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Appreciation of the Original and Translation of Cen Can's "Caotang for Senior Officials"

The first official title is the high-ranking official thatched cottage. Original: I started my life at the age of 30, and my official feelings are endless. Self-pity has no family business, and I never dare to abandon this little official. Jianshui River swallowed the path, and beautiful mountain flowers were on the medicine column. Just because of this five-meter official salary, he should not live up to this fishing rod.

The translator didn't become an official until he was thirty years old, and the idea of being an official was about to run out. I feel sorry for myself and have no ancestral business, and I never dare to abandon this little official. Jianshui swallows firewood trail, and the mountain flowers are drunk. Because of the official salary of five dou meters, I will live up to this fishing rod.

Note 1 Gaoguan: Gaoguan Valley in the west of Chang 'an City is named after the stone hat peak in the mountain is like a giant wearing a high hat. There is a famous Gaoguan Waterfall, where Cen Can lived in seclusion for ten years. 2 life: the lowest official position. The official rank of the Zhou dynasty was nine lives, and one life was the lowest. "Zuo Zhuan Zhao Zhuan Gong for seven years": "All three students benefit. One life, one life, three lives. " At the beginning of Cen Can's right deviation, he led government soldiers to join the army, and his position was humble. 3 official feelings: interest and willingness to be an official. Liu Yuanhai's "Book of Jin" notes: "I have no sense of being an official, so it is clear with the first step. Fear of dying in Luoyang, never say goodbye to your son. " Hmm: exhausted and disabled. 4 self-pity: self-injury; Self-pity Hanwang praised Jiuhuai Channel: "I am full of self-pity. Old line: ancestral family business. 5 micro officials: small officials. Tang Censhen's poem "Traveling to the West Pavilion of Zhou State in Early Autumn" reads: "He Zudao is a micro-official, and he loves guests and carries them with him. Lishui: refers to the stream flowing from Gaoguan Valley. Firewood road: the road taken by the woodcutter. Tang Li Bai's "Gao Ming Ge Fengxiang from Wengqing to Infinite Mountain Residence": "Where is Wei Mang in Gao Ming? Wuyaxia Shuihengqiao Road. 7 medicine column: peony column. Generally refers to the style. Tang Du Fu's poem "Bin Zhi": "I don't care if there is no supply in the wild, I am also happy to see the medicine column. On Monday, medicine and column are synonyms, referring to one thing, that is, a fence. Li Guangwa's Zi Shu Lu in the Tang Dynasty said: "In this garden, the pillar of traditional Chinese medicine is medicine, and medicine is the pillar, not the pillar of anther. Some people who don't understand think that vines and vegetable gardens can be cut correctly, but they don't know why, so it's fine. 8 Five measures of rice: refers to the official salary. "Book of Jin, Biography of Seclusion": "The county sent Du You to the county, and the official worship should be brought to see him. He sighed and said, "Five buckets of rice can't bend over, but boxing is evil to the villains in the village! In the second year of Yixi, Yin Xie went to the county. " Later used to refer to the meagre official salary. 9 fishing rod: a bamboo rod for fishing. Here as a symbol of seclusion fishing. Wu Qinxuan's poem "Send to Telford": "Why not go with the boat and change the name of the fishing rod? 」

Appreciation of "Senior Officials' Cottage" at the beginning of the official title The first couplet expresses the feeling that it is not easy to be an official for many years. I feel that the mood of being an official for so many years has mostly faded. "Thirty and one life" and "one life" are the lowest level in the official rank. They are responsible for guarding the armory staff and managing the access keys, and their work is rigid and trivial. This is too disappointing for Cen Can, who has lived in seclusion for ten years. Therefore, I feel that "the sense of being an official is endless" and the idea of being an official has dried up.

But disappointment is disappointment, because there is no industry at home, the poet still dare not despise this hard-won small office. "Self-pity has no previous life, and I dare not be ashamed of being a micro-official." Here, Cen Can revealed that he was not interested in his original office. From the humble position of the office, he disdains it; But forced by life, I dare not be ashamed of it. Its helpless mentality is vividly on the paper.

Third, write a scene. The most refined and vivid difference between the two sentences "A stream of water swallows all the firewood, and a mountain of flowers is drunk with a medicine column" is "swallowing" and "drunk". The former wrote the mode that the valley is full of water and the mountain path is unrestrained, while the latter wrote the mode that the mountain flower makeup column is not in full bloom, expressing the poet's nostalgia for seclusion.

The couplet "Only five buckets of rice, put down a fishing rod" is a classic. "Five measures of rice" is not a real number, but a rhetorical device-exaggeration, that is, talking less means "low salary". This is the allusion of Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who said that "five buckets of rice do not bend the waist". . In addition to this poem, Cen Can also used this allusion in many poems, such as "Looking at the king and fighting for rice, not thanking Wan Huhou" ("Sending Xu Shiyi to visit relatives in Jiangning"); "I wish him five buckets of rice after a long separation" ("Listening to apes near the river at the eastern foot of Emei"); "Five buckets of rice to keep people, Dong Xi to remember fishing" ("Ya County Shouhui"). The two sentences at the end of this poem use the rhetorical devices of allusions and metonymy to vividly describe the scenery, and at the same time, they also metaphor the ambivalence that the poet has to give up his leisurely life for his meager official position.

Cen Can was born into an official family in Jiangling (now Hubei). However, in the eighth year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (720), his father died unfortunately when he was the secretariat of Jinzhou (now Shouyang, Shanxi), and his family was poor. I accepted my brother's books and read the history of classics since I was a child. At the age of twenty, I went to Chang 'an with my brother, but I couldn't get an official position. In Chang 'an, it was difficult to live, so I followed my brother to the scenic Gaoguan Valley, bought a house and built a humble villa thatched cottage. I am studying here, hoping to pass the imperial examination and enter the official career. In the third year of Tianbao (744), 30-year-old Cen Can took the Jinshi exam and ranked second in high school. However, his career is not smooth. After the trial, the official department only named him a small official like Cao, an official. He was very disappointed. He returned to Gaoguan, ready to leave the thatched cottage for his post. When he saw a senior official thatched cottage that had been in operation for ten years, he had to leave for a small official position. He couldn't help sighing that he had failed his long-term seclusion and his usual feelings, so he wrote this song "The Cottage of the First Official". Poetry: official title Gao Caotang Poetry Author: Tang Dynasty Poetry Classification: Lyric