Problems in Su Shi's Mianchi Nostalgia

Su Shi

What is life like everywhere? It should be like Hong Fei stepping through the snow. Fingers and claws accidentally left on the mud, Hong Feifei that complicated thing [2]. The old monk died and became a new tower. There is no reason to look at the old topic [3]. Remember whether the past was bumpy, the road was long, and people were sleepy [4].

Zhonghua Book Company 1982 Printing Su Shi's Poems

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[1] Ziyou is Su Zhe's word. Mianchi (rice m 4 n exemption): Mianchi County, Henan Province today. In March of the first year of Song Renzong Jiayou (1056), Su Shi and his younger brother Su Zhe went to Beijing to catch the exam, passed by Mianchi and stopped at Fengxian Monastery. In the sixth year of Jiayou (106 1), Su Shi went to Fengxiang to sign a contract. After arriving in Mianchi, Su Zhe wrote "Huai Mianchi sent his son to look after his brother", and the author wrote this poem. [2] The four words of "fate" mean that life drifts around like wild geese flying around, leaving only fingers and claws on the snow mud. [3] Su Zheshi's poem is self-explanatory: "In the past, Zi Zhan should take the initiative to pass the temple house in Suxian County, and asked the old monk to serve the idle wall." Monks are cremated after death, and small towers are built to bury the ashes. Man is to the world, and poetry is to the wall, just like a claw on the mud, but it only survives. [4] Ji m 4 n (Ji m 4 n MINUS): lame.

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This poem expresses the uncertainty of life and deep nostalgia for the past. The first four sentences are written in a single line, with the old style of the Tang Dynasty, scattered and unified, and the writing is natural. The metaphor of "snow mud claw" and the old monk's amazement at the bad wall of the new tower are rich in meaning and meaningful. The whole poem is turbulent and lively, and its artistic conception is unrestrained. It is a famous piece in Su Shi's Seven Laws.