Good Rain Moistens Things, Silent —— Appreciation of Ancient Poetry Spring Rain

-appreciation of ancient poems about spring rain

Wang chuanxue

Rain, originally an objective image of nature, frequently appears in poets' works and becomes people's aesthetic object. Especially for the spring rain, it can be said that it has a special liking. Spring rain is the source of the growth of all things. Chapters about the image of spring rain in ancient poetry, or songs do their best to imitate natural elves; Or the environment promotes images, develops spiritual connotations, and makes people recite them repeatedly, thus obtaining aesthetic pleasure.

Among the voluminous ancient poems, there are many works that describe and chant the spring rain. Poets of all ages have painted the beautiful scene of spring rain with colorful pen and ink.

Among all the Tang poems describing the spring rain, Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote it incisively and vividly. There are more than fifty poems about rain in his collection of poems, among which four are entitled "Happy Rain". Among them, the first "Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night" endowed Chunyu with human life and emotion, full of love and praise for Chunyu, the most famous of which is:

Good rain knows the season, when spring comes. ? Sneak into the night with the wind, moisten things silently. ? The wild path is dark, and the river is bright. ? Look at the red and wet place, the flowers in Jinguancheng are heavy.

In the poet's view, spring rain knows the season, is considerate, and comes quietly when people are in urgent need, prompting the opportunity and nourishing everything. Therefore, the poet was so surprised that he couldn't sleep all night. He only hopes that the spring rain will last all night. Pushing out the door, standing in the distance, I saw the spring rain fluttering, and the clear field path was completely dissolved into the boundless night. The fishing fire on the river boat is more bright and dazzling in the dark spring night. When the poet witnessed this scene, he was happy to think that the delicate, colorful and fragrant flowers blooming at dawn were the result of silent drizzle at night, and Jinguancheng would present colorful and touching spring scenery.

Shen Deqian, a critic of poetry in Qing Dynasty, praised this poem as "the God who sows the spring rain" in his Collection of Tang Poems. Indeed, the poet wrote the inner spirit and soul of the spring rain. Spring rain, considerate and agreeable, falls at the right time, accompanied by a breezy breeze, gently falls from the sky to the uneven land in the dead of night, quietly penetrates into the soil and finally disappears. Restrain without publicity, pay without taking. However, it is its change from cloud to rain that constitutes the sublimation of countless lives in spring. All living things on earth praise its Hui Ze!

For the spring rain, poets are full of joy and love:

Like the dirt and dust on your face, like washing your hair with cream.

Thousands of Xi trees are running, and thousands of leaves are fresh and green.

This is Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, who described the long drought and rain in his poem "Happy Rain". The first two sentences write the comfort and comfort brought by the spring rain from their own feelings; The last two sentences are about the prosperity of flowers and trees after being moistened by rain. The fresh and natural sentences make people feel the unfailing childlike innocence of Yu Chunyu poets.

It is also "Happy Rain". The Spring Rain by Zhou Bangyan, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, is about farmers.

Farming people help Leiyu forest and hills,

A seagull falls outside the flower from time to time.

In order to know the rainfall in spring,

The wild pool overflows and can be returned to the ship.

This poem shows the poet's love for "Spring Rain". The poet thinks that spring rain is beneficial to farmers' farming and rich in water, which can be used for navigation. The poet uses subtle and euphemistic artistic techniques, and there is not a word "hi" in the whole poem. He described the words of the plowman and the fall of the gull from the side, and implicitly expressed the joy brought by the spring rain. The latter two sentences positively describe abundant rainfall, thus setting off the poet's love for spring rain. Pay attention to variability in structural layout, say something else first and show it on the side; After seeing the main body, the "spring rain" is highlighted in front, which echoes and complements each other.

Han Yu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the texture of spring rain as "moist as crisp" in Zhang Eighteen Members of the Water Donation Department in Early Spring;

The rain in Tianjie is as slippery as crisp,

The color of the grass is close in the distance, but not at all. ?

