The beauty of Tang poetry is like the first light of the morning, warm and brilliant.
It not only reflects the glory of the Tang Dynasty, but also ripples of emotion in the poet's heart.
Pillow poems: The Years and Mountains and Rivers in Tang Poems are like the gate of time, leading us to walk through the long river of history and listen to the deep affection and sorrow in ancient poems.
The poems in the book are like flowing paintings, telling the lovesickness in the mountains and rivers of the years, gentle and long.
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Nostalgia and homecoming in Tang poetry
In the vast ocean of Tang poetry, the attachment to the hometown is like a red line, which always runs through it, touching the heartstrings.
This book is a collection of many moving poems full of homesickness.
In the pen of poets such as He Zhizhang and Wang Bo, this nostalgia is portrayed in a deep and moving way.
After three years of Tianbao, He Zhizhang ended his officialdom career and returned to his hometown of Yongxing, Yuezhou.
At this time, he was eighty-six years old, and it had been more than 50 years since he left his hometown.
Stepping on the land of my hometown again, although the scenery is still the same, the things are not people.
The emotions surging in his heart turned into the popular "Homecoming Doll Book".
In the first poem, "The young man who left home and the eldest returned, and the hometown voice did not change and the sideburns urged" expressed the common aspirations of all wanderers.
After going through the wind and rain, he was already a white-haired old man when he returned, and although his hometown in front of him had not changed, he was no longer the young man.
Smile and ask where the guest comes from", this child's innocent words, but to He Zhizhang is like a hammer.
He was once the owner of the place, but now he is treated as a guest.
The poem came to an abrupt end here, and a melancholy abruptly abruptly abruptly grew.
The second song, "Only the mirror lake in front of the door, the spring breeze does not change the old waves" is a continuation of the previous song.
By depicting the lake in the old days, he expresses his deep attachment to his hometown.
The years have passed, and the personnel are no longer there, but the mirror lake in front of the door is still the same.
When the spring breeze blows, the ripples on the surface of the lake are still the same as before.
The whole poem is based on "change" and "unchanged", what has changed is the face, and what has not changed is the deep affection for the hometown.
This emotion is as eternal and profound as a lake.
"Homecoming Doll Book" delicately shows the complex emotions of the wanderer when he returns to his hometown, and deeply touches the heartstrings of readers.
Author's evaluation of He Zhizhang:
Talking about romance is a fanatic. ”
His poems, like his life, are not filled with sadness and indignation, but are full of freshness, chic, optimism and open-mindedness.
Wang Bo's homesickness shows a completely different style from He Zhizhang's delicate feelings.
In the second year of Qianfeng, Wang Bo was dismissed and expelled from King Pei's Mansion because of a joke "King Chicken", and had to leave Chang'an.
On the way to roam Bashu, he composed the homesick poem "In the Mountains".
The Yangtze River in the poem seems to be lamenting Wang Bo's stay in a foreign land.
Being in a foreign country, he has a deep desire to return to his homeland, thousands of miles away.
The autumn breeze in front of him, the yellow leaves flying, and the autumn scene of everything withering deepened the pain and sorrow in his heart.
Wang Bo's way of expressing nostalgia is not through the expression of subtleties, such as the delicate depiction of "withered vines and old trees and crows".
He used "Yangtze River", "Ten Thousand Miles", "High Wind", "Mountains and Mountains" and other large-scale brushstrokes, although it was an expression of melancholy, but the scene he depicted was still magnificent.
The same is true of another of his poems about nostalgia, "Wild Hope in Early Spring".
He looked into the distance and wrote down the magnificent scenes of "the river is wide" and "the mountain is long".
Express a touch of nostalgia in an open artistic conception.
The author lamented that although Wang Bo's poems did not use a single word to write about homesickness.
But in the context of looking at it again and again, every word reveals a deep sense of homesickness.
In the world of Tang poetry, every wanderer is a lonely soul who has left his homeland.
They all have a common yearning in their hearts - to return to that warm and familiar home.
There is a confidant in the sea, and the end of the world is like a neighbor
Friendship and longing in Tang poetry
In the rich emotions of Tang poetry, friendship is the eternal theme.
In the parting works, those deep and delicate poems can undoubtedly touch people's hearts deeply;
The other type of poetry is passionate, generous, sincere and warm, endowed with a bold and energetic temperament.
Gao Shi's "Farewell Dong Da" is a model of this style.
In the spring of the sixth year of Xuanzong Tianbao of the Tang Dynasty, the then official department was demoted by the imperial court.
His protégé Dong Tinglan also left Chang'an.
In the winter of the same year, Gao Shi met Dong Tinglan in Suiyang.
The two who met at the trough sympathized with each other, and after a moment of reunion, they went their separate ways.
When Gao Shi wrote "Farewell Dong Da" to bid farewell to Dong Tinglan, he was in the dilemma of frustration and poverty.
He laughed at himself in the poem, and he couldn't even get the money to invite Dong Tinglan to drink.
But even so, he still inspired his friends with the heroic poem "Don't worry about the road ahead, no one in the world knows you", and at the same time motivate himself.
This kind of ambition, full of confidence and strength, can still deeply affect people today.
In addition to this kind of pride and farewell poems to friends, the book also includes a lot of poems that express affection for the scene.
For example, Meng Haoran's "Autumn Climbing Ten Thousand Mountains and Sending Zhang Wu" is a masterpiece of scene blending and thanksgiving friendship.
In the early autumn season, Meng Haoran, who had been living in seclusion for a long time, missed his best friend and climbed high to look at the place where his friend lived far away.
