In May of the third year (1036) of Emperor Jingyou of Song, Fan Zhongyun, who advocated reform, was deposed from his official post in Kaifeng Prefecture and sent out of Zhirao Prefecture for "ridiculing the shortcomings of the times". Ouyang Xiu, who was in charge of the inspection of the pavilion at that time, as a supporter of Fan Zhongyan, was very angry about this, so he wrote a letter to the counselor Gao Ruoner, believing that Zhongyan was expelled from the court without guilt and could not be distinguished, and that he could still see the scholar and doctor with his face, and he was called a counselor in the middle of the court, and he did not know that there was shame in the world! This is the famous "Book of Advice with the High Priest". As a result, Ouyang Xiu was demoted to The Order of Yiling (夷陵, in modern Yichang, Hubei).
Yiling is a mountain city located on the edge of the barren mountains and rivers, "the green mountains are chaotic, and the chickens and dogs are depressed for hundreds" ("Send mei shengyu"). Ouyang Xiu wrote many poems on local customs and customs here, which are quite valuable in the history of customs, such as the famous "Drama Answer Yuanzhen":
The spring breeze is not suspicious of the end of the world, and there are no flowers in the mountain city in February.
The residual snow is like oranges, and the frozen thunder is about to sprout.
Night smell return to the goose homesickness, sick into the New Year's feelings.
Once a guest of Luoyang flowers, Ye Fang did not have to be drunk late.
In the spring of the second year after Ouyang Xiu was degraded, his good friend Ding Baochen wrote a poem "Flowers and Long Rains" and gave it to him. After the exchange of gifts, Ouyang Xiu gave back to Ding Baochen with this "Drama Answer Yuanzhen". "Drama", seemingly humorous, is actually sad, especially the last link is even more imaginative.
The first link "Spring wind is suspected to be the end of the world, and there are no flowers in the mountain city in February." Two sentences, write the remote cold of the mountain city gorge state. The first sentence is both real and imaginary: "Tianya" is used to describe the remoteness of Xiazhou; The poet expressed the poet's suspicion that the spring wind would not blow to this distant gorge state. This is from the feeling of writing the cold of the mountain city.
The second sentence uses "no flowers", visually specifically written from the time to February, the season is already early spring but still very cold snubbed scene. These two sentences literally write that although it is early spring and February, the remote mountain city still does not go in winter, spring does not come, and flowers do not bloom, and from the meaning of the sentence, it potentially contains the poet's indifferent mood after he degraded this mountain city that seems to have no spring.
For this song, the author once made a self-criticism saying: "'The spring wind is doubtful of the end of the world, and the february mountain city has not seen flowers'. If there is no next sentence, then the previous sentence is hokan; if you see the next sentence, the previous sentence is quite laborious" ("Pen Says Xia Zhou Poetry"). It can be seen that the author is quite proud of this association.
The jaws are "left with oranges in the snow, and the frozen thunder is about to sprout." The two sentences have a new meaning, capturing the characteristics of Xiazhou as an orange township and a bamboo township. The above sentence said that "the residual snow presses the branches like oranges", which is a surprising tone, but also a wonderful scenery, just imagine the snow white and golden yellow dotted on the branches at the same time, how eye-catching! This is still a real scene, and the next sentence "Frozen thunder wants to sprout" is pure experience and imagination, which can be said to be an expectation and a song of vitality. Never sting only makes people think of animals, and writing "amazing shoots" has a new meaning. A word of "desire" gives the bamboo shoots a sense of perception and confidence that the cold will eventually pass.
Neck link "night smell return to the goose life nostalgia, sick into the New Year's feelings of hua. Two sentences express the emotion of homesickness. The five sentences written at night can not sleep and hear the cries of geese further enhance the feeling of homecoming. In this sentence, the poet is insomnia because of his thoughts, because of insomnia, he can hear the night cry of the geese, and he is even more worried because he hears the cries of the geese, because the spring has come and the geese are still returning to the north on time, but he cannot return to Luoyang, the place where he served as the left-behind governor of Xijing before he was degraded. Six sentences write that I am sick in the field into the new year, so I am particularly sensitive to beautiful things, so I feel very emotional.
Wei Lian "was once a guest of Luoyang flowers, and although Ye Fang was late, he did not have to be a guest. Two sentences, although the poet is self-consoling, but reveals a very contradictory mood, on the surface he once worked as a left-behind pusher in Luoyang, saw the famous flowers and gardens of Luoyang that covered the world, and did not need to sigh when he saw the wildflowers that bloomed late here, but in fact he was full of a kind of helplessness and desolation, and he did not need to be in fact a big deal, so he had this poem that used the daily small things of "not seeing flowers" to generate life and even political feelings.
The artistic feature of this poem is mainly instant lyricism. In terms of writing scenes, the poet describes the scenery of the spring wind in the mountain city, the late arrival of flowers in February, the residual snow pressing branches, the thunder of early spring, and the night smell of geese, etc., and sees the spring feeling in the cold of the steep spring, which is quite full of vitality; In terms of lyricism, yu lonely and depressed with upward hope, do not feel low; It is really the poet's pen and the love of the politician, the two are integrated, poetic and picturesque, exquisite, and have a unique artistic realm. In addition, the poet also adopts the expression method of virtual reality, which increases the weight of the poet's feelings and expresses the poet's feelings more deeply.