Xiaoxiang, why not wait to return? The water is green and the moss is bright on both sides. Twenty-five strings play jathyapple, but you can't get rid of resentment. Geese, the lower reaches of Xiaoxiang, with beautiful scenery and abundant food, why did you just leave such a good place and come back to the north? Goose replied: Xiaoxiang area has beautiful scenery and rich food, so it could have been permanent. However, Xiang Ling's drums and harps on the moonlit night, and the tones that pop up from the twenty-five strings are so sad and sad! My feelings, just unbearable, had to fly back to the north.
Note 1 Xiaoxiang: The name of Ershui is in present-day Hunan. Idle: easy and casual. 2 Shui Bi Shaming: "Taiping Yu Lan" Volume 65 quotes "Xiang Zhong Ji": "Xiang Shui is clear, ... white sand is like snow. Moss is the food of birds, especially geese. 3 Twenty-five strings: fingering the instrument. "Songs of the South: Traveling Far": "Make Xiang Ling feel sad. "4 wins (sound shēng): bear. A
Qian Qi, a native of Xing Wu (now Zhejiang), has been an official in Chang 'an and Gyeonggi since he took office. When he saw the autumn geese flying south, he wrote the poem "Send the Wild Goose": "In the autumn sky, Wan Li is quiet, and it's lonely to travel south ... Looking far away, the homesickness is full of life. "This song" Returning to the Wild Goose "was also written in the north, but it was the spring geese returning from the south.
The poem chants "Returning to the Wild Goose". Wild geese are migratory birds that fly to the south for the winter in late autumn and fly back to the north in warm spring. The ancients believed that the autumn geese flew south without crossing the Huiyan Peak in Hengshan, Hunan Province. They flew to the north of the peak and settled in the lower reaches of Xiangjiang River, and then flew back to the north after winter. According to this understanding, the author thinks of the Xiangjiang River, the habitat of the geese before their return, and the myth that the goddess of Xiangjiang River is good at playing drums and harps from Xiangjiang River, and then connects the drums and harps with the return of geese according to the song "Fuck the geese", thus forming the whimsy in the poem.
According to this artistic conception, the author deliberately expressed his incomprehension about the return of the wild goose, contrary to the routine that poets of past dynasties took the spring wild goose north for granted. As soon as he wrote a pen, he split two sentences and asked, "Xiaoxiang, why are you waiting for it?" The water is green and the moss is bright on both sides. "Ask Guiyan why she is willing to leave the beautiful Xiangjiang River and come back. This abrupt inquiry immediately led the reader to the track arranged by the poet-ignoring the habits of geese and exploring the reasons for their return.
In the third and fourth sentences, the author gave an answer on behalf of the wild goose: "Twenty-five strings play jathyapple, but it's hard to clear up grievances, but it flies. "The goddess of Xiangjiang River drums her instrument (twenty-five strings) on a moonlit night. The instrument sounded sad and sad, and the geese could not bear to listen any longer before flying back to the north.
In this way, with the help of rich imagination and beautiful myths, the poet showed the readers the desolate realm of the Xiang God, and deliberately shaped the image of a wild goose who was sentimental and familiar with music. However, why is the Xiang God's drum and harp written by the poet so bleak? Why is it that the geese are so "unable to clear their grievances"? In order to find out the thoughts and feelings expressed by the poet, we can look at his famous work "Xiang Ling Gu Se". In that poem, the author pointed out with the poem "Cangwu came to lament" that the reason why Xiangshuijiang's god drums and harps mourned was because she pinned her thoughts on her husband, Shun, who died in Cangwu in the music. At the same time, there is also a poem "Chu Ke is unbearable", which shows that Chu Ke, who was demoted to Xiangjiang River, can't bear the sadness of the sound of the voice.
By comparing Xiang Ling Gu Se with Gui Yan, readers can understand that the sentence "I can't clear my grievances but fly here" in Gui Yan was originally performed from "Chu Ke is unbearable to listen to", and the author modeled the image of the traveling geese who lived in Xiangjiang River according to the "Chu Ke" who moved to another place. Therefore, he made the traveling geese hear Xiang Ling's sorrowful voice, so they were homesick and worried, and resolutely left the beautiful and rich Xiangjiang River and flew back to the north. "Although I believe in beauty rather than my native land, how can I stay less?" These two famous sayings in Wang Can's Ode to the Building, a writer in Jian 'an period, can be borrowed to illustrate the "mood" of the traveling geese in the poem "Returning Wild Goose", and it is by writing about the traveling geese full of guest worries that the poet tactfully reveals his thoughts of traveling abroad. This poem is novel in conception, rich in imagination, ethereal in brushwork, lyrical and euphemistic, and interesting. With its unique artistic features, it has become one of the famous poems about geese. Appreciation of Returning to the Wild Goose II
Sentimentality is the characteristic of ordinary poets. However, it is not a successful poet to be sentimental only, but not to be able to express this emotion properly and beautifully to arouse others' singing.
Qian Qi's "Returning to the Wild Goose" is to reveal some feelings on a spring night under the pretext of a question and answer between the poet and the wild goose, and to express deep feelings in a tactful and fluent form. The poet's own travel worries and homesickness are the motive force for writing poems, while the wild geese from the south or the serenade related to the returning geese are the opportunities for the poet to get inspiration and turn the wandering inspiration into vivid images. The poet's abundant inner feelings gave birth to his creation * * *, which will become a beautiful poem once he finds the appropriate language form.
The first couplet is the poet's inquiry about the returning geese. It is said that the wild geese fly south for the winter. When you arrive at Hengshan Huiyan Peak, you will turn back. So the poet has this question: Oh, geese from the south, why did you leave Xiaoxiang, a quiet and rich place with strawberry moss on both sides of the water, and fly back to the north all the way? The couplet was answered by Gui Yan on behalf of Xiang Ling: Because there was a drum instrument in jathyapple, I couldn't help but turn back the tune's coldness and sadness, so I turned it back. This answer is of course entirely imaginary, but this answer secretly (not directly and openly) leads to the legend of Xiang Ling's drum instrument, so that readers can see the image of a woman playing music by the river on a moonlit night and pour out her grievances, thus producing a reaction that they can't bear to listen to. Readers will understand the reason why the wild goose "flies away" (that is, turns back and flies away), and then through the question and answer between the poet and Gui Yan, a southern visitor, they will understand the poet's feelings of being in the north and missing his hometown in the south. This is exactly what Qian Qi really wants to express when he wrote this poem.
Poetry works: Gui Yan Poetry Author: Poems of Qian Qi in Tang Dynasty are classified as chanting things, writing birds and homesickness.