The Charm of Tang Poetry

The Charm of Tang Poetry Wen / Ge Lao

Tang Poetry is a treasure of Chinese culture, which has been recited for thousands of years and passed down from generation to generation. It has not only been sung by the literati for the hall of literature and art, but also enriched the lives of the common people, and is still alive and vibrant. Today, parents teach their children the first poem, mostly Li Bai's "Silent Night Thoughts", listening to the tender voice chanting "bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be the frost on the ground", can not help but smile, reminiscent of their own childhood. Large-scale cultural activities in Tang poetry is also a reserved holiday, Pu Cunxin recitation of the "wine" is breathtaking, according to Bai Juyi "Pipa Xing" adapted pipa solo fresh and beautiful. Pop songs also draw heavily on the original elements of Tang poetry, according to Zhang Ji's "Maple Bridge Night Poetry" written by pop songs, I like, "the moon falls and the crow cries do not change the frost of the millennium, the sound of the waves is still still the night of the year". Drinking with friends while listening to the song, immersed in the wind, flowers, snow and moon, Guanshan Mountain Desert, the Great River to the east, the maple forest in the late autumn, the wild boat across the river in the mood, is a kind of enjoyment. Travel and leisure, whenever you see the beauty of the scenery in front of you, you can't help but think of Tang poetry, climbing high will think of "wanting to see thousands of miles, a higher floor." Watching the snow will sing "Suddenly the spring breeze comes, thousands of trees and pear blossoms". Looking at a waterfall, one would think of "The waterfall falls three thousand feet straight down, suspected to be the Milky Way falling into the nine heavens." Tang poetry for almost all the scenery is inscribed with a wonderful explanation, like Li Bai climbed Huang Zyonglou said, there is a scene in front of the title can not, Cui Hao has a poem on the head. It affects our creative mood.

Even the human emotions are often trapped in the Tang poetry in the mood of the mortar, Tang poetry often invaded my subconscious. When I was happy, I would sing, "Laugh up at the sky and go out the door, my generation is not the people of Artemisia. When I was lonely, I would think of Chen Zi'ang's "I don't see anyone before me, I don't see anyone after me, I think of the loneliness of heaven and earth, and I think of the loneliness of heaven and earth, and I think of the pathos of my life. The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at your family, and then you'll be able to see your family and friends, and then you'll be able to see your family and friends, and then you'll be able to see your family and friends, and then you'll be able to see your family and friends, and then you'll be able to see your family and friends.

When I was young, I liked Tang poetry because I wanted to show that I had culture and taste. Readers do not know a few Tang poems that is disgraceful, because Tang poetry is too popular, too much influence. With the growth of experience, the understanding of Tang poetry has a new feeling, the feeling that Tang poetry is not only literature and art, but a culture, a form of Tang Dynasty people's existence, a kind of incentive to the Chinese nation's unceasingly great spirit, the charm of the Tang poetry, the reason why, throughout the ages, experts and scholars have a lot of monographs in the discussion, in the interpretation of the reading of my feeling is that, the charm of the Tang poetry is multi-faceted, there are the following main points

The poem has a picture, the poem has feelings, the poem has a history, the poem has a soul.

Pictures in poems

Su Dongpo, after viewing Wang Wei's poems and paintings, commented, "Taste the poems of Mochizuki, and there are paintings in the poems; view the paintings of Mochizuki, and there are poems in the paintings." It is not surprising that poetry and painting have the same origin in Chinese culture. In the Tang Dynasty poets, not only Wang Wei, there are many poets can paint, or have a painter to observe the life of the cut material skills, their large number of poems describing the natural scenery is a beautiful and colorful landscape paintings, people taste and appreciate.

There are dozens of waterfalls on Mount Lushan, and Li Bai actually depicted that one? Generally agreed that the incense burner peak, I think the description of the waterfall is show peak, show peak I've been many times, the waterfall is located in the southern outskirts of Mount Lushan Xingzi County, about half an hour climb from the bottom of the mountain, from a distance to see a waterfall hanging near the top of the wall, most of the time smoke scribbling, the sun out of the golden, the general public only feel the waterfall's majestic and spectacular, and Li Bai waterfalls compared to the Milky Way, what an image of a wonderful.

