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Author: Nalan Xingde (compiled by Zhao Xiuting and Feng Tongyi)
Country: Mainland China
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Publishing Date: July 1, 2001
Features: This book is the most outstanding annotated edition in the current Nalan research field. The annotators are recognized as top experts in the field, and their collaboration has made this book a milestone in the history of annotated Nalan Ci poetry. It uses the "General Edition" format with traditional Chinese characters in vertical layout. The content is rigorous and detailed, making it highly valuable for in-depth study and research! This book is based on the four volumes of "Tongzhi Tang Ji" as the source text, primarily referencing Zhang Chunxiu's edition, Wang Yuanzhi's edition, and incorporating selections from contemporary anthologies such as "Jin Ci Chuji" and "Yaohua Ji" for collation. It provides a comprehensive reorganization of Nalan Ci poetry. The annotators have meticulously worked on punctuation, correction, supplementation, chronology, annotation, and commentary. It addresses some of the shortcomings in Nalan Ci publications since 1937. It is worth reading.
This book is the most outstanding annotated edition in the current Nalan research field. The annotators are recognized as top experts in the field, and their collaboration has made this book a milestone in the history of annotated Nalan Ci poetry. It uses the "General Edition" format with traditional Chinese characters in vertical layout. The content is rigorous and detailed, making it highly valuable for in-depth study and research! This book is based on the four volumes of "Tongzhi Tang Ji" as the source text, primarily referencing Zhang Chunxiu's edition, Wang Yuanzhi's edition, and incorporating selections from contemporary anthologies such as "Jin Ci Chuji" and "Yaohua Ji" for collation. It provides a comprehensive reorganization of Nalan Ci poetry. The annotators have meticulously worked on punctuation, correction, supplementation, chronology, annotation, and commentary. It addresses some of the shortcomings in Nalan Ci publications since 1937. It is worth reading.
Another line: "Jiangnan is good, the ancient iron jar in Nanxu."
Standing on horseback, overlooking the rivers and mountains for a thousand miles, shooting crocodiles in the wind and rain, the hundred spirits rush. Looking back north, even more hesitant.
[Annotation] Iron jar: The iron jar city, the ancient Zhenzhou (now Jingkou, present-day Zhenjiang), narrow and strong. Du Mu's poem "Two Poems on Zhenzhou" notes: "Zhenzhou city was built by Sun Quan and named the iron jar." Wang Ling's poem "Remembering Zhenzhou's Grand Secretary Ge" says: "The Golden Mountain Temple is close to the dust, the iron jar city is deep and majestic." Nanxu: In the eighth year of Yuangeng in the Southern Dynasties of Song, Nanzhou was established in Jingkou, governing Jilian and Nanbeihai.
The line "standing on horseback" is a factual account. The mountain refers to Golden Mountain, located northeast of Zhenjiang in the Yangtze River (now connected to the southern bank). Nalan Xingde's "Golden Mountain Ode" says: "The emperor then floated his warship in the middle of the river, climbed this mountain, halted and gazed. Looking south at the river, a hundred rivers rushed north to the sea gate, and ten thousand ravines rushed to this day. The emperor's mood was joyful, and his face was joyful. He personally wrote and inscribed 'A View of the River and Heaven,' granting eternal honor to the mountain temple. At that time, I, a humble official, was lucky to serve as a guard, and I joined the imperial guard in the hook platform, bowing and offering praise: 'The sage's virtue is complete, touring all directions. The phoenix's tail and feather canopy are scattered over the river. Crocodiles and turtles are the chariots, and I climb Golden Mountain to overlook the vast wilderness.'"
Standing on horseback: Wang Yanzhi's poem says: "With a million troops on West Lake, standing on horseback at Wushan peak." (See Yue Ke's "Tangshi"). A thousand miles of vision: Wang Zhihuan's poem "Ascending the Stork Tower" says: "To see a thousand miles, climb one more floor."
