Kun Peng spreads his wings nine times. Wan Li's whole poem is as follows:
Dapeng rises with the wind one day, soaring up to nine Wan Li.
If the wind breaks down, it can still winnow the surging water.
when people see my constant tone, they all sneer at my big words.
Xuan's father can still be afraid of his later life, but his husband should not be young.
the origin of the work
Shang Li Yong is the work of Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, in his youth.
By depicting and praising the image of Dapeng, this poem expresses Li Bai's lofty aspirations and strong desire to use the world, and is very dissatisfied with Li Yong's attitude of looking down on young people, showing Li Bai's spirit of being brave in pursuit, confident, conceited and not afraid of vulgarity. The young Li Bai dared to challenge the big shots, and was full of the spirit of not being afraid of tigers when he first came out.
The original work
Shang Li Yong
[ Tang] Li Bai
Dapeng soared to Wan Li in the same day.
If the wind breaks down, it can still winnow the surging water.
when people see that I'm different, they all sneer at my big words.
Xuan's father can still be afraid of his later life, but his husband should not be young.
comments on words
(1) above: submit. Li Yong (678-747): Zi Taihe, born in Jiangdu, Guangling (now Jiangdu County, Jiangsu Province), was a calligrapher and writer in the Tang Dynasty.
(2) shaking: a big whirlwind from bottom to top.
(3) false order: if, even if.
(4) dispelling: arousing.
(5) Cang Yan: the sea. H: Often. Different tune: words and deeds with different customs.
[6] Yu: Me. Big talk: talk pretentious.
(7) Xuanfu: Confucius. In the 11th year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong (637), he called Confucius Xuanfu. See Book of the New Tang Dynasty Rites and Music. Song Ben's "Xuan Fu" was written as "Xuan Gong".
⑻ husband: the general name of ancient men, which refers to Li Yong.
translation of works
Dapeng rises from the wind one day and soars to the height of Wan Li. If you stop when the wind breaks, it will be powerful enough to winnow the water out of the sea. When people see that I am fond of making strange remarks, they all sneer at my big words. Confucius also said that life is awesome, and a gentleman can't despise young people!
Creation background
This poem was written by Li Bai in his youth. Li Yong was the secretariat of Yuzhou (now Chongqing) from the seventh year (719) to the ninth year (721) of Kaiyuan. When Li Bai paid an audience with Li Yong during his visit to Chongqing, Li Yong was unhappy because he was informal and talked about Wang Ba. History says that Li Yong is "quite conceited" (Biography of Li Yong in the Old Tang Dynasty), and he is conceited and has a good name, and he is quite reserved about being young and backward. Li Bai was dissatisfied with this, and when he left, he wrote this poem "Shang Li Yong" with a rather rude attitude to show his return.
appreciation of works
Dapeng is an image that Li Bai often uses to describe himself in his poems and fu. It is not only a symbol of freedom, but also a symbol of shocking ideals and interests. In the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725), Li Bai, a young man, wandered out of Shu and met Sima Chengzhen, a famous Taoist priest in Jiangling. Sima said that Li Bai "has a kind of spirit, which can be compared with the table of wandering in the octupole", and Li Bai immediately wrote The Ode to a Bird in Dapeng (later changed to the Ode to Dapeng), comparing himself to the Dapeng bird in Zhuangzi's Happy Wandering. There is also a poem in Li Bai's poem "Facing Lu Ge": "Big Peng Fei is eager to shake up eight generations, but the sky is too strong to destroy them. I am excited by the lingering wind, and I swim in the hibiscus and hang the stone. Later generations have passed on this, and who is crying when Zhong Ni dies? " According to Tang Lihua's Preface to the Epitaph of Li Jun, a Scholar of Hanlin, Li Bai "died with a dying song". Later generations think that it may be the mistake of writing "Road" or "End" in "Near Lu Ge". It can be seen that Li Bai cited Dapeng as a metaphor all his life. According to the tone of this poem, it is straightforward and not modest, so some predecessors suspected that it was not the author of Li Bai, and some believed that it was argued for Li Bai's work. An explanation of this poem edited by Zhan E, Li Bai's Complete Works.
In the first four sentences, Li Bai compared himself with Dapeng. Dapeng is the divine bird in "Zhuangzi Xiaoyao Tour". It is said that this divine bird is "I don't know its thousands of miles" and "if its wings hang the clouds in the sky", its wings shoot the water is three thousand miles, soaring up to nine Wan Li. Dapeng Bird is a symbol of freedom and an ideal totem in Zhuangzi's philosophy. When Li Bai was young, he was ambitious, very conceited and deeply influenced by Taoist philosophy. His heart was full of romantic fantasies and grand ambitions. Even without the help of the wind, this Dapeng can wipe away the surging water with its wings. Here, the power of Dapeng is greatly exaggerated. In the first four poems, the poet drew an image of Dapeng-the image of the young poet himself-with only a few strokes.
The last four sentences of the poem are an answer to Li Yong's snub attitude: "common people" refers to ordinary people at that time, obviously including Li Yong, because this poem is directly addressed to Li Yong, so the wording is more tactful, and on the surface, it only refers to "common people". "Extraordinary tune" refers to extraordinary speech. Li Bai's grand ambitions are often not understood by the world and are ridiculed as "big words". Li Bai obviously didn't expect that a celebrity like Li Yong was as knowledgeable as an ordinary person, so he retorted the story of a sage who knew how to pull out an afterlife. The Analects of Confucius Zi Han said: "Confucius said:" The afterlife is awesome. How do you know that the newcomers are not now? " These two sentences mean that Kong Old Master Q still feels that later life is awesome. Are you better than a saint? Men should never despise young people! The last two sentences are both teasing and irony to Li Yong, and they are also a response to Li Yong's frivolous attitude, which is quite unruly [jià o] and shows the youthful spirit.
Li Yong was a well-known celebrity in the early years of Kaiyuan. In history, Li Yong "had a bad reputation, ... people always claimed, but they were ignorant. People in Beijing and Luoyang gathered together to think of the ancients. Or the eyebrows are different, and the clothes are looking at the wind, looking for the door lane. " For such a famous person, Li Bai dared to denounce him by name, which shows the spirit and courage of young Li Bai. It is the true nature of Li Taibai to "be unyielding and not work for others" and laugh at the powerful and make friends with princes.
Author's brief introduction
Li Bai (71 ~ 762), whose name is Taibai, was named Qinglian lay. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He has the reputation of "Poet Fairy" and is also called "Li Du" with Du Fu. His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of despising powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, and being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is magnificent and bold, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally, the melody is harmonious and changeable, and it is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature and myths and legends, which constitutes its unique magnificent and gorgeous color and reaches the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than a thousand poems, including 3 volumes of Li Taibai Collection.