Like Meng Ling

Li Qingzhao

I often remember the sunset in the Xiting Pavilion, and I am so drunk that I don’t know my way back. Returning to the boat late after all the fun, I strayed into the depths of lotus flowers. Fighting for the crossing, fighting for the crossing, startling a pool of gulls and herons.

Solution to the problem

Selected from "Shu Yu Ci". The author Li Qingzhao (1084-about 1151), also known as Yi'an Jushi. Jinan people. Female poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. The daughter of scholar Li Gefei. His husband, Zhao Mingcheng, is an epigraphic expert. Zhao Mingcheng served as the prefect of Laizhou and Zizhou. In addition to his official duties, the couple not only loved poetry and singing together, they also devoted themselves to collecting and appreciating calligraphy, painting and inscriptions. The Jin soldiers invaded and rushed across Huainan one after another. Soon, her husband died of illness in Nanjing. After that, Li Qingzhao's life changed a lot, and he wandered alone in Hangzhou, Yue, Taizhou, and Jinhua. In his later years, he was lonely and miserable. He is good at poetry and writing, and is especially famous for his lyrics. The prose is concise and smooth, and is famous for the "Preface to the Records of Jinshi". Most of the poems reflect social reality, express patriotic enthusiasm, and have a bold and vigorous style. Unfortunately, much of it has been lost, and only fragments of it remain. The poems are divided into two periods before and after the journey to the south. In the early period, most of the poems were written about love affairs, expressing leisurely life, charming and romantic, and beautiful rhythm. "Like a Dream" ("It was windy and rainy last night"), "A Cut of Plum Blossoms" ("The fragrant red lotus roots linger in the jade mat in the autumn"), and "Drunk Flower Yin" ("The mist is thick and the clouds are heavy and the day is long") are all of this type. A popular work of the period. In the later period, he mostly expressed his feelings about his life experience and expressed his thoughts about his family and country. His emotions were sad and depressed. "Slow Sound" ("Searching for Searching") and "Yong Yu Le" ("Sunset Melting Gold") are the representative works of this period. The first poem uses seven pairs of overlapping words, which naturally, accurately and meticulously expresses the author's miserable state of loneliness and helplessness after the country was destroyed and his family was destroyed. It has been especially admired by lyric commentators in the past dynasties. His poems are good at using line drawing techniques to describe images, and can use common language to write lyrics. He is unique in the poetry world of the Song Dynasty and is known as "Li Yi'an style". There is also an article "On Ci", which criticizes the poets of the Northern Song Dynasty. It emphasizes rhythm, advocates elegance, strictly distinguishes the boundaries of poetry, opposes "using poetry as lyrics", and puts forward the unique insight that "civilization is a family". There are "Collected Works of Yi An" and "Yi An's Ci", which have been lost. Later generations have a collection of Shu Yu Ci, and today there is a collection of Li Qingzhao.

"Ru Meng Ling" is the name of the word brand. Under the word card, the original title is "Jiu Xing". This poem is a work by Li Qingzhao recalling his life as a girl. It describes the vivid scene of boating on Daming Lake with his siblings.

Interpretation

There are six sentences in the whole word, and the meaning of the word is divided into three levels.

"I often remember the sunset at the creek pavilion. I am so drunk that I don’t know the way back." [I once remembered playing in the pavilion near the water until it was almost evening. How could I remember the way home when I was drunk? . 〕

On the first floor, I recall the scene in the past when I went to the Xiting Pavilion and was intoxicated at dusk. It means "always remember", "used to remember", or "always remember", which shows that this is a song of memories, reflecting the poet's early life. "Stream Pavilion" refers to a pavilion by the stream, that is, a pavilion near the water (it is said that it was one of the famous springs in the Song Dynasty, close to Daming Lake in the northwest of Jinan City), describing the place where the recalled events took place. "Sunset" refers to the time when the memory is written, which is almost evening. So, what kind of interesting pleasures make the poet "always remember"?

