"Lanxi Song" is a famous passage created by the Tang Dynasty poet Dai Shulun. The poem describes the beauty of the landscape and the joy of the fishermen on the banks of the Lanxi River on a spring night. Four verses in the whole poem. The first two sentences are about the moon, trees, river bends and mountains reflected in the water under the moonlight, and the verses are written beautifully and delicately; the last two sentences give people a completely different feeling, as if quoting a folk phenological saying, catchy, simple and unpretentious, and convincingly narrate a fact: when the spring rain falls, there will be more fish in the Lanxi River. Although the writing of the poems before and after is different, they harmoniously combine a picture of the spring river and the moon and night.
Translations
A crescent moon hangs over Willow Bay, and the moonlight is clear and cool. The mountain color of Yue is reflected on the horizontal mirror-like stream surface, which is beautiful. After three days of torrential spring rains, the stream soared, fish competed for new water, and rushed to the shoals in the middle of the night.
exegesis
(1) Lanxi: The Lanxi River in Wuzhou (present-day Jinhua, Zhejiang), also known as the Lanjiang River, is a tributary of the upper reaches of the Fuchun River in Zhejiang Province, southwest of present-day Lanxi City, Zhejiang Province. Zhào Song: A song sung by the boatman when he rocks the bridge.
(2) Cool Moon: New Moon.
(3) Yue: The ancient southeast coastal area was called Yue, in present-day central Zhejiang Province.
(4) Three days: three days. Peach Blossom Rain: Rain when peach blossoms bloom in Jiangnan spring.
Appreciation
This is a boat song with a folk song flavor. The poem writes with fresh and delicate brushstrokes the beauty of Lanxi's landscape and the joy of fishermen.
Folk songs that sing local scenery, except for special backgrounds (such as Liu Yuxi's "Stepping on the Lyrics"), are mostly filmed during the day. Because under the bright sun, all the scenery looks vibrant and bright, and they can fully display their beauty. This piece is unique, choosing the night as the background, singing another kind of beauty that people do not pay much attention to in the Jiangnan landscape resort. This is a significant feature of its materials and ideas.
"The cool moon is like an eyebrow hanging on willow bay", the first sentence writes the shore scenery seen by the boat line: a crescent moon bent like an eyebrow, reflecting the cold darkness, is hanging low on the willow branches of the bay. On the spring night after the rain, the moon color appears clearer; it is March (from the "peach blossom rain" below), and the willows are already hanging. Eyebrow moon new willow, contrasting with each other, full of freshness.
"Look in the mirror of the middle mountain color", this sentence is transcribed from the water color mountain shadow. The area around Zhejiang was ancient the land of Yueguo, so it was called "Yuezhong". "Looking in the Mirror of Mountain Color" depicts a beautiful picture of the water in the middle of Vietnam as clear as a mirror, and the beautiful colors on both sides of the strait reflect the bottom of the water. The repetition of the word "zhong" in the sentence not only adds to the aria flavor of the folk song, but also conveys the pleasant taste of enjoying the scenery in the water at night while singing on the spot.
"Lanxi three days of peach blossom rain, carp come to the beach in the middle of the night." The boat continued on its way, unconsciously moving from the gentle mirror-like water to the beachhead. Hearing the roar of the beach, the poet thought of the spring rains of the past few days, the water of Lanxi Rising, and the sound of the beach sounding more abrupt. In the sound of the beach, it seems that from time to time the sound of the fish being stabbed when they go against the water, the poet can't help but think that this should be the carp of Sahuan taking advantage of the rising water of the Spring River to go up the beach. When the peach blossoms bloom in February and March in the south, there is a gentle spring rain. This continuous drizzle can make the river rise, but it will not make the water color muddy, so the second sentence has a description of the water as clear as a mirror, if it is a peach blossom flood in the north, there is no clear scenery of "seeing in the mirror of mountain color". This shows the poet's realness in observing things and describing the scene. Because it is a boat in the middle of the night, the night is originally relatively dim and hazy, here is deliberately selected "peach blossom rain" literal, I feel that the impression adds a dark winter color; the night is originally more quiet, here is specially written to the sound of carp on the beach, so that the quiet night adds a lively breath of life. In fact, the "March peach blossom rain" and "carp coming to the beach" written here are not eye-to-eye scenes, the former has this association because of the noise of the beach, and the latter has this speculation because of the swimming fish. Both are imaginary scenes of the poet. It is precisely because of this layer of imagination that the poetry is more intense.
Looking through the whole poem, it can be found that although this boat song takes the night of Lanxi as the background, it focuses on not the quiet and hazy of the night, but the freshness and clarity of the night scene of Lanxi. And this reflects the unique folk song rhyme of this poem, the joy of the fisherman.
Creative background
Dai Shulun served as the commander of Dongyang (present-day Zhejiang) from May 780 AD to the spring of the following year, and Lanxi (also known as Lanjiang, an upstream tributary of the Fuchun River) was near Dongyang, and the specific time of the poem is unknown, but it was composed around this period.
Dai Shulun (732-789), a poet of the Tang Dynasty, was a native of Jintan, Runzhou (present-day Changzhou, Jiangsu). When he was young, he was a teacher of Xiao Yingshi. He served as the envoy of Xincheng Ling, Dongyang Ling, Fuzhou Assassin History, and Rongguan Jingjing. In his later years, he asked himself to be a Taoist monk. His poems mostly express the reclusive life and leisurely mood, but the articles such as "Female Cultivators in the Fields" and "Tun Tian Ci" also reflect the hardships of people's lives. The poem advocates that "the scenery of the poet, such as the blue field and the warmth of the sun, the good jade and the smoke, can not be expected to be placed before the eyebrows." His poetry genre is all covered.