What does the mountain title "Sunset Soaks in the Cold" mean?
Where does this poem come from? -Song Lei Zhen's Country Night
The complete original text of this poem is like this:
In a pond full of grass, the water is full of water, and the mountains cover the waves.
Cowherd's child sat on the cow's back and casually played the tune with piccolo.
I have published a translation for you so that you can understand this poem:
In a pond full of aquatic plants, the pond is full of water, and the mountains catch the sunset and drown the water waves.
The shepherd boy sat on the back of the cow and played tuneless music with piccolo at will.
Here are some words that I think are more important. Let me explain them to you separately:
Pit (bēi): pond.
Title: In the mouth. This article refers to the setting sun, half hanging on the mountainside, like being bitten by a mountain.
Immersion: Immersion.
Han Yi (yρ): Water ripple.
Straddle the back of an ox: Sit astride the back of an ox.
Cavity: tune.
Nonsense: whatever.
Home: Go back.
Creative background:
This poem should have been written by the author when he lived in seclusion and visited the farmhouse in his later years (probably during the reign of Song Duzong).
Having said that, let's appreciate and comment on this article together:
Many landscape works in Tang poetry of Song Dynasty are paintings in poems. But most of the paintings in Tang poetry are natural; Song people are more intentional. Especially in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, some writers often practiced this art in the form of four-line. Makes you feel that these poems are written in paintings. This poem is a relatively successful one.
This is a poem describing the night scene of the countryside. The poet's on-the-spot writing constitutes a rural night scene full of life interest: in a pond surrounded by grass, the water in the pond is full, the sun is about to set, and the red fireball seems to be eaten by the mountain (after setting), and reflected in the cold water ripples in the pond. The boy who drove the cow home sat on the cow's back and played piccolo carelessly. The poet used local materials to form a rural night scene with great interest in life.
Write the background in the first two sentences of this poem. The first sentence "the pond is full of grass" means that the festival is in late spring and the pond is full of grass. Drawing lessons from the famous sentence "Spring grass grows in the pond" in Xie Lingyun's "Climbing the pond upstairs", the word "full" is easy to "live", which shows the difference of festivals. "The water is full of evil" means that it coincides with the rainy season, so the water rises very high. Write the sunset in the distant mountains. The sunset hanging on the top of the mountain and Du Fu's "spit on four hills" are vividly expressed with a word "title". Another word "immersion" says that the setting sun and green hills are reflected in the water, much like Wang Anshi's sentence "The northern mountains lose their green and rise horizontally". The poem centers on the pond, where the grass is green and the water is clear as water, setting off the green hills and the sunset, and the middle is maintained with the word "immersion", making the pond look very lively and colorful.
The last two sentences show the loveliness of rural night scenes. The village children are playing flutes on their backs, carefree and innocent.
The poet went to see the shepherd boy and wrote down the night in the country with appreciation. He is very satisfied with such an environment with beautiful natural scenery and free life for people. Therefore, it is "nonsense" to write about a shepherd boy and let him play the flute "across the cow's back". Is the poet tired of the noise of the world and sees through the "red dust rolling", or is his nature quiet and unrestrained? In a word, this poem really depicts a carefree and extraordinary picture like a paradise, which is very harmonious in both color matching and the layout of the background and protagonist, while the scenery inside the painting and the sound outside the painting give people a beautiful feeling of tranquility and distance.
The picture of the poem is not big, but the scenery is concentrated on the pond, and the screenwriter is concentrated on the shepherd boy. They all put pen to paper around the word "village night", introducing people to the beautiful rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River, and making people yearn for the leisurely and quiet rural life. Prior to this, Zhang Shunmin's poem "Village Residence" had the sentence "No one lies on the cow's back at sunset, which leads west Western jackdaw home in pairs". Compared with this poem, a childlike shepherd boy appeared in the picture, replaced by a crow on the back of a cow to show the desolation of the village at night. The same rural scenery, because the poet's mood is different, the pictures taken are different, one is full of interest, the other is melancholy and lonely, so the poet has the saying that "all scenery words are sentimental words"
Finally, I believe everyone is not familiar with the author Lei Zhen. Let me introduce:
Song Lei Zhen, life is unknown. Or that Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan) is a scholar in Jiading, Song Ningzong. It is also said that he was a native of Nanchang (now Jiangxi) and a scholar in the first year of Song Duzong Xianchun (1265). For his poems, see Chronicle of Song Poetry (Volume 74).