Tianmen Mountain is located in Anhui and County, I was young and members of the group went to Tianmen Mountain spring, "Tianmen interrupted the Chu River open, blue water flowing east to this back. The two sides of the green mountains relative out, a lone sail by the side of the sun." Standing on Tianmen Mountain, Li Bai depicted the scenery at a glance, the two mountains sandwiched between the river, the blue water flowing east, the lone sail far away, fresh and natural, no comment, but the poem in the pleasure, the scenery in the beautiful fusion of the intersection, the scenario is blended, refreshing.

Wang Wei's "Mountain Dwelling Autumn All Night" shows the tranquility of the mountains and forests, "the bright moon shining between the pines, the clear spring flowing over the stones. The bamboo clamor returns to the raccooness, and the lotus moves under the fishing boat." The colorful images of the bright moon, pines, rocks, streams, bamboo forests, and lotus flowers put one in a situation far away from the world, and one can't help but marvel at the magnificence, harmony, and eternity of nature's Creator.

Du Mu's "Walking in the Mountains," describing the mountain scenery in the fall is unparalleled, "far up the cold mountain stone paths slanting, deep in the white clouds there are people, stopping to sit in love with the maple forest evening, frost leaves red than the February flowers." This scenery in the mountains of Jiangnan can be seen almost everywhere, but by the poet a refinement, frost leaves red in February flowers, has become a famous sentence, autumn leaves became a festival of people travelers, Maodun also used as the title of the novel.

Tang poets are not only painters, but also a brilliant photographer, like Liu Zongyuan's "Winter Snow" is not a painting, more like a photograph, "thousands of birds flying away, ten thousand traces of people trail extinction. Lone boat Demoiselle Weng, fishing alone in the cold river snow." In the empty silence of the world of snow and ice, a person wearing a straw raincoat fishing, I have seen the Ming people according to the poem painted by the painting, the picture is cold, transcendent, cold, but in the snow and ice and give a person a kind of hope, a kind of trust.

Du Fu wrote about the spring scenery in front of Chengdu Cao Tang's "absolute lines of three" "two yellow oriole song green willow, a line of egrets on the blue sky. The window contains a thousand autumn snows on the West Ridge, and the door is moored to a ten-thousand-mile boat on the East Wu." Like four pictures, the colors are "yellow," "green," "white," and "green," and the shots are near, middle, and far, with the oriole chirping in the willow tree as a close-up. Willow chirping is a close-up, the egret flying up to the sky is a medium view, the window nested Xiling snow scene is a distant view, and the door mooring Dongwu Wanli boat with some imagination, have the color of Montgomery.

Tang poets describe the object is a colorful world, Guanshan Desert, Gobi Grassland, three mountains, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, spring flowers, autumn and moonlight, bridges and water, pavilions, are dissolved into the poet's feelings of life and artistic creativity, so that the future generations can not be surpassed.

Poetry has feelings

Some people say, anger out of the poet; some people say, sadness out of the poet; reason is right, the poet has emotions, the poet to have the passion of life. Good poetry is to express the sincere feelings, to infect the reader, Tang poetry in the emotion like the cellar of the wine simple fragrance intoxicating.

In my opinion, there is a difference between big feelings and small feelings. The so-called big feelings are the feelings of worrying about the country and the people, and the feelings of compassion. The so-called small love is the love of children, husband and wife, the love of friends. Both the big and small feelings have exquisite works in Tang poems.

Du Fu is the most typical representative of worrying about the country and the people, "To the king Yao and Shun on, every meal does not forget the king." "In poor years, I worry about the people, and sigh for the heat in my intestines." He is expressing his feelings of wanting to do his best for his country. And "the stench of wine and meat, the road has frozen dead bones" is the denunciation of the man-eating society and scourge.

Li Shen's Two Songs of Compassionate Farming expresses an indictment of the ruling class and a deep sympathy for the peasants, which is a rare thought in feudal society.

One of them is "A grain of corn is planted in the spring and ten thousand seeds are harvested in the fall. There are no idle fields in the four seas, and the peasants are still starving to death.

Secondly, the day of the hoe is the afternoon, and the sweat drips down to the soil. Who knows what is on the plate, all the grains are suffering.

There is also Bai Juyi's "Charcoal Seller", which reads, "The poor man's clothes are single, and his heart is worried about the low price of charcoal, wishing for a cold day." How compassionate and concerned about the old man selling charcoal, in today's view, but also a rare humanistic concern, today's leaders for the migrant workers to recover the wages owed to the rich for the disadvantaged people to donate is no more than that, and the Tang Dynasty to today has gone through more than 1,000 years.