The biggest advantage is that one spring,

It's better than the smoke willow in the imperial city. ?

It was raining lightly in the imperial capital, which made the earth soft and the grass was exposed. From a distance, it is hazy, as if there is a faint green, but when you get closer, you can't see anything. The poem depicts the unique hazy beauty of the early spring scenery with elegant and bright colors and freehand brushwork. This kind of "moist as crisp" is the poet's meticulous, dense, gentle, moist, greasy and delicate writing of spring rain, which comes from the depths of the soul. The spring grass, which is "close-up, but there is nothing", not only embodies the "moist as crisp" of Xiaoyu, but also shows the poet's careful observation of things. Immersed in the gaze of the quiet nature, he was amazed at the visual change of "distance" caused by the change of grass color with distance. In the poet's view, the most beautiful time of the year is the rainy early spring, which is far better than the late spring scene in the city. In the poet's pen, a beautiful picture of early spring full of hope and vitality is presented to people in a poetic way.

There is a poem of "spring rain falling" in the poem "Fishing Songs" written by Zhang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.

In front of Mount Cisse, egrets fly freely, plump mandarin fish swim happily on the river, and peaches floating on the water are so bright and full. An old man in the bank, wearing a green bamboo hat raincoat and a green raincoat, braved the wind and rain and fished leisurely. He was fascinated by the beautiful spring scenery and didn't even go home in the rain. ?

Castle Peak, Egrets, Peach Blossoms, Running Water, Fish, Fishermen with green bamboo hats and green coir, fishing in the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan Spring River. There is a fine rain between heaven and earth. Under the oblique wind and drizzle, fishermen are reluctant to go home after fishing on the river. This state of not feeling the rain when it rains and not feeling me when it rains is a rare state in which man and nature live in harmony.

Spring rain is spiritual, and it senses the poet's mood. The poet's description of the spring rain moistening everything makes you happy when they are happy. Spring rain is also closely related to poets. When poets are sad, the spring rain in their works becomes bitter rain.

One day, Su Shi, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, braved the drizzle and boarded the detached platform in the northern city of Mizhou, touching the scene and causing melancholy thoughts of missing his hometown.

Spring is not old, the wind is fine and the willows are oblique. Let's see that leaving Taiwan, half the city is full of flowers in spring, and there are thousands of flowers in misty rain.

After a cold meal, I woke up but felt uncomfortable. Don't miss the old country for the sake of old friends, try new fire, new tea and poetry wine while you are young.

("Looking at Jiangnan? Transcendental platform ")?

The last picture shows people a beautiful picture of misty rain in late spring. Oblique wind and drizzle, willow branches swaying gently, what a refreshing rainy day. On the detached platform, I saw the clear water in the moat flicker slightly, and thousands of rain fell on it, blowing thousands of small morning glories. The city is full of flowers, and the blue bricks and green tiles are shrouded in a misty rain. In a highly generalized way, the poet described the infinite beauty of the cloudy and drizzling mountain city. ?

The next film is about the poet's homesickness. The rainy season is most likely to cause depression. And "after cold food" is the day to sweep the grave, which is more likely to cause homesickness. "I woke up after drinking, but my heart was uncomfortable", which means that my heart was full of sadness but I couldn't solve it, so I had to drink to solve it; However, after I woke up, my sadness remained undiminished, so I sighed generously. Don't talk about your hometown with your friends. The implication is that talking about hometown is more likely to cause homesickness, so don't talk about it. Cold food is over, light a "new fire" and cook a "new tea" to taste. The last sentence "drinking poetry while taking advantage of time" does not mean that poetry kills time, but implicitly shows the enterprising spirit of not wanting to waste time and "using beautiful" time "to do something.

Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote The First Night of Spring Rain in Lin 'an. After listening to the rain all night, he was deeply touched:

? For years, Shiwei has been skinny.

