Ask the sky with a glass of wine.
I don't know what year it is in the palace in the sky,
What year is this evening.
I want to go home on the wind,
but I am afraid of the jade palace,
I can't stand the cold.
It's like being on earth!
Turning to the jade pavilion, lowering the beautiful door,
The light is sleepless.
It should not be hateful,
What is the reason for the long time to be parted?
People have their sorrows and joys,
The moon is full of sorrows and happiness,
This is a matter that is difficult to be resolved.
But I wish people would last longer,
Thousands of miles of **** Canyuan Juan.
This is the best .............
1. Su Shi's "Song of Water", the most famous of the mid-autumn words, has always been popular. Hu Zai "Campsis Fishing Hidden Series of Words" said: "Mid-autumn Festival words since Dong Po "Song of Songs in Water", the rest of the words are abolished." The first time I saw this song, I was able to see that it was the most popular one in the history of the world.
This poem was written in the mid-autumn of the year bingchen (the ninth year of Emperor Xining's reign in the Song Dynasty, i.e., 1076 A.D.), when Su Shi was forty-one years old, and he was the governor of Mizhou (now Zhucheng, Shandong Province). The title says, "Remembering Ziyu," and at that time Su Shi and his disciple Ziyu had not seen each other for six or seven years.
The thoughts and feelings expressed in this song were very obvious, Su Shi's disillusionment with his political situation, and his brother Su Zhe's separation from the moon in mid-autumn, not without a sense of depression and despair. But he did not get trapped in the negative pessimistic mood, immediately to the transcendental and optimistic thinking to eliminate the worries, and finally showed the love of life on earth of the contradictory process. And the former is more delusion, said the emperor read the "jeweled buildings" two sentences, sighed: "su shi is the end of the love of the king", that amount of move Ruzhou. This is inconsistent with the facts. Su Shi moved Ruzhou in Huangzhou, can not be said because of the words and "amount to move Ruzhou".
The first part of the poem mainly expresses his feelings about politics. The first two lines of "When will the moon come?" are from Li Bai's poem "Ask the moon with wine": "When will the moon come? I am stopping my cup to ask the question". At the same time, it is clear that drinking wine and enjoying the moon. The next line, "I don't know what year it is in the palace in the sky", seems to be praising the moonlit night; it also implies that the situation in the court today is unknown. In the Book of Songs, "What is the date of this evening, when I see this good man?" is not a question of what day it is, but a tone of praise: "What a fine day it is!" It is a tone of praise: "What a fine day it is! The following three lines, "I want to return with the wind," are ostensibly saying, "I was originally from the realm of the immortals, but now I want to go back with the wind to the 'jade palace' where the immortals live in the sky, but I am afraid that I can't withstand the coldness of the sky! ". These lines also refer to the political encounter, want to go back to the court, but afraid of the fierce party struggle, it is difficult to accommodate. At the end of the "dance clear shadow, how like on earth" two sentences is to say, since the sky can not go back, it is better to be on earth, here the so-called "earth", that is, refers to the magistrate, as long as the hard work, do the magistrate can also be for the country to contribute to the effort. After thinking about this, he looked up at the moon and could not help but dance, showing a positive and optimistic mood.
The first part of the poem describes his feelings about his life and his conflicting thoughts, while the second part expresses his nostalgia for his brother. Su Shi and Su Zhe, hand and foot love is very strong. According to Su Zhe, "the narrative" said: "Zi Zhan (Su Shi's word) through the guard Yuhang, three years can not be replaced. To rut in Jinan, also, for the east state guard. Both get please high density, in May was moved to know the order of Mizhou." Su shi left behind the beautiful lakes and mountains of hangzhou, from the south to the north, originally for brotherly love. But to mizhou, still can't meet with brother rut from time to time. The thoughts of his younger brother constitute the lyrical text of the next piece of this lyric.
The beginning of the next piece, "turn Zhu Ge, low Qihou, light sleepless" three sentences, "turn Zhu Ge", said the moonlight shines on the beautiful building. "Lowering the door" means that the moonlight shines on the people who have parting sorrows and hatred, so that they can't sleep peacefully. The words "Jade Pavilion" and "Beautiful House" are in contrast to "Jade Tower" in the previous piece. Both the moonlight and the people under the moon are written. In this way, it naturally transitions to another theme of personal thoughts of brotherhood. The two lines "should not hate" is to use the tone of cross-examination, the tone of complaint to the moon to ask questions. "There should be no hate" but hate in it, is precisely the meaning of "Road is emotionless but there is love". The following three lines, "People have sorrows and joys, and the moon has its roundness, and this matter can never be resolved", change to a consoling tone; since the moon has its roundness, and people have their separation, which has been the case since ancient times, there is nothing to be sad about. I hope that the two brothers will cherish each other and enjoy the beautiful moonlight of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the time of farewell. "Cicada" is the beautiful color of the moon. This line was transformed from Xie Zhuang's "Moon Fugue", "A thousand miles away from the bright moon". Understanding that people who are far away from each other can be "thousands of miles away from each other", one can realize that "there should be no hatred". The ending of the poem in a beautiful realm is as positive and optimistic as the ending of the previous piece, "Dancing and making clear shadows, why is it like being on earth". On the one hand, it is a consolation to the brothers who can't be reunited, and at the same time, it is also a consolation to their own political encounters.
