The Drunken Old Man's Pavilion by Ouyang Xiu
Chu (chú) is surrounded by mountains. The peaks and forest gullies in its southwest are particularly beautiful. The one who looks bright but profound is Langya (láng yá). After walking six or seven miles up the mountain, you gradually hear the sound of gurgling water flowing out between the two peaks, which is called Ningquan. On the winding road, there is a pavilion standing over the spring, which is called the Drunkard Pavilion. Who built the pavilion? The monk of the mountain is Zhixian. Who is named? The prefect calls himself. The prefect and his guests came here to drink, and they often got drunk after drinking. He was also the oldest, so he called himself the drunkard. The drunkard's intention is not in wine, but in the mountains and rivers. The joy of mountains and rivers is the wine contained in the heart.
If the sun rises and the forest falls, the clouds return and the cave becomes dim, and the twilight changes, this is the morning and dusk in the mountains. The wild fields are fragrant and fragrant, the beautiful trees are beautiful but densely shaded, the wind and frost are noble and pure, the water falls and the rocks emerge, these are the four seasons in the mountains. Going in the morning and returning at dusk, the scenery in the four seasons is different, and the joy is endless.
As for the losers singing on the road, and the travelers resting in the trees, the former calls, and the latter responds, supporting and supporting them, going back and forth without stopping, this is Chu people traveling. Fishing near the stream, the stream is deep and the fish are fat. The spring is brewed into wine, the spring is fragrant and the wine is liè; the mountain delicacies and wild asparagus are mixed and aged beforehand, which is also the prefect's banquet. The joy of a banquet is neither silk nor bamboo. The one who shoots is in the middle, the one who plays chess wins. The one who drinks wine and drinks crosses each other. The one who stands up and makes a noise is the joy of all the guests. Anyone with pale face and white hair who seems to be slumped indicates that the prefect is drunk.
The sun has set on the mountain, the figures are scattered, the prefect has returned and the guests have followed. The woods are dark, the songs are rising and falling, the tourists are gone and the birds are enjoying themselves. However, birds know the joy of mountains and forests, but they do not know the joy of people; people know the joy of traveling from the prefect, but they do not know the joy of the prefect. He who can enjoy himself when he is drunk and can write about it when he is awake is a prefect. Who does the governor call? Luling Ouyang Xiuye.
[Edit this paragraph] Translation
Chuzhou City is surrounded by mountains. There are many peaks in the southwest, and the woods and valleys are particularly beautiful. From a distance, the lush trees, deep and beautiful Langya Mountain is seen. After walking for six or seven miles along the mountain road, I gradually heard the sound of gurgling water (and saw another stream of water). What flowed down from the two mountains was Ningquan. As the mountain winds around and the road turns, there is a pavilion with its corners tilted up, like a bird spreading its wings. Perched high on the edge of the spring is the Drunkard Pavilion. Who built the pavilion? It's Zhixian, the monk in the mountain. Who named him? The prefect named it after his nickname (Drunkard). The prefect and his guests came here to drink. After drinking a little bit, they got drunk. He was the oldest, so he gave himself the nickname "Drunkard". The drunkard's interest lies not in drinking, but in the mountains and rivers. The pleasure of appreciating mountains and rivers is grasped in the heart and placed on drinking.
Just like when the sun comes out, the fog in the woods dissipates, the clouds gather, and the valley becomes dark. This scene of alternating light and dark is morning and evening in the mountains. Wild flowers bloom and emit a quiet fragrance, good trees have lush branches and leaves, forming a rich green shade. The autumn air is crisp, the frost is white, the water level is low, and the rocks are exposed. These are the scenery of the four seasons in the mountains. Going up the mountain in the morning and returning in the evening, the scenery is different in four seasons, and the happiness is endless.
As for (those) people carrying things singing on the road, people walking resting under the trees, people in front calling, people behind saying yes, old people and children coming in an endless stream, this is Chuzhou people traveling . Go to the stream to fish, the stream is deep and the fish are fat, and use the water from the Ningquan to make wine. The spring water is fragrant and the wine is clear. Game meat and wild vegetables from the mountains are interlaced in front of you. This is a banquet held by the prefect. The joy of drinking at a banquet is not about the music. The person who throws the pot hits the target, the person who plays chess wins, the wine glasses and wine chips interact in a complicated manner, people sometimes stand, sometimes sit, making loud noises, and the guests are happy. Among the guests was the drunken prefect with an old face and gray hair.
Soon the sun set, and the figures were scattered in all directions. The prefect returned and the guests followed. At this time, the woods are covered with thick shade and birds are chirping everywhere. The birds are happy after the tourists leave. However, birds only know the joy of mountains and forests, but they do not know the joy of people; people only know the joy of following the prefect to play, but they do not know that the prefect is happy because of their happiness. The person who can enjoy happiness with everyone when he is drunk and can write about this happiness in articles when he wakes up is a prefect. Who is the governor? It's Ouyang Xiu from Luling.