Shooting crocodiles: The "Book of Han·Bi Shang Ji" says: "(Wu Feng) in the fifth winter of his reign, went south for a tour, floated the Yangtze River, personally shot crocodiles in the river, and caught them." This metaphorizes the majesty of the Kangxi Emperor's southern tour by the river. A hundred spirits: Spirits from all directions. Song Wenqian's poem "Following the Emperor to Mount Taishan for the Celebration" says: "No hundred spirits came after, and ten thousand countries rushed forward." Liu Zongyuan's "Table of Wang Jingzhao's Rain" says: "The sage's thought is vast, driving a hundred spirits to follow the wind; the social transformation is laborious, nourishing five crops and flowing with tears."
North: Beigu Mountain, also known as Beiyuan Mountain. Located northeast of Zhenjiang, surrounded by three sides by the river, it is a great place to overlook the north bank. Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty called it "the grand view of Jingkou." "The New Stories of the World·Speech": "Xun Zhonglang was in Jingkou, climbed Beigu to see the sea, and said: 'Although I haven't seen the three mountains, it already makes one feel like soaring into the clouds.'"
Hesitant: Describes lingering and reluctant words. Nalan Xingde's "Miscellaneous Poems of Jiangnan" says: "This is a place where sorrow is hard to part, Yangzhou's wind and moon, Zhenzhou's mountains."
Another line: "Jiangnan is good, a piece of wonderful high cloud."
Inkstone north, peaks and ridges beyond Mi Wai Shi, screens and pavilions, Li General. Golden and green stand obliquely in the dusk.
[Annotation] Wonderful high: At the top of Golden Mountain, there is a built by Song monks, named the Wonderful High Platform. The peak is also known as the Wonderful High Peak. Wonderful High was originally Mount Sumeru, and Golden Mountain has many Buddhist temples, so it was adopted. Wonderful high cloud refers to the compassionate clouds of Buddhism. Nalan Xingde's poem "The Emperor's Tour to the River" says: "I climbed the wonderful high platform, the sky and water are vast and blue."
Inkstone north: The Southern Tang's Later Emperor had a inkstone over a foot long, with thirty-six peaks around it, each as large as a finger, called the Inkstone Mountain. The inkstone was later acquired by Song calligrapher Mi Fu. Mi Fu built a house in the southeast of Zhenjiang Prefecture, and the land was acquired in exchange for the inkstone. In the Southern Song period, Mi's former residence was acquired by Yue Ke, who built a garden there, named the Inkstone Garden. The story is recorded in "Yuesheng Suochao" and "Ming Yitong Zhi." The poem mentions "inkstone north," referring to the north of the Inkstone Garden.
Mi Wai Shi: Mi Fu, styled Yuanzhang, also known as Haiye Wai Shi. Skilled in calligraphy and painting, his landscape paintings were mostly created using dots and stains, known as "Mi Point Landscape."
Screens and pavilions: Seems to refer to pavilions painted on screens, but can also be understood as the buildings of Golden Mountain Buddhist temples seen through screen curtains. The Qing Emperor Kangxi's "Notes on the Southern Tour" says: "Golden Mountain's solitary peak is hidden in the valleys, standing in the middle of the great river, flying and merging with the red, shining with gold and green."
Nalan Xingde's "Golden Mountain Ode" says: "Among them are densely packed, red towers clustered. High platforms are majestic and solitary, empty pavilions are grand and paired. Standing on the hall, the colors are dazzling, looking at the images, they are brilliant in gold and green."
Li General: Li Sixin, a member of the Tang imperial family, used blue and green heavy colors in his paintings, known as gold and green landscape, presenting the prosperity of the prosperous era. He served as the Great General of the Left Military Guard during the Kaiyuan period and was known as the Li General. His son Li Zhaodao was also skilled in painting and was known as the Little Li General. Song Wan's "Lantern in the Yangtze River" says: "Golden and green towers and pavilions, green trees, Little Li General." Another line: "Looking is better than looking from afar, the reflection is slanted and dusk."
