Children Fishing in Hu Lingneng (Tang Dynasty)
A child with unkempt hair and immature face is learning to fish by the river. He is sitting sideways in the grass, and his shadow is set off by weeds. Hearing the voice of passers-by, the child waved, afraid to disturb the fish and dare not respond to passers-by.
Translation:
A child with unkempt hair and immature face learned to fish by the river, sitting sideways on the moss and covered with green grass. Hearing passers-by asking for directions, he waved at a distance, afraid to respond to passers-by for fear of disturbing the fish.
To annotate ...
Pengtou: describe children as cute. Toddler: A young and ignorant child. Terry: Fishing. Nylon: silk thread for fishing. Berry: A kind of wild grass. Bryophyte: Bryophyte. Shadow: Shadow. Ask someone. Fish is afraid: the fish is afraid. Answer: respond, promise, ignore.
Fishing for Children is a poem about children's life. This poem describes a "unkempt young boy" learning to fish, "sitting on one side, raspberries and moss reflecting his body". Passers-by waved to the child and wanted to ask him some questions, but the child was "too scared to surprise others" (he didn't say a word for fear of scaring the fish). It's really vivid, vivid, both in form and spirit, and full of fun. His artistic achievements are no less than Du Mu's famous poem Qingming.
Children's fishing appreciation
This poem is divided into two layers: fishing and asking for directions. The first and second sentences focus on fishing (form), and the third and fourth sentences focus on asking for directions (emoticon). The first sentence and the second sentence, children, children also. "Pengtou" describes its appearance and highlights the innocence of children. "Nylon" is a fishing line, and "hanging nylon" means "fishing" in the title, which means fishing. The poet did not whitewash the fisherman's appearance, but wrote the true face of Shan Ye's unkempt hair, which made people feel natural, lovely and authentic.
"Learning" is the eye of this poem. The child is a beginner in fishing, so he is very careful. The posture of "sitting on the side" when fishing reflects the physical and behavioral scenes, such as in front of you. "Sitting sideways" means sitting down at will. Sitting on the edge, rather than sitting firmly, is in line with the mentality of children learning this way for the first time. It is also conceivable that children are absorbed in fishing in an informal way.
"Berry moss" generally refers to low-level plants that grow in wet places near the ground. From Berry Moss, we can not only know that the place where children choose to fish is a place where the sun is scarce and inaccessible, but also an ideal fishing place where fish are not frightened and people are not exposed to the sun, which paves the way for the following sentence "People should not be frightened by fish". "Grass mirror" is not only a portrait of a child, but also directly related to the next sentence "passers-by ask questions"-passers-by ask questions to children just because they are visible.
The subject of the last two sentences of "remote waving" is still a child. When passers-by asked, the children did not dare to answer the fish, waving at a distance and not answering. This is a description of children from two aspects: action and psychology, with calculation, strategy, alertness and intelligence. The reason why children use actions instead of answers is that they are afraid of scaring the fish away. The child's action is "waving from a distance", which shows that the child is not indifferent to the questions of passers-by.
How children whisper to passers-by after "waving" is the imagination of readers, and there is no need for poets to explain. So after explaining the reason of "waving from afar", this poem came to an abrupt end.