Poetic conception:
This poem describes the spectacular scene of a hunting trip. The poet leads a yellow dog in his left hand and rides a goshawk on his right arm, giving him a majestic appearance of hunting. The accompanying warriors all also wore brocade hats and mink fur coats, and were dressed in hunting attire. Thousands of horses galloping and flying cross-country, it is a spectacular hunting scene. In order to repay the kindness of the people of the city, the poet should also show off his skills just like Sun Quan did when he shot the tiger.
Then the ambition and pride inspired by hunting: Although he is old and his hair is white, he still hopes that the imperial court will entrust him with important responsibilities and go to the frontier just like Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty sent Feng Tangzhijiehe to remove Wei Shang. Fight the enemy. At that time, he will draw his bow like a full moon and fight hard against the invasion of Xixia and Liao.
Original text of "Jiangchengzi·Mizhou Hunting" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty:
I am talking about being a teenager, holding the yellow on the left, holding the blue on the right, wearing a brocade hat and mink fur, riding thousands of horses on a flat hill. . In order to repay Qingcheng, he followed the prefect, shot tigers himself, and watched Sun Lang.
It doesn’t matter if you’re drunk, your chest is still open, and your temples are slightly frosted! In the cloud of holding the knot, when will Feng Tang be sent? He can hold the eagle bow like the full moon, look northwest, and shoot at the wolf.
Translation:
Let me express the arrogance of the young man, holding a yellow dog in his left hand and holding a goshawk in his right hand. The accompanying soldiers wore gorgeous hats and clothes made of mink fur, and the mighty army swept through the flat hills like a strong wind. In order to repay the people of the whole city for following me, I must shoot a tiger like Sun Quan and show it to everyone.
When I drink until I am happy, my mind becomes more open and my courage becomes more assertive. Even if my hair is slightly white, what does it matter? When will the imperial court send someone with a talisman to come to Mizhou to pardon my sins? At that time, I will draw my bow and arrow so that it takes on the shape of a full moon, aim at the northwest, and shoot down the Sirius star that represents Xixia.
Extended information
Creative background
This poem was written in 1075 AD (the eighth year of Xining, Shenzong). The author was in Mizhou (now Zhucheng, Shandong). Written by Zhizhou after a hunt.
In the spring of 1075, a locust plague occurred in the Mizhou area. For a while, "many people abandoned their sons", which shows its seriousness. Su Shi, who was the official of his parents at the time, not only personally organized the people to fight locusts and provide disaster relief, but also allocated grain from the warehouse to relieve the people. At the same time, he wrote a memorial asking the court to reduce taxes.
In those days, he practiced vegetarianism and fasted, and his salary as a leader was drastically reduced. "The kitchen was unavailable and he couldn't bear the worry." He even used all the items at home that could be sold for disaster relief. In addition, Su Shi also used his kind heart to "sweep through the city to pick up abandoned children", rescued more than 40 children who were about to starve to death, and raised them in his own home.
After the locust plague was finally extinguished, another drought followed. In accordance with the traditional customs of Miszhou, Su Shi led officials of all sizes to pray for rain at Changshan Mountain in the southwest to pray for rain. I don’t know whether it was piety that moved God, or it was a coincidence. After a few days, there was a heavy downpour from the sky, which relieved it for a while. local drought.
After the disaster was over, the people resumed farming, and at least there was no bad harvest this year. At this time, Su Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and he took the officials and soldiers to the place where they prayed for rain to hold a ceremony. When they returned, they suddenly became interested in hunting. This poem was composed by Su Shi in that very excited mood.
Poetry Appreciation
This work is one of the representative works of Dongpo's heroic poetry that has been passed down through the ages. The poem describes the hunting trip and expresses the ambition to rejuvenate the country and secure the country. It expands the scope of the poem, improves the quality of the poem, expands the scope of the poem's subject matter, and creates a new path for the creation of the poem.
Later, he made an unexpected ending of shooting a sharp arrow at the enemy. He used ingenious artistic conception to change the narrative of hunting, which naturally showed his political enthusiasm for killing the enemy and defending the country. and heroism.
The work integrates narrative, ambition, and allusion, and mobilizes various artistic methods to form a bold style. It expresses the author's ambition and ambition from multiple angles and levels in action and psychology. Heroic style and heroic spirit.
