"Ode to the Burial of Flowers"
Qing Dynasty: Cao Xueqin
Excerpts from the original text:
The flowers fade and the flowers fly all over the sky, and the red fragrance disappears Who can take pity on him?
The soft hairspring is tied to the floating spring pavilion, and the fallen catkins lightly touch the embroidered curtain.
Translation: The flower has withered and withered, and the wind is making it spin all over the sky. Its bright red color has faded and its fragrance has disappeared. Who can sympathize with it? The soft spider silk seems to be broken and connected, floating among the trees in spring. Catkins flying all over the sky blew in the wind and covered the embroidered door curtain.
Comments: "Ode to the Burial Flowers" is the most praised and most artistically successful poem in the book "A Dream of Red Mansions". It is the representative of all the lamentations of Lin Daiyu's lament about her life experience. The climax of "Dream of Red Mansions", the most profound ideological connotation of "Dream of Red Mansions", and the place where Cao Xueqin's literary and poetic attainments are most reflected is the section of Daiyu burying flowers, and "Ode to Burial Flowers" is the most important part of this section. !
Appreciation: "Ode to Burial Flowers" is a poem recited by the heroine Lin Daiyu in the chapter novel "A Dream of Red Mansions" written by Cao Xueqin. This poem imitates the early Tang Dynasty style of singing in style. It is called chanting flowers, but it is actually about people.
The whole poem is a collection of blood, tears, resentment and anger. Through rich and peculiar imagination, dark and desolate pictures, and strong and sad mood, it shows Daiyu's sentimental character, inner contradictions and pain, subtle and complex His psychological activities express his experience of anxiety about his own existence and his confusion about life arising from the complex struggles of life and death, love and hate.
Extended information
The negative and decadent emotions in "The Song of Burial Flowers" are also extremely strong and cannot be ignored. It has had a negative impact on readers who lack analytical thinking skills.
Although this kind of emotion is artistically completely consistent with the ideological and character formed by the environment and status of the character Lin Daiyu, after all, the author consciously expresses himself to a certain extent through the mouth of the character he is attracted to. The feeling of life experience revealed the weakness of his own thinking.
In fact, "Ode to Buried Flowers" is not only a prophecy written by Daiyu alone, but also a prophecy shared by all the people in the Grand View Garden. Although their specific encounters in the future are different, they are all the same in terms of "fate or destiny". They are all registered characters in the "Destiny Division". With the decline of the Jia family, all the girls in the Grand View Garden will be trapped in dirt and ditches, and they will not have a good fate.
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