The words of the upper and lower part of the word are with the meaning of life philosophy, such as the upper part of the concluding sentence "dance and make clear shadow, how like on earth", which is the same as the Tao Qian Peach Blossom Garden poem said: "the mortal and the holy are not different from the residence, the turbid *** this world. The heart is free to occasionally see, the thought of suddenly has passed away," the sentences about agree. That is to say, no matter where, there are mortal realm, holy realm, clear realm, turbid realm. When a person's mind is open, open-minded, it is in the holy realm, clear realm, on the contrary, clear realm, holy realm will be gone. At the same time, this is also the Confucian idea of "no one is unselfish". With the idea of treating things correctly, one can make a difference wherever one is and be at peace with oneself. Why do we have to go to heaven when we can be happy on earth? Why must we go back to the imperial court when we can also make a career as a local official? The next piece of "this matter is difficult to complete" contains this meaning: the world can not always have a perfect thing, life has a happy gathering, there is bound to be a parting; this is exactly the same as the moon has a round time, there will always be a lack of time, the original is the law of nature.
There are some words containing the philosophy of life in the lyrics of the Five Dynasties and Northern Song Dynasty, which have been further developed by Su Shi. Although this poem contains the philosophy of life, however, it is expressed through a perfect literary mood. The first thing we feel is the beautiful moonlight on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and we experience the author's rich feelings instead of boring sermons. At the same time, although there are contradictions between the world and the world, and between love and reason in the lyric, in the end, it is still using reason to dispel the feelings, not detached from the reality, without pessimistic and disappointing negative thoughts, and the mood is healthy. At the same time, this lyric has a strong artistic influence. That is why it has become a masterpiece that has been praised by people for thousands of years.
2. The lyric was written in the year of Bichen, the Mid-Autumn Festival in the ninth year of Emperor Xining of the Song Dynasty (1076), which was also the third year of Su Shi's tenure in Mizhou. The lyric is divided into the first and the second sections, in which there is the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the wine in the cup, but also the deep thoughts, despondency, confusion, fantasies, lovesickness, and the final penetration of the lyricist. Su Shi wrote in the preface of the lyrics: "In the mid-autumn of the year bingchen, I was drunk, so I wrote this piece and remembered Ziyu." Close your eyes and place yourself in such a scene, the ambiguous aroma left in the glass, and the flow of alcohol in the blood, together, carefully but violently touching the sensitive nerves of the drinker at this time. There is no experience of drunkenness, but I have seen some, heard some, and wondered what kind of feeling the person in that moment would have. Under the moon, drunken people may not be able to recognize, whether it is their own vision blurred, or the outline of things blurred. And I think that in the blur that covers it, there must be some kind of existential certainty dominating one's will.
"When is the bright moon? Put wine and ask the blue sky." Time is constantly moving forward, the times are constantly changing, but the way people look for self-catharsis does not seem to change easily. I remember seeing many times on TV scenes of people getting drunk, exposing their desire to ask questions in their own shaky visual space, but seemingly not attempting to find any desired answers. Mid-autumn night always brings a strong mood of lovesickness, and although I myself have suffered that kind of despondency in lovesickness, I can't say that this night is any different from the remaining 364 nights of the year. Perhaps people have been accustomed to take it as an excuse to quietly admit their negative side. Su Shi gazes at the moon in the deep blue sky, recalls the taste of the wine that slips down his throat, and poses a question that lets us see the confusion and despondency of his state of mind. This kind of questioning reminds me of what Li Bai wrote in "Asking for the Moon over Wine": "When will the moon come in the blue sky? I want to stop my cup and ask." I used to think that the sky because of its vast and boundless and tolerant enough to accommodate every wandering person's questions about the universe and about life, but found that people's pious waiting is ridiculed by the sky's emptiness, the answer is buried too deep, people, still empty and do not know what to do. But perhaps, to the sky to set questions is a form of ancient favorites, or a stubborn performance. "I don't know what year it is in the sky?" This line in the answer to the previous question at the same time set up a new question, is Su Shi deeper thinking. The two associated questions make the poet's rich fantasies show a natural and reasonable.
