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224. 弹琴（刘长卿）

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泠（líng）泠（líng）七（qī）弦（xián）上（shàng），（）静（jìng）听（tīng）松（sōng）风（fēng）寒（hán）。（）

七弦琴上响起清越的声音，静静听来，如松林风声一般带着寒意。

“泠泠”形容声音清越。“松风”既可指琴声如松间风声，也让人想到古琴曲调，重点都在声音清冷。

古（gǔ）调（diào）虽（suī）自（zì）爱（ài），（）今（jīn）人（rén）多（duō）不（bù）弹（tán）。（）

我虽然喜爱这种古老曲调，如今的人却大多不再弹奏。

“自爱”是自己珍爱，不是自我爱惜。结句从听琴转到知音难得：曲调没有改变，听它、弹它的人少了。

赏析 · Commentary

琴声为什么带着寒意 · Why the Music Feels Cold

“寒”不是说琴弦冰冷，而是听觉带出的感受。泠泠的声音清而不浊，松风的联想又把人带到空旷山林。两个词放在一起，琴声便显得疏落、克制。诗没有描述演奏技巧，只写声音给人留下的气息。

Cold does not mean that the strings are physically chilled. It is the sensation produced by the sound. The clear ring of lingling has no heaviness, and pine wind opens an imagined mountain space. Together they make the music spare and restrained. The poem says nothing about virtuosity; it records the atmosphere the sound leaves behind.

古调与今人的距离 · The Distance Between an Old Tune and the Present

后两句容易读成对当时人的简单责备，其实语气更接近自知冷落。诗人喜欢古调，也知道这种趣味不合潮流。“多不弹”没有说人人都不懂，只说弹奏者已经很少。失落来自偏爱的事物仍然存在，却渐渐退出共同生活。

The final couplet can sound like a blanket complaint about contemporaries, but its tone is closer to knowing that one's taste is unfashionable. The poet values the old tune and understands that few share the preference. Rarely played does not say that everyone is incapable of understanding it; the sadness lies in something cherished still existing while slowly leaving common life.

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