small cold, big cold, no wind to cool." ”
The great cold is followed by lichun. But the coldest and hardest weather is the cold. How did the poet Meng Jiao spend his days in the cold? Mengjiao's life was difficult, and under the cold, it added a bitter cold to the poet.
The first link, the sky is cold and green, and the north wind is called dry mulberry. That is to say, the weather is harsh and cold, and the sky is dark blue; the cold north wind is calling among the dead old mulberry trees.
This link is about the weather conditions of the great cold season. The first sentence writes about the color of the sky through vision, and the second sentence writes about the condition of the north wind through hearing. The cold weather and cold wind are the background of the great cold festival.
Jaw joint, thick ice without cracks, short days with cold light. That is to say, there is a thick layer of ice on the surface of the river, and there is not a single crack in sight; the winter days are short and the nights are long, and there is only cold daylight.
The first link writes cold, and the jaw joint writes frozen. "Thick ice" and "cold light" are all manifestations of ground freeze. "No cracks" means that the thickness of the ice cubes is formed into a whole large piece, and there is not even a gap. "Short day" is a natural phenomenon that refers to the short days and long nights of the Great Cold Festival. Neck joint, knocking stones must not be fire, strong yin is seizing the sun. That is to say, if you want to knock a stone for fire, you will not succeed; the yin qi is in full swing, competing with the yang qi that is gradually rising.
When the weather was cold, I began to write people. The poet's way of warming up is to knock on the stone and make a fire. However, perhaps because of the freezing of his hands, he could not catch fire several times. Looking up at the sky, the yin qi is in full swing, and he still refuses to surrender his weapons, so he has to make a final fight with the rising yang qi. After the great cold, Li Chun came to the front.
Tail link, tune bitterness and what to say, frozen into this chapter. That is to say, the tone of life is too bitter, what else can be said? This poem can only be sung in cold weather. The cold and fireless dilemma is like the poet's daily dilemma.
MengJiao usually writes poetry, pursuing a thin and strange style, but this bitter cold poem is written freely and easy to understand, and it has no roots. This "Bitter Cold Chant" is not a vivid portrayal of the poet's life of sadness and poverty.
May our great cold day have a warm stove and the company of warm people, and never be cold and lonely again.
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.