Yueyang Tower
[Song] Fan Zhongyan
In the spring of the fourth year, Li Qing stayed in Baling County. In the second year, the government was harmonious and everything went smoothly. Is to rebuild Yueyang Tower, add its old system, and engrave Tang Xian's poems on it. It belongs to the composition to remember.
Guanfu Baling wins in Dongting Lake. Take a distant mountain, swallow the Yangtze River, and make a vast soup, boundless; It's sunny in the morning and cloudy at night. This is the grand view of Yueyang Tower, which was prepared by predecessors. But the northern martial arts, the Antarctic Xiaoxiang and the poets who moved abroad will all be here, and they will look at things very well.
If it rains, the moon will not open, the evil wind will howl, and the turbid waves will be empty; The sun, moon and stars are hidden, and the mountains are hidden; Business travel is bad and ruined; Twilight is boundless, tigers roar and apes crow. When you go to the temple building, you are homesick, sad, sad and sad.
If it is spring, it is calm and the sky is high and the clouds are light; Sha Ou Ji Xiang, swimming in the brocade scale; The coast is blue and green. Or the long smoke is exhausted, the bright moon is thousands of miles away, the light is shining, the static shadow is sinking, and the fishing songs are answered. How happy I am! When you arrive at Dunsi Building, you will feel relaxed and happy, forget the humiliation, and leave the wine in the wind, which will make you feel happy.
Creation background
After the failure of Qingli New Deal, Fan Zhongyan was exiled to Dengzhou, where he was in poor health. Teng, an old friend, wrote to him from Hunan, asking him to write down the rebuilt Yueyang Tower and attach the "Dongting Late Autumn Map". Fan Zhongyan agreed, but Fan Zhongyan has never actually been to Yueyang Tower.
In June of six years (i.e.1June of 046), Li Qing wrote the famous "Yueyang Tower" in Huazhou College in Dengzhou, which was written by looking at pictures. It shows that although the author is in the Jianghu, worried about the country and the people, and persecuted, he still does not give up his indomitable will. At the same time, it is also an encouragement and comfort to his demoted comrades. Fan Zhongyan was a pioneer of the poetic innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Hey, honey! Is it to taste the heart of the ancient benevolent, or to do something different? Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself; If you live high in a temple, you will worry about your people; If you stay away from the Jianghu, you will worry about your husband. It's worrying about going in and going out. But when will you be happy? It must be said that "worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world." Hey! Wes, who are we going home with?
September 15th, six years.
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The Story of Yueyang Tower was written by Fan Zhongyan, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, on September 15th, the sixth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1046), at the request of his good friend, Taishou Teng of Baling County. Among them, the poems "Worry about the world first, then enjoy the world" and "Don't rejoice in things, don't grieve for yourself" are well-known and quoted sentences.
Comments on key sentences
Reporter: A style. Can write landscapes and narratives, mostly for discussion. But the purpose is to express the author's feelings and political ambitions (explain some of the author's ideas).
Four years in Li Qing: A.D. 1044. Li Qing, Zhao Zhen's year number in Song Renzong. The "six years" in the last sentence of this article refers to six years in Li Qing (1046), indicating the time for writing.
Teng (zhé) defends Baling County: Teng was demoted as the prefect of Yuezhou. Teng Amethyst's name is Zong Liang, which is his word and Fan Zhongyan's friend. Obey and send dismissed officials or criminals to remote places. Be reduced to a verb here. Chen was an official who was demoted or transferred in ancient times. Keep it and be a county magistrate. In the Han dynasty, "defending a county" meant being a county satrap; In the Song Dynasty, the abandoned county was called a state, so we should say "knowing the state". Baling County, namely Yuezhou, is located in Yueyang, Hunan Province, which was used in ancient times. "Defending Baling County" means "Defending Yuezhou".
Next year: there are three kinds of sayings, one is the fifth anniversary, which is the fourth anniversary; The second refers to the six-year celebration of the calendar, and this "crossing" is a process and experience; Three-finger calendar celebrates seven times, which means calendar celebrates six times.
Political affairs are smooth and the people are happy. Politics, politics. Smooth, smooth. Harmony, harmony. This is a compliment to Teng Amethyst.
Various abandoned enterprises have been set up. A hundred, not exactly, describes a lot. The waste here refers to the abandoned business. Use "all", all, all. Xing, revival.
Nye: So.
System: scale.
Tang dynasty and contemporary celebrities. Xian, adjectives are used as nouns.
Easy-to-understand vernacular translation
In the spring of Li Qing's fourth year, Teng was demoted as the prefect of Yuezhou. In the second year, government affairs were smooth, people were happy, and various waste businesses were established. So the Yueyang Tower was rebuilt, and the original scale was expanded, and the poems of celebrities and modern people in the Tang Dynasty were engraved on it. I was asked to write an article about it.
