Understanding of Yan Shu in Huanxisha: "Nothing happens when the flowers fall, but it's familiar when Yan returns"

"It has nothing to do with flowers, it seems to meet Yan." Both of these sentences describe spring, and the beauty lies in the neatness of the antithesis. As a natural odd-even sentence, this sentence is clever and implicit, fluent and implicit, with harmonious phonology and profound meaning. It shows the poet's ingenious thinking and deep feeling of using function words to form a neat antithesis and sing a sigh vividly, which is also the reason why this word is famous.

Huanxisha, a new word and a glass of wine

Song Dynasty: Yan Shu

A new song and a glass of wine, the weather was old last year. When will the sunset come back?

There is nothing to do, flowers bloom and fall, and it seems familiar that Yan returns. Wandering alone in the small garden, fragrant path.

Fill in the new words and taste a glass of wine. The weather is still the same. When will the sunset turn around? There is nothing to do, but the flowers will fall again, and the deja vu Chun Yan will come back and wander alone on the fragrant path.

Extended data

This is the most popular chapter in Yan Shu's ci. The whole poem expresses the feelings of mourning for the last spring and the sadness that time flies and it is difficult to catch up.

Start with the sentence "a new word and a glass of wine, the weather was old last year". Write about the present situation of drinking and listening to songs. From the complex sentence patterns and light and smooth intonation, we can realize that the poet started with a relaxed and happy mood and a natural and unrestrained attitude when facing the present situation. It seems that the protagonist is addicted to feasting and chanting.

This sentence contains a sense of nostalgia with the same scenery and completely different personnel. In this sense of nostalgia, there is a deep, graceful and painful feeling. In this way, even if the author is full of enthusiasm, he is slightly sad.

So the poet sighed from the bottom of his heart: "When does the sun set?" Sunset is a beautiful prospect. However, what the poet caused was nostalgia for the beautiful scenery, disappointment for the passage of time, and faint hope for the reappearance of beautiful things.

The next part is to express the intention of the former with the brushwork of scene blending. "It has nothing to do with flowers, it seems to meet Yan." Both of these sentences describe spring, and the beauty lies in the neatness of the antithesis. As a natural odd-even sentence, this sentence is clever and implicit, fluent and implicit, with harmonious phonology and profound meaning. It shows the poet's ingenious thinking and deep feeling of using function words to form a neat antithesis and sing a sigh vividly, which is also the reason why this word is famous.

However, in this late spring weather, I feel not only helpless disappearance, but also gratifying reappearance. The returning swallows are like old acquaintances who built their nests here last year.

The interweaving of regret and comfort contains a certain philosophy of life: all the good things that are bound to disappear can't stop them from disappearing, but at the same time, there are still good reappearances, and life will not become nothingness because of disappearance.

It's just that this reappearance doesn't mean the reappearance of beautiful things intact, but "deja vu". What permeates the sentence is a melancholy touch of life mixed with nostalgia and melancholy, which seems to be both rushing and deep.