Source of works
"Stars Last Night" comes from the seven-character poem "Untitled Stars Last Night and Wind Last Night" written by Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
This poem is a recollection of the erotic scene where we met. From the content point of view, the first sentence uses "last night" to recall old things. Three or four sentences are more than others. I don't have Cai Feng to write about my feelings last night. Five or six sentences changed from the tacit understanding of the two people to the description of the whole banquet, and seven or eight sentences changed from the joy of love to "listening to the drums and obeying the officials", and the joy plummeted. The whole poem takes psychological activities as the starting point, and the poet's feelings are delicate and true, depicting an emotion that can be understood but cannot be expressed in words. Looking at this untitled poem alone, the whole poem gives people a sense of relief under the sad and desolate music, which makes people feel that it is not only written for lovers who can't be together for a long time, but also laments the encounter between the monarch and the minister, but it is not so secular. Therefore, this is the beauty of Li Yishan's untitled poems.
original work
Untitled last night's stars and wind
Last night's stars and last night's wind, draw the building (1) to the east of Xiguitang.
Although my body doesn't have the wings of a bright phoenix, my heart is connected.
Send the hook every other seat (3) the spring wine temperature, and divide it into four parts (4) the wax lamp is red.
After listening to the drums, I went to Lantai and transferred to Peng.
Annotation of works
(1) Cailou and Guitang: both are metaphors of wealthy family houses.
Linxi: It is said that rhinoceros has miraculous effects, and there is a white line on its horn, which goes straight to both ends.
3 hook delivery: also known as hidden hook. A game in ancient December was divided into two Cao to compare the outcome. After sending the hook to the other party, it is hidden in one person's hand, which makes people guess. It is also a game in ancient banquets. It passes the hook in the dark, making people guess who has it. If you can't guess, you will be fined.
4 grouping.
⑤ Shooting the cover: There is something under the cover, which makes people guess that it is an ancient game. Dividing Cao and shooting Fu may not really mean it, but it is a metaphor for the excitement at the banquet.
6 drums: refers to more drums.
I should be an official: I still work.
⑧ Lantai: that is, the secretary province, in charge of book cheating. At that time, Li Shangyin was appointed as a secretary. Literally, this sentence means riding to Lantai immediately after attending the banquet, which is similar to the flying of grass, but it also implies self-injury and falling.
Translation of works
Last night, the stars were shining, but there was a cool breeze blowing in the middle of the night;
Our banquet is located on the west side of the painting building and on the east side of Guitang.
Without Cai Feng's wings, you can't compare with Qi Fei;
The heart is like a soul, and the feelings are closely linked.
Guess and play with each other, and drink spring wine every other seat to warm your heart;
Let's make a toast in groups. The candles are red.
Alas, when you listen to the five drums, you should go to court;
Riding to Lantai is like Artemisia capillaris floating in the wind.
Creation background
The so-called "untitled" poems have always had different views: some people think that they should belong to fables, while others think that they are all endowed with skills. As far as Li Shangyin's Untitled poems are concerned, they all seem to belong to eroticism, but in fact they also refer to something, but it is inconvenient to say it.
This poem is a recollection of the erotic scene where we met. Write the time and place of the banquet first; Then write the separation of flesh and human feelings; Rewrite the feelings of meeting; Finally, write down goodbye and leave hate. Gorgeous but not obscene, real but not crazy.
works appreciation
The first couplet twists and turns about last night's party. "Last night's star, last night's wind" is time: the night is very low, the stars shine, and the cool wind blows gently. A night intoxicated by the spring breeze is full of tranquility and romantic warmth. The two "last night" in the sentence are self-righteous, reciprocating, and the tone is soothing, almost thrilling. "The west of the studio and the east of Guixiangtang" is the location: the west of the exquisite painting building and the east of Guimutang. The poet didn't even write a clear place, but was set off by the surrounding environment. What happened in such a wonderful moment and charming environment, the poet just kept it in his heart alone, but we were involuntarily moved by the amorous feelings shown in the poem.
Zhuan Xu writes about today's lovesickness. The poet has separated from the right person. "Although my body doesn't have wings like Cai Feng" wrote the longing for love and the pain of lovesickness: I hate that I don't have wings like Cai Feng, and I can fly to my lover. "However, I feel the harmonious heartbeat of the sacred unicorn" describes the depth of mutual understanding: their hearts are as close as magical rhinoceros horns. "Body without body" and "mind with body" are contradictory and wonderful unity of one outside and one inside, one sorrow and one joy. There is sweetness in pain, expectation in loneliness, and the combination of lovesickness and soul-to-soul comfort vividly depicts the complex and subtle mentality of a pair of lovers who love each other deeply but can't be together forever. This couplet has become a famous sentence through the ages.
The necklace couplet "across the spring-wine, while it warms me up, I'll remind you how to bet that shooting in a separate camp covered with wax lights is red" is the excitement written at the banquet. This should be a party attended by both poets and beautiful women. At the banquet, people played the game of hooking and shooting in groups every other seat, and there were flowers, lights and wine everywhere. Yesterday's laughter is still ringing in my ears, and today's banquet may continue, but there are no poets. The enthusiasm of the banquet set off the poet's loneliness, which was rather bleak. "The excitement is theirs, and I have nothing."
The author of "Until the drums beat, alas, call me to Beijing, I got on the horse and left like a cut grass" is helpless in the Jianghu: unfortunately, when I hear the drums announce the dawn, I will be an official, and I will go in and out of the secretary province like grass dancing in the wind. This sentence should explain the reason for leaving a beautiful woman, and at the same time reveal the boredom of any job, suggesting the feeling of being down and out in life.
The whole poem takes psychological activities as the starting point, and the poet's feelings are delicate and true, depicting an emotion that can be understood but cannot be expressed in words, which is confusing and fascinating.
Brief introduction of the author
Li Shangyin, a native of Yuxi, xi, was a famous poet Fan Nansheng in the Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home is Qinyang, Hanoi (now Jiaozuo, Henan) and Xingyang, Zhengzhou. He is good at poetry writing, and his parallel prose also has high literary value. He is one of the most outstanding poets in the late Tang Dynasty. Together with Du Mu, it is called "Xiao", and together with Wen, it is called "Wen Li". Because his poems and essays are similar to the paragraphs and essays of the same period, all three of them rank sixteenth in the family, so they are also called "Thirty-six Style". His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems are touching, beautiful and moving, and are widely read. However, some poems are too obscure to be solved, and there is even a saying that "poets always love Quincy and hate that no one writes about Jian Zheng". Caught in the struggle between Niu and Li, I was frustrated all my life. After his death, he was buried in his hometown of Qinyang (now the junction of Qinyang and Aibo County in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province). His works are included in Li Yishan's poems.