Wang Chao Seal Script Tang - Li Bai "Spring Night Banquet from Brother Peach Blossom Garden Preface" Appreciation

Shadow of the Salamander Editor's Collection

(December 23, 2019)

Introduction to the Art of Calligraphy by Wang Chao

Translation:

Heaven and earth are the adversaries of all things; time and light are the passers-by of a hundred generations. And the floating life is like a dream, for the joy of it? The ancient people with candles at night, good to have also. The spring called me to the smoke scene, the big piece of leave me to the article. The garden of peach blossoms, the order of heavenly happiness. The group season handsome, all for Huilian; I sing, only ashamed of Kangle. I have not yet finished my enjoyment, but I am now ready to talk about it. Open the agar feast to sit flowers, flying goblets and drunken moon. If we don't have a good song, how can we express our feelings of elegance? If the poem fails, I will be punished by the number of wine in the golden valley. (Peach Blossom A: Peach and Plum)

(See "Spring Night Banquet from Brother Peach Blossom Garden Preface" Tang Dynasty - Li Bai)

Notes

Peach Blossom Garden, suspected to be in the peach blossom rock of Anlu Zhaoshan. From: cóng (old reading zòng), cousin. From: cóng (old reading zòng), cousin.

Inverse: guest house. Inverse: meet. The traveler: the guest. The guest stops to rest, so the guest house is called inverse travel.

The guest of honor: the passing guest. Li Bai's "Twelve Songs of Ancient Songs" (9): "Those who are born are guests."

The meaning is that the difference between life and death is like the difference between dreaming and waking up.

The name of the company is "The Candle", which means that the company has to be happy.

These are the words of the author of the poem. The fifteenth of Nineteen Ancient Poems: "The day is short and the night is long, why not swim by candlelight." Cao Pi's "Book with Wu Qi": "Young and strong should really work hard, the year is over, why not climb up! The ancients thought of traveling by candlelight at night, but there was a good reason for it. There is a reason for this. Here is to say that life is limited, should be night and day play. By the way, the executive. The reason for this is the reason for the reason, the reason.

Yangchun: warm spring light. Call: call, derived from attraction. Smoke: the spring climate is warm, the scenery seems to contain smoke.

The big block: the earth. Nature. False: borrow, here is the meaning of provide, bestow. Article: here refers to the splendid literary talent. In ancient times, green and red match as the article, and red and white match as the chapter.

Sequence: through the "narrative", narrative. Tianlun: refers to the kinship relationship between father and son, brother and so on. Here, it refers to brothers.

Qun Ji: the brothers. The order of brotherhood is said to be the order of the eldest and youngest, said Bao (Meng), Zhong, uncle, quarter, so the quarter on behalf of the younger brother. Quarter: the name of the young. Ancient Bur (Meng), Chung, uncle, quarter ranking, quarter refers to the smallest of the same generation ranking. Here, it refers to the younger brother.

Huilian: Xie Huilian, a poet of the Southern Dynasties, was early in life. Here, Huilian is used to praise the literary talent of the younger brothers.

Yongge: chanting poems.

Kangle: Xie Lingyun, a landscape poet during the Liu-Song period in the Southern Dynasty, was awarded the title of Duke of Kangle, and was known as Xie Kangle.

The two lines of the phrase "a quiet appreciation": it is said that while enjoying the quiet beauty, while talking about the topic of elegance.

The "Qiong Feast" (yán): a gorgeous banquet.

羽觞（shāng）：Anciently a kind of wine vessel, made in the shape of a bird, with head and tail feathers. Drunken Moon: drunk in the moonlight.

Jingu wine number: Jingu, the name of the garden, Jin Shi Chong in the Jingu Jian (in the northwest of present-day Luoyang, Henan Province) in the building, he often banquets guests here. Later, it was generalized to refer to the common practice of forfeiting three cups of wine at banquets.