Tang poets such depictions are not individual, like Du Fu's "stone trench mandarin", Li Bai's "Ding Du Gui song", Bai Juyi's "on the Yang white-haired man", Li He's "old man picking jade song", Nie catkin in the "Wing Tianjia" from a different angle to express the sympathy and compassion for the farmers, fiberglass, woodcutting, levies, miners, the courtesan, and other disadvantaged human sympathy and compassion. It shows that the Tang poets already have a sense of humanism and equality, and it also makes Tang poems infused with a deep color of humanism.

In Tang poetry, the love of children, husband and wife, and friends is more delicate and touching.

Li Shangyin's "Night Rain Sends the North" is a masterpiece of emotional richness and delicacy.

Jun asked for the return date is not yet the date, Bashan night rain rises autumn pool.

When **** cut the candles in the west window, but talk about the night rain in Bashan.

Describes the poet on the journey to his wife's feelings of longing, without a word of thought, without a word of love, the feelings of earnestness jumped off the page.

"The same people are at the end of the world, why should we ever meet each other?" Bai Juyi and the pipa woman have never met, one is the exile of the deputation, a wandering songstress, in a particular scenario the two have **** the same emotions. This poem has comforted the lonely hearts of many lonely travelers at the end of the world for thousands of years.

The young woman in the boudoir does not know the sadness, the spring condensation dress on the green tower.

Suddenly I saw the color of the willow on the street, and regretted teaching my husband to look for a husband. （

This poem is not only about the young woman's longing for her husband, but also about the value of life, which is more valuable when compared with family reunion.

The poets of the Tang Dynasty wrote more farewell poems, which can be compiled into a special collection. Contemporary people send off, in addition to sending some gifts, wishing friends and relatives a safe journey. Now the cell phone text message send-off language has been formatted, the same, to flirt with more. The Tang poet's farewell poem, sincere emotion, distinctive personality.

Advancing on the rain of Wei Cheng, the guest house is green and the willow color is new.

I advise you to drink a cup of wine, and there is no old man in the west out of the Yangguan Pass. (Wang Wei, "Sending Yuan Er to Envoy An Xi")

Outside the Yangguan Pass is the yellow dust of the desert, full of bleakness, and the feeling of farewell is in the cup, so please drink a cup of farewell wine from your friends and go on your way safely. This farewell song was not only circulated at that time, but was composed and sung, and is still popular today.

The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and went down to Yangzhou in March.

Lone sail and distant shadow in the blue sky, only see the Yangtze River flowing in the sky. （

Li Bai, who was a close friend of Meng Haoran, stood by the river and waved goodbye to his friend until the sailboat disappeared into the sky, still gazing at it. There is no blessing in the poem, it's all about the scenery, but we are still y touched by the intensity of friendship after a thousand years.

Poetry has a history

The Tang Empire is the heyday of Chinese feudal society, the rule of Zhenguan, the flourishing of the new millennium, can be summarized. The Tang Empire was a period of great prosperity for the Chinese feudal society, with the reign of Zhenguan, the reign of Kaiyuan and a great number of talents. Fixed South Vietnam, through the western region, open up the frontier, the country is strong, is the center of the world economy and culture. The splendor of Tang poetry was a product of the political and economic development of the time, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty was fully expressed in Tang poetry.

Lu Zhaolin's "Ancient Ideas of Chang'an" also leaves us the prosperous scene of ancient Chang'an by describing the life of Chang'an's aristocrats who competed with each other in extravagance and chasing after pleasures, "Chang'an Avenue is even narrowly slanted, with green oxen and white horses and seven fragrant cars." "North Hall night people like the moon, South Mor Dynasty ride like clouds. The South Path is connected to the North Path, and the five dramas and three articles control the three cities." Four thoroughfare and dense as a spider's web of alleys connected to the street, traffic, jewelry, Chang'an as the world's metropolis at the time of the very image displayed in front of us. "The Liang family's painted buildings rise up in the middle of the sky, and the Han Emperor's Golden Mausoleum is straight outside the clouds." The palace buildings with painted buildings and flying beams, and the mansions of the powerful families that are more than a succession of streets, fully demonstrate the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. The prosperity of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty was comparable to that of Shanghai today. The poem depicting the metropolis also influenced later generations, and the Song Dynasty's Liu Yong's "Winging the Sea Tide of Hangzhou" was inspired by the Tang poem.

