Appreciation of the original translation of Wang Wei's poem Autumn Night

Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei

At the beginning of the month, the moon rises, the autumn tea is thin, and the thin silk gown does not change clothes.

The long night is full of affectionate silver, guarding the empty room with fear and jealousy, and can't bear to sleep.

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The autumn moon just rises, and the autumn dew is born. Se has lost weight but is too lazy to change into other clothes.

In the middle of the night, I was still playing the silver Zheng tirelessly, because I was afraid that I would never return to that empty room again.

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Autumn Nocturne: It belongs to Yuefu Zaqu Fu and is an implicit poem by in my heart forever.

Ghost woman: The moon. According to legend, there is a osmanthus tree in the middle of the month, and it is called the osmanthus tree at the dusk of the month, so it is called the month.

Luo Qing: Lightweight silk fabrics are suitable for summer clothes, which is the summer clothes of this generation.

Thin: I feel thin.

Zheng: A plucked instrument with thirteen strings.

Note: pluck hair frequently.

Vacant room: it means to be alone, without company.

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The first two sentences of this poem are about scenery, which is quite leisurely. The autumn night is cool and the scenery is bleak. The last two sentences are about love. The protagonist is lonely and sleepy, and he is diligent in flying kites. This poem is euphemistic and delicate, which covers up the shyness of children: the young woman is alone in the empty boudoir, immersed in acacia, and can't bear to change clothes; Playing guzheng feels lonely, but I can't bear to go back to my home. The poet expresses the heroine's sadness of living alone with her psychological activities, and her songs are wonderful; It is more profound, delicate and vivid to write about the feelings of missing women, express the pain of emptiness inside, reveal the resentment of the heroine who lives alone and misses her husband, and show the poet's poetic art.

"Gui Bosheng Qiu Wei Lou, Luo thin, did not change clothes." It is pointed out that when night comes, the moon has just risen from the east, and the autumn dew is born, but it is still meager, indicating that the weather is cool, but it is not cold, giving people a cool feeling and setting off the heroine's cold and lonely mood. This echoes the following sentence, because the weather is already cold, and I feel thin in my light and soft clothes. But I still can't stand the cold, so I haven't changed my clothes yet. Between the lines, there is a faint feeling that the heroine misses her distant husband because she wants to change clothes in the cool autumn.

In fact, "Silver Kite Stays Up All Night" is about the action of the heroine playing the kite with music. It is about the heroine who has been playing the piano outdoors. From the rising of the moon until late at night, she is still plucking frequently, without any intention of going back to her room. In fact, the heroine is obsessed with playing guzheng and even forgets to eat and sleep. In fact, drunkenness is not about wine. She is not obsessed with playing guzheng, but "afraid to leave the room" to reveal the inner secrets of the heroine.

"I'm afraid of going out of the room and reluctant to go home" shows the sadness of the heroine staying alone in the room through her psychological activities with clever ideas and strange expression methods. Write that the heroine deeply misses her husband far away. She can't sleep at night and doesn't want to live alone. She plays the guzheng only to relieve loneliness. The room is empty, the heart is more empty, and the feelings are sad.

The first two sentences of this poem are about scenery, which is quite leisurely. The autumn night is cool and the scenery is bleak. The poet described a cold scene as a "background" and then wrote the heroine's "clothes" to set off her loneliness. The last two sentences are about love writing. The protagonist is lonely and sleepless, and diligent in playing the piano. He seems to be obsessed with music, but in fact he gives love to music. The last sentence makes the finishing point, vividly and profoundly depicts the psychological activities of thinking about women through positive lyric, and suddenly feels infinite bitterness.

This poem is euphemistic and delicate, which masks the child's shyness.

Extended reading: the legendary story of Shi Fo Wang Wei

Wang Wei was called Shi Fo by later generations because of his meditation and enlightenment, and he expressed his religious inclination and Buddhist significance in his poems, not just in his poems. Wang Wei is also an outstanding talent of literati painting, and Qian Zhongshu once rated him as "the first person in the painting world in the prosperous Tang Dynasty". At the same time, he is also proficient in temperament and seal cutting, which is really a rare all-rounder

Wang Wei is also an official. In those days, talented people were bound to take the imperial examinations. After all, being an official is the right way. Wang Wei has a younger brother who is as clever as him. At the age of fifteen, Wang Wei was very popular among the princes and nobles in Beijing because he wrote good poems and was good at painting. Wang Wei's talent is very outstanding, which can be seen from his difficulty in winning the first place and the first place in the exam. After becoming an official, he was demoted because of the carelessness of the players. In the later process of being an official, Wang Wei also had promotion and transfer. Unlike many people who are diligent in officialdom, Wang Wei's career life in the second half is semi-official and semi-hidden. He built a villa in a secluded place in Beijing. Wang Wei and his intimate friends lived a leisurely life, half in court and half in seclusion.

In fact, in the early years, Wang Wei was also a man with positive political ambitions, and he also planned to make a difference in officialdom. But now the officialdom is not as he expected, and politics is not so easy to operate. Finally, in the face of the changing political situation, Wang Wei's will gradually faded. After that, Wang Wei embarked on an indifferent life of eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddha, which also led to his later semi-official and semi-seclusion. After tasting the pleasure of seclusion for the first time, Wang Wei became more obsessed with seclusion, and he also expressed this desire in his own poems.

Wang Wei also experienced a great rebellion, because of which he was jailed. This is the Anshi Rebellion. Wang Wei was later released because he wrote poems to remember the motherland and his younger brother helped him. Wang Wei's younger brother is an official of the imperial court. He interceded for Wang Wei in this matter and asked him to make amends to his brother Wang Wei. Finally, the court demoted Wang Wei and saved his life.

Wang Wei's achievements in literature are far higher than his achievements in politics. Wang Wei's poetic style is mainly fresh, natural and refined, which is also inseparable from his beliefs. Wang Wei fasted from studying Buddhism and was indifferent to fame and fortune. His poems contain profound Zen meaning. The pastoral poems in Wang Wei's works are especially related to his longing for seclusion and his love for natural landscapes. Most of these poems are natural and simple, with dynamic and static combination, and there are layers of pictures in the text. Wang Wei, who participated in meditation, also had many transcendental and refined words, which were not only the sublimation of works and words, but also the improvement of Wang Wei's own mood and self-cultivation.

Wang Wei left letters to relatives and friends before his death, which was also a sign of his indifference to life and death. Wang Wei and his works have a far-reaching influence on later generations, especially his poems and paintings, which had a great response and high evaluation when Wang Wei was alive. Wang Wei's works have spread to this day, which not only helps us to learn literature, but also cultivates our sentiment and improves our quality by appreciating his works.