Full-text Translation of You Yu's Poems

Han Yu

Series: Complete Poems on Objects

Cao Lan

Yi 1, Yang Yang 2 its fragrance.

Xianggong 3 is lightly fragrant. four

If you don't pick and admire, why does Yu Lan get hurt?

Day after day, year after year, we travel everywhere.

Wang Wen Meng Xiong 5, Wei Shui 6.

Take it and enjoy it. It's beautiful and fragrant.

Snow and ice are luxuriant, buds are in winter,

If a gentleman guards against it, future generations will prosper.

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1 yiyi: slender and beautiful face, depicting graceful blade posture.

Yang Yang: Hold high.

3 memorial archway: Confucius said that "ruling the country by virtue, swearing like Beichen, living in its place and arching its stars", and memorial archway means surrounding.

Here, spearmint is compared to the king of all kinds of incense, and all the flowers are arched for worship.

5 Meng Xiong: The original intention is to dream of flying bear and get Shang. Later, it was a sign that the Lord had a good minister. Originated from the story of "Flying Bear Dream", Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty wrote "Historical Records Qi Taigong Family": "Xibo must go hunting. If there is any expectation, he must say:" The income is neither dragon nor tiger; The assistant of the overlord. " "At the end of Shang Dynasty, Ji Chang in Zhou Wenwang was in urgent need of a talent to assist him, and he searched hard. One day, he had a dream that a strange animal with wings flew into his arms. The next day, he asked people to find this man by divination, so he led his troops to the Weihe River and found Jiang Shang (that is, Jiang Ziya) who was fishing with a straight hook. It happened that Jiang Shang was named flying bear and immediately extended to North Korea. This Jiang Shang has the ability of Yi Yin, assisted Zhou Wang for two generations, promoted Julian Waghann, but did not punish him. He is Zhou Xing's first hero. Zhou Wenwang dreamed that flying bear was in the tent, so he wrote Jiang Ziya at the edge of Wei River. This allusion has always been an ideal model of Confucian culture, in which "the king seeks the sage, and the sage meets the wise master". But this sentence is very abrupt when it is embedded in the text.

Big six: grand, profound and broad.

Yiyi: bright, if the sun and the moon are beautiful.

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This word is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower.

At the top and in the middle is spearmint, which is the fragrance of the king.

Orchid leaves are long, swaying in the wind and elegant; Spearmint, which rises in the wind, flutters in all directions. Wherever Lan Xiang went, all the flowers became dull and became a part of Lan Xiang. Countless floral scents guard Lan Xiang, and the fragrance of orchids is far from light, near but not strong, vaguely from the center. Orchids are the king of incense. If no one realizes, what harm will it do to orchids if they don't pick or wear them?

Analysis: Confucius is the king of thought, so there is a saying that there is a king in later generations. Confucius seems to have been abandoned by powerful people all his life, but in the depths of his thoughts, he has a kind of self-confidence and open-mindedness, and this self-confidence stems from his firm belief that he has inherited the fragrance of the thought that "the ancestors cherish and the future generations need"!

In the middle is the orchid, which is only fragrant for the king.

Day after day, year after year, I traveled all over the country, southeast and northwest. Although I am like vanilla, I am not ignorant, and I am actively looking for opportunities to realize my social value. Zhou Wenwang's dream of a night in flying bear was recorded in the account. He visited King Taigong (Jiang Ziya was named Taigong because of the saying that "the ancestors had placed their hopes on King Taigong") on the bank of Wei River, thus laying a foundation for the Zhou Dynasty for 800 years. How desirable. Once the orchid is picked and worn by the king, it will surely make its elegant fragrance and the ideas contained in it shine like the sun and the moon.

Analysis: Confucius advocated actively seeking opportunities to realize his social value. He once said to Zigong, "Jia Zhizhai, Jia Zhizhai, I will treat Jia!" " Therefore, Confucianism has the saying of "joining the WTO". In his view, Jiang Ziya's "on the banks of the Weihe River, straight hook fishing, willing to take the bait" is to take the initiative to find; Although orchids are hidden in the valley, their fragrance is full and they are actively looking for them. Confucius advocated selfless and unreserved dedication of one's talents in the event of "admire by the monarch".

Xiatan, the center of which is the cold of Li Lan, makes it fragrant.

There is snow and frost everywhere, and there is a thick layer on the crown. Although it is winter, everything seems to be more flourishing. In the cold, the buds of orchids are quietly gestating and waiting, and accumulating in patience. Orchids have the fragrance of kings because they give birth to buds in the cold winter. If people can understand that this is the truth and law that gentlemen should abide by, then future generations will prosper.

Analysis: Everything is depressed because of snow and ice, but the trees covered with snow and ice are the symbol of prosperity in the spirit of orchid. Winter is a visual depression, but in education, it is an opportunity to experience yourself. In Lan's view, suffering is the foundation of the rise of those who actively face suffering. In addition, in the area where Lan lives, the temperature in winter is generally around 0℃. Although the snow and frost are flourishing, the plants do not shed leaves, and the snow covers the leaves of plants and the earth.