夢幻的畫舫齋

 

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畫舫齋

Pleasure Boat Studio

葉子退休前

有過夢想

或是幻想

想退休後

在自家後院

仿效宋代歐陽修

築個醉翁亭

親朋訪酒鄉

與客飲於此

心想

醉翁之意不在酒

在乎山水之間也

然而

葉子滴酒少沾

何來醉翁之名

因此打消此念

後來

想起歐陽修的

畫舫齋記

另一夢想

最近

新冠疫情接著來

居安思危

畫舫齋夢又重現

幻想

處於齋中

猶如在舟

花木山石分兩側

舟行山林江水中

....

正如歐陽修所説

"皆可愛者"

畫舫齋記 《歐陽修集·卷三十九》

予至滑之三月，即其署東偏之室，治為燕私之居，而名曰畫舫齋。齋廣

一室，其深七室，以戶相通，凡入予室者，如入乎舟中。 其溫室之奧，

則穴其上以為明；其虛室之疏以達，則檻欄其兩旁以為坐立之倚。 凡偃

休於吾 齋者，又如偃休乎舟中。山石崷率，佳花美木之植列於兩簷之外，

又似泛乎中流，而左山右林之相映，皆可愛者。 因以舟名焉。

"Pleasure Boat Studio" 

by Ou-Yang Hsiu

(Translated by Ronald Egan, Professor in Chinese Literature &

Aesthetics from Harvard University)

"Three months after I came to Hua I converted the rooms of the eastern

wing of the government offices into a place for me to spend my leisure

time. I named it “Pleasure Boat Studio”. 

The studio is one room across

and seven rooms long (the rooms being connected by doorways), and so

to walk into my studio is just like walking into a boat. 

First, in a corner

of the warm room I made a hole in the roof to let in light. Then on either

side of the bright and open unwalled rooms I made a hole in the roof to

let in light. Then on either side of the bright and open unwalled rooms I

installed railings to sit on or lean against. 

Anyone who relaxes in my

studio will find that it is just like relaxing on a boat. The craggy stone

mounds and the flowering plants and trees that I arranged just beyond

the eaves on both sides make it seem all the more that one is drifting

down the middle of a river, with the mountains on the right facing forests

on the left, all very attractive. 

This, then, is why I named my studio after

a boat."

葉子 (Yeh Tze)