The border poems of the Tang Dynasty show us the spectacular scenes and magical tragedies of the wars of the time.

Cen Shen went to the border three times in his life and personally took part in the war against the Xiongnu. His poems depicted the bleak and mournful scenery of the northwestern border, "You don't see the horse traveling along the snowy seashore, the flat sands are yellow into the sky. The wind roars at night in September in Luntai, a river of broken rocks as big as a bucket, with the wind all over the ground, the rocks walk chaotically." (Walking Horses to the West, Sent on a Western Expedition) describes the battle scene as spectacular and tragic, "The general embraces the flag and goes on a western expedition, blowing his flute in the morning and marching with his army. The four sides cut down the drums and the snowy sea surged, and the three armies shouted that the Yinshan Mountains were moving. The flag of the captive soldiers was even clouded, and the white bones of the battlefield were entangled in the grass roots. The winds of the Jianhe River were so strong that the clouds were wide, and the hooves of the horses were not removed from the sandy mouth." People who are not personally present at the battlefield are unable to express the war scene so realistically. There are also Gao Shi, Wang Wei, Wang Changling have left a lot of war theme of the poem, like Wang Changling's 〈from the army line〉之四：

青海长云暗雪山，孤城遥望玉门关.

The yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and I vow not to return until I have broken Loulan.

Describes the scenery around the Yumen Pass and shows the ambition of Han soldiers to fight for their country.

Du Fu, known as the Sage of Poetry, used a large number of poems to describe the social scene after the Anshi Rebellion. Du Fu, through the officers, officials, soldiers, refugees and other vivid characters, reflected the social turmoil caused by the war and the suffering of the people, revealed the disaster brought by the war to the people, and criticized the ruling class for their extravagance and extravagance.

Bai Juyi's "The Charcoal Seller" not only exposes the plundering of the people by the ruling class, but also vividly describes the scenes of market transactions during the Tang Dynasty.

"A cart of charcoal, more than a thousand catties, half a red yarn a zhang damask, it is to the head of the cattle charcoal value," describes the life of a veteran, the old man was wounded in battle an arm, but instead of "and happy that the old man is now alone, or else at that time Lushuitou, the death of the soul of the bone is not collected. " The company's website has been updated with the latest information on the company's website, which is available on the website.

Tang poetry also describes the image of Gongsun Damiang dancing sword, lute female playing the piano, the painter waving ink, the courtesan long-sleeved song and dance scenes, with language to express the music is very difficult, "big string noisy as the rain, the small string cut such as whispers. The big strings are as noisy as the rain, the small strings are like whispers. The aptness of the metaphor and the jumping of the syllables have become an ancient masterpiece describing music.

The Tang poems recorded almost all the military and state affairs, and depicted the objects of the emperors and generals, the talented and beautiful, the ploughmen and the rascals, leaving a colorful picture of the society, and the Tang poems are a history of the Tang Dynasty.

Poetry has a soul

What is poetry? Poetry is the confession of the soul, the dreaming of the mind. Mr. Ma Yifu said that poetry is actually human life, "like a lost and sudden awakening, like a dream and a sudden awakening, like the rise of a servant, like the recovery of a sick person." Poets often say that the Tang poetry is characterized by majestic and grand, but there is a more prominent feature of Tang poetry, is free and open, the poet to show the state of life, whether it is brilliant or downtrodden, into the civil service or return to seclusion, read the Tang poetry, I often see a living soul, a unique life, although the space and time are separated by thousands and thousands of miles, their joys, anger, sorrows and joys are still with me.

Also expressing the mindset of being unhappy in life, Li Bai sings, "I was born to be useful." ("Will Enter the Wine") "I am happy to have a cup of wine before I die, why should I be famous for a thousand years after I die." （In "Hard to Walk the Road," "Jade and pearls buy songs and smiles, and chaff raises virtuous talents. "(The Ancient Winds) expresses the spirit of defiance against the powerful and the noble, the lightness of the princes and lords, and the arrogance of not being curved.