As far as the eye can see, seeing the wild geese flying by, the twilight approaching, a faint loneliness and melancholy are born with the scene.
He lamented when his best friends would come to spend the festive season with him, talk happily and get drunk together.
When I saw the people returning to the village, the sand crossed the head to rest.
The trees on the horizon are like camellias, and the riverside continent is like the moon. ”
It depicts people returning from sunset in the village from the top of the mountain, moving and still, as well as the woods and sandbanks at dusk.
The simple language reads plain and natural, as if it is easy to read, but it writes the beauty of nature and the tranquility of the mountain village, which makes people feel like they are in a high and quiet place.
Shen Deqian once commented that Meng Haoran's poems are "light and not thin", with natural words and endless meanings.
The author called Meng Haoran a light and elegant cloth cloth.
He is a reclusive poet who is reclusive for the sake of romantic ideals and is inspired by natural landscapes to devote himself to landscapes.
He has never entered the official career in his life, seeing the noise of the world, living in seclusion in the mountains with flowers and trees as his companion, which is his last stubbornness.
The friendship in Tang poems is like the endless mountains, although they are thousands of miles away, they are heart-to-heart.
It teaches us that true friendship is not limited by time and space.
Even if you are at the end of the world, you can feel the deep friendship and endless thoughts.
Once the sea was difficult to water, except for Wushan, it is not a cloud
Love and attachment in Tang poetry
In Tang poetry, love and attachment are always so deep and sincere.
Poets use keen brushstrokes to capture those subtle emotional changes.
The beauty, pain, expectation and loss of love are vividly displayed.
It is not only a praise of love, but also a profound analysis of human nature and emotions.
The emotional entanglement between Bai Juyi and his first love Xiang Ling has been profoundly reflected in his many poems.
Among them, the poem "Night Rain" expresses the inextricable feelings of longing vividly.
In the poem, the person who is thinking about it is "separated from the country", and the things he feels are "knotted in the deep intestines", revealing that Bai Juyi had no choice but to get married after a long-term struggle with his parents, but his thoughts about Xiangling continued like night rain.
In the silent night, the raindrops beat on the windows, and the lonely light reflected Bai Juyi's figure.
He reminisced about the good times with Xiang Ling and the obstacles he suffered because of the concept of Mendi.
This affectionate sentiment has been expressed in poems such as "The Neighbor's Girl", "Jixiang Ling" and "Sauvignon Blanc".
Especially the sentence in "Sauvignon Blanc" "Hate will not stop until you return", which expresses Bai Juyi's persistence and helplessness in love.
Faced with strong pressure from the family, Bai Juyi finally chose a marriage that was the right one, while Xiangling never married.
This fruitless emotional journey is painfully portrayed in "Hidden Farewell":
Don't cry, don't dive away. Speechless, secretly lovesick ......There is no late stage of being willing to each other. ”
The author talks about Bai Juyi's embarrassing feelings, and believes that Bai Juyi's single-mindedness in love and seriousness in marriage are far better than Yuan Zhen.
Yuan Zhen, known as "Yuan Bai" along with Bai Juyi, once conceited that his love poems were invincible.
His "Thoughts (Fourth)" is an affectionate tribute to his deceased wife Wei Cong.
In the poem, the sentence "once the sea was difficult to water, except for Wushan is not a cloud", is praised by the majority of infatuated lovers, and its deep affection can be seen.
Unlike Li Shangyin's Untitled: It's Difficult to Say Goodbye When We Meet, and Wang Wei's Acacia, Yuan Wei uses absolute negation to affirm his love in his poems.
He used the water of the sea and the clouds of Wushan as a metaphor to express his deep and generous love for Wei Cong.
Take the second flower bush lazy review", not to describe him playing with the flowers without touching his body, but to express his state of mind because of his deep affection.
Yuan Zhi wrote three memorial poems for Wei Cong "Sending Sorrow" to express his thoughts.
However, behind this affection, his ruthless side is also exposed.
Yuan Zhen's career is bumpy, and his love is also full of twists and turns.
His first love woman, Shuangwen, is also the prototype of Cui Yingying in "The Legend of the West Chamber".
However, for the sake of his career, he finally chose Wei Cong as his wife.
Even when Wei Cong was still alive, he began to associate with the courtesan Xue Tao, and then empathized with the famous prostitute Liu Caichun.
Less than a year after Wei Cong's death, he accepted his cousin An Xian Concubine as his side room, and then married everyone's beautiful Pei Shu as his wife.
The author talked about Yuan Zhen's six loves, saying that they seemed to be "infatuated", but in fact they were ruthless.
Perhaps when he wrote these poems, he was indeed sincere.
However, it is only after the loss that he feels sorry and will use affectionate verses to remember the feelings of the past.
Regardless of the life choices of the poets, their psalms are eternally shining with the brilliance of humanity.
Those poems that go deep into the bone marrow let us see the thousands of faces of love and the complexity and truth of human nature.
In the world of Tang poetry, love is like a brilliant firework, even if it is short, it is enough to illuminate each other's lives.
Pillow Poems: The Years and Mountains and Rivers in Tang Poems" is not only a collection of poems showing the splendid culture of the Tang Dynasty, but also a treasure book of emotions.
Re-reading these ancient poems, we seem to be able to travel through time and space to appreciate the prosperous style and cultural charm of the Tang Dynasty.
What's more precious is that in the careful tasting, we have learned to cherish the warmth of family affection, the mellow of friendship, and the beauty of love around us.
These emotions, like the words in the Tang poems, are timeless and intoxicating.
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