[Edit this paragraph] Difficult words
1. chu chú
2. Langya láng yá
3. 霏fēi< /p>
4. acupoint xué
5. 伛偻yǔ lǚ
6. 茌sù
7 yì
8. 辄zhé
[Edit this paragraph] Word explanation
1. Ring: surround.
2. All: all, all.
3. Lin: woods.
4. Valley: Valley.
5. Weiran: lush appearance.
6. Mountain: Along the mountain road.
7. Go: go.
8. Turning around: The mountains turn around and the road also turns.
9. Hui: loop, twist and turn.
10. Wing Ran: The four corners are raised, like a bird spreading its wings.
11. Lin: close.
12. To do: to build.
13. Name: give a name and use the name as an action.
14. Predicate: naming.
15. Noir: Just.
16. Number: Title.
17. Said: called.
18. Meaning: interest.
19. Hu: Yu, preposition.
20. Get: appreciate.
21. Apartment: sustenance.
22. If: like.
23. Husband: That.
24. And: jiu, a conjunction that expresses the following.
25. Lin Fei: The fog in the woods. Fei: fog.
26. Open: dissipate.
27. Yungui: smoke and clouds gather.
28. Grotto: Valley.
29. Ming: dim.
30. Hui: dark.
31. Morning: morning.
32. Dusk: evening.
33. Fang: flower.
34. Fa: open.
35. Jia: Beautiful.
36. Show: bloom, here it means growth.
37. Traditional: rich.
38. Gao: Gao Shuang.
39. Poor: exhausted.
40. Negative: Carrying.
41. Answer: respond.
42. Hugh: rest.
43. Hunchback: Curved back, here refers to the elderly.
44. Support: support, lead, here refers to children.
45. Yu: Fishing, a famous action.
46. Niangquan: Use the noun Niangquan as an adverbial.
47. For: system.
48. 洌: pure.
49. Mountain delicacies: game.
50. Wild asparagus: wild vegetable.
51. Miscellaneous: Various.
52. Front: in front.
53. Chen: Put it aside.
54. Drunk: Drinking to your heart’s content
55. Not about music: It’s not about music.
56. Silk: stringed instrument.
57. Bamboo: wind instrument.
58. Shooting: Refers to throwing pots.
59. chess: playing chess.
60. The wine glasses and wine chips are intertwined.
61. Gong: wine glass.
62. Chi: wine chip, a sign used for giving orders at banquets or counting drinking during games.
63. Cang Yan: looks old.
64. Slumped: Lack of energy, here is the look of being drunk.
65. Hu: equivalent to "yu".
66. From: follow.
67. Yin Yin: describes the dense branches and leaves forming a shade.
68. Yi: cover.
69. Chirping up and down: It means that the bird is singing everywhere.
70. Upper and lower: the upper and lower parts of the tree.
71. Description: description.
72. Predicate: to be, to be.
73. Niangquan: the name of the spring.
74. Shooting: This refers to a game during banquets, that is, throwing arrows into a pot, and whether the arrow can be thrown into the pot determines the outcome. It is called pot throwing. It may also be a riddle, which was also called Shefu in ancient times.
75. Luling: Luling County is Jizhou. Now Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province.
76. Le: fun.
[Edit this paragraph] Writing background
"The Drunkard's Pavilion" was written in the sixth year of Qingli reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty (1046), when Ouyang Xiu was appointed as the prefect of Chuzhou. Ouyang Xiu came to Chuzhou after being demoted in the fifth year of Qingli. Before being demoted, he served as Taichang Prime Minister's Admonition Court, You Zhengyan's Zhi Gao, and Hebei Capital Transport Envoy. The reason for being demoted was that he always supported Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi and others in implementing the New Deal, while opposing the conservative Lu Yijian, Xia Song and others. Han Fan and others had already been demoted one after another before January of the fifth year of Qingli. By August of that year, Ouyang Xiu was accused of having a relative commit a crime and was involved in the matter. He was dismissed from the court and demoted. Release Chuzhou.
Ouyang Xiu implemented lenient and simple politics in Chuzhou, developed production, and enabled the locals to live a peaceful and stable life, with abundant crops and intoxicating landscapes. This made Ouyang Xiu Feeling extremely happy.
But at that time, the entire Northern Song Dynasty was politically dark and evil. Some people who were aspiring to reform and strengthen themselves were hit hard. He watched helplessly as the country's long-standing shortcomings could not be eliminated and the scene of decline grew day by day. This made him feel heavy. Worry and pain. This was his mood when he wrote "The Drunkard's Pavilion". These two aspects are blended together and reflected in his works.
