Ten famous poems about bamboo are as follows:
1. Bamboo and Stone
(Qing Dynasty) Zheng Xie
Stand firmly on the green mountains and not relax, establish roots It was originally in the broken rock.
After countless hardships, I am still strong, regardless of the winds from east to west, north and south.
Rhyming translation:
If you bite the green mountain, you will never let go.
The roots have already penetrated deeply into the rock.
After thousands of times of tempering, I have become more tenacious,
No matter how strong the wind comes from east to west, north to south.
Author's background:
Zheng Xie (1693-1765), also known as Kerou, also known as Banqiao and Banqiao Taoist. A native of Xinghua, Jiangsu. Born in the 32nd year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty. His father, Zheng Li'an, was a private teacher in the county and taught hundreds of students. Zheng Xie studied with his father since he was a child. He loved reading history books and poetry collections. He was erudite and memorized, and could recite all the books he read. Zheng Xie was an upright official, but later he resigned from office due to old illness and lived in Yangzhou. He had nothing but a few volumes of books, so he made a living by selling paintings. He is one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" and his poems, calligraphy and paintings are known as the "Three Wonders" by the world. His poets are Tao Yuanming and Lu Fangweng, and their bamboo paintings are like Su Dongpo's. Zheng Xie's calligraphy is a combination of running script and cursive script, forming a self-contained body. He calls himself "Six and a Half Script", and later generations call it "Banqiao" style.
Zheng Xie also wrote a poem with ink bamboo pictures to describe the sufferings of the people. The bamboo is thin, crisp and unconventional, which reflects his unique thoughts and ideas. The quality of thinking about the people. The meaning of this bamboo is basically similar to this bamboo.
Poem appreciation:
This poem focuses on expressing the tenacious and persistent quality of bamboo. It is not only a painting poem that praises rock bamboo, but also a poem that chants things. The beginning of the poem uses the word "Jie Ding" to personify rock bamboo and convey its charm; the last two sentences further describe the character of rock bamboo, which has passed through countless times. After many hardships, he has developed a particularly tall and graceful body, which is not afraid of the strong winds coming from the east, west, north and south. Zheng Xie not only sang beautiful poems about bamboo, but also painted bamboos that were lifelike. In his words, he "painted bamboos to comfort the working people in the world." Therefore, this poem is written about bamboo on the surface, but it is actually about people. It is about the author's own upright and stubborn character, and his arrogant character that will never bow to any evil forces. At the same time, this poem can also give us the touch of life. In the tortuous and harsh environment, we can overcome difficulties and face reality, being as strong and brave as rock bamboo.
2. Bamboo in the mountains in spring
(Tang Dynasty) Pei said:
Several green bamboo poles resemble dragon shapes, and they are steep and must be taught to grow here.
Infinite wild flowers cannot bloom, and the cold color in the middle of the mountain competes with spring.
Translation:
Several branches of bamboo are green and green, like soaring dragons. Such steep mountains are exactly where it grows. There is no way that countless wild flowers can bloom (on this steep mountain). Only bamboo can compete with spring in the coldness of the mountain.
3. The frosty bamboo arrows are proud of the snowy plum blossoms, competing with the heaven and earth for the return of spring.
(Qing Dynasty) Wei Yuan
Translation:
A famous saying of Wei Yuan, an enlightenment thinker, politician, and writer in the Qing Dynasty, is that bamboo still looks like a tree when it snows heavily. The arrows stand upright and are not bent by the snow; while the plum blossoms are in full bloom. When the poet saw this scene, he felt that they seemed to be fighting against heaven and earth, as if they were trying to bring spring back. The deeper meaning is that a person should be like bamboo and plum, with everlasting pride and not be overwhelmed by the unhealthy atmosphere of the outside world.
Author's background:
Wei Yuan is a progressive thinker, historian and patriotic scholar who firmly opposes foreign aggression. He actively requested the Qing government to carry out reforms, emphasizing: "There are countless laws in the world that have no disadvantages for hundreds of years, and there are no laws that remain unchanged indefinitely. There are all methods that can eliminate disadvantages and create benefits, and there are no methods that are easy to simplify and can be adapted." He focused on the economic field. Reform, before and after the Opium War, some plans and measures were proposed to reform water conservancy, water transportation, and salt administration, requiring the elimination of shortcomings in order to benefit the "national economy and people's livelihood", and believed that "the more ancient things become, the more convenient they will be for the people." These propositions were not only progressive at the time, but also played a positive role in promoting the subsequent bourgeois reform movement.
4. Shuangyun Pavilion
(Song Dynasty) Su Shi
The new bamboo basket cannot be restrained, and the beauty of Chan Juan is already old and cold.
