Poems describing summer and their explanations

Song Dynasty: Yang Wanli

The silence of spring is because I don't want a long stream of water, and the shadow reflected on the water is like sunny days and breezes.

The delicate lotus flower bud shows a sharp corner from the water, and a naughty little dragonfly stands on its head.

Translation and annotation

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Spring is silent because it can't stand the thin water flow, and the shade reflects the water because it loves sunny days and the softness of the wind.

The delicate little lotus leaf just emerged from the water with a sharp corner, and a naughty little dragonfly had already stood on it.

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The outlet of the spring. Cherish: stingy.

Shiny water: reflected in the water. Soft sunshine: a soft landscape on a sunny day.

Sharp corner: the tip of the lotus leaf that is not stretched at the beginning of the water.

Top: top, top. In order to rhyme, "head" is not read softly.

Distinguish and appreciate

This poem is a fresh sketch. Everything is so beautiful, so soft and so affectionate. Every sentence is poetic, showing beautiful early summer scenery, natural and simple, touching. This poem describes a spring, a trickle, a pool of trees, a few small lotus leaves and a small dragonfly, which constitutes a vivid landscape of a small pool and shows the intimate and harmonious relationship between all things in nature. At the beginning, the words "spring is silent and precious for a trickle, and the shade shines on the water and loves softness" bring readers into a small, delicate, soft and pleasant realm, and a trickle slowly flows out of the spring silently; In the sunset, Chi Pan's green trees throw the shade into the water, and the light and shadow are mottled and clearly visible.

A word "pity" turns ruthlessness into sentience, as if spring is letting it flow silently and slowly because of the pity of love; A word "love" gives life to the green tree. It seems to like the soft sunshine and shows its charm with water as a mirror. In three or four sentences, the poet, like a clever photographer, took an interesting shot with a quick mirror: "Xiao He just showed his sharp corner, and a dragonfly stood on it a long time ago." The time sequence has not yet reached midsummer, and the lotus leaf has just exposed a sharp corner from the water, and a small dragonfly is standing on it. A "talent show" and an "early stand" are taken care of, vividly depicting the scene of dragonflies and lotus leaves leaning against each other. Yang Wanli advocates learning from nature when writing poems. He has a keen interest in natural scenery. He often uses fresh and lively style and plain language to describe the ordinary scenery he sees every day. He is especially good at capturing the characteristics and fleeting changes of scenery and forming interesting pictures, so his poems are full of rich life breath. The silence of spring eyes is to cherish the long flowing water, and the shade of trees reflects the water because it likes the gentleness of sunny days. Just as the little tender lotus leaves its tightly wrapped tip, the lovely dragonfly comes to stand on it early. Zhu Xuanxian's Chinese painting "Xiaohe Cailou Jiao Jian" based on Yang Wanli's poem "Xiaochi" vividly reflects this kind of poetry.

2. Night Tour of Xijiang River in Huangsha Middle Road

Song Dynasty: Xin Qiji

The moon on the horizon rose to the top of the tree, scaring away the magpies perched on the branches. The cool evening breeze seems to have spread to cicadas in the distance.

In the fragrance of rice and flowers, people talk about the harvest of a year, and frogs croak in their ears, as if in a bumper harvest year. In the old days, Maodian was near the forest, and the road turned to the stream bridge.

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The bright moon on the horizon rose to the treetops, scaring the magpies perched on the branches. The cool evening breeze seems to bring cicadas in the distance. In the fragrance of rice flowers, people are talking about the harvest year, and there are waves of frogs in their ears, as if talking about the harvest year.

There are faint clouds in the sky, twinkling stars are shining, and there is light rain in front of the mountain. Once upon a time, the familiar Maodian hut was still located in the Woods near the Earth Temple. When the mountain road turned, the once unforgettable creek bridge appeared in front of his eyes.

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① Xijiangyue: epigraph name.

② Huangsha: Huangshaling, in the west of Shangrao, Jiangxi.

Don't scare the magpie: disturb the magpie to fly away from the branches.

4 cicadas: cicadas sing.

⑤ Old times: the past.

⑥ Maodian: a country inn built of thatch.

⑦ Social forest: Woods near the Earth Temple. Society, land temple. In ancient times, there were community trees in the village, which were sacred places, so they were called community forests.

See: same as "now", appear, appear.

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This is a sentence written by Xin Qiji when he passed Huangshaling Road in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province in his middle age. In AD 1 18 1 year (the eighth year of Xichun in Song Xiaozong), Xin Qiji began to settle in Shangrao, and lived in Shangrao for nearly fifteen years. During this period, although he also had a short official experience, he mostly lived in Shangrao, so he left many poems here. Huangshaling mentioned between the lines is 40 miles west of Shangrao County. The ridge is about 15 feet high, deep and open, and can accommodate 100 people. There are two springs below, and water flows out of the stone, which can irrigate more than ten acres of fields. This area is not only beautiful, but also a good area for irrigation and water conservancy. Xin Qiji frequented Shangrao during his stay there. There are about five poems describing the scenery in this area, namely, two poems entitled "Sheng Cha Zi" (West Smoke Traveling Alone), one poem entitled "Huanxisha" (Huangshaling), one poem entitled "Partridge" (Huangshalang Road) and this word.

On the surface, the first two sentences of Xin Qiji's Xijiang Moon are about the wind, the moon, cicadas and magpies. But through the clever combination of the author, the result is unusual at ordinary times. The magpie is flying around the oblique and abrupt branches, not hovering over the ordinary tree heads. Because of the bright moonlight, the magpie was awakened; Magpies flying in fright will naturally cause other branches to shake. At the same time, cicadas have their own time to sing. The chirping at night is different from the neighing under the scorching sun. When the cool wind blows slowly, it is often very quiet. In short, the words "surprised magpie" and "singing cicada" contain the silence in the movement and describe the scenery under the "breeze" and "bright moon" in the middle of the night, which is leisurely and charming.

Next, "in the fragrance of rice and flowers, there is a bumper harvest, listening to the sound of frogs." People's attention shifted from the sky to the fields, indicating that the poet was not only infiltrated by the soft smell on the yellow sand road at night, but also paid attention to the fragrant rice flowers all over the village, and was associated with the upcoming harvest scene by the fragrant rice flowers. Here and now, the joy of the poet breathing with the people is beyond words. The "fragrance" of the rice flower fragrance is of course a description of the blooming of the rice flower fragrance and an expression of the sweet feeling in the poet's heart. The main body of a good year is not the sound of magpies commonly used by people, but the sound of frogs, which is the original creation of the poet and amazing. In the poet's feeling, he heard frogs clamoring in unison in the rice fields and quarreling over the harvest. First, the content of "saying" is given, and then the source of "sound" is filled in, saying that frogs everywhere in the harvest year are the creation of poets.

The above four sentences simply describe the scenery of the local mountain road on a summer night and the mood of the poets at that time, but the core is that summer night full of harvest years. Therefore, this is not so much a summer scene as the happiness that the current summer scene will bring to people.