Partridge Sky - Fugue on Behalf of a Man is a lyric written by Xin Qiji, a lyricist of the Southern Song Dynasty.

This is a song about the beautiful scenery in the rural areas of Jiangnan. The first section is about the near scene, and the second section is about the distant scene, which expresses the author's love of the countryside and his dislike of the city's bustle. On the basis of his familiarity with rural life, the author paints a fresh and beautiful picture of the mountainous countryside, reflecting his intoxication with the beautiful scenery of the countryside. This lyric has a beautiful picture, full of sentiment and deep meaning.

Partridge Sky - Mulberry on the Strand

Song Dynasty: Xin Qiji

Mulberry on the Strand breaks the buds of the young, and the silkworms of the eastern neighbor have already begun to grow some. The yellow calf is singing in the fine grass of the Pinggang, and the twilight crows are dotting the cold forest in the slanting sun.

The mountains are far away, and the road is horizontal and slanting, and there are people selling wine under the green flag. The city's peaches and plums are worried about the wind and rain, and the spring is at the head of the stream with caper flowers.

Translation

The soft branches of the mulberry tree by the path at the head of the village have just blossomed into buds. Some of the silkworm seeds raised by the neighbors to the east have already metamorphosed into silkworms. A small yellow calf chirps among the fine grass on a gentle hillock, and a crow rests among the branches of the trees as the setting sun slants down on the cold, dry forest.

Some mountains are farther away and some are closer, some roads are horizontal and some are diagonal, and there is a small wine store on the other side of the green cloth and wine flag, so you can get some wine. The peach blossoms and plum blossoms in the city take the wind and rain as torture, and are in a state of sadness. The brightest colors of spring are blooming in a patch of capers at the head of the stream.

Appreciation

The whole lyric depicts the scene of spring in the countryside from different perspectives, which seems to be written at random, but when experienced in detail, it is full of flavor and deep meaning. The first two lines of the first section in the description of the mulberry tree buds, silkworm eggs began to hatch, with a "broken" word very vividly written in the spring breeze, the mulberry leaves in the urging, gradually sprouting, expansion, and finally broke through the original wrapped in the mulberry buds on the transparent film. The word "break" is not only dynamic, but also makes people feel the power and speed of the mulberry buds. The third sentence "Pinggang fine grass singing yellow calf" "Pinggang fine grass" and "yellow calf" is interrelated, the yellow calf in the cattle pen in the winter, when grazing on the flat slope was the first time to see the spring grass, happy! The "sound" of the "sound" of the "yellow calf" is interrelated. Although "sound" is written sound, but one can imagine the yellow calf eating grass leisurely, demeanor. The fourth sentence in the "slanting sun", "cold forest", "twilight crows" according to the composition of a valiant scene, but because of the use of a verb "point The word "point" changes the mood. "Point" like crows or flying or perched, like a mass of ink spots, this is the exact reality, the cold forest in early spring without leaves, so the black crows, in the forest can be seen. The author is enjoying a natural picture.

On the surface, the second half of the poem seems to follow the first half of the scene. But the second half of the piece is different from the first half of the piece, there are waves. First of all, it pushes a layer farther to see the distant mountains from the Pinggang, and the hotels led by the sloping road, and it also pushes farther to the city from the countryside. The line "the green flag put wine there are people" seems to be very common, the whole word is written in the natural scenery, only this line is written to the people's activities, so it breaks the monotony of writing scenery. This is a trick of landscape poetry. Although it is writing about the scenery, but can not just render the scenery, must add some human mood, human activities, the poem will appear to have life.

The two lines of "the city of peaches and plums worried about the wind and rain, spring in the stream head caper flowers" is the whole word is the finishing touch, it is like writing the scene, but also like in the discourse. These two sentences determine the mood of the whole word. If we look at the first three sentences and the sentence "the green flag is selling wine" alone, the mood of the lyric is very pleasant. But the lyricist is a loyal and righteous man, in the Southern Song Dynasty in Hangzhou, the northern Jin soldiers captured the Song Huizong, Song Qinzong two emperors, but also in the situation of the section of the pressure, he wanted to restore, and the Southern Song Dynasty is mostly some confused and incompetent, and the people who live and let live, so that he can not do anything about it, and the heart is very hateful. It is this mood that has become the basic mood of many of his words. This lyric is actually the sound of sorrow and bitterness. The sentence "the slanting sun and cold forests pointing twilight crows" has revealed a little news, to the "peach and plum worry about the wind and rain" sentence will be the great beautiful river and mountain is so incomplete and incomplete feelings are completely expressed. Once upon a time, whenever a poet or lyricist had a secret, he or she would always symbolize it by pretending to be something in the natural world. Xin's words, wherever the wind and rain knocked down the spring flowers, mostly alluded to the situation of the Southern Song Dynasty being pushed by the Jin soldiers. Here, the phrase "the city's peaches and plums are worried about the wind and rain" is also a lamentation of the Southern Song Dynasty's bullying by the Jin soldiers.

The word uses the technique of antithesis, which means to catch the enemy first. The first thing you need to do is to start with a pleasant scene and move on to a miserable state of mind, so that you can set each other off, and the miserable ones will look even more miserable. The word "sorrow" is often used to describe Xin's words, and this is where his sorrow lies. But sorrow is not the same as disappointment, "spring in the stream head caper flower" sentence can see the lyricist of the Southern Song Dynasty still put a lot of hope on the situation. This hope is caused by the scene that the lyricist saw in the village of the working people engaged in agriculture and mulberry. The first line shows that "poems can complain" (complaining), and the second line shows that "poems can rise" (inspiring).

The writer found and captured the most common and typical scenery and life situation in the countryside, and used the fresh and bright tone of writing, pure and light colors to depict a picture with vivid imagery, clear layers, and full of vitality, which gave people a rich sense of aesthetic enjoyment, and triggered the heartstrings of the **** sound.

Xin Qiji

Background

In the winter of the eighth year of Chunxi (1181), Xin Qiji met with impeachment and lived in seclusion at the lake in Shangrao. The title of the poem is "On Behalf of Someone", indicating that someone at the time of the gathering was not good at poetry and asked the author to write on his behalf. According to the content of the poem, it should be "Springtime Events" or "What I See in the Countryside", which was written during the author's residence in Belt Lake. With the time lapse, the author of the rural observation and experience and love of rural life is also gradually deepened, the author has been accustomed to the countryside life of the quiet, and gradually integrate themselves into the simple farmers crowd, and at the same time, more feel the city life, especially the official career of the chaos and clamor, the word that is written in such a context.