Xue Baochai s famous evaluation of crab poems

Original text: Gui Ai Tongyin sits and lifts, and Chang'an salivates and looks forward to Chongyang. There is no warp and weft in front of you, and the sky is black and yellow. The wine is not fishy, but also uses chrysanthemum, and the sexual anti-accumulation cold ginger is fixed. In today's cauldron into what is beneficial, Yuepu is empty and fragrant.

The gist of the poem: In the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, everyone drinks in the shade, and those who are addicted to alcohol are looking forward to the festival of Chongyang. You are domineering, there is no east, west, north and south in front of you, and you don't know whether you can do it on the surface, but you actually have no heart.

The wine can't wash away the fishy smell, and you have to rinse your mouth with chrysanthemum tea, and you must add some ginger to prevent the crab burying cover from hurting people coldly. What's so good about being steamed in a soup pot now? On a moonlit night, only the grass is wafting with the fragrance by the water.

Appreciation: Compared with the two poems of the same name by Baoyu and Daiyu, this is a satirical poem with spicy writing and harsh words, which satirizes those who have empty stomachs but are rampant. This poem is eye-catching with "the road in front of you has no warp and weft, and the spring and autumn sky is black and yellow" for the poetry state, and the ugliness of the world is portrayed like a crab into the wood, which can really be described as "the swan song of crab eating".

The poem is trivial, satirical, spicy, and very aggressive, and at first glance it seems that it is not from the hand of "Xue Yuwu", because she has always been a gentle and generous lady, "at any time, self-guarding". But when you think about it, Baochai is like a mirror in her heart, pure-hearted, and has an instinctive aversion to the greed and domineering and other bad deeds in the world. She once said to Daiyu:

It's good for men to read and reason, but now I don't hear of such people, and when they do, it's even worse. It's a mistake for him to be a book, but it's a pity that he also ruined the book. (Chapter 42) This is precisely her psychological motivation for "singing crabs" to stab greed and ridicule.

Therefore, this poem is from her hand, although it is not strange to be seen. Moreover, although this poem is signed with the name of Baochai, it is actually done by Cao, and the author likes to satirize the hearts of the world with the mouth of a fake character.

1. This poem was written by Xue Baochai, in fact, it was written by Cao Xueqin, and the original text is as follows:

Dream of Red Mansions" Xue Baochai sings crab poems.

Gui Ai Tongyin sat and lifted his feet, and Chang'an salivated and looked forward to Chongyang.

There is no warp and weft in front of you, and the sky is black and yellow.

The wine is not fishy, but also uses chrysanthemum, and the sexual anti-accumulation cold ginger is fixed.

In today's cauldron into what benefit, Yuepu empty surplus grass incense.

2. Translate this sentence:

1. There is no warp and weft crab in front of you, so it doesn't matter whether the road in front of you is straight or horizontal. The warp and weft originally referred to the straight and horizontal lines on the loom, and here referred to the vertical and horizontal lines of the road.

2. Piri Spring and Autumn Sky Black Yellow Crab has a shell but no skin, and "Piri" is in the shell, that is, in the stomach. The paste of live crab has different colors of yellow and black, so it is said that the color of the flower is different in "spring and autumn". and "Piri Spring and Autumn" is an idiom, from "Jin Shu Chu Biography":

Chu Li does not show likes and dislikes on the outside, and refuses to casually express his approval or disapproval, but he has praise and disapproval in his heart. So some people say that he "has Piri Yangqiu". "Spring and Autumn" was originally a chronicle of Confucius based on the book compiled by the historians of the Lu State.

The text is short, and the predecessors thought that its words were deeply praised. Because Emperor Jianwen of the Jin Dynasty was named Spring, the Jin people avoided it and replaced "Spring" with "Yang", so this idiom is also called "Pili Yangqiu". Later, it is mostly used to say that people's hearts are scheming, and they are quiet.

Empty black and yellow, that is, the meaning of many tricks and futile work, because crabs are inevitably cooked.

3. Appreciate this sentence:

During the Double Ninth Festival, not only to appreciate chrysanthemums, but also to taste autumn crabs. A few friends got together, drank crabs, chatted, and were very comfortable. Seeing so many fat crabs, I can't help but think of the scene of tasting crabs in "Dream of Red Mansions", and think of Xue Baochai's crab poems.

Most of Xue Baochai's poems are relatively calm, and few are so extreme and cynical, but there are special times. When the new crabs were listed, Bao Dai Chai wrote a poem about the crab, and Bao Chai's poem was the best, among which "the road in front of you has no warp and weft, and the spring and autumn sky in Piri is black and yellow" is a metaphor for people, full of ridicule and whiplash to the society. Here, "empty, black, yellow" means that the abdomen is empty, there is no knowledge, only "black, yellow", Baoyu looked at it and said:

Scold happily! It's time for my poems to burn. ”！