"I want to go home on the wind, but I am afraid that the agate tower is too high to be cold." This line is written about the poet's fantasies induced from the reality. I think Su Shi is a person who can easily get lost in nature, as in his "Former Red Cliff Fugue", the poet inadvertently blends himself with the things around him. I think this may be due to Su Shi's romantic character and ethereal feelings, or perhaps because nature, an objective entity, does not bring any more confinement and oppression to the human mind and spirit, and thus more or less dilutes the pain of people's subjective emotions. At that time Su Shi was experiencing political disillusionment - because of the opposition to Wang Anshi's change of law and was transferred to a local official, the future of the uncertainty, coupled with his younger brother, ZiYu each separated from each other, the inner depression as a strong medicine, so that he produced a "ride the wind back to" fluttering The idea of "returning by the wind" was born in him. This is also a reflection of Su Shi's idea of "leaving the world". In the last line of the first section, "Dancing and making clear shadows, why is it like being on earth? The friction between reality and fantasy reflects Su Shi's complex mindset between "leaving the world" and "entering the world". He once again raised the question that neither heaven nor himself could answer, and his inner desolate helplessness and loneliness were naked in the "bright moon" accompanied by the "blue sky", and were released by the fantasy in his mind and the reality that really existed.
I think that when the mind is complex or confused, relying on a certain kind of pure emotion may be a way to get redemption. Su Shi's longing for his younger brother Ziyu was not only a product of the specific circumstances of the time, but also a way for him to find self-relief. In the second section of the poem, the poet uses a beautiful art form to express the natural flow of his personal emotions, and also shows us that life's frustrations and grievances are thus transformed into philosophical openness.
"Turning to the vermilion pavilion, lowering the beautiful house, shining without sleep." At this point, the moon is given signs of life, and the flow of moonlight from the red pavilion to the carved doors and windows corresponds to Su Shi's fluctuating thoughts. The moonlight finally moves down to the sleepless person who has had a long night. Such an image reminds me of Li Bai's "Moonlight", which I used to memorize when I was a child: "The light of the moon before the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raising my head to look at the bright moon, lowering my head to think of my hometown." It seems that the bitterness of longing will always appear deeper and stronger under the moonlight. "There should not be hate, what is long to the other time round?" People, will be because of the dark night in the moonlight reflection under the shadow of the company, and in the reluctance to see more clearly the lonely whole body. Su Shi encounters the moon in its fullest and brightest aspect when the love of love is at its strongest, while the moon, which releases its heat silently and slowly, is purely ignorant of it. The poet used the tone of cross-examination to question the moon: the moon originally is not hateful, why do you want to show the appearance of the crystal disk in the time of people's parting, and how much to add to people's "full moon and people are not yet full" of the frustration and hatred. This is a deliberate mockery? Or alternatively, sympathy?
"People have sadness and happiness, the moon has its shade and roundness, this matter is difficult to complete." This is both the answer to the previous sentence, but also the poet's rethinking of life: since the "ancient", the world has not been perfect - there will be joy in the life of a person will be sad and bitter, there will be reunions will be parted, just like the moon will meet the cloudy, sunny, round, and lack of. Some people say that this is Su Shi's philosophical contemplation of life, he realized the mutilation and two-sidedness of things. Su Shi turned his feelings into rationality, turned bleakness into lucidity, and found a path of self-relief in his interpretation of life. However, I would like to ask myself: when people can't think of any other way out, do they often look for analogies with things that seem to be "connected" to them, so as to get a little bit of comfort? The last sentence of the whole article Su Shi wrote: "But I wish people to be long, thousands of miles *** Canyuan Juan." Xie Zhuang of the Southern Song Dynasty, in his poem "Moon Fugue," also wrote: "The beauty of Mai Ruoxi is shut out of the sound and dust, separated by a thousand miles and **** the bright moon." Since there is no such thing as perfection in the world, there is no need to be sad and mournful all the time about parting with your loved ones, but only to be in good health forever and to be able to enjoy the bright moon from a thousand miles **** away. Needless to say, the surface of the word confirms the poet's freedom and open-mindedness - the poet seems to be their own comprehension of the idea of life and then sublimated together, all the previous doubts into a good wish, full of confusion, bitterness, frustration, hatred and misery of the emotions were eventually replaced by a positive and optimistic state of mind. But I would like to ask Su Shi at that time, is not entangled in the heart of the doubt is really so easy to dissipate? That "pessimism" is associated with all the loneliness, confusion, despair, helplessness and how much value exists in the abyss of a person's invisible heart?
It is remembered that Hu Zai in the Southern Song Dynasty said in "Campsis Fishing Hidden Words": "Mid-Autumn Festival words, since Dong Po "Song of Water", the rest of the words are all abolished." I think people like the tendency of things to develop radically, and I think this is a pattern that Su Shi chose in writing this lyric. The words are full of rich imagery, rich depictions, rich emotions, and rich twists and turns of thought - changes that open one's eyes. It's just a shame to feel that these leaps revealed in the words appear so suddenly and come so quickly that they seem to go beyond what can be measured in time. So some believe that there is a deception hidden in the words, and deplore the poet's desperate attempts to cover up and disguise his hurt. However, there are also some who laugh at themselves for thinking that perhaps the transition between happiness and sadness can be a matter of a split second, or perhaps there is no clear division between happiness and sadness at all. Su Shi is also just trying to show the transition of their inner thoughts and emotions.