An analysis of the ancient poem Inscribed on Orchid and Bamboo and a brief introduction to the author

Original text: Standing on the top of a thousand mountains, the deep cracks in the rocks are full of delicious fragrance.

There are floating clouds under your feet, and you don’t know each other when you come or leave

Analysis: Orchids grow on the top of the rocks, and their fragrance spreads everywhere. In the protruding rocks and crevices, the wonderful floral fragrance is rich and fragrant. It's not that there are no noises of rolling clouds under your feet, but the orchids don't want to pay attention to them and don't know them. When they arrive, we will not hold them back when they leave.

Thoughts and feelings: The whole poem expresses the sentiments of a noble hermit through chanting objects, admiring oneself and not being moved by worldly disturbances. Praise in poetry It depicts Orchid's outstanding and independent character in a harsh and harsh environment, and sings about Orchid's indifferent mentality, thereby expressing his feelings of persistence in ethics, indifference and self-sufficiency, and pursuit of individual freedom. It also expresses the author's noble sentiments of being indifferent to fame and fortune and not following the crowd.

About the author: Zheng Xie (1693~1765) was a famous painter, calligrapher and poet in the Qing Dynasty. His courtesy name was Kerou, his name was Banqiao, and he was also known as Zheng Banqiao. In the first year of Qianlong (1736), he was a Jinshi County magistrate, history of calligraphy and painting. A native of Xinghua, Jiangsu. He was elected as a scholar of Kangxi in the imperial examination. He was elected in the tenth year of Yongzheng. He was a Jinshi in the first year of Qianlong (1736). He was an official magistrate of Fan County and Weixian County in Shandong Province. There is a political saying of "please serve the people with the hunger of the year". He was dissatisfied with the officials and begged to return home." Before and after he became an official, he lived in Yangzhou and made a living by painting and calligraphy. He was good at calligraphy and painting. He was good at calligraphy and painting. He disdained idioms in poetry. He was good at painting flowers, wood and rocks, especially orchids, bamboos and orchids. Ye Zhimiao uses burnt ink to draw brush strokes, borrowing the vertical strokes in the cursive script and the long strokes to move it. More is not chaotic, less is not sparse, and it is free from the customs of the time. It is unparalleled in elegance. The calligraphy is also unique, with a mixture of regular script and regular script. He calls himself "Liu" "Divided into half a book". He also used painting techniques. The seals were written with simple and ancient writing. He was an unruly man. He chose county magistrates as Jinshi, did poetry and wine in daily affairs, and transferred Wei County. He asked for relief for the people due to year-round hunger. After disobeying the high officials, he returned home and lived in Yangzhou, where he gained a great reputation. He indulged in landscapes, and went on drunken countryside tours with poets and wild monks. He also wrote about orchids and thin stones in lounges and monk walls, and casually inscribed sentences, which made viewers marvel. There is a complete collection of Banqiao, hand-engraved. The paintings he sold were elegant and praised for a while. He was one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". His poems, calligraphy and paintings were known as the "Three Wonders" in the world. He was good at painting orchid and bamboo. Zheng Xie painted the most bamboos in his life. He was a relatively representative literati painter in the Qing Dynasty. He was born on November 22, 1693 and died on January 22, 1765, at the age of seventy-three. Qing Dynasty Zheng Banqiao of the 19th century is an outstanding celebrity in history, the main representative of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", a calligrapher, painter and writer who is famous for his three unique "poetry, calligraphy and painting". His life can be divided into "reading, teaching", selling There are five stages in painting Yangzhou, "qualified candidates and Jinshi" and official travel, serving as an official in Shandong and selling Yangzhou paintings again.