The life that is constantly moving forward cannot always be hurried, desperate, and sometimes slow down appropriately, which will be more conducive to seeing the surrounding conditions and appreciating the beautiful scenery on the way. All of our courageous journeys of life are meant to make life full of fun, and if we can't understand the truth, then all the busyness can only be called "hasty life", empty and meaningless.
"Drunken Return"
[Song] Ao Tao Sun
Late at night, the frost and the cold of the moon invaded the skin, and I came back drunk to entertain myself.
Mist, water and light are the same as vastness, and the fields are mistaken for rivers and lakes.
This poem "Drunken Return" was written by the Southern Song Dynasty poet Ao Taosun (1154-1227), a native of Changle (present-day Fujian). Emperor Ningzong of Song entered the army in the fifth year (1199). He was famous for his poetry, and was classified as the "Jianghu Poetry School" headed by Dai Retro and Liu Kezhuang, who was once implicated in this and demoted to an official position. In essence, however, its poetic style is very different from the hidden detachment of the poetic school. There are "Collected Poems of Qiu Weng", which has been lost; the posthumous poems are mostly collected in the "Jianghu Collection" and "Jianghu Hou Collection".
In the first sentence, "The cold of the night frost and the moon invade the skin", the poet describes in detail the feeling of his own skin, which is the real feeling of "cutting the skin": "cold invades the skin"; and, at the same time, delicately describes the current hour: the moon is seen in the middle of the night; and the current season: the late autumn with frost. At the depths of such a frost night, why would the poet be willing to go out in the face of a chill that invades people's skin? Suspense without thought, self-explanation.
Here, the narrative of the three consecutive levels not only has a certain degree of coherence, but also emphasizes the places that must be paid attention to here. The loneliness of the night and the chill of the frost moon, after the two are superimposed, can form the final result, that is, cold invasion of the skin. You know, behind every word of the poet, there is a hidden meaning of his own. Of course, this is no exception, and the poet naturally paves the way accordingly.
The second sentence, "Returning from a drunken drink, entertains yourself", inherits the first sentence and points out the title, which naturally points out the poet's current state: drunk. Self-amusement, self-enjoyment, self-pleasure, see "Chu Ci Away from the Troubles": "And dispatch to entertain themselves, chat about floating and ask for women." In fact, from the delicate description of the first sentence, it can be said that the poet's most real "skin-cutting feelings" can be understood that the poet should be in the state of lavender, drunk and not lost. It is for this reason that the poet can "entertain himself."
The so-called "drunken state" is, of course, directed to people who are full of heart and willing to take the initiative to find the joy of life, and poets also belong to this way. Since the word "self-entertainment" is explained in the sentence, there must be no companion at this moment, so in the quiet of the night, the poet can listen carefully to all kinds of wonderful sounds from the heavens between half drunk and half awake. This state of seemingly unsettled mind is indeed unattainable, and on the basis of this, the poet can attain a feeling of sudden enlightenment.
The last two sentences, "Fog, water, light and vastness, mistakenly look at the fields as rivers and lakes", are mostly based on the previous word "self-entertainment". Vast, vast and vast, such as Li Yi's poem "Sending Back to zhongcheng to make Silla book erect a hanging sacrifice": "The vast wind is far away, and the bird of emptiness is late." Under the bright moonlight, the rising fog is endless, and the water and light fluctuate continuously, combining to form a grand picture, thus appearing in front of the poet's eyes, allowing him to misread the original vast field as a vast river and lake in a drunken way.
This is a very strange and wonderful misunderstanding, otherwise how can such a picture be formed from nature and without a machine. Here, the most important basis is the "drunkenness" of the poet mentioned in the title, and it is under such basic conditions that the subjectivity of the poet himself is reasonably generated. Then, combined with the objectivity of nature, whether it is the "frost moon" seen in the "late night" or the "cold invasion" of the skin, it is necessary to lay the scene of the poet's "self-entertainment". Among them, especially the illumination of the moonlight, is the focus of misreading.
The poet is good at grasping the natural environment, and through a deep understanding of the fun contained in it, using easy-to-understand language and concise and straightforward words, he can more truly describe the various emotions and wonderful ideas he wants to express, such as the so-called "mistaking the field for the lake". The word "misread" here is really extremely concise, but it clearly conveys the true meaning of poetry, that is, the fusion of scenes, and the emotions are more and more moved by the scenery.
The poem seems to focus on the "drunken return" mentioned in the title, and the painting of the wild fun of rural dwelling is written in a flowing and fascinating way, and even wants to experience the true interest hidden in it. All this is based on the poet's unintentional but intentional, so that the poet's subjective "self-entertainment" and natural and objective "frost moon" are combined, thus interweaving into a funny "wild old drunken return map".
(Picture from the Internet, invasion and deletion)