Magpie Bridge Immortal - Tanabata Translation and Appreciation

1, Tanabata: the seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, legend has it that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden crossed the Milky Way on this night to meet each other.

2, double star: refers to Altair, Vega two stars.

3, lethargy (yōng): lazy.

4, Juanjuan (juān juān): beautiful.

5, moon sister (zǐ): a fairy in the moon palace.

6, knit (pín): frown. The moon will be half-full on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, so it is said to be full of knitted eyebrows.

7, wind aunt: the legendary god of the wind. Originally, it was the wind uncle, and then it was the wind aunt.

8, grass: the meaning of haste.

9. Here is the meaning of not as good as.

10, not against: not as good as, not as good as.

Magpie Bridge Immortal - Tanabata Translation:

Tonight is a good time for the Cowherd and Weaver Maiden to meet, and the couple who meet are too lazy to be busy with plowing and weaving. The lonely group of fairies to be jealous: the delicate sister of the moon frowned tightly, the wind aunty Xing wind blowing rain heaven and earth perverse.

We are in a hurry to meet each other, and it is better not to see each other for a short time than to see each other, and to stir up again the sorrow of parting. The joy of meeting is always not as much as the sorrows of a long time, but adds a new sorrow to bring back to savor.

Magpie Bridge Immortal - Tanabata Background:

This poem was written in the first year of Chunxi (1174). Kong Fanli "Fan Chengda genealogy" Chunxi first year A Wu, "the end of the fall, Zhou Bidai have a book to. Zhou Yiguo Wenzhonggong ji - book manuscripts" volume six chunxi first year, "and Fan Zhineng senator" second book: '...... now in Guilin carry on. The last chapter of the 'Tanabata', especially said all the human feelings, cover must be walked and then know ear. It's a wonderful thing! The most wonderful of all! ...... ''Stone Lake words'' has two songs about Tanabata, one for ''Nankezi'' ''silver islet Yingyingdu'', one for ''Magpie Bridge Immortal'' ''two stars good night'', two of ''Magpie Bridge Immortal'', ''two stars good night''. The two 'magpie bridge fairy' is especially sincere, or for the Bida cloud of the piece."

Magpie Bridge Immortal - Tanabata Appreciation:

The story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden is a well-known one, and over the centuries, there has been no shortage of poems depicting the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden. Fan Dacheng's poem is a unique perspective and rhetorical techniques to describe, but also for the Song dynasty in the masterpiece.

"Two stars on a good night, plowing and weaving lazily, should be jealous of the group of immortals." The opening three sentences of just a dozen words will show people a picture of the night of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden magpie bridge will meet on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month. "Double star", write the eve is the cowherd, the weaving maiden will meet the good time, day and night hope, look forward to a year, only to have this one night of the meeting, its feelings can be happy again can be sad. "Lazy plowing and weaving" write cattle and women's mood, one is too lazy to plow, the other is too lazy to weave, both sides are looking forward to meeting as soon as possible to comfort the pain of longing. Looking at the starry sky, the Milky Way is brilliant, the cowherd has no intention of plowing, weaving and weaving, only for this once a year to meet, even the fairies in the sky are jealous. "Should be the group of fairies jealous", on this festive occasion, after all, the two can see each other, so the gods in the sky are also very jealous. Chang'e in the moon palace frowned tightly, the wind aunt is more wind blowing rain heart jealous. The two lines of "Juanjuan moon sister full eyebrow knit" actually write the weather condition of this evening, the crescent moon is like an eyebrow, there is wind and rain. Lyricist to anthropomorphism, said the beautiful Chang'e frowning, because of their meeting and think of their own loneliness, who let their greed ate the immortality drug, so they can only stay in the cold cold Palace and the Jade Rabbit for companionship. What is even more annoying is that the wind aunt even blowing wind and drumming rain. The "jealousy" behavior of the two goddesses contrasts the depth of the relationship between the cow and the woman, the reasonableness of their love for each other, and the difficulty of meeting each other. The first section of the song mainly draws a picture of the meeting at the magpie bridge for the readers, and by writing about the jealousy of the immortals, it contrasts the beauty of the "good night of two hearts" as well as the preciousness of the love of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden. It can be seen that the immortals are not indifferent to human life, but also long for the true love of mankind.

"meet grass, as if the rest see, re-stirring the parting of the heart," the poet here turned into a layer, focusing on the portrayal of the cowgirl's mentality of gain and loss, the nature of the myth is further personalized. On the surface, it seems that "meeting each other in the grass" is not as good as "seeing each other in peace", because it will "re-stir the feelings of separation". However, from a substantive point of view, they are all willing to pay years of anticipation for this "meeting grass and grass", which is their willingness, and obviously, in their own view, the "meeting grass and grass" is also very precious and more worth cherishing. The "re-stirring of parting thoughts" is nothing more than a trivial matter. Moreover, this is only the speculation of the outsiders who are observing the scene, and the people involved may not be so thoughtful. The poet so turned into a layer to envision, obviously has a deep meaning: only a deep taste of the sadness of the world's long parting, feel the "meet" valuable. Can the cattle friend's heart to make such a profound portrayal. Neither the tender love like water, good times like a dream of euphemism, nor "bear to look at the magpie bridge back to the road" sadness. Straight to the point, it is not easy to get together only once a year, but the hasty meeting has disturbed the parting feelings of the past. Only experienced a long parting, will understand that it is not easy to get together at this moment, not only the gods, in fact, the human world is also like this, and here is also exactly the parting of the human world to describe the Tanabata meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden.

