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ユch笛n xio
t叩鐔ﾉ 鐚618907鐚
絖羌m竪n鼻 hor叩n (689740)
ョ筝茹ch笛n mi叩n b湛 ju辿 xio,
紊紊糸守ch湛 ch湛 w辿n t鱈 nio
紊蕋紕y竪 l叩i fn鼻 y shn鼻鐚
沿順紊絨hu lu嘆 zh朝 du sho
沿順紊絨hu lu嘆 zh朝 du sho
ョ筝茹ch笛n mi叩n b湛 ju辿 xio,
紊紊糸守ch湛 ch湛 w辿n t鱈 nio
紊蕋紕y竪 l叩i fn鼻 y shn鼻鐚
沿順紊絨hu lu嘆 zh朝 du sho鐚
沿順紊絨hu lu嘆 zh朝 du sho
|#|Chun Xiao A Spring Morning
By Meng Haoran (689740)
Tang Dynasty (618907)
Sleeping on a spring night, I?ve missed the dawn?
Everywhere I hear the songs of birds?
In the night?s wind and rain,
how many flowers have fallen?
How many flowers have fallen?
Sleeping on a spring night, I?ve missed the dawn?
Everywhere I heard the songs of birds?
In the night?s wind and rain,
how many flowers have fallen?
How many flowers have fallen?
How many flowers have fallen?
|#|絖羌 Men鼻 Haoran 鐚689-740) was born in Xiangyang, in today's Hubei Province. Apart from spending a short time in the capitalChang'an city, to pursue his career, and traveling in Wu and Yue in today's Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he lived in the Xiangyang area for most of his life.
Meng Haoran is as famous as Wang Wei, because of their friendship and their prominence as Idyll and Landscape Poets.
Succeeding Tao Yuanming (365-427) and Xie Lingyun (385-433),he and Wang Wei (701-761)are regarded as the predecessors of the Idyll and Landscape Poetry in Tang Dynasty.
The language of his poems is very clear and simple, the feelings are kind and true, and they are unique, free and full of breath of life.
He, therefore, had a great reputation in Tang Dynasty. He was a good friend of Wang Wei, Li Bai, Wang Changling and Du Fu and he was admired by them all.
He and Wang Wei are known as Wang and Meng in the history of Chinese poetry.
|#||#|Chun XiaoA Spring Morning is a very simple but quite famous Chinese classical poem by Meng Haoran. In just 4 lines and 20 Chinese characters, it describes a very vivid and fresh glimpse of life.
The first two lines: ョ筝茹鐚紊紊糸守 ch笛n mi叩n b湛 ju辿 xio, ch湛 ch湛 w辿n t鱈 nioSleeping on a spring night, I've missed the dawn. Everywhere I hear the songs of birds.
The last two lines: 紊蕋紕鐚沿順紊絨y竪 l叩i fn鼻 y shn鼻, hu lu嘆 zh朝 du shoIn the night?s wind and rain, how many flowers have fallen?
Catching the first feeling at a split second when the poet woke up on the spring morning, this poem writes about what the poet heard and thought, describing the vibrant scenery of spring morning after raining.Instead of describing it from a visual angle, this poem captures the sounds of spring, from the aural angle, writes about what the poet heard from his room rather than what he saw out of the door.In the simplest language, the poem leads readers into a boundless spring scenery,and creates huge room for readers to imagine what that spring morning was like.
Therefore, as we read this poem, it feels like we can hear the singing of the birds, feel the fresh air in the morning, smell the sweet fragrance of the flowers and naturally imagine the activities of the poet.
|#|Catching the sounds of spring (the twitter of the birds, the sounds of the breeze and the rain) to express what the poet felt is the main characteristic of this poem. With this thought, I created a piece of music to go with this short poem in 2005.
But, when I wanted to paint a picture to match the artistic conception of this poem in 2011, I had a new idea. I thought that the last two lines (紊蕋紕鐚沿順紊絨鐚y竪 l叩i fn鼻 y shn鼻, hu lu嘆 zh朝 du shoIn the night's wind and rain, how many flowers have fallencould not only have been the thought of the poet but also have been what the birds were singing.
Therefore, I painted two paintings to match this idea as my assignments at China Central Academy of Fine Arts and at Chinese National Academy of Arts in 2011 and 2012. Let the birds open their mouths to sing and ask how many flowers have fallen in the wind and rain last night.
What do you think of my imagination? Do you agree with me?
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn .
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