Who will be the rider in Beijing? ?

Xiaolou listened to the spring rain all night.

Deep alleys sell apricot flowers in the Ming Dynasty. ?

Short paper is planted obliquely as grass,

Clear the window and play tea with fine milk. ?

Plain clothes has no dust and sighs,

It's still clear that you can go home. ?

In the spring of the 13th year of Xichun (AD 1786), the poet was called to Beijing, accepted the position of Yanzhou Zhizhou, and wrote this poem in Lin 'an. Although the city of Lin 'an is beautiful in spring, the bureaucrats are partial to the corner, forgetting to serve the country and whitewashing the peace. Poets are always awake. He saw the numbness of the world and the court in the superficial climate and prosperity, and thought of his ambition of not getting paid. But he can neither sing nor express his dreams, so he has to express his sadness through the spring rain and write a heartless thing. ?

The couplet "Xiao Lou" is a poet's famous sentence with fresh and meaningful language. The poet lives alone in a small building and listens to the spring rain all night; The next morning, the sound of selling apricot flowers came from the depths of the alley, telling people that spring was deep. Continuous spring rain is written by the poet's hearing; The faint spring scenery is vivid and profound in the sound of selling flowers. These two sentences describe a bright and vivid picture of spring scenery on the surface, but their role in the whole poem is not only to describe spring scenery, but also to integrate with the poems before and after. In fact, "the small building listens to the spring rain all night" means that the continuous spring rain is like a sad miss. When reading this poem, don't let go of the word "overnight" easily. It just implies that the poet stayed up all night, worrying about the country and the people, and with the sound of rain, he rushed to his brow. Why is he tossing and turning on this spring night? What kind of pleasure and comfort can selling flowers intermittently in the distance give him? I can't. Only the poet is alone in the quiet and empty spring morning. Isn't the next tie more telling of his mood? "Doing grass at leisure" and "playing tea" have been in and out of the battlefield all their lives, traveling all over the world, always thinking about the land patrol of serving the country and loving the people, but also "playing" at leisure! In the poet's eyes, the spring scenery in Lin 'an is so bland, the human feelings are so indifferent, the world situation is so thin, and the ambition is impossible to talk about. Only leisure and drama can pass the time. "There is no dust in plain clothes" because you can go home without waiting for Tomb-Sweeping Day. However, going home is not the poet's wish. Because of the boredom of living in Beijing, I can't stretch my ambition, so I might as well go back to my hometown to farm. "Going home is clear enough" is really a word that makes people excited. In such a big city as Hangzhou, there is no room for poets to do anything, and the feelings of grief and indignation are beyond words.

Poets often change with their own moods when describing various landscapes of nature. If Du Fu's feeling in the face of spring rain is "joy", then the feeling of Song Dynasty poet Chen in the face of spring rain is "shock".

Spring flowers are still cold, and my heart is only shocked. Lonely warblers crow all day long, and the drizzle wets the high city. Is there any trouble? I gave you this life. At night, the spider silk sparkles and there is poetry everywhere.

The first two poems combine Du Fu's poem "Petals are like tears, lonely birds have sang their grief" ("Spring Hope"), instead of the artistic conception of "Good rain knows the season, when spring comes". Therefore, after a spring rain, what we see is not the beautiful scenery of Du Fu's "flowers return to Jinguan City", but Xin Qiji's "ability to dissipate several storms and rush to rejuvenate" and "countless flowers fall" ("Spring" doesn't hear Du Mu's "a thousand birds sing green and reflect red" ("Poem of Jiangnan Spring"), but Du Fu's "And the lonely bird has sung all her grief and indignation". The word "loneliness" conveys the poet's lonely and desolate mood in order to avoid the mutiny, and "spider silk" is very similar to Xin Qiji's "only diligent, trying to make a fuss on the eaves", showing a sense of helplessness and boredom.

