When the sun rises, red light shines on the river, making it look brighter than a burning flame.
Spring has come, and the river seems to be green and close to blue under the green reflection on the shore.
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Flowers on the riverside are redder than fire at sunrise, and the riverside is as green as blue in spring from Bai Juyi's Memory of Jiangnan.
Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote three poems. The first poem begins with "Jiangnan is good", that is, "Recalling Jiangnan is good"; The last two capitals begin with "Jiang Nanyi", which are "Jiang Nanyi in the south of the Yangtze River" (the first volume) and "Jiang Nanyi in the south of the Yangtze River" (the second volume). The three words are also called "South of the Yangtze River".
original text
Dreamed of the south bank
Bai Juyi
The scenery in Jiangnan is very beautiful, and the picturesque scenery has long been familiar.
When spring comes, the sun rises from the river, the flowers on the river are brighter than red, and the green river is greener than the blue grass. How can we make people not miss Jiangnan?
Easy-to-understand vernacular translation
Jiangnan is good. I used to be so familiar with the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan. In spring, the red flowers on the shore reflected by the morning light are redder than the raging flames, and the green water is greener than the green grass. How can one not miss Jiangnan?
Keyword annotation
Don's name. The author wrote in the caption: "This song is also called Xie Qiuniang, with five sentences each." According to Yuefu poems, "A man named" Looking at Jiangnan "in" Recalling Jiangnan "was renamed" Good Jiangnan "because of the white words." In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, it became a epigraph name. Jiangnan here mainly refers to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Familiarity (ān): Familiarity. The author has been to Jiangnan three times when he was young.
Jianghua: Flowers by the river. I am talking about the waves in the river.
Red is better than flame: bright red is better than flame.
Green as blue: Green is greener than blue. For example, the usage is still "Yu", which means more than.
Blue: Blue grass whose leaves can be used to make blue-green dyes.
Creation background
Bai Juyi was the secretariat of Hangzhou for two years, and later he was the secretariat of Suzhou for more than a year. When he was young, he roamed the south of the Yangtze River and lived in Suzhou and Hangzhou. He knew Jiangnan like the back of his hand, so he was deeply impressed. When he returned to Luoyang for more than ten years after retiring from Suzhou, he wrote these three "Memories of Jiangnan".
The specific time to write lyrics has always been different. It is said that after Bai Juyi left Suzhou; It is said that in the third year (838); It is said that in the first year of Daiwa (827); Wang Guowei said it was written in "Dahe 89". These statements are general and simple and lack factual basis. Liu Yuxi once wrote several poems of "Recalling Jiangnan" and sang with Bai Juyi, so he said in the preface: "The poem of Spring with Lotte is based on" Recalling Jiangnan ". This word was written in Luoyang in the early summer of the second year of Tang Wenzong (837), so it can be inferred that these three words of Bai Juyi should also be written in the early summer of the second year.
Make an appreciative comment
At the beginning, people expressed their feelings and blurted out their praise for "Good Jiangnan". In order to show that he is not a parrot, the poet immediately explained that "the scenery was once familiar", which he personally experienced, felt, was very familiar with and deeply understood in those years ("old" and "once"). What is the poet's impression of Jiangnan scenery? "At sunrise, the river is redder than fire, and in spring, the river is as green as blue." The poet firmly grasped the characteristics of early spring in Jiangnan, and connected the spring flowers in Jiangnan with the water in Jiangnan, which can be said to capture the essence of Jiangnan beauty. In order to express a broader artistic conception in a limited sentence, the poet skillfully uses intertextuality to interweave the words "sunrise" and "spring", and presents the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan water town to readers.
The spring breeze is mighty, the flowers are in full bloom, and the mountains and plains are full of colors. Under the reflection of the morning sun, the flowers in the shade are redder and more dazzling. Du Fu has a poem saying that "the blue and white flowers in the mountains are burning". But what Bai Juyi is talking about here is "river flowers" instead of "mountain flowers", which highlights that "flowers come to burn" is more colorful and "red wins fire" against the clear water of a river. The riverside is green, and the golden sunshine is all over the earth. The spring is bright, the lush trees on both sides of the river are reflected on the river, and the water surface is more green. Due to the morning sunshine, the addition of water green enhances the brightness of the color. Because the red of mountain flowers and the green of river water set off each other and enhanced the distinctiveness of colors, the red ones are redder and the green ones are greener, that is, "red is better than fire" and "green is like blue". And the flow of a river and spring water makes all this staggered, varied, dazzling and beautiful in the sense of movement. This is Jiangnan in the poet's permanent memory. If its beauty is like this, the poet says from the heart, "Can you not remember Jiangnan?"
Brief introduction of the author
Bai Juyi (772-846), a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province, was born in Taiyuan, Lotte, Xiangshan, and drunk. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu".
Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, various forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.