Background of the composition

In the fifteenth year of Emperor Xuanzong's reign (727 A.D.), the twenty-seven-year-old author came to Anlu, "leaving his country with his sword, and resigning from his family to travel far away. The Preface to the Spring Night Banquet in the Peach Blossom Garden of the Cousins was written in Anlu around 733 A.D. (the twenty-first year of the reign of Emperor Kaiyuan), when the author and his cousins feasted on a spring night and wrote a poem, for which he wrote this preface.

Interpretation

Li Bai's essays are essays of genius, with wide-open strokes, such as running clouds and flowing water, dashing and flowing, and bold and sweeping poetry. Which full of enthusiasm, high spirit is refreshing. In this paper, one hundred and nineteen words, has been the author's vigor and talent to show to the fullest. Li Bai loves life, loves life, this is Li Bai's true nature!

At the beginning of the article, Li Bai said that heaven and earth is the hostel on which everything in the world is hosted, and time and age are but a thousand years and a hundred generations of hasty passers-by. The floating life is like a dream, and how often can you have fun? On a spring night, the author and his cousins gathered in the peach blossom garden. A bright moon hung high in the sky, gently cascading down in silver splendor. The gentle spring breeze sent the fragrance of peaches and plums, and we drank wine and recounted poetry, what a wonderful time it was! He unfolded the broad bosom of the eldest brother, gently waved away the favor and humiliation of life, and spat out the heroic feelings of drinking wine and singing songs. At this joyful time, it is suitable for the author to recite elegant poems. His poem "A Dream of a Floating Life, The Geometry of Happiness" and Cao Cao's poem "The Geometry of Life, The Geometry of Life" are similar to each other in terms of boldness, and they are more expressive of the kind of arrogance and disdain for vulgarity that characterizes Li Bai.

Appreciation

The full text vividly describes the author's gathering with his brothers on a spring night, drinking wine and writing poetry. The author sighs that heaven and earth are vast, time passes easily, life is short, and joy is scarce, and he also supports this with the ancient saying, "Traveling by candlelight at night", which expresses the author's joyful mood of love for life and nature, and also shows the author's broad-mindedness of looking down on the past and the present. The article is written in a graceful and natural manner, with a resonant tone, and the wonderful parallel sentences make the article more colorful.

This article begins with the following words: "Heaven and earth are the reverse of everything. The light of the day, a hundred generations of passers-by. And life is like a dream, for the joy of geometry? Ancient people traveling by candlelight at night, good to also."

The author laments the vastness of heaven and earth, endless, time passes easily, life is short, and there is little joy.

The author lamented the vastness of heaven and earth, the endlessness of time, the shortness of life, and the scarcity of joy. The beginning of the article from the thinking of heaven and earth, time and light of the pen, issued to heaven and earth, all things, the life of the sigh, thoughts like a harnessed wild horse galloping with the vastness of the vastness of time and space, expressed his dashing out of the dust, the extraordinary style. Li Bai is using his own perception of nature and life to inspire readers to identify with him, and to ask everyone to enjoy nature, enjoy life, and to be happy in time.