This poem describes the spectacular scene of a hunting trip and uses historical allusions to express the author's ambition to kill the enemy for the country, embodies the heroic ambition to fight against the invasion, and euphemistically expresses the expectation of getting something. The desire of the imperial court to be reused.
The relationship between Su Shi and Mizhou
From December 3rd to mid-December of the ninth year of Xining (1074), the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, Su Shi visited Mizhou. state for more than two years. From the age of thirty-nine to forty-one, Su Shi spent the majority of his life in Mizhou.
Su Shi claimed that he went to Mizhou to "prepare personnel in a remote state" and was a "loose material" that "escaped the danger of being trapped". But he did not neglect political affairs because he was dissatisfied when he came to this small place. He was "diligently dedicated to his official duties", "regarded official affairs as family affairs", "worked hard" and "went to the Yamen at noon and sat in the evening" .
When I first arrived in Mizhou and encountered a locust plague, I immediately asked about the disaster situation without entering the state office, and personally went to the fields to kill the locusts and fight against the disaster. At the same time, he immediately wrote a memorial and submitted it to the court, pleading for the people and requesting exemption from autumn taxes. He also encouraged the people to go to the fields to kill locusts and remove their eggs. The battle against locusts achieved positive results.
The folk customs in Mizhou were so fierce that "thieves became more and more popular" and the people were unbearable. Su Shi wrote "On the Bandits in the East of Hebei and Beijing" to the court, which gave an incisive and profound analysis of the origin of thieves. Analysis, he believes that natural disasters and man-made disasters are cause and effect of each other. Therefore, he pointed out that the root cause of theft must be treated and combined with the management of affairs and officials. Only by digging out the root causes of theft can theft be truly stopped.
"History of the Song Dynasty: Biography" and "Mr. Dongpo's Epitaph" both record a story: There was a group of thieves in Mizhou, robbing and killing everywhere, making the people uneasy, so the Appeasement Department sent three groups of envoys The minister led his soldiers to Mizhou to arrest him. This group of foreign "tough soldiers" were even more violent and cruel than thieves. They even used prohibited items to set up stolen goods, framed people, and took the opportunity to rob their homes.
The local people rose up to fight with them and killed people. The fierce soldiers were frightened by the crime and attempted to cause chaos. The people of Mizhou came to the state government one after another to lodge complaints and cry. Su Shi deliberately threw the complaint on the ground and said: "It will never happen."
Those warriors who wanted to cause trouble felt at ease after hearing this and did not run away. Su Shi sent people to various places to gather these stragglers and forced them to confess their crimes. After Su Shi obtained personal and material evidence, he sentenced them to death according to law. It can be seen that Su Shi was quite talented in making decisions when the opportunity came.
Su Shi not only made great achievements in politics, but also had great compassion for the people. In the poem "Ci Yun Liu Gong's father and Li Gong choose to meet and send", he narrated his experience of rescuing an abandoned baby. Ten years later, in the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085), when Su Shi Zhideng passed through Mizhou, all the abandoned children and their adoptive parents who had been adopted rushed to the state government office to thank their lifesavers.
After a year of hard work by Su Shi, all kinds of disasters in Michigan were basically under control, and Su Shi himself felt relaxed and happy. With the improvement of governance, Su Shi, who was a poet and knew how to live, simply repaired the "abandoned platform" on the northwest wall of Zhucheng at that time. Su Shi's later "Chao Ran Tai Ji" came out and became a famous work through the ages.
In the late spring of the ninth year of Xining (1076), Su Shi climbed to Chaoran Terrace and saw the beautiful mountains and rivers of Mizhou. Mizhou was located in Shandong Province and had excellent feng shui. He looked at the misty spring rain from a distance and thought that he would soon be free from confusion. , and his ambition to become famous at a young age and the loss of time made him deeply feel that time is fleeting and that he is unable to realize his ambition.
Also one night in the first month of 1076, he had a dream in the state government office. He dreamed of his wife Wang Fu, who had been dead for ten years. I woke up with tears streaming down my face and wrote the next song "Jiang Chengzi".
1076 was also Su Shi's last year in Mizhou. At the beginning of the next year, Su Shi was transferred from Mizhou to the magistrate of Hezhong Prefecture (today's Yuncheng, Shanxi). Before taking office, he was appointed magistrate of Xuzhou. Mizhou can be said to be the starting point of Su Shi's life. After his career as a "top leader" in Mizhou, he also achieved good political results in Xuzhou.
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