Fishing Songs ①
Tang Zhang Zhihe
The white heron flies in front of Xisai Mountain, ②
The peach blossoms and the Mandarin fish are fat. ③
Green Ruo Hat, ④Green Demoiselle,
Slant wind and fine rain do not need to return.
①This tune was originally a famous song of the Tang Dynasty. It is divided into monotone and diatonic. It is the most famous tune of Zhang's. It is in monotone with 27 words and flat rhymes. The double key, fifty words, oblique rhyme. Fishing Songs, also known as Fisherman's Father or Fisherman's Music, is probably a folk fishing song. The author wrote five "Fishing Songs", and this is the first one. According to the record cited in "Lyric Forest Chronicle", Zhang Zhihe had paid a visit to Yan Zhenqing, the assassin of Huzhou, and because the boat was worn out, he asked Yan to help replace it, and composed "Fishing Songs". The word "Fisherman's Song" was named after Zhang Zhihe's poem "Fisherman's Song". The name "Fishing Songs" was derived from Zhang Zhihe's "Fishing Songs", which is short for "Songs".
②Xisai Mountain: Dao Shi Ji, in Hubei Daye County, Yangtze River. Mountain name. In today's Zhejiang Province, west of Huzhou City.
③ Siniperca chuatsi (Yin Gui) fish: commonly known as the "flower fish", "Gui fish".
④ Ruo hats: bamboo gimlets, bamboo leaves made of hats.
⑤ Demoiselle: a raincoat made of grass or brown
Translation:
In front of Xisai Mountain, egrets were flying freely, peach blossoms were in full bloom, the water was fast and furious, the mandarin fishes in the water were very fat, and the peach blossoms floating in the water were so bright and colorful. The river bank an old man wearing a green colored Ruo hat, wearing a green straw raincoat, braving the slanting wind and rain, leisurely fishing, he was beautiful Jiangnan spring scenery fascinated, long unwilling to leave.
This lyric describes the fishing scene during the spring flood in the water town of Jiangnan. There are distinctive landscape and water colors and the image of a fisherman, a landscape painting written in verse.
The first line is "the egret flies in front of Xisai Mountain", "in front of Xisai Mountain" points out the location, "egret" is a symbol of idleness, and it is written that the egret flies freely, which sets off the fishing father's The egret is a symbol of idleness. The second line "Peach Blossoms and Flowing Water Make Mandarin Fish Fertile" means that the peach blossoms are in full bloom and the river water is soaring, and the Mandarin fish are growing fat at this time of the year. Here the peach blossoms and the green water reflect each other, showing the lake and mountain scenery in front of Xisai Mountain in late spring, and rendering the living environment of the fisherman's father. Three or four lines "green Ruo hat, green straw raincoat, the wind and rain do not have to return", describes the fishing father fishing mood. The fishing father wears a green Ruo hat, wearing a green straw raincoat, in the wind and rain in the joy and forget to return. The "oblique wind" refers to the breeze. The whole poem is brightly colored, lively language, vividly showing the fisherman's leisurely life.