Listen to this article菩萨蛮
[唐]韦庄
人人尽说江南好，
游人只合[1]江南老。
春水碧于天，
画船听雨眠。
垆边[2]人似月，
皓腕[3]凝霜雪。
未老莫还乡，
还乡须[4]断肠。
[1]只合：只应，只当。
[2]垆边：暗用汉代卓文君当垆卖酒的典故。垆，酒店安放酒坛的土台子。
[3]皓腕：洁白的手臂。
[4]须：应该。
Tune: Buddhist Dancers
Wei Zhuang
All men will say the Southern land is fair,
A wanderer is willing to spend his whole life there,
He’d like to see spring water bluer than the sky
And, listening to rain, in painted ship to lie.
The wine-shop waitress looks like the moon bright,
Like snow or frost congealed her arms are white.
Till he grows old, from South lands he won’t part,
To leave this land for home would break his heart.
Wei Zhuang (836—910) was considered one of the leaders of the “School among Flowers”. In contrast to the ornate rhetoric of other lyric poets of this School, his diction is simple and direct and explicit. In this lyric is revealed a Northerner’s love for the beautiful Southern land.
《菩萨蛮·人人尽说江南好》是唐代词人韦庄创作的小令。此词描写了江南水乡的人美景美生活美 ，表现了诗人对江南水乡的依恋之情，也抒发了诗人飘泊难归的愁苦之感，写得情真意切，具有较强的艺术感染力。在谋篇布局上，上片开首两句与结拍两句抒情，中间四句写景、写人。全词纯用白描写法，清新明丽，真切可感；起结四句虽直抒胸臆，却又婉转含蓄，饶有韵致。
“Tune: Buddhist Dancers” is a small order composed by Wei Zhuang, a lyricist of the Tang Dynasty. This lyric describes the beauty of people and life in Jiangnan water town, and expresses the poet’s attachment to Jiangnan water town, as well as the poet’s sadness of wandering and difficulty in returning. In the layout, the first two lines and the last two lines of the upper piece express emotions, and the middle four lines write about scenery and people. The whole lyric is purely written in white, which is fresh, bright and real; the beginning and end of the four lines are straightforward but subtle and rhyming.
