Crossing the Han River
Song asked
The Lingwaiyin book is broken, and the winter repeats the spring.
The hometown is even more timid, and he doesn't dare to ask anyone.
Notes
Han River: Han River. The largest tributary of the Yangtze River, it originates in Shaanxi and flows into the Yangtze River through Hubei.
Outside the Ling: The vast area of Guangdong Province south of the Wuling Mountains, usually called Lingnan. The Tang Dynasty was often used as a penal colony for criminal ministers. Book: Letter.
Visitor: A person from his hometown who he met while crossing the Han River.
Translations
The guest lived outside the ridge and was cut off from home, and after winter, it was spring.
The closer I got to my hometown, the more timid I became, and I didn't dare to ask anyone from home.
Appreciation
"Crossing the Han River" is a poetic expression of homesickness, which truly portrays the poet's excited and complicated feelings when he returns home after a long absence. The language is very shallow and close, and the meaning is quite profound; Depict the psychology and iron it to the smallest detail; Not pretentious, natural and beautiful.
The first two sentences describe the situation of being degraded to Lingnan. It is sad enough to denounce the wilderness, not to mention that they are cut off from their families and uncertain about each other's survival, not to mention that they have survived a long time in this situation. The poet does not have the three meanings of horizontal space, the severance of music and books, and the longevity of time, but successively and gradually displays them, which strengthens and deepens the feelings of loneliness and depression during the period of dehabitation and desolation, as well as the longing for hometown and relatives. The word "broken" and "complex" do not seem to be focused, but they are very meaningful. The poet's isolation from the world, the loss of any spiritual comfort, and the unbearable mental anguish of the poet are all vividly visible and palpable. These two sentences are described plainly, calmly undertaken, and there is nothing surprising, and they are often easy for readers to let go. In fact, its position and role in the whole article are very important. With this background, the next two excellent lyrical sentences have roots.
"I'm more timid about homesickness, and I don't dare to ask anyone." Two lines describe the psychological changes of the poet on the way back. "Near the Country" confesses that the poet fled from the degraded land and approached his hometown because he had not known the news of his family for a long time. The so-called "love is more timid", that is, the closer to the hometown, the closer to the family, the more worried it is, and it has become a kind of fear, so afraid that "I dare not ask anyone". According to common sense, these two sentences seem to be written as "The love of the hometown is more keen, and I am anxious to ask the visitor", but what the poet wrote is completely out of the ordinary: "The love of the hometown is more timid, and I dare not ask the visitor." After careful consideration, I felt that only in this way could we conform to the "prescribed scenario" revealed in the first two sentences. Because the poet was relegated to a mountain outside the mountains, and there was no news of his family for a long time, on the one hand, although he missed his family day and night, on the other hand, he was always worried about the fate of his family, and he was afraid that his family would suffer misfortune due to the poet's involvement.
The thoughts of "sound book break" and "re-calendar spring" come at the same time with worry, forming an ambivalent state of eagerness to go home and fear of going home. This ambivalence develops further dramatically on the way home, especially after crossing the Han River and approaching home: the original worries, apprehensions, and vague forebodings now seem to be immediately confirmed by an acquaintance on the way, and become a living and cruel reality; And the long-cherished desire to reunite with one's family is immediately shattered by the unforgiving reality. Therefore, "more affectionate" has become "more timid", and "eager to ask" has become "dare not ask". This is the inevitable development of psychological contradictions under the special circumstances of "Lingwaiyin Shuxuan". "More timid" and "dare not ask" can better reflect the poet's eager desire to suppress himself and the mental pain caused by it. The closer the reunion gets, the more anxious the poet becomes, to the extreme, and this anxiety becomes a kind of fear, a trembling, and a fear that prevents him from facing reality.
Song Zhiwen was demoted to Luzhou this time because he flattered Zhang Yizhi, the male favorite of the martial arts, and it can be said that he deserved it. But the reader of this poem often evokes a certain emotional resonance. One of the important reasons is that when the author expresses his thoughts and feelings, he has given up all the life materials related to his special experience and special identity, and what he expresses is only a special psychological state produced by a person who has lived in a foreign land for a long time and has not heard from home for a long time. However, this kind of psychological feeling is extremely typical and universal. The phenomenon that the image is greater than the thinking seems to be often associated with the typicality and generalization of the work. This poem is a case in point.
This poem not only has ingenious lyrical art, but also has a deeper experience. After explaining the background with a step-by-step recount, the author immediately expressed his ambivalence and pain without reservation. However, the reader must go through some careful chewing in order to feel this special psychological state and achieve spiritual communication with the author. This highly concise lyrical technique allows the work to obtain extremely far-reaching artistic effects in the most omitted language.
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