Du Fu, on the other hand, used the scenery to express his feelings: "I've been a guest for thousands of miles in sadness, and I've been sick for hundreds of years, and I've been on the stage alone. The hard and bitter hatred of the frosty temples, scribbling new pavilion turbid wine cup." ("Ascending to the Heights"), which is more of sorrow and indignation. The different expressions are very suitable for Li Du's character and poetic style, one is a master of romanticism, and the other is a fighter of realism. Chen Zi'ang's "I have never seen anyone before me, and I will never see anyone after me. I think of the world's long, alone in pathos." Pathos and loneliness, time and space, and Chen Zi'ang's military experience and the border scenery into one. The poem is like a human being.

Li Bai sings of the great river as "the waters of the Yellow River come from the sky and flow to the sea without return." It is a majestic and unrestrained poem, which has obviously inherited the characteristics of ancient music. And Du Fu's "The boundless fallen trees are under Xiao Xiao, and the endless Yangtze River rolls on." The neatness of the contrasts fully reflects the style of Du Fu's masters of the five-seven-verse poem.

Mocking the ruling class's extravagant pleasures, Bai Juyi mostly used white descriptions, and his poetic style was like words, "Running on my body is warm, buying the grace in front of your eyes." (Re-fu). ("Re-assignment") "Shangyang people, the most bitter. The young are also bitter, the old are also bitter, the young bitter old bitter two how. Don't you see Lu Xiang's "Beauty Fugue" in the past, and don't you see the white-haired Shangyang courtesans singing today?" （Bai Juyi was a representative of the New Lefu movement, and his poetic style was simple and easy to follow. He also advocated the idea of "singing about the people's illnesses, and wishing to be known by the Son of Heaven".

Du Mu, on the other hand, had a subtle and colorful poetic style. He satirized Emperor Tang Xuanzong's poem "Passing the Palace of Huaqing," which reads, "Looking back at Chang'an, the embroideries are piled up, and thousands of gates are opening one after another on the top of the mountain. A ride on the red dust consort laughs, no one knows it's lychee." There is also the irony of "Jiangnan Spring" on the ruling class' promotion of Buddhism, "Thousands of miles of warblers cry in green and red, and wine flags blow in the water villages and mountains. Four hundred and eighty temples in the south, how many buildings in the smoky rain." These two poems, without a word of criticism, seem to be writing scenes, but the reader will feel the author's criticism and ridicule from them. Du Mu lived in the late Tang Dynasty, when the political atmosphere was perhaps not so open, and he criticized the ruling class in a veiled way, with a plain mind and very cunning, but this was inseparable from his character and cultivation. This kind of satirical poetry is more flavorful.

In an article, I read the poem "I don't see the sun in the morning, and I don't know the spring in the year", which is beyond the world. At first, I thought it was Wang Wei's poem because he believed in Buddhism in his later years. A check of the dictionary of Tang poetry, only to realize that it is the poetry of the monk Han Shan, a thought, only monks will have such a Zen atmosphere, sunrise and sunset, spring and spring do not care, not a monk and how to write such a poem.

Li Bai also wrote about the loneliness and isolation in the face of nature in "Sitting Alone in Jingting Mountain", "All the birds have flown high, and the lonely clouds have gone alone. The only thing that I don't get tired of is Jingting Mountain". Although it is transcendent, it still reveals the interest of life. Li Bai is full of interest in life. Look at his "Raise a glass to invite the moon, to the shadow into three." The first thing that you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you can get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world.

Li He and Li Shangyin both like to use myths and historical allusions, while Li He pursues a peculiar atmosphere, bright colors, such as "Autumn grave ghosts sing Bao's poetry, hate blood thousands of years of turf in the turf of blue." "The city is about to be destroyed by black clouds, and the golden scales of armor light up to the sun." And Li Shangyin's "There is no end to the fifty strings of the brocade, one string and one pillar thinking of Chinese New Year. Zhuangsheng Xiaomeng is obsessed with butterflies, and Wangdi's spring heart is in the form of a cuckoo." The poem is bleak, euphemistic, and sentimental, the image is not easy, and the use of the dictionary is also apt, although he studied Li He, but not the same as Li He.

The same subject matter in Tang poetry in the pen of different poets, a thousand forms, because the poets are "that one."

Read the character, read the characteristics, into the heart of the poet, in order to truly feel the charm and splendor of Tang poetry.