Why can a thousand miles of Jiangling be returned in one day?

Is it possible that Li Bai's "Farewell to Bai Di Cai Yun, a thousand miles away in Jiangling for one day" probably involves two things-

First, how fast could it be to go down the river by boat at that time?

Second, how to read poetry.

The second thing is probably the most important.

During the Anshi Rebellion, Li Bai entered the Wang Yong shogunate Lilin, aiming at counterinsurgency and serving the country. Because Li Lin and Su Heng were defeated in the struggle for power, Li Bai was also implicated in the crime of disobedience. Gan Yuan lived in Tongzi, Guizhou in 759. The next year, I went to Baidicheng to see forgiveness and returned to the East. I wrote this poem.

In different poems of Li Bai, the topics are different-such as Baidicheng, Xiajiangling, early Baidicheng, Baidicheng Xiajiangling and so on.

It can be seen that, first, Li Bai probably didn't give this poem a proposition at that time; Second, this poem is probably written in the boat line after Farewell to Bai Di; Third, the last sentence only said that "canoe" flies fast, but didn't say how to get off the boat and land.

However, these are not the point.

The point is that what Li Bai wrote was not a "travel note", let alone a "diary", but a poem with seven quatrains.

What is poetry?

According to Introduction to Literature, "poetry" is a literary style with concise language, jumping structure, rhythm and rhythm, and highly concentrated reflection and expression of thoughts and feelings.

Therefore, "poetry" focuses on lyricism, and even narrative poetry must be full of emotion.

A researcher of ancient poetry in China commented on Li Bai's poem, saying, "Use cheerful feelings to control the elegant pen, three sentences are frustrated by the sound of apes, and four sentences are broadcast repeatedly, which is full and full and has a good response."

Indeed, this poem cannot conceal the full joy of Li Bai's forgiveness and the passion of anxious to return, and it is sung from the heart.

Poetry is more imaginative and exaggerated than other literary forms.

Li Bai's poem, four sentences don't mean anything, but it is an image with a strong sense of picture. A fairy-like "artistic conception" is connected by beautiful "images"-the white emperor in the colorful clouds, the gorge in the mountains, the apes crying in the mountains and the clippers on the waves.

Enough!

Even if you can't take Wan Li Road, even if there aren't enough mountains along the way, why not describe it like this? Only by writing in this way can we express Li Bai's happy mood at this time.

Li Bai's "Popular North" poem says: "Yanshan snowflake is as big as a seat, and it blows down Xuanyuantai."

Lu Xun said: "It is an exaggeration to say that there are snowflakes in Yanshan, but there is a little honesty in it, so we can know at once that Yanshan was so cold." If you say' Guangzhou snowflakes are as big as seats', it will become a joke. " (two episodes of "essays on cutting the street pavilion". Talk about "comics")

Poetry is allowed to be "exaggerated", as long as there is a little honesty in it. Some people use "comparison" and "xing" to explain this exaggeration.

Du Fu's "Spring Hope" said: "Petals flow like tears, and lonely birds lament." If this is not true from a scientific point of view, and then discuss the impossibility of "a letter from home is worth a thousand pounds of gold", it can only be said that reading poetry is too "incomprehensible".

Li Bai's "exaggerated" poems are numerous-"How does the water of the Yellow River move out of the sky"; "only look at the Yangtze river"; "It is a hundred miles long with Tiantiling"; "Peach Blossom Lake is deep in thousands of feet"; "Let me, 300 bowls, a long drink!" ; "White hair and three thousands of feet", and so on.

"Romanticism" is the most prominent and successful feature of Li Bai's poems.

He claimed, "Xing Han put pen to paper, shook the five mountains, and became a poem to laugh at Cangzhou." (Ode to the River)

Du Fu praised him for "putting pen to paper scares the wind and rain, and poetry makes the gods cry." ("Send Li Twelve White")

The romanticism in China's poems was established by Qu Yuan. Li Bai inherited it and pushed romanticism to the highest peak again.

Reading poetry should probably be appreciated according to the rules of poetry.

In fact, in this poem, Li Bai used the allusions of his predecessors.

Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty wrote in the Water Classic Note: "Since the Three Gorges is 700 miles long, there are mountains on both sides, which are indispensable; Rocks piled up one after another, blocking the sun, ... sometimes I went to Baidicheng, and at dusk I went to Jiangling. Although I took the wind during the period, I was not sick. ..... Every sunny day in first frost, the forest is cold and silent, and there are often high apes whistling, which is a sad phenomenon. Void rings, sorrow turns long. So the fisherman sang:' The Wuxia Gorge in the Three Gorges of Badong is long, and the ape cries three times and tears his clothes!' "

It is said that most of this passage by Li Daoyuan was quoted from The Story of Jingzhou written by Sheng Hongzhi of Liu Song in the Southern Dynasties, but he made some changes in some places.

Yang Jiong, who befriended Wang Bo in the "Four Masters of Early Tang Dynasty", wrote a poem "Martial Arts" with the above-mentioned allusions earlier than Li Bai. Its cloud-

"The Three Gorges is seven hundred miles long, but it is said that Wuxia is longer. The heavy rocks are not extremely thick, and the mountains are green. Cliffs are natural barriers, and berries are rotten. You can see clearly at night, and there is no wind and waves. Be loyal to what I do, boating will hurt! Can be a mainstay, can float in Lvliang. Where is the beauty now? Ganoderma lucidum is fragrant by itself. The mountains and nights are screaming and the guests are crying. "

There is no mention of "ship speed" in the poem, and the sad tone has not changed.

In contrast, Li Bai's poems are completely different "styles".

As Li Daoyuan said in the article, "Although riding against the wind, I didn't take the disease to Jiangling for 1,200 miles." Whether anyone has really tried it is unknown, but what is certain is that it has been said a long time ago.

Before the dam was built, I often went to the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River by local working boat. I thought of Li Bai's poem and asked the "master" on board. I was told that the Yangtze River is deep and fast, and the waterway is complicated. In the Tang Dynasty, it was impossible to travel thousands of miles by wooden boat from dawn to dusk.

But "big or not" doesn't affect Li Bai's poem at all.