I think all the beautiful scenery in Baling County is on Dongting Lake. Dongting Lake embraces distant mountains and breathes the flowing water of the Yangtze River. Vast and boundless. In the morning, the lake is sunny, and in the evening, the sky is dark and the scenery is endless. This is a magnificent sight of Yueyang Tower. Previous descriptions of these scenes have been very detailed. Even so, it led to Wuxia in the north, Xiaoshui and Xiangjiang in the south. Most of the people who are relegated and far-tuned, as well as poets who write poems and write poems, gather here and look at the natural scenery here, which will probably lead to different feelings.
Like a continuous drizzle, when it doesn't clear up for a month, the cold wind howls and the turbid waves rush to the sky; The sun, the moon and the stars cover the light, and the mountains disappear; Businessmen and passengers couldn't get through, the mast fell and the paddle was broken; At night, it was dark, only the roar of tigers and the miserable cry of apes could be heard. When you board this building at this time, you will feel that you have been demoted, left Beijing, missed your hometown, worried that others will speak ill of you, and afraid of being ridiculed by others. When you look up, it is full of depression and cold, and you will feel deeply and feel sad.
The spring breeze is warm and sunny, the lake is calm, the sky is connected with the lake light, and the green is boundless; Bai Ou on the sandbar, sometimes flying and sometimes stopping, beautiful fish floating or sinking; The grass on the shore and the orchids on the continent are rich in fragrance and green in color. Sometimes the clouds on the lake are all gone, and the bright moon falls thousands of miles. Sometimes the microwave ripples on the lake, and the floating moonlight shines golden. Sometimes the lake is calm and the quiet moon image sinks into the emerald in the water. Fishing songs ring, echoing each other, and it's fun! When you board this building at this time, you will feel open-minded, cheerful, glorious and humiliating, and forget it together. You will eventually drink your glass in the breeze and you will feel really happy.
Alas! I have explored the thoughts and feelings of ancient virtuous people. It may be different from the above two moods. What is the reason? It is because in ancient times, people with high moral character would not be unhappy because of the quality of foreign objects and their own gains and losses. Be an official in the court and worry about the people; I'm not an official in the imperial court, but I'm in a remote Jianghu, worrying about you. In this way, they are also worried about entering the DPRK as an official and retiring from the rivers and lakes. So, when will they be happy? So we must say "be sad before the world is sad, and be happy after the world is happy"? Alas! Without this person, who would I go with?
Written on September 5, 2006/kloc-0.
Make an appreciative comment
As far as art is concerned, The Story of Yueyang Tower is also a masterpiece.
First, the grand view of Yueyang Tower has been exhausted by predecessors, and it is meaningless to repeat those old sayings. Fan Zhongyan just changed his angle, found a new topic and told his story. The title of the article is "The Story of Yueyang Tower", but it cleverly avoids writing about the building, but writes about Dongting Lake, and writes about the different feelings of the relocated poets who boarded the building when they saw the different scenery of Dongting Lake, so as to set off the so-called "heart of the ancients" in the last paragraph. Fan Zhongyan's ingenuity is admirable.
Second, notes, scenery writing, lyricism and discussion are integrated into one article. Notes are concise, scenery writing is extravagant, lyrical and incisive. There are not many words in the discussion part, but it plays a leading role in the full text, so some people say that this is a unique argumentative paper. The discussion skills in Yueyang Tower are really worth learning.
Third, the language of this article is very distinctive. Although it is prose, it is interspersed with many four-character antitheses, such as "the sun, the moon and the stars are hidden, and the mountains are hidden." "Swimming in Jinli, Ji Xiang, Sha Ou." "The long smoke is exhausted, and the moon is thousands of miles away; Floating and jumping, still shadows are heavy. " These compound sentence added color to the article. The author is also deeply honed in the use of words, such as the word "title" and "swallow" in two sentences, which just shows the vast momentum of Dongting Lake. "Don't be happy with things, don't be sad for yourself", and the concise eight words are as inspiring as the motto. "Worry about the world first, and be happy about the world later", which has a rich meaning in just two sentences, and every word is powerful.
Full-text narration, scenery description, lyricism and discussion are integrated, and the combination of static and dynamic, contrast between light and dark, concise words and harmonious syllables make it an innovation of miscellaneous notes to compare scenes with couplets.
Brief introduction of the author
Fan Zhongyan (10,989, 1-1052, June 19) is a Greek. Originally from Yizhou, he moved to Wuxian, Suzhou. An outstanding politician and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Fan Zhongyan has made great achievements in local governance and border defense, and his literary achievements are outstanding. He advocated the idea of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later" and the moral integrity of people with lofty ideals, which had a far-reaching impact on future generations. There are a number of Fan Wenzheng official documents handed down from ancient times.