The significance of spring in Jiangnan

Jiang Nanchun's quatrains-[Tang] Du Mu

Jiangnan, the sound of green and red flowers, the waterside village in the foothills. More than 480 ancient temples were left in the Southern Dynasties, and countless pagodas were shrouded in wind and rain.

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Green reflects red: flowers and trees, red and green reflect each other.

Water village and mountain country: water town and mountain city. Guo, an out-of-town person.

Wine Flag: A brand hanging outside the hotel to attract business, commonly known as Wang Zi, is called a cover by the northeast people. This generally refers to restaurants and shops.

Southern Dynasties: From 420 to 589, four dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen were established in southern China, with Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) as its capital.

Temple 480: Buddhism prevailed in the Southern Dynasties, especially in the Liang Dynasty. At that time, there were more than 500 Buddhist temples in Jian 'an, the capital. This is a rough figure.

Balcony: The balcony pavilion of a temple.

Misty rain: drizzle.

Modern Translation of Ancient Poetry

The vast and charming Jiangnan water town is full of singing and dancing, green trees and red flowers everywhere; Villages by the water and towns by the mountains can be seen everywhere, and flags are flying in the wind. More than 480 temples built by the rulers of the Southern Dynasties are now shrouded in drizzle.

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Du Mu was a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. In literature, he advocates the application of literature, emphasizing content and form as a supplement, and advocating unpretentious style of writing; Oppose moaning and one-sided pursuit of form. His seven laws and seven laws are very successful, and the seven laws are particularly concise and natural. Many famous articles are read by later generations.

This article is a seven-character quatrain describing the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. The beautiful scenery of Jiangnan water town has always been fascinating. Bai Juyi, a contemporary poet of Du Mu, described it as picturesque in two short poems: "Sunrise makes the river flowers better than fire, and spring makes the river green as blue". The white poem shows us the outline of Jiangnan scenery, which is the overall sensory image of Jiangnan scenery. Du Mu is different. He not only described the beautiful spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River as a whole, but also described the singing and dancing everywhere, the green trees and red flowers everywhere, and the waving wine flags everywhere, and described the vast balcony scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, so that readers can experience the colorful and charming nuances of the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River from one specific scenic spot to another.

At the beginning, the poet first brought us into the Jiangnan realm of flowers and singing and dancing, and then showed us the prosperity and peace of "water town", "mountain fruit" and "wine flag" everywhere. "A thousand miles" refers to the vastness of the region, and a "thousand miles" resounds through the whole south of the Yangtze River, covering the whole south of the Yangtze River with "green and red"; "Water Village" and "Mountain Guo" are hung with "wine flags" flying all over the south of the Yangtze River. Great, great.

"Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties were shrouded in mist and rain." These two sentences shifted the poem from writing about natural landscape to writing about temples with humanistic landscape characteristics, subtly blending into the vicissitudes of history and naturally blending into the poet's sarcasm and criticism of the politics in the Southern Dynasties. Many Buddhist buildings left over from the Southern Dynasties are looming in the misty rain, adding a touch of confusing beauty to the spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. What the poet said here is not "480 Temple in Jiangnan", but "480 Temple in Southern Dynasties". Obviously, he not only writes about the scenery in front of him, but also contains irony in his sigh, which undoubtedly greatly enriches the connotation of his poems.

In these twenty-eight short words, the poet described not only the landscape that embodies the characteristics of a specific era, but also the "480 halls of the Southern Dynasties" full of historical vicissitudes, and at the same time vividly summarized the whole south of the Yangtze River with the word "a thousand miles". No wonder the poet chose the proposition "Jiang Nanchun's quatrains".

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