Li Qingzhao

Famous sentence: Do you know? Do you know that?/You know what? It should be green, fat, red and thin.

Guide reading

This article is one of Li Qingzhao's early ci poems. The ci fully embodies the author's love for nature and spring. Before the subversion of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao wrote many poems about drinking and cherishing flowers, which reflected the author's extremely leisurely and elegant life atmosphere at that time.

For example, dream preface is a epigraph name, formerly known as "Yi Xian Zi". According to legend, it was named after the phrase "dream, dream, waning moon and smoke" in the music created by the later Tang Dynasty.

sb's original words

Last night, it rained suddenly and the wind blew, so I slept soundly and didn't consume wine. Ask the shutter man, Haitang is still there.

Do you know that?/You know what? Do you know that?/You know what? It should be green, fat, red and thin.

To annotate ...

① Green manure: refers to lush foliage. Red and thin: it means that flowers are scarce.

Translate poetry

It rained lightly last night, but it was windy.

A deep sleep can't shake off the fatigue after drinking.

What's going on outside the shutter man?

She said that the begonia flowers are still in full bloom.

Right? Right?

It should be lush foliage and a lot of fallen flowers.

Make an appreciative comment

This poem by Li Qingzhao euphemistically expresses the author's pity for flowers and inner loneliness and depression through the description of the scenery in late spring.

The content of this word is a fragment and detail describing the life in late spring, and the conception is quite ingenious. The beginning of this word is unique. The author did not directly describe the scene of late spring withering, but based on waking up in the morning and starting from "last night" and the words he heard. First, write and listen from the perspective of hearing: "The rain and wind suddenly start"; Then write down your feelings from the perspective of perception: "A deep sleep does not consume alcohol"; Then write your thoughts from a psychological point of view: ask "shutter man" what is going on outside? The author foresaw that the flowers and trees in the garden must be lush green leaves and withered after a storm last spring night, so he eagerly asked the "shutter man" I didn't expect the careless "shutter man" to answer with "Haitang still". Such a detail set off a wave. In this regard, the author can't help but use two "know whether" and one "should" to correct his careless observation and wrong answer. Before that, the poet did not directly write what he saw, but through association, and finally turned it into a visual image: "green and fat, red and thin." The phrase "green and fat and red and thin" vividly reflects the author's regret that spring has gone and spring has come. But the "green manure, red thinness" here is just an empty talk in the author's mind. Whether the actual situation outside is like this has not been verified. It is precisely because this word has a transformation process from hearing to vision, from heart to objective reality that it leaves readers with a broad imagination and a chewy taste.

This word is lively and interesting, with scenery, characters, scenes and dialogues, which set off feelings with scenes and depict the psychological emotions of characters. At the same time, emotional comparison is made through questions and answers. In addition, personification and metaphor have been successfully used in ci, borrowing words such as "fat" and "thin" originally used to describe people to describe the lush green leaves and the scarcity of red flowers, suggesting the gradual disappearance of spring. This sentence is very creative in both the refinement of language and the use of rhetorical devices. Using "fat" and "thin" to describe natural scenery has become the original creation of female poets and cannot be copied.