Original text:
Su Shi's face was sad and sad, so he sat up in a corner and asked the guest, "How do you know?" ? "The guest said," There are few stars on the moon, and blackbirds fly south. "Isn't this Cao Mengde's poem? Looking at Xiakou in the west and Wuchang in the east, the mountains and rivers are misty and gloomy. Isn't this because Meng Zhizhi was trapped in Zhou Lang? Fang Qi broke Jingzhou and went down to Jiangling, downstream to the east. He was thousands of miles long, wearing a flag, drinking wine and singing poems across the river, and became a hero in the world. Now, where is he? My son and I are fishing on the river, making friends with fish, shrimp and elk, keeping a boat and keeping bottles for each other. It's a drop in the ocean to send a mayfly into the earth. I lament my life for a while and admire the infinity of the Yangtze River for a while. Fly with the flying fairy, hold the bright moon, and grow up. I can't understand it for a while, but I hate it. "
Original text:
Su Shi's face was sad and sadness came from it. (He) adjusted his clothes, sat up straight and asked the guest, "(Tune) Why is this?" The companion replied: "The moon stars are rare, and blackbirds fly south." Isn't this a poem by Cao Gong and Meng De? You can see Xiakou in the west and Wuchang in the east. Mountains and rivers are contiguous, full of green. Isn't that where Cao Mengde was besieged by Zhou Yu? At the beginning, Jingzhou was captured, Jiangling was captured, and it went down the Yangtze River. His warships stretched for thousands of miles, covered the sky with flags, drank by the river and recited poems with spears. He is indeed a lean man of the present age, but where is he today?
What's more, you and I are fishing and chopping wood on the water island by the river, keeping company with fish and shrimp and being friends with elk. (We) drove the boat and raised cups to toast each other. (We) are in a world as vast as a mayfly and as small as a millet in the sea. Sigh that our life is only a short moment, and envy the endless Yangtze River. (I want to) travel around the world hand in hand with the gods, embrace the bright moon and live forever. Knowing that these things can't be obtained repeatedly, I have to turn my regrets into flutes and entrust them to the sad autumn wind. "
Source: Red Cliff Fu
About the author:
Su Shi (1037-1101) was a writer, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi yue Zhan, no Dongpo lay man. Han nationality, Sichuanese, was buried in Yingchang (now Jiaxian County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). I have a bumpy career, profound knowledge, extremely high talent and excellent poetry, calligraphy and painting. His writing style, Wang Yang, is unrestrained and fluent, and he is also called Ou Su with Ouyang Xiu, one of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties"; Poetry is fresh and vigorous, making good use of exaggeration and metaphor, and its artistic expression is unique. Together with Huang Tingjian, they are called Su Huang. The uninhibited school has a great influence on later generations, and it is called Su Xin with Xin Qiji. Calligraphy is good at running script and regular script, and it can be innovative. Writing with a pen is ups and downs, full of childlike interest. And Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang are also called Song Sijia. Painting is the same as literature. In painting, we advocate spirit likeness and "literati painting". He is the author of The Complete Works of Su Dongpo and Dongpo Yuefu.
Creative background:
The Red Wall Fu was written during Su Shi's relegation to Huangzhou, which was one of the most difficult periods in his life. In the second year of Song Shenzong Yuanfeng (1079), he was falsely accused of writing a poem "Defaming the Imperial Court", impeached by the Imperial censor, and was arrested and imprisoned, which is known as "Wutai Poetry Case". Su Shi was arrested and imprisoned for writing "Huzhou Xie Shangbiao" and was accused of slandering the imperial court. "After several reconstructions", he was tortured. After being rescued by many parties, he was released in1February of that year and was demoted to deputy ambassador of Huangzhou Youth League Training, but "no official contract, no unauthorized placement." This is undoubtedly a "semi-prisoner" controlled life. In the fifth year of Yuanfeng (1082), Su Shi visited Chibi twice on July 16 and 10/5, and wrote two poems in Chibi. Later generations called the first poem "Pre-Chibi Fu" and the second poem "Post-Chibi Fu".
Appreciate:
This poem leads to the description of the dialogue between subject and object through boating and drinking poems on a moonlit night. It not only expresses the feelings of mourning the past and hurting the present from the guest's mouth, but also hears the unwavering feelings from the words of Perilla. The whole poem is profound and profound, and it is really a masterpiece in literary prose.
The image is coherent and the structure is rigorous. The coherence of scenery not only makes the whole article look like a whole in structure, but also communicates the emotional context and ups and downs of the whole article. Writing the scenery at the beginning is the appearance of the author's broad-minded optimism; Singing while Seizing the Boat was born out of the scenery of "emptiness" and "streamer", and the transition from "happiness" to "sadness"; Guests worry about the wind and moon, and their mood turns into depression and negativity; Finally, the discussion on the variation of all things and the philosophy of life is drawn from The Bright Moon and the Breeze, so as to dispel the sadness in my heart. The repeated infiltration of the scenery will not give people the feeling of repeated delay at all. Instead, it represents the ups and downs of the characters, reproduces the changing process of the author's ambivalence, and finally achieves the perfect unity of poetry and discussion.