Qingming Festival
Dynasty: Song Dynasty
Author: Huang Tingjian
In the Qingming Festival, peaches and plums laugh, and Noda's wasteland only gives birth to sorrow.
the thunder stung the dragon and snake, and the rain made the grass soft in the suburbs.
it's unfair for a man to beg for a sacrifice to his arrogant concubine.
sages and fools have known who they are for thousands of years, and their eyes are full of Artemisia scoparia.
The poem "Qingming Festival" is a poet's touching work, which expresses the impermanence of life through the use of contrast. The first couplet contrasts the laughter of peaches and plums in Tomb-Sweeping Day with the sorrow of barren graves, revealing a heartless sigh for the world. With a turn of the pen, the couplet shows the scene of the revival of all things in nature, which is in sharp contrast with the eyeful Artemisia barren hills of the latter two couplets. From tomb sweeping in Qingming to begging for food by Qi people, from banning cold food to pushing mesons to burn them to death, no matter whether they are virtuous or stupid, they will all be a pile of loess in the end. The poet sees the vitality of nature, but he thinks of the inevitable fate of death in the world, expressing a negative and nihilistic thought, and the sad mood is entangled between the lines. This is inseparable from the political ups and downs of the poet's life and the strong influence of Zen thought on him. However, the work embodies the author's life value orientation, whips the ugliness of life, seems to be negative, but in fact it is angry.
Author's brief introduction
Huang Tingjian (145-115), whose name was Lu Zhi, was born in the valley, and his name was Fu Weng, also known as Mr. Yu Zhanghuang, Han nationality, and was born in Fenning, Hongzhou (now Xiushui, Jiangxi). A poet, poet and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, he was the founder of Jiangxi Poetry School, and he, Du Fu, Chen Shidao and Chen Yuyi are known as "three schools of one ancestor" (Huang is one of them). In the fourth year of Yingzong Zhiping (167), he was a scholar. Li Guan Ye Xianwei, Professor imperial academy from Beijing, School Booker Lang, Works Zuolang, Secretary Cheng, Fuzhou Biejia, Guizhou Resettlement, etc. In terms of poetry, he and Su Shi are also called "Su Huang"; In terms of calligraphy, he, Su Shi, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang are also called "four great masters in the Song Dynasty". In terms of lyrics, although he was once called "Qin Huang" with Qin Guan, Huang's achievements in lyrics are far inferior to Qin's.