"Situation of Yangchun called me to the smoke and scenery, the big piece of leave me to the article", the author used a conjunction indicating the relationship between the progressive "Situation" to take over the previous, and further answered the question "Why". The author uses a conjunction "situation" to further answer the question "why". "Life is like a dream, for the joy of it", and therefore should be "night" feast; not to mention that this is the "night" of spring, "Yangchun" use her "night" to "write". The "Yangchun" calls me with her "smoky scenery", and the "big block" offers her "articles" to me, so I can't let it down. Therefore, it is all the more necessary to have a banquet at night. These two sentences are really wonderful: first, the author only uses a few words to reflect the characteristics of the spring scenery. The spring sunshine is warm, red and lovely. The word "yang" in front of "spring" visualizes spring, making the reader feel a warmth and a reddish color in front of his eyes. In the spring, flowers, willows, mountains, water, and all other natural scenery, all wearing raw silk and dice, especially charming. Of course, that is not raw silk, but rather a curl of light smoke permeating the air. The word "smoke" in front of the word "scenery" reveals this unique picture. Thereafter, the "Yangchun Smoke Scene" is the same as the "March Fireworks" created by the author in the poem "The Yellow Crane Tower Sends Meng Haoran to Guangling", which immediately evokes infinite associations with the beauty of spring. As for calling all the things in heaven and earth "articles", it can also give readers a feeling of literary splendor and pleasing to the eyes. Secondly, these two sentences also anthropomorphize the aesthetic object. The "Yangchun" is sentient, and she calls me with the beautiful "smoky scenery"; the "big block" is also sentient, and she offers me the compiled "article". The "chunk" is also sentimental, she put the bad "article" to offer me. In this case, as the aesthetic subject of the "I" natural subject-object embrace, the integration of the inseparable.

"The following is the main body of the text, including six elements, and focus on writing "how". This sentence not only corresponds to the word "joy" in "for joy", but also gives it a specific content. This is the "joy" of "recounting the joys of heavenly life". The author has been separated from his disciples for a long time, and as a "floating student" in the feudal society, it is rare to enjoy the joy of heavenly families. Now, not only will they meet, but they will also meet in the colorful garden of peaches and plums, and Yangchun has called me to smoke and scenery, and the big block has assumed me to write articles, and here and now, "recounting the joy of heavenly happiness" is really a hundred times more joyful.

The Southern poet Xie Ling Yun's brother Xie Huilian worked in poetry and literature, hit the calligraphy and painting, the author said, "Qun Ji Zhudi Junxiu, all of them are Huilian". Xie Huilian than his younger brothers, needless to say, Xie Lingyun self-comparison. The words "I sing, but I am ashamed of Kang Le" are just self-effacement. Characters so handsome, talk naturally extraordinary. The next "secret appreciation has not been, high talk to clear", although it seems to be a double line parallel, but the former guest after the main. The object of "through" is the previous written "Yangchun smoky landscape" "big piece of article" and "Peach and Li Fangyuan";" The content of "talk" is mainly "heavenly pleasures", but it can also include the object of "appreciation". The object of "appreciation" is so beautiful that "poverty" is "secret appreciation"; the content of "talk" is so joyful that "talk" is "secret appreciation"; the content of "talk" is "joyful". The content of "talk" is so joyful that "talk" is "high talk". Here, the beauty of the scenery to accentuate the joy, the quiet passages to promote high talk, so that the joy of the passion to the climax.

The two sentences of "opening a banquet to sit on the flowers, flying goblets and drunken moon" focus on the "Spring Night Banquet Peach and Plum Garden", which is the flood peak of the wave of joy. The "moon" is the moon of "spring night", and the "flower" is the flower of "peach and plum". Brothers meet, flowers and moon shine together, enjoy the high talk, the joy is endless, and then followed by a feast and drink. "Flying goblet" sentence, Li Bai from the "feather" word, vividly used a "fly" word, the brothers drink the scene of revelry to the fullest. Drinking hard can certainly show revelry, but just drinking hard is not "elegant" enough. They were all poets. Drinking was not enough to enjoy themselves, so they had to compose poems. Thus, the whole piece ended with the lines of "If I don't have a good work, how can I stretch my mind".

The whole text of "Spring Night Banquet Peach and Lee Garden Preface" is more than a hundred words, tightly linked to the title, the word pearl, sentence colorful. Although the article is short, but the ups and downs, the style is handsome and elegant, the language is fluent and natural. It expresses Li Bai's love of life and natural scenery. The preface is very strong lyrical, the text, whether it is remembering the time, remember the place, remember people, remember things, are full of enterprising spirit and passion for life, the poet put this spirit and passion, fused to the hands and feet in the affection, the expression seems sincere and kind, full and cheerful, elegant and full of life.