"Intoxicated without knowing the way back", "Intoxicated" is the same as "Intoxicated", which means extremely drunk. The poet does not write about enjoying the scenery during the day, but starts from the time when he is intoxicated in the creek pavilion in the evening. The poet travels to the "stream pavilion" and is very interested in traveling. He travels in the spring until "sunset"; Pavilion", the wine was so high that he was "intoxicated" until "sunset". Because it was already "sunset", the dusk was sinking, night was falling, and because of being "intoxicated" and drunken, he "didn't know his way back". Because of being "intoxicated and not knowing the way back", some interesting details of life happened below. A young girl lived in the Northern Song Dynasty when feudal ethics were very strict. She was able to travel boldly like a man and even returned home late intoxicated, which fully demonstrated her elegant feelings and her spirit of daring to defy feudal ethics.

"When the fun was over, I returned to the boat late, and I strayed into the depths of lotus flowers." 〕

On the second level, it is written that the boat does not know its way back, which leads to a piece of lotus root.

"The fun is gone". When the fun of traveling and drinking is gone, I don't think of "going back". "Back to the boat late", the word "late" indicates the passage of time, which is later than "sunset". How to return? After "returning to the boat" and reading the poem, the reader will understand that the poet came here by boat, so he traveled in the "Xiting" and drank in the "Xiting", which naturally led to the following poems about lotus root and flower. waterfowl. The front and back are taken care of, and everything is seamless.

Because it was too late to "return to the boat", because the poet returned "intoxicated", and the drunkenness was not gone, so he "stumbled into the depths of the lotus flower". "Wandering in by mistake" and only realizing it after reaching "the depths" shows the degree of "intoxication" and shows that "intoxication" has a special interest on the way home late at night. "Lotus root flower" indicates that this trip is in the middle of summer. The sentence "accidentally entered" is the inevitable development of the above, and also pave the way for the following.

"Strive for the crossing, fight for the crossing, startle a beach of gulls and herons." [Paddle out, row out, the sound of oars and laughter startle a beach of gulls and herons, and they fly up in a daze. 〕

On the third floor, when the boat came out of the lotus flowers, a group of gulls and herons flew away. Returning to the boat, I strayed into the lotus root bush. How to get out? The poet cleverly uses two refrains: "Strive for the crossing, fight for the crossing", rowing in this direction; rowing in that direction, to find a correct way out. It vividly describes the scene of Gui Zhou competing to paddle out first in the "deep lotus flower". It implies that the boats are laughing and talking to each other. This highlights the intoxication and urgency of the "people in the boat". Just imagine, if the lotus flowers are large but sparse, they can be drawn out quickly; if the lotus flowers are dense but the flowers are small, it is not difficult to draw them out. These two refrains cleverly show that the lotus flowers are large and dense, and one can imagine the depth of the lotus flowers by mistake. Therefore, this poem is not only a supplement to the previous sentence, but also a deepening of the previous sentence. On the boat returning to the "fighting crossing", there were poets and "drunken guests" on board. But by this time, the drunkenness was a little relieved, and the thought of "accidentally entering" drunkenly made me feel funny and even more interesting. Although it was " "I entered by mistake", but when I entered the "beautiful place", I couldn't help but laugh. It was the sound of the oars "fighting for the crossing" and the laughter of the passionate poet, which startled the gulls and herons perching on the lake beach. The word "startled" vividly and vividly describes the sound of gulls and herons chirping due to being "startled", and the image of flapping their wings and flying together due to being "startled". Instead of "a group", the poet uses "a beach" to modify the gulls and herons, which more vividly depicts the scene where the originally quiet lake beach suddenly became active. Gulls and herons were "screaming" everywhere, and gulls and herons were "startling" everywhere. "Fly" is vivid, audible and visible, adding to the interest. It can be imagined that at this time, the poet was on a boat, in this poetic and picturesque realm, full of poetry, crossing...

Summary

This poem Xiao Ling is a work written by Li Qingzhao in his youth. Through the description of interesting plots such as the female poet being intoxicated and returning late from a spring outing, accidentally walking into a lotus bush, and startling gulls and herons, it expresses her cheerful mood and elegant feelings when she returns home drunk, and her courage to The valuable spirit of contempt for feudal ethics.

The whole sentence describes the scenery, and the scenery describes the image, which is vivid, lifelike, and full of life interest. It can be heard and seen after reading. The images in the poem, such as creek pavilion, returning boat, drunkenness, green lotus, red lotus, herring gull, egret, etc., constitute a picture full of interest, a colorful "picture of returning home at night", which vividly expresses the poet's joy. mood.