Thirty Songs to Read Wang Wei (3) - A Green Girl

Shallow white rock beach, green pu to kan. The family lives in the water things, huansha under the bright moon.

First of all, this is a beautiful little poem.

Secondly, it is a small poem about the beauty of a girl.

The clear stream, shallow over the white-stone tidal flats, the green grass has just grown to the point of just a grip, here to explain, what xiang kan means. Xiang, is the meaning of the nearest, just now, kan, is just the meaning, put, is the meaning of holding with the hand, grasp it. Home is located in the east and west of the stream, so there is more than one home, that is, more than one person, of course, it can also be that the stream turns around people's homes, and the green water people go around it - the sentence in Su Dongpo's butterfly love flower. Then someone washed the hazy white veil in the bright moonlight.

The beauty of this poem is very good to feel, and the above picture mood is enough for the reader to appreciate its beauty, but why say that there is a girlish beauty here? Speaking of Huan Sha, our first reaction, Xi Shi! But Huan Sha's must be a girl like Xi Shi? Can't it be the old lady of the drifting mother - the drifting mother is a woman who takes the laundry as a profession, the bleacher who rinses clothes, the mother of the tigress.

Therefore, it is necessary to feel the more potential and rich information conveyed by this image from the use of specific images, and each image may contain metaphors that are not clearly spoken, the so-called metaphors, simply put, are hidden metaphors. The usual metaphor will clearly list the ontology and the metaphor, and at a glance, you will know, oh, this is a metaphor, comparing the woman to the flower, the woman is the body, the flower is the metaphor! And the imagery in the poem, the metaphor it contains, the body and the metaphor will not appear at the same time, it is easy to be ignored by the reader, there is also a metaphor hidden here, see the mountain, think that it is talking about the mountain, see the water, think that it is talking about the water, in fact, it is not always so simple, sometimes see the mountain is not only the mountain, see the water is not only the water.

Okay, now let's read the poem again and see which image in the poem hides the metaphor.

In fact, if you are familiar with the common imagery in classical culture, you will know that the visually soft and slender plants such as pucao, female rose, and willow are often used as a metaphor for women, which is in line with the psychological imagination of ancient society for the soft image of women with its cultural inertia. Therefore, on the edge of the white rock beach, playing with the green pu in the shallow stream is not just a beautiful fragment of life, it will also lead to another fragment. Many images in a poem are to echo and reflect each other, as a separate image, it may be ambiguous, and it may not be clear to see, but when it is associated with other images, they will corroborate each other, become each other's mirrors, and more clearly reflect each other's image. Therefore, when the image of the Huansha woman appears in the back, the image of the Pu people just now will inevitably overlap with the Huan Sha Women, and in this poem, it may be said that the Pu People are the Huan Sha Women.

What we also need to pay attention to is that we have made a simple explanation of the "Xiang Kan Handle", repeat, the green grass has just grown to the extent of just a hand, if the grass is compared to a woman, the hint of this female image has been repeated and confirmed in the image of the raccoon woman, then the green pula that just grew into it is not further implied that it is equivalent to a girl?

That is to say, when the image of the Caipu people is expressed as a clearer image of a young girl through the more precise hint of "Xiang Kan", this image will in turn give the Huansha nu a more specific feature, that is, the Huanshanu will also be expressed as a maiden, which is the effect of the imagery reflecting each other.

When fully aware of the protagonist image shown in this poem, all other descriptions and performances in the poem will revolve around this image and be highly harmonious with it, so the small fresh breath of the shallow white rock beach, pay attention to the three words of clear, shallow and white, is it highly consistent with the charm of the girl? Similarly, the tulle under the bright moon, such a beautiful and feminine scene, is not it also complementary to the beauty of the girl? These two scenes, the light brightness of the white stone green pu water, and the haze of the moonlight tulle, complement each other, and vividly express the beauty of the girl in the fresh countryside.

Why do you say it's a pastoral girl? Because whether it is picking pu or raccoon yarn, on the one hand, it can be seen as the labor of pastoral life, on the other hand, it also has the nature of the game contained in the natural vitality of young girls. This organic combination of play and labor, interpreted by the image of middle-aged and elderly people, is far less relaxed and natural than using children and teenagers, so how is It written in Qingping Leli of Xin Abandoning Disease: "The eldest child hoes bean Creek East, and the middle child is weaving a chicken coop." The most favorite child is the rogue, the creek head lying peeling lotus canopy. "All use the image of children's labor, and use childlike fun to ease the interest of labor." The same is true of Wang Wei's poem. Pastoral poetry generally has a tendency, that is, to idealize and beautify pastoral life, but labor is the basic and unavoidable element of pastoral life, so it is necessary to make labor easy, interesting and beautiful, if The word of Xin Abandoning Disease is to beautify the childishness of pastoral life, then Wang Wei's poem is to use the image of a young girl to sublimate pastoral life to the most sensual beauty.

Well, let's sum up at the end, the poem of White Pebble Beach is a beautiful little poem that uses the beautiful image of a young girl to fully express the beautiful pastoral life.