The love poem "Spring Rain" by Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, conveys feelings through the spring rain and is full of affection;

When spring comes, I wear a white lined coat.

But I only think of White Gate City where I can't go. ?

There are two red rooms facing the cold and hiding in the rain.

Pearl foil float lamp returns alone. ?

The long road ahead will be full of new difficulties,

Late at night, a short dream. ?

Oh, I'm sending you this message, these jade earrings! ?

I saw a lonely goose in a cloud three thousand miles away. ?

This poem describes the poet's joy when he meets his lover, his yearning after parting and his intense pain when he is lovelorn. The poet looked for the old place again, but he didn't see the woman he loved. He was disappointed. With the help of the misty spring rain, poetry sets off the loneliness and disappointment of parting, exaggerates the anguish of hurting spring and the difficulty of sending books, and creates an artistic realm of blending scenes.

In this poem, the poet gives love a beautiful and moving image. With the help of the spring rain floating from the sky, poetry blends into the poet's confused mood, vague dreams, and natural scenery such as Spring Night and Wan Liyun Luo, which sets off the loneliness and deep thoughts of parting and forms a seamless artistic realm. "Two red mansions are cold in front, hidden by rain, and a pearl screen lamp shakes my lonely heart to go home" is a couplet, which is compared with the color (red) and feeling (cold) in the previous sentence. Red was originally a warm color, but it became cold after the rain; In the last sentence, the pearl foil was originally bright, but it came from the illusion of the rain curtain in front of the lamp shadow, which wrote the poet's lonely and confused psychological state in a very subtle way. At the end of the couplet, it says, "Oh, this message is for you, this pair of jade earrings! I see the lonely goose in the clouds of three thousand miles "is also full of symbolic colors. With the help of natural scenery, the premonition that "books are hard to win trust" is visualized, and the melancholy mood is integrated with the vast sky. These have successfully expressed the poet's life, situation and feelings, and the scene, tone and atmosphere are unforgettable. This sincere and touching feeling and beautiful and vivid image are combined to form a touching artistic charm.

In the poem, there are memories, dreams, true feelings, tolerance and extremes in the spring rain. With warm spring rain, Qu Zhi skillfully showed the delicate and fragile feeling and loneliness that the poet felt in the painful love that he knew there was no hope but insisted on pursuing.

Look at the drizzle in the poem "More Leaky" written by a poet in the Tang Dynasty.

Wicker is long, spring rain is fine, and flowers leak. Startled the geese, rose from the city, and drew a golden partridge. ?

The fragrance is thin, and it comes through the curtain, and it is sad to thank the pavilion. With red candles on your back and embroidered curtains hanging down, you have a long dream and you don't know it. ?

This word is a complaint word in spring, which describes a woman's longing for love on a spring night. The first paragraph of the word is about women's sleepless nights in spring. Poets write landscapes to be moved and to tolerate silence. Wicker is also like a string of emotions, and the drizzle has wet my heart. I couldn't sleep for such a long night, but there was always a more leaky sound. Geese and black dogs who "surprise" and "get up" surprise lovesick women who live alone. Listening to the sound in loneliness is even more leaking, as if it were a rock-breaking, even the birds on the painting screen were awakened, and the woman's hazy modality was swept away, making her melancholy even heavier. The scenery in the last movie seems simple, but feelings can be seen everywhere. The atmosphere of "shock" and "rise" enveloped the whole film, which laid an excellent foundation for the narrative feeling in the next film.

The next word is written directly about people, with stillness and movement. Although the fragrance mist is thin, it can pass through the heavy curtain, just as the melancholy of acacia lingers and drives it back. The three sentences in the film wrote down all the sadness and lonely thoughts of my daughter in the boudoir. The last three sentences say that when the red candle burned out and the curtain fell, I thought I could stop listening and watching, so I stopped thinking. Unexpectedly, I missed my dream, but Jun Jun didn't know! The next movie is about people and the environment, and women's environment is described with women's mentality. In fact, the ruthlessness and indifference of "Jun" are written in secret, while the melancholy and bitterness of women are written by "Jun", which is euphemistic and implicit.

