牡丹花下叹不平

《买花》一诗,是唐代伟大现实主义诗人白居易的“讽谕诗”中《秦中吟》组诗十首之一。这首诗虽“其言直而切”,但含蕴丰富、手法新巧。它选取了贵族竞买牡丹这样一个突出而又带普遍性的现象,不仅揭露了豪门贵族生活的奢侈浪费,喊出了劳动人民的心声,而且从中折射出中唐时期的社会审美风尚、消费观念、物价关系、贸易方式等诸多信息。本文就试图从审美风尚、消费观念、物价关系等方面来解读原诗文本,以探其美刺之旨而见其讽谕手法之妙。

Sighing Wealth Gap beside Peonies

＂Buy Flowers＂ is one of the ＂Poems written in Qin Area＂, written by BAI Ju-yi who was a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word using of the poem is plain but exact. This poem has rich content and artful technique of expression. BAI Ju-yi selected a special phenomenon that aristocrats bided peonies not only to expose their luxury and waste lives shouting the voice of working people, but also reflect a serious of social situations of aesthetic fashion, consumerism, price relationship, mode of trade and some other information in the mid- Tang Dynasty. This article attempts to interpret the text from the aspects of aesthetic fashion, consumer ideas and price relationships, to explore its ironical intention and appreciate the beauty ofaUegorical method.