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Preamble:
The mountains are covered with peach and plum blossoms, and the fireworks in the clouds are people's homes.
The silver and gold hairpins come to bear the water, and the long knives and short hats go to burn the sheaves. ——Tang Liu Yuxi, "Nine Bamboo Branch Songs, Its Nine"
On the undulating spring mountain, peach blossoms and plum blossoms are blooming one after another, all over the mountains, layer upon layer.
From afar, curling smoke rises from the shade of flowers and trees, which must be a village settlement.
Wearing a silver bracelet on her hand and a gold hairpin on her head, a woman dressed in makeup went down the mountain to carry water and prepare to cook.
With a long knife on his waist and a short hat on his head, the man went to the mountains to set fire to the wasteland and prepare for sowing.
The steaming fireworks in the world, this spring in Kuizhou, is so full of vitality and vitality.
At that time, Liu Yuxi served as the assassin of Kuizhou, and compared with Sima of Langzhou, although his official position was promoted, he did not leave his nationality.
This is the spring of the second year of Changqing (822), and it has been seventeen years since Liu Yuxi was demoted and left Beijing.
My heart is my hometown. Living in a foreign land, although he has relatives, Liu Yuxi is still full of love.
When spring comes, I am full of joy, and when I return from spring, I send each other calmly, this is Liu Yuxi's openness and positivity.
"Sending Spring Words" was written when he derogated Bashan Chushui, and wrote his optimistic and open-minded mentality.
Yesterday I came upstairs to welcome the spring, and today I went upstairs and sent back.
Lan Rui's residual makeup was weeping, and the wicker long sleeves waved to the wind.
The beauty changed her face in the mirror, and Chu Ke Linjiang was disobedient.
Eternal hatred is like a drunken forgetfulness. ——Tang Liu Yuxi, "Sending Spring Words"
Short translation:
Yesterday just went upstairs to usher in spring, today I went upstairs to send it back, the orchid withered, the remnants of the stamen with dew, as if reluctant, wicker waving, as if to send off.
The beauty has aged her face, and the guest has lost her thoughts, the four seasons have turned, ancient and modern, instead of sad spring and autumn, why not drink happily and go with the flow.
Analysis:
This is a lyrical work borrowed from the scene, borrowing the occasion of spring, expressing the reluctance to the passage of time, combined with their own experiences, expressing an open-minded and optimistic attitude towards life, giving people encouragement.
"Yesterday I came upstairs to welcome the spring, and today I went upstairs and returned", the first couplet wrote a helpless feeling for the passage of time, coming and going in a hurry, never staying for any personnel.
Liu Yuxi was a young man, at the age of 21, he was admitted to the Jinshi with Liu Zongyuan, and at the age of 30, he was already an official to supervise the imperial history, and then served in the imperial history platform with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and other friends.
In 805 AD, with the failure of the Yongzhen Reform Movement, the 33-year-old Liu Yuxi was demoted from Beijing, and in the following 20 years, he traveled to the local government and traveled all over the Bashan and Chushui.
Spring came again and again, the leaves were green again and again, but there was no spring breeze in any year, which was for the down-and-out degraded people.
Therefore, climb the stairs and look into the distance, see the green, fat, red and thin spring and return, but I am far away in the world and don't know when I will return.
"The remnants of the orchid are weeping with dew, and the long sleeves of the wicker are waving to the wind", the jaw couplet adopts anthropomorphic techniques to write the scene of late spring, the orchids are scattered, the remnants are dewed, and the willow tree has grown long branches.
The flowers bloom for a period, the high-quality spring orchid is wilting, the residual stamen contains dew, as if it is reluctant to leave spring, the green willows are shady, and the long branches are swaying in the wind, which seems to be a farewell.
On the one hand, there is withering, on the other hand, there is a new life, the grass and trees in the world are deep, there is always endless beauty, on the one hand, there is pity, on the other hand, there is admiration, this is Liu Yuxi, the light is always in the heart.
Never negative and decadent, the sun is late, he praises "Mo Dao Sangyu night, for the sun is still full of sky", personnel changes, he feels that "the new leaves of Fanglin urge the old leaves, and the front wave of flowing water makes the back wave".
"The beauty changes her face in the mirror, and Chuke Linjiang is against the heart", the neck couplet is deep, expressing that he has been wandering for many years, so he can't use it.
After many years, even if it is a beauty in the city, it is difficult to resist the consumption of time, and her appearance is difficult to look like the past, and she has traveled to many places, wasted her years, and is melancholy in the wind, how can you not have thousands of thoughts!
At the beginning of the demotion to Langzhou Sima, can not listen to official affairs, ten years, only to place their love on reading books or landscapes, or "an autumn lantern night reading", or "travel more than 10,000 miles in Xiaoxiang".
Then he successively served as the history of Lianzhou Thorn, the history of Kuizhou Thorn, and the history of Hezhou Thorn, and traveled in many ways, trapped in other places, and it was difficult to display his ambitions for so many years, which was always contrary to his own wishes.
Liu Yuxi has the talent of the prime minister, and he also compares himself to Qu Yuan, who was also slandered, innocently degraded, and exiled to Xiangyuan, so in the face of the passing of spring, it is difficult to repay his ambitions, and he has a sense of twilight of beauty.
"Eternal hatred is the same as this, as if a drunk forgetfulness", the tail couplet is the theme of the whole poem, but also the sublimation of emotion, since you can't change the reality, then why not enjoy the moment happily?
The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. Time is eternal, year after year, it is always unhurried, so why are we sad in the world? Why not go with the flow?
"Since ancient times, autumn has been sad and lonely, and I say that autumn is better than spring", it is precisely because of this light in his heart that illuminates the darkest moments in the degraded years, so that he can keep the clouds open and see the moon.
Postscript:
"Bashan Chushui desolate, twenty-three years abandoned", after twenty-three years of derogatory career, in the second year of Baoli (826 AD), Liu Yuxi returned to Luoyang by edict.
Passing through Yangzhou, Bai Juyi, who dismissed the official Suzhou Assassin History, met unexpectedly, and the two who had heard his name for a long time hit it off at first sight.
"Thousands of sails on the side of the sinking boat, ten thousand trees in front of the sick tree", for the changes of the world and the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, the optimistic Liu Yuxi can always face it calmly with an open-minded mind.
Although the best years of his life were spent in unhappiness, he did not waste these more than 20 years, writing and writing, and achieved outstanding literary achievements.
Although the spring breeze in another country did not come for him, he was intoxicated by the spring in a foreign land, and because of his love, he wrote "Nine Bamboo Branch Songs" full of vitality.
"Eternal hatred is like a drunken forgetfulness", it is also because he is full of love for life and life, so he can write Daguan's "Sending Spring Words".
Bibliography:
The New Tang Dynasty Book The Biography of Liu Yuxi