[Edit this paragraph] About the author
Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), named Yongshu, nicknamed Drunken Old Man, Liuyi Jushi in his later years, posthumous title Wenzhong, known to the world as Ouyang Wenzhonggong, a native of Yongfeng, Ji'an (now part of Jiangxi) [self-proclaimed as a Luling person], Han nationality, because Jizhou originally belonged to Luling County, was born in Mianzhou (now Mianyang, Sichuan). During the Northern Song Dynasty, he was a politician, writer, historian and poet. Together with Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan, Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Che and Zeng Gong, they are collectively known as the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties". During the reign of Renzong, he was promoted to Zhizhigao and Hanlin bachelors; during the Yingzong period, he was promoted to deputy envoy to the privy council and participated in political affairs; during the Shenzong period, he was transferred to the Ministry of War to serve as a minister, and he served as the prince's young master. His posthumous title was Wenzhong. He advocated innovation in both politics and literature. He was not only a supporter of Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal, but also a leader of the poetry innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was also pleased to reward the younger ones, and Su Shi and his son, Zeng Gong and Wang Anshi all came out of his sect. His creative achievements are also impressive, and his poems, lyrics and prose are all top-notch at the moment. The prose is fluent in reasoning and euphemistic in lyricism; the poetic style is similar to prose, emphasizing momentum but smooth and natural; the words are deep, graceful and elegant, inheriting the style of the Southern Tang Dynasty. He co-edited "New Book of Tang" with Song Qi and authored "New History of Five Dynasties". He also likes to collect epigraphic texts and compiles them into "Collection of Ancient Records". There is "Collected Works of Ouyang Wenzhong". The poem "Treading on the Sand". He also wrote the famous "The Drunkard Pavilion". After Ouyang Xiu's death, he was buried in Xinzheng, Kaifeng (today's Xinzheng, Henan). Ouyang Xiu's Cemetery is now located in Ouyangsi Village, Xindian Town, Xinzheng City, which is a national-level cultural relics protection unit. In addition, there is also an ancestral hall in the southern suburbs of Mianyang today, called Liuyi Hall. This article selects six of his poems: "On Clique", "Preface to the Biographies of Officials in the History of the Five Dynasties", "The Drunkard's Pavilion", "Ode to the Sound of Autumn", "Essays on Sacrifice to the Stone Man" and "The Oil Seller"; and selects his poem "Picking Mulberries" (The West Lake is beautiful after all the flowers have passed), "Complaining of Heartfelt Feelings" (Autumn frost rolls through the curtains in the early morning), "Traveling on the Shasha" (Waiting for the dying plum blossoms in the pavilion), "Sheng Yaozi" (January last year), "Chaozhongcuo" (Pingshanlan) The threshold leans against the clear sky) and "Butterflies in Love with Flowers" (How deep is the courtyard); six of his poems are "Playing with Yuan Zhen" and "Thrush"
Ouyang Xiu wrote a lot of works throughout his life and made great achievements. Remarkable. In addition to literature, Confucian classics can study "Poetry", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn", and can not stick to the previous opinions and have original insights; epigraphy has contributed to the pioneering work, editing and sorting out epigraphic artifacts and inscriptions from the Zhou Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are thousands of inscriptions on the tablets and more than 400 chapters in ten volumes of "Ji Gu Lu", which is referred to as "Ji Gu Lu". It is the earliest surviving work on epigraphy. His historical achievements are particularly great. In addition to participating in the revision of "New Book of Tang Dynasty" "In addition to 250 volumes, he also wrote his own "Historical Records of the Five Dynasties" ("New History of the Five Dynasties"), which summarizes the historical experience of the Five Dynasties and intends to draw lessons from it.
This article is selected from "Selected Prose of Ouyang Xiu".
[Edit this paragraph] Central idea of ??the article
The full text uses the word "乐" as a clue. Through the description of the beautiful scenery of Chuzhou, it shows the author's broad-mindedness of being at peace with the situation and enjoying himself with the people. Feelings express one's political ideals and complex emotions of attaching oneself to mountains and rivers to relieve sorrow.
[Edit this paragraph] Article idioms
The interaction between wine vessels and wine chips is complicated. Describes feasting and drinking.
A winding road is also called a "mountain winding road". ① It means that the mountains are tortuous and the roads are circuitous. ②Today, it is often used to describe a new turning point after things have gone through twists and turns.
The drunkard’s intention is not to drink. Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty wrote "The Drunkard Pavilion": "The prefect and his guests came here to drink. They often got drunk after drinking for a little while, and he was the oldest, so he called himself the drunkard." "Weng's intention is not in wine, but in the mountains and rivers." Later, it was used as a metaphor that the original intention was not here, but in other aspects.
The wind and frost are noble and clean, Song Ouyang Xiu's "The Drunkard's Pavilion" says: "The wild fields are fragrant and fragrant, the fine trees are beautiful but densely shaded, the wind and frost are noble and clean, the water falls and the rocks emerge, these are the four seasons in the mountains." It refers to the four seasons in the mountains. The weather is cool and the frost is white
The truth comes out from "The Drunkard's Pavilion" written by Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty: "The wild fields are fragrant and fragrant, the fine trees are beautiful but overcast, the wind and frost are pure, the water falls and the rocks emerge, these are the four seasons in the mountains. "This means that the stone was revealed after the water level dropped. Later, it is used as a metaphor for the truth of things to be fully revealed.