To see the hint of frost, you have to wait for the autumn wind to fall.
deportment. But to see its solemn and respectable appearance, proud of the frost and cold, you have to wait until the autumn wind blows and the pollen falls.
5. Inscribed on Li Ciyun's Window Bamboo
(Tang Dynasty) Bai Juyi
There is no need to cut it into a phoenix tube or a fishing rod.
After the thousands of flowers and grasses have withered, they are left to watch in the snow.
Translation:
This poem is a poem with seven unique features. These two sentences mean that in the severe cold of winter, thousands of flowers and grasses have withered, but the bamboo in front of the window is still green; when it is snowing heavily, you can see green in the white, which has a unique mood of snow and cold. Showing the tenacious vitality of bamboo.
6. In late spring, when I returned to the mountains and lived in the mountains, I inscribed bamboo in front of the window.
(Tang Dynasty) Qian Qi
At the mouth of the valley, there were only a few yellow birds left in spring, and the apricot flowers were all gone.
I began to pity you under the window of Youzhu Mountain, and did not change the clear shade to wait for my return.
Translation
The late spring has withered at the mouth of the valley, the call of the oriole can hardly be heard, the spring flowers have already bloomed, and only the apricot blossoms are flying down. Spring has gone quickly, but the bamboo under the mountain window is really elegant and lovable; it is still vigorous and lush, waiting for my return.
7. Hsinchu
(Tang Dynasty) Liu Jian
Two or three clumps are laid down near the window to add tranquility and tranquility.
The shadow carved into broken gold first shines through the moon, and the sound knocks on the cold jade and shakes the wind.
Without Fei Sou, the smoke is blue, and Concubine Xiang’s tears are red.
Since Ziyou loves you, he is humble and high-minded in the snow and frost.
There are scattered golden moon shadows among the branches and leaves, and the branches hit each other in the wind, making a sound like cold jade. It is not about the story of Fei Changfang, an immortal scholar, who threw his bamboo stick into the smoke and turned into a dragon. Don't believe in the legend about the blood and tears of Empress E that fell on the bamboo branches and did not fade away. Wang Huizhi likes you precisely because of your humility and integrity, and your sentiment of standing upright in the frost and snow.
8. Hsinchu
(Qing Dynasty) Zheng Banqiao
The height of Hsinchu and the old bamboo branches are all supported by old people
See you again next year The new ones are like the ten-foot-long grandson of the dragon and the phoenix pond
Translation:
The new bamboo branches are higher than the old bamboo branches, all relying on the support of the old stems. Next year there will be another new born, the ten-foot-long dragon and grandson will come around Fengchi. "The first two sentences are a review, which not only expresses that "the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, the new generation is better than the old", but also expresses that the younger generations will not forget the elders. The grace of support and teaching; the last two sentences are prospects, used to express that the new forces will be better More powerful.
9. Green Bamboo Jun
(Song Dynasty) Su Shi
I would rather eat without meat than live without bamboo
No meat makes people thin, but no bamboo makes people fat.
Translation:
Bamboo has steadfastness." , a symbol of "elegance" and "integrity", Su Shi is quite thin. From this we can see that bamboo is really an elegant thing.
10. Hsinchu
(Song Dynasty) Yang Wanli
The east wind skillfully repaired the remaining mountains, and blew several poles of jade in one night.
Half-undressed and still half-dressed, the dragon has no faith and is afraid of the cold spring.
Translation:
The east wind was like a pair of skillful hands. It blew several green bamboos out of the bare mountains overnight. When I first saw the bamboo, it looked like it was half-undressed, so I believed that the bamboo was not afraid of the cold.
Author's background:
Yang Wanli, an outstanding poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. He became a Jinshi in the 24th year of Shaoxing (1154). Start career. However, he was upright and upright, spoke out when things happened, pointed out the ills of the times, and had no scruples, so he was never of great use. Seeing that his ambition could not be realized, he did not take up his post and returned home begging for a shrine official position (having no actual official position, only receiving a shrine salary, which was equivalent to retirement). From then on, he stopped serving as an official. He was summoned to Beijing several times by imperial orders, but he refused to go. In the second year of Kaixi (1206), he died of grief and anger because he hated Han Zhou for misusing power and ruining the country. He was eventually appointed as a scribe in Baomo Pavilion and was given the posthumous title of "Wenjie".
In fact, he did not bother to seek promotion when he was an official. When he was a Beijing official, he was ready to be dismissed at any time. Therefore, he prepared the travel expenses home from Hangzhou in advance, locked them in a box, hid them in his bedroom, and warned his family not to buy them. I am afraid that my luggage will be cumbersome when I leave my job and return to my hometown.