"The new love is not as much as the old sadness, but added, the new sadness to go," these two sentences immediately after the last sentence and write, the meeting of the cowherd and the weaving maiden deeper portrayal. "The meeting is too short for those who love each other, and it is difficult to fill up the two hearts that love each other and are hurt, and it is just like a gale sweeping across the lake of the heart that has been calmed down, setting off ripples, and thus issuing the words of resentment, "I want to be as good as the rest of the world! "I am not sure if I am going to be able to make it, but I am going to be able to make it. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, day and night people parting, Tanabata moment, it is not easy to get together, but also can not help but disturb the old parting of the old sorrows of the past. The new love is so short-lived, and the old sorrow is so heavy. Years and years with this flavor, this year's short gathering will become next year's old worries, really old worries have not been eliminated, the new worries again, it is difficult to see each other when it is difficult to say goodbye is also difficult.

Song lyrics depicting the story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden in the words of more than "magpie bridge fairy" as the title, Fan Chengda's this song using the rhetorical device of setting off, with the group of fairies jealous of the plot to contrast the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden's tragic love, quite creative. The whole language is plain and simple, and the words are not shocking, as the saying goes, the splendor returns to the plain, and the story of the immortals is depicted with the true feelings of the human world.

The poet in this word, describing the cowherd and the weaving maiden meet once a year by the group of fairies envy, discussing their "meeting grass" gains and losses, profoundly reveals the separation of the cow and the maiden this tragedy is a tragedy that will never end. In such a tragedy, it is very precious to "meet each other in the grass". This far-sighted revelation shows that the poet's perception of the love of the oxen and the weaving maiden and the realization of life are more real, which is naturally more profound than sympathy or lamentation. Compared with previous poems on the subject of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, this one is also different in its intention. Ouyang Xiu's Magpie Bridge Immortal aims to emphasize the fact that "the will of heaven is not to teach us to grow long", while Qin Guan's main idea is reflected in the fact that "if two loves are long-lasting, is it not in the morning and in the evening". If Ouyang Xiu's words are to depict the human feelings through the fairy story, and Qin Guan is triggering his own feelings by the fairy story, then Fan Chengda's song is to depict the fairy story with human feelings.

In addition, this word in the art is very unique, the words of the cow woman love tragedy of the birth, very insightful, to the Chang'e wind aunt of the jealousy of the comedy plot, contrast, highlight, deepen the love tragedy of the cowherd and the weaving maiden. The language of the whole poem is simple and simple, with no ornate words, similar to the style of its idyllic poems. Qin Shaoyou's "Magpie Bridge Immortal" writes that the essence of love is to love each other sincerely, not caring about the vastness of the sky and earth, and the long period of time, which is elegant; however, the human heart is always the human heart, and the infinite and long parting, and the tragedy that never ends, are never tolerable by the human heart. Therefore, Fan Chengda's words have been loved by people for thousands of years, and there is a deep psychological reason for it. Qin's words are characterized by high feelings and elegant tones, which are rare and "special cases"; Fan's words express the general feelings of ordinary people, so they are universal. Xie Zhiwei's "Magpie Bridge Immortal" said, "The earthly flatland is also rugged, and I sigh that the silver man has never been windy. He even thinks that the love between the cow and the woman is unchanging without wind and waves; its powerful contrast expresses the misfortune of people's questioning. The same subject matter, different perspectives, each with its own unique characteristics, so the word court is to be everlasting.

Personal Information:

Fan Chengda (June 26, 1126 - October 1, 1193), the word Zhineng, a word of the young Yuan, early in his life, he called himself this mountain priest, and in the late days, he called the stone lake priest. He was a Han Chinese, a native of Wu County, Pingjiang Province (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). He was a famous official of the Southern Song Dynasty, a literary scholar and a poet.

In the twenty-fourth year of Emperor Shaoxing of the Song Dynasty (1154), Fan Chengda was appointed to the first rank of jinshi, and became a minister of the Ministry of Ceremony and a lecturer at the Palace of Government. In 1167, he was appointed as the governor of the city of Chuzhou. Qian Dao six years (1170), went on a mission to the Jin Dynasty, defied the power, not to dishonor the mission, after returning to the dynasty in addition to the Chinese bookkeeper. In the seventh year of the Qian Dao (1171), he went to Jingjiang province. Chunxi two years (1175), was appointed Shixi Wenge pending, the Sichuan system envoy. Chunxi five years (1178), by the Councillor, only two months, was impeached. In his later years, he retired to Shihu, plus Zizheng Hall of University. Shaoxi four years (1193), died, sixty-eight years, the gift of the five officials, and then added to the young master, the Duke of Chongguo, posthumous name Wenmu, the later generations called it "Fan Wenmu".

Fan Chengda has a literary reputation, especially in poetry. He started from the Jiangxi School, then studied the poetry of the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty, inherited the realism of the new music of Bai Juyi, Wang Jian, Zhang Ji and other poets, and finally formed his own style. His style was simple and simple, fresh and charming. The poems had a wide range of subjects, and the works reflecting the social life in the countryside were the most accomplished. Together with Yang Wanli, Lu You, and Youzang, he is known as the "Four Great Poets of the Middle Renaissance" of the Southern Song Dynasty. His works had a significant impact at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and even more so at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, when it was said that he had "a family in Jiannan and a household in Shihu". He is the author of "Shihu Jie", "Rangchu Record", "Wu Boat Record", "Wu County Records", "Gui Hai Yu Heng Zhi" and so on.

Fairy Gou Gou, high-definition clouds, do not learn from the stupid cow stupid girl. The phoenix xiao sound breaks in the moonlight, raising his hand to thank the time when people want to go.

Crews have committed crimes, the Milky Way waves, but also with the sky wind and sea rain. The first time we met, we got drunk, and the second time we met, we got drunk, and the third time we met, we got drunk, and the third time we met, we got drunk.

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