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Tune: Butterflies in Love with Flowers (Feng Yansi)

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Who says that lingering feeling was cast off long ago? Each spring it returns with the same melancholy. Day after day the speaker drinks before the flowers, often falling ill from wine, and does not refuse even as the mirror shows a face growing thin.

Green grass grows beside the river, and willows line the embankment. Why does this fresh sorrow return year after year? Alone on the small bridge, sleeves filled with wind, the speaker watches a new moon rise above the level woods after everyone has gone home.

词句注释 · Notes

上片 · First stanza

“闲情”在这里不是悠闲心情，而是反复涌起、难以排遣的情绪。花前饮酒和镜中消瘦写出它对日常生活的消耗，但词中并未说明具体所思之人。所据选本此处作者名作“冯延已”，其他传本作“冯延巳”，这里采用通行名“冯延巳”。

“Idle feeling” here is not carefree leisure but a recurring emotion that cannot be dismissed. Drinking among flowers and seeing a thinning face show its toll, though the beloved is never identified. The anthology page prints the author as 冯延已; other transmitted texts identify him as 冯延巳, the name used here.

下片 · Second stanza

下片由发问转入小桥、满袖风和林梢新月的静景。结尾“人归后”突出独处；“新愁”虽每年复现，却没有被词人解释成单一事件。

The stanza moves from its question into a quiet scene of bridge, wind-filled sleeves, and a new moon over the woods. “After people have gone home” sharpens the solitude; the recurring sorrow is left unexplained rather than assigned to one event.

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