Creation background
This is a sentence written by Xin Qiji when he passed Huangshaling Road in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province in his middle age. Xin Qiji served as an official in the Southern Song Dynasty, but his bold and open-minded remarks and decisive and capable style, especially his political proposition of advocating the war of resistance and recovering lost territory, were envied by his colleagues and hit by the highest ruling class. In the eighth year of Song Xiaozong Xichun (1 18 1), Xin Qiji was dismissed as a traitor and returned to his home in Youhu, Shangrao. He lived like this for nearly fifteen years and lived a retired life. During this period, although he had a short experience as an official, most of him lived in Shangrao.
Huangshaling is 40 miles west of Shangrao County. The ridge is about 15 feet high, deep and open, and can accommodate 100 people. There are two springs below, and water flows out of the stone, which can irrigate more than ten acres of fields. This area is not only beautiful, but also a good area for irrigation and water conservancy. Xin Qiji often visited Shangrao during his stay there. There are about five poems describing the scenery in this area, that is, two poems by Sheng Chazi, two poems by himself in Xiyan, one poem by Huangshaling in Huanxisha, one poem by Gutian and one poem by Jiang Yue in Xi, and a night tour in Huangsha Island.
original text
Xijiang moonlit walking on Huangsha Road
The moon on the horizon rose to the top of the tree, scaring away the magpies perched on the branches. The cool evening breeze seems to have spread to cicadas in the distance.
In the fragrance of rice and flowers, people talk about the harvest of a year, and frogs croak in their ears, as if in a bumper harvest year. In the old days, Maodian was near the forest, and the road turned to the stream bridge.
Vernacular translation
The bright moonlight woke up the magpies perched on the branches, and the midnight breeze brought cicadas in the distance. There is a fragrance of rice in the rice fields, and frogs are singing the harvest year.
Sparse starlight is shining on the horizon, and there is a little drizzle in front of the mountain. I wanted to take shelter from the rain in the stream and turned a corner on the small bridge. Suddenly I saw the familiar old Maodian on the edge of the jungle next to the Earth Temple.
Sentence annotation
Xijiangyue: Tang's name, which was later used as a epigraph name. Also known as Bai Pingxiang, Bu Xu Ci, Evening Fragrance Time, Jade Furnace Three Rivers Snow, Jiang and so on. Double-tone 50 words, even. The latter sentence is the same as the former.
Huangsha Road: It refers to a rural road about 20km from Maodian in Huangsha Village, Huangshaling Township, Shangrao County, Jiangxi Province to Huangshaling in Dawu Village. During the Southern Song Dynasty, it was a prosperous official road, which went straight to Shangrao ancient city, to Shangrao in the east and to Qianshan in the west.
"Bright Moon" sentence: It means that the bright moonlight woke up the magpie sleeping on the branch. Su Shi's poem Er Yun Jiang Ying Shu states: "When the moon is in the sky, magpies are not in its branches, but float with the shadows." Other branches, oblique branches.
Cicada: Cicada chirps.
Listen: Listen. Take, auxiliary words, indicating dynamic.
"July 8th" sentence: He Guangyuan's "Book of Lessons" Volume 5 "Yi Ge" article: "Assistant Minister Wang Shulu, allow me to recite poems, and there are many unusual and easy words. There is a poem in Songmen Temple:' Two or three pieces of electricity are about to rain, and seven or eight stars are still in the sky.' "
Old times: the past. Maodian: A small inn with a thatched roof. Mao, a "Mao". Schelling: Woods near the Earth Temple. Society, land temple. In ancient times, there were community trees in the village, which were sacred places, so they were called community forests.
To appear suddenly. Look, use "now", appear, appear.