[Explanation] The two couplets describe Zhenjiang. The Kangxi Emperor's southern tour arrived in Zhenjiang on the twenty-third day of the tenth month, and visited Golden Mountain and Jiaoshan on the twenty-fourth, departing in the afternoon.
Another line: "Jiangnan is good, where is the difference from the capital's flowers and flowers, the fragrance scatters into the green curtains, and the green and red leaves are better than the flowers. Without wind and sand."
[Annotation] Fragrance scatters: Bai Juyi's poem "Lian Under the Steps" says: "Flowers bloom, fragrance scatters into the curtain wind." Without: No need.
[Explanation] Compared to the capital, it describes the feelings of arriving in the south.
Another line: "Afraid of the wine cup being full." To deeper, the blurred shadow of intoxication, accompanied by the dim light. Still the corridor, the new moon, the bamboo sound is chaotic. Asking about the sorrow and the length of the spring night. People are more lonely than sparse flowers, and red vines should be hard to manage. In dreams, hear low calls. This feeling is like entrusting the east wind to wash. But it blows in, the fragrance of wine adds half. It's easy to be thin, and it's easy to be light warm and cold. Remembering the scattered words, the teacup is. Red candle tears on the west window, then the intestines were broken for this reason. Let the corner pillow, lean on the lonely inn.
[Correction] The first stanza "blurred" is "confused" in the "Vocabulary." "Asking about the sorrow" has a small character "who" under the character "sorrow" in Wang's edition. "People are more lonely than sparse flowers" in "Jin Ci Chuji," "Vocabulary," and "Zhaodai Ci Xuan" in Wang's edition is "Empty Yanyan Tower, the string is cold." "Red vines should be hard to manage" in "Jin Ci Chuji" and "Vocabulary" is "Peach blossoms should be fallen and no one manages"; "Zhaodai Ci Xuan" is "Peach blossoms fall and no one manages." "In dreams, hear low calls" in "Jin Ci Chuji," "Vocabulary," and "Zhaodai Ci Xuan" in Wang's edition is "Who understands, really calls; 'Ci Ya' says 'In dreams, call together low.'"
The second stanza "as if" in "Vocabulary" and "Zhaodai Ci Xuan" is "as if." "Add" in "Jin Ci Chuji," "Vocabulary," and "Zhaodai Ci Xuan" is "add." "Jianglang is easy to be thin" in "Jin Ci Chuji," "Vocabulary," "Zhaodai Ci Xuan," and Wang's edition is "Jiang Yan is thin." "Add" in "Jin Ci Chuji" and Wang's edition is "How to bear"; "Vocabulary" and "Zhaodai Ci Xuan" are "how to bear." "Let the corner pillow" was originally "let the pillow corner" in the original text, now revised according to "Jin Ci Chuji," "Vocabulary," "Zhaodai Ci Xuan," Yuan's edition, and Wang's edition to "let the corner pillow."
[Annotation] Afraid of: Luo Binwang's poem "Farewell to Li Xiao" says: "The wine cup is full in vain, and the parting sorrow is even greater than the chickens." Another line: Qian Weiyan's "Mulan" says: "Today, the wine cup is afraid of being too shallow."
Red vines: Flower petals. Wang Yun's poem "Pomegranate" says: "White stems show red fruits, green leaves are red vines."
In dreams: Wang Yanhong's "Manchu" says: "Unwittingly, the dream wakes up and whispers."
Fragrance: Cai Songnian's "Yuchi Cup" says: "Feeling that the emotion follows, the morning horse is tied to the wind, and the fragrance of wine accompanies."
Add: Immediately, suddenly.
Jianglang: Jiang Yan, author of "The Farewell."
Light warm and cold: Ruan Yiyu's poem "Flower Heart Moving" says: "Suddenly raining and sunny, light warm and cold, gradually approaching the time to enjoy flowers."
Scattered: Using Li Qingzhao and Tang Mingcheng's story of gambling books, see the previous "Hansha" "Who remembers the west wind alone is cool" annotation.
Corner pillow: "Poem·Tang Feng·Gesheng" says: "Corner pillow is bright, and brocade quilt is bright."