"Huanxisha" by Qin Guan, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, uses rain as a metaphor for sorrow, which is like silk.

With a chill, alone in the small building, the morning is cool and dreary, as if it were late autumn. Looking back at the screen, the light smoke, the flowing water, the mood is faint. Outside the window, the flowers are dancing freely, just like in a dream, the rain is falling and drifting aimlessly, like melancholy. Look again, the curtain of jewelry hangs on the silver hook at will. ?

This word expresses a touch of spring sorrow. It writes the environmental atmosphere in a light tone and simple way, that is, it turns the faint sadness into a concrete and sensible artistic image, expressing profound and graceful. It is the gentle loneliness and bored leisure that the protagonist rises in the cold desert.

? The tone of the words is very light, in the light, with a very slender and sharp spiritual feeling of the protagonist. The desert is light and cold, like fog and smoke. The word "desert" permeates the light and cold of the small building, and suddenly brings a lonely and cold atmosphere to the spring morning. Don't worry about people, but the cloud "lonely and cold on the small building." After the aftertaste of the word "Shang", isn't that faint sadness overflowing in people's hearts with this thin spring cold? The first sentence of a word sets off a sad scene for the whole word. Followed by "Silver Rogue Like Poor Autumn", painted with a dim color on the sad background. It was late spring, but I felt as cold as late autumn. It turned out to be a morning in the shadow of spring. Spring is gloomy, cold and thin, which makes people feel depressed and bored. However, the poet did not talk about his boredom, but cursed Silver's hooligans, which increased the loneliness and coldness of the atmosphere. The protagonist may just wake up from a dream, sleepy, and the indoor painting screen is very idle: faint haze, gentle running water, covered by the surrounding yin qi, you are far away. In a trance, she seemed to disappear in the faint scenery, and seemed to return to a vague and flowing dream. This subjective illusion is precisely because the quiet atmosphere of the quiet fans and the mood of the protagonist at this moment are seamlessly integrated.

The next film began to turn to a positive description of spring sorrow. Unexpectedly, her eyes moved out of the window: flying flowers curled up, erratic and vague; The drizzle is silky and boundless. Seeing the ethereal flying flowers, I can't help but think of the futility of broken dreams, and my heart is filled with endless melancholy like a drizzle. The poet used two strange metaphors here: "flying flowers" are as light as "dreams" and "silk rain" is as thin as "sorrow". Its strangeness lies not only in the appropriateness and novelty of its vehicle and metaphor, but also in the metamorphosis of its form. Using abstract emotions to describe specific images is like flying flowers like dreams or drizzling like sorrow. I wrote about the futility of spring dreams and endless sadness, but I took pictures through the window and wrote in the distant drizzle, deliberately pushing the emotional distance away, which made me feel an ethereal and inseparable beauty. The scenery is also tender and tortuous, and the poet weaves the abstract emotions of "dream" and "worry" into a natural picture of "flying flowers" and "silk rain". Flying Free is heartless, thoughtless and particularly irritating, and it is the reflection of a dream. The drizzle is worrying enough, not to mention the endless rain! Appreciate the drizzle of flying flowers all over the sky, as if we also felt a touch of loneliness and sadness. The last sentence ended with "a small silver hook hanging on the curtain", which was particularly swaying. This sentence should be inverted. Indulge in a temporary fantasy, inadvertently glance out from the hung curtains, flying flowers and falling rain come into view, which leads to the article "freedom" On the other hand, in the structural art, the poet's works are inverted, which makes the upper and lower pieces of the word symmetrical and neat, exquisite and unique, and full of the beauty of cyclic structure. At the same time, it also further awakened the whole article, making all kinds of worries outside the curtain more clear, and the sad people inside the curtain more clear and silent.