Brief introduction of the author
Xin Qiji (1140-1207) was a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. The word euan, no. Jia Xuan was born in Licheng (now Jinan, Shandong). At the time of birth, the Central Plains was occupied by nomadic people. 2 1 year-old joined the anti-Jin army and soon returned to the Southern Song Dynasty. He has been to Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian and eastern Zhejiang. He persisted in resisting gold all his life. He has been on "Ten Comments on Meiqin" and "Nine Comments" to explain the strategy of war and defense, showing his outstanding military talent and patriotic enthusiasm. However, the anti-gold proposal was not adopted and was hit. They once left their jobs for a long time and lived in Shangrao and Qianshan, Jiangxi. Han Biaozhou was in power for a time and died soon. His lyrics expressed patriotic enthusiasm for restoring national unity, poured out his grief and indignation, and condemned the humiliation and peace of the rulers at that time. There are also many works that praise the rivers and mountains of the motherland. The artistic style is diverse, mainly bold. Passionate, generous and tragic, vigorous brushwork, and Su Shi are also called "Su Xin". And "Jia He's Short Sentence". Modern people compiled Notes on Xin Jiaxuan's Poems.
Make an appreciative comment
This statement is true among the people, accurate in confusion and sharp in continuous process. Write the present scene, but find another way; To get rid of words and refine them, you have to carve things into your mind.
The first two sentences, "The bright moon surprises the magpie, and the cicada chirps in the midnight breeze", superficially describe the extremely ordinary scenery such as wind, moon, cicada and magpie. But through the clever combination of the author, the result is unusual at ordinary times. The magpie is flying around the oblique and abrupt branches, not hovering over the ordinary tree heads. Because of the bright moonlight, the magpie was awakened; Magpies flying in fright will naturally cause other branches to shake. At the same time, cicadas have their own time to sing. The chirping at night is different from the neighing under the scorching sun. When the cool wind blows slowly, it is often very quiet. In a word, the sentences of "surprised magpie" and "singing cicada" contain the silence in the movement, and describe the scenery under the "breeze" and "bright moon" in the middle of the night carefree and fascinating.
Then, "the smell of rice flowers and the sound of frogs" shifted people's attention from the sky to the fields, showing that the poet was not only infiltrated by the soft smell on the yellow sand road at night, but also concerned about the smell of rice flowers coming from all over the village, and was associated with the upcoming harvest scene by the smell of rice flowers. Here and now, the joy of the poet breathing with the people is beyond words. The "fragrance" of the rice flower fragrance is of course a description of the blooming of the rice flower fragrance and an expression of the sweet feeling in the poet's heart. The main body of a good year is not the sound of magpies commonly used by people, but the sound of frogs, which is the original creation of the poet and amazing. In the poet's feeling, he heard frogs clamoring in unison in the rice fields and quarreling over the harvest. First, the content of "saying" is given, and then the source of "sound" is filled in, saying that frogs everywhere in the harvest year are the creation of poets.
The above four sentences simply describe the scenery of the local mountain road on a summer night and the mood of the poets at that time, but the core is that summer night full of harvest years. Therefore, this is not so much a summer scene as the happiness that the current summer scene will bring to people.
However, the summer scenery described by the poet did not end there. If the first part of the poem is not a description of the vast summer scenery, then the second part is obviously won by the changing waves and Liu Yin Road. Because there is a clear pause in conception and melody at the end of the first part, at the beginning of the second part, the poet sets a steep peak and uses antithesis to strengthen the stable tone. There are seven or eight stars in the sky, two or three before the rainy mountain. The "stars" here are sparse stars, and the "rain" is a slight shower, which is in line with the quiet night, quiet atmosphere and simple atmosphere in the upper city. In particular, a poem "Beyond the Horizon" and a poem "In front of the Mountain" were originally out of reach, but as soon as the pen turned and the bridge passed, the shadow of the Maodian near the village forest was unexpectedly displayed in front of people. Although the poet is familiar with the path on the Huangsha Road, he always forgets to cross the "outer sky" and the "front of the mountain", because he is obsessed with the sound of frogs pouring out the joy of the good years in front of him, and even the Maodian near the forest near the Shemiao is unaware of it. The former's "turning the road" and the latter's "suddenly enlightened" not only show the poet's sudden enlightenment and the joy of being close to his old house, but also express his ecstasy because he was immersed in the fragrance of rice flowers and even forgot the distance of the road. The two complement each other, which reflects the author's profound artistic foundation and is intriguing.
On the surface, the theme of this word is nothing more than some seemingly ordinary scenery. There is no carving in the language, no use of an allusion, and the arrangement of levels is completely natural and simple. However, it seems dull, but it has the poet's concentrated artistic conception and sincere feelings. Here, readers can also appreciate another realm of Jia Xuan's ci beyond the majestic and heroic.