Tōsenka
Su shi
Original:
ice muscles and jade bones , cool and sweatless . the water temple is full of dark fragrance . the embroidered curtain is open , a little bright moon peeps at people , people are not sleeping , leaning on pillows and hairpins are chaotic .
get up with the plain hand , the court is silent , and sometimes see the stars crossing the river . what is the night like ? the night has been changed for three times . the golden waves are light , and the jade rope turns low . but when does the west wind come and do n't change secretly over the years .
Translations:
The muscles and bones of the beautiful woman are as clean and warm as ice jade, very cool, and do not sweat. The evening breeze is blowing, and the water hall is filled with a faint fragrance. The embroidered curtain was opened, and a bright moon was peeping at the beauty, who had not yet slept and leaned on the pillow, the golden hairpin fell sideways, and the sideburns were scattered.
Holding the white jade hand, walking together in the silent courtyard, sometimes you can see sparse meteors crossing the Milky Way shore. How is the night? The third watch has passed, the moon waves are faint, and the jade rope star rotates low with the Beidou. Counting with his fingers, when will the autumn wind send cold, and unconsciously, the flowing water years are secretly changing.
About the Author:
Su Shi (1037-1101) was a writer, calligrapher, painter, and gourmand in the Northern Song Dynasty. The word Zizhan, the number of Dongpo layman. Han nationality, Sichuan people, buried in Yingchang (now Jiaxian, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). He has had a bumpy career in his life, is knowledgeable, highly talented, and is fine in poetry, calligraphy and painting. His writing is unbridled and unbridled, clear and unobstructed, and Ouyang Xiu is called Ou Su, one of the "eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties"; the poems are fresh and heroic, good use of exaggeration, metaphor, and unique style of artistic expression, and Huang Tingjian is called Su Huang; the words are open and unrestrained, and have a huge impact on later generations, and Xin Qijian is called Su Xin; calligraphy is good at calligraphy, regular script, can create new ideas, with the pen plump and ups and downs, there is a naïve and splendid fun, and Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Cai Xiang and called the Song Dynasty; the painting is the same, the painting advocates the similarity, and advocates "scholar painting".
Theme Summary:
This poem was written by the author when he was living in Huangzhou. This word describes the scene of Meng Chang, the monarch of Shu after the fifth dynasty, and his concubine Mrs. Hua Rui enjoying the cool on the Mohe Pond on a summer night, deliberately portraying the beauty and nobility of Madame Hua Rui's posture and soul, and expressing the poet's deep regret and sigh for the passage of time.
Reflections:
When Su Shi was seven years old, he met an old nun in his nineties, and the old nun told him about an old incident he had personally experienced when he was young, and the protagonist of the story was Meng Chang, the last emperor of Later Shu, and his Lady Hua Rui.
Meng Chang is also a monarch who loves to write words, and Madame Hua Rui is Meng Chang's concubine, who is said to be beautiful and intelligent. The ancients and modern people habitually referred to beauty as flowers, but her name is Stamen, which is enough to show her outstanding appearance. The demeanor is graceful and free, like dancing petals, giving people a sense of lightness.
Forty years have passed, when Su Shi lived in Huangzhou, he recalled the story told by Lao Ni and the words in the story, but the content of the words only remembered two sentences: "Ice muscle and jade bones, cool and sweatless." So Su Shi relied on the two sentences in his memory and used Meng Chang's state of mind to complete this article.
It can be said that the artistic conception of this poem is the plot designed by Su Shi for Meng Chang and Mrs. Hua Rui, under Su Shi's ingenious conception, they are not like real historical figures with tragic pasts, but like fictional characters written by Su Shi. It's like being able to finish a play and then bow and leave. However, what is fictional is the beautiful yearning in people's hearts, not the real history, Meng Chang did not die well, and Mrs. Hua Rui was included in Zhao Kuangyin's harem and then experienced all kinds of things.
The poems are complete, but the regrets are incomplete, the country is ruined, and the dreams of the ancients cannot be made.
In his own personal suffering, the light is fleeting, the years are easy to grow old, and he is growing old in constant expectations and disappointments, but the present is worth cherishing! He always expresses his optimistic attitude towards life from sadness.