1 1 April 4th is a stormy day.

Author Lu You? Song dynasty

I lay sprawled in my lonely country, not feeling sad about my situation, but thinking about defending the frontier of the country.

The night will be over, I lie in bed listening to the sound of wind and rain, in a daze in my dream, riding an armored horse across the frozen river to the northern battlefield.

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The phrase "Golden Goma Iron Dream" comes from Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Translation of ancient poems

I lay flat in the lonely and desolate country, not feeling sorry for my situation, but thinking about defending the country. The night is coming to an end. I was lying in bed and heard the sound of wind and rain. I dreamt in a daze that I rode a horse in armor across the frozen river. 、

To annotate ...

(1) Stiff: unable to lie down. Here, I describe myself living in a remote village and doing nothing. Stiff, stiff

(2) Isolated village: a lonely and desolate village.

(3) No self-mourning: No self-mourning.

(4) thinking: thinking, thinking.

(5) guarding the wheel platform: guarding the border, here refers to guarding the frontier. Guard, guard. Luntai: In today's Xinjiang, it is an important frontier in ancient times. This generation refers to the border.

(6) midnight (lán): late at night.

(7) Wind and rain: wind and rain are mixed, which echoes the "wind and rain" in the title; At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty was in turmoil, and "wind and rain" was also a portrayal of the current situation, so the poet could not fall asleep until late at night.

(8) Iron horse: A war horse in armor.

(9) Glaciers: Frozen rivers refer to rivers in the northern region.

Creation background

Lu You retired in the 16th year of Xiaozong Xichun in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 189) and lived in seclusion in his hometown of Yin Shan. This poem was written in Song Guangzong on November 4th, 2003 (1 192). At that time, the poet was 68 years old. Although I am old, my patriotism is undiminished, and I miss serving my motherland day and night. The poet's strong desire to recover the motherland has been impossible to realize in reality. So, on a stormy night, he touched the scene and moved with emotion, realizing his desire to gallop in the Central Plains in his dream.

Literary appreciation

With the technique of "dreaming", he profoundly expressed the author's ambition of recovering the country and serving the motherland and his unswerving spirit of "being old but not fading", and showed the readers the poet's sincere loyalty.

The first two sentences of the poem are closely related in meaning: "Sleeping in a lonely village without self-mourning" describes the author's realistic situation and mental state, and "thinking about defending the country and defending the country" is an explanation of the mental state of "not self-mourning", which is in contrast with each other. The words "stiff, lying, lonely and village" describe the author's bleak situation at this time. The word "stiff" means old age and musculoskeletal aging, and the word "lying" means sick, which is often written in the bed cup; The word "loneliness" describes the loneliness of life, not only living in a remote place, but also depressed, without a bosom friend; "Village" poets live in poor villages and lead a decadent and wild life. The four words describe the lonely, embarrassing and deserted life situation of the author after he dismissed from office and returned to his hometown, which hangs over a sad atmosphere.

Brief introduction of the author

Lu You (1125—1210) was a patriotic poet and poet in the Song Dynasty. The word Wu Guan, No.,was born in Yuezhou, Yinshan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). When I was young, I was influenced by patriotic thoughts at home. When Emperor Gaozong was young, I should try it, which Qin Gui admired. Filial piety makes a scholar. Middle-aged into Shu, devoted to military life, the official to Baozhangge to be built. In his later years, he retired from his hometown, but his belief in recovering the Central Plains remained unchanged. He has many literary talents, especially his achievements in poetry. He was called "Little Li Bai" before his death. He not only became the leader of the Southern Song Dynasty, but also enjoyed a lofty position in the history of China literature, with more than 9,300 poems. He is a poet with the most poems in the history of literature, with extremely rich content, expressing political aspirations, reflecting people's sufferings and unrestrained style. Describing daily life is also a new work. The amount of words is not as large as that of poems, but it runs through the patriotic spirit of swallowing the remnants like poems. The number of poems is not as much as that of poems, but it is also permeated with the patriotic spirit of swallowing the remnants. There are dozens of selected poems handed down through the ages, such as Jiannan Poem, Weinan Poem, Southern Tang Book, Notes of Old Learning Temple, Song of the Weng, Weinan Poem, etc.