[Song Dynasty] Su Shi

It is sunny at the beginning of the rain in Phoenix Mountain, the water and wind are clear, and the evening glow is bright. A hibiscus bloomed gracefully. A pair of egrets flew from nowhere, admiring Pingting if you wanted to.

Suddenly I heard mourning kites being played on the river, expressing their sorrow and emotion. Who should be sent to listen? The smoke gathers and the clouds gather, it is Xiang Ling as promised. I want to wait until the end of the song to ask for it, but no one is there, and the peaks are empty.

"Jiangchengzi: Listening to Playing the Zheng with Zhang Xian on the Lake" is a lyric work by Su Dongpo, a writer of the Song Dynasty.

This poem is about playing the zheng. It writes about playing the zheng without seeing the player, but uses what you see and imagine when you hear the zheng to set off its wonderful artistic conception.

In the description of the characters, the author uses metaphors and foil techniques to place the kite player in the beautiful lakes and mountains with clear sunshine and sunset after the rain, so that the characters and the scenery complement each other, and the music and the mountains and rivers complement each other. .

The author interestingly sticks to the title of "hearing the zither player" and describes the beauty of the zither player and the moving music from many aspects.

The first three sentences describe the scenery of mountains and lakes, which are just background images for the characters.

The two sentences "a lotus" follow immediately, which not only describe the lotus on the water surface, but also use the water lotus as a metaphor for the beauty playing the kite, which has the artistic effect of pun.

From a structural point of view, this scene is described on the surface, but in fact it turns to the description of the kite player, which is really seamless.

According to "Mozhuang Manglu", the kite player is in her thirties, "elegant and elegant, with great attitude". The metaphor of "a flower blooming over Shang Yingying" is used here to describe her, which is not only accurate, but also And it's very interesting.

Then the egret seemed to be admiring intentionally to highlight the beauty of the kite player. The two egrets in the poem actually refer to the situation of two guests staring blankly.

The next film focuses on music.

It is written from the overall melody of the music, so it is called "Ai Zheng". It is written from the emotions conveyed by the music, so it is said to be "bitter and emotional"; it is said to "who can be sent to listen", which means that the music is sad, who Can bear to listen, is written from the perspective of the listener;

The sadness of the music is further exaggerated, saying that the ignorant nature is also moved by it: the mist is restrained by it, and the clouds are faded by it;

Finally, to sum up, this sad music is like the goddess of Xiangshui playing the harp to express her sorrow.

Xiang Ling is an allusion to Emperor E and Nvying. The lyrics are written here, pushing the sadness and movingness of the music to the highest peak step by step. It seems that such sad and moving music does not belong to the world, but can only come from the hands of gods like the goddess of Xiangshui.

At the same time, the line "I am the Xiang Ling as per the contract" is a metaphor for the beauty of the kite player being like the Xiang Ling.

At the end of the poem, the sentence "according to the agreement" is about to be written about the person, but it adopts a hard-to-get approach. Not only does it not describe the character from the front, but it writes that the person playing the kite has drifted away, and only the bright green is visible. The peaks still stand quietly by the lake, as if the sad music still ripples across the mountains and waters.

"When no one is there, the peaks are numbered." The two sentences are used from the Tang Dynasty poet Qian Kaogong's poem "Provincial Examination Xiangling Gusel". "At the end of the song, no one is seen, and the peaks are numbered." It is so natural , appropriate but not revealing. Not only is its imagery moving, but its structure also implicitly inherits the phrase "Yi Yuan is Xiang Ling", combining the upper and lower allusions.

"Several Peaks" echoes the beginning of the poem "It begins to clear after rain in Phoenix Mountain", which describes the scene of rain passing through the mountains.