Cui Hao was born in Bianzhou (AD 704? -754) Tang Xuanzong was a scholar in Kaiyuan 1 1 year (AD 723). He is quick-witted and good at writing poems, and he is a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Wen Yuan Biography of Old Tang Dynasty compares him with Wang Changling, Gao Shi and Meng Haoran, but his official career is ups and downs, and he will never succeed. There are not many accounts about him in history, and there are few legends and stories about him in his hometown of Bianzhou. Tang Hao's old biography is so brief that even his literary achievements are not mentioned. What are these for? It is worth thinking about.
First, the poem Yellow Crane Tower made Cui Hao.
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The Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang is one of the four famous buildings in China. There are many poems about the Yellow Crane Tower in past dynasties, but Cui Hao's Seven Rhymes is the best. Please see how he wrote:
The fairy of the past has flown away by the yellow crane, leaving only an empty Yellow Crane Tower. The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years.
Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass. But I looked home, and the twilight was getting thicker. The river is shrouded in mist, which brings people deep melancholy.
This poem is written with an open artistic conception, great verve, picturesque scenery and sincere feelings. And simple and vivid, just like spoken English, can't help but be amazing. This poem is not only Cui Hao's masterpiece and handed down from generation to generation, but also laid the foundation of his poem name. This conclusion is by no means a person's, nor am I insisting on giving Kaifeng people a golden face. Three Hundred Poems of Tang Poetry is an anthology of Tang poetry in later generations, so Cui Hao's poems are listed as the first of the seven laws. This shows the importance of this poem. In the Yuan Dynasty, the new biography of talented people in Tang Dynasty recorded that Li Bai boarded the Yellow Crane Tower to write poems, but when he saw the works, he put his hands together and said, "There is no road ahead, so write poems on it." Some people say that this is not necessarily because it was attached by later generations. But I don't think it's all fake. I have two poems written by Li Bai about the Yellow Crane Tower. One is "Yellow Crane Tower Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou": "An old friend said goodbye to the West Yellow Crane Tower, and fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March. Lonely sails are far away from the sky. I only saw the Yangtze River flowing in the sky. " The other is "Listening to the Yellow Crane Tower Flute with Shilang Zhong Qin": "One is to move a guest to Changsha and look at Chang 'an in the west without seeing home. The Jade Emperor blows the Yellow Crane Tower, and plum blossoms fall into the river in May. "Although they are all related to the Yellow Crane Tower, they are all entrusted with other purposes, not completely depicting the scenery. At the same time, the first four sentences of his Nautilus Island, "The parrot crossed the Wujiang River eastward, and the name of the parrot spread in Jiangshangzhou. Parrots fly to Longshan in the west, and the trees are similar to Cui Shifa. The same is true of his Poems of Going to Nanjing and Climbing the Phoenix Terrace, all of which have obvious traces of imitating Cui Shi's style. Therefore, it is not Li Bai's words to admit that Cui's poems are excellent, such as "there is no scenery in front of me, and poetry is on it". "Cang Hua" (Yan Yu) said: "The Yellow Crane Tower should be the first of seven-character poems in the Tang Dynasty." Although controversial, for example, Hu Yinglin called Du Fu's ascent the highest of the seven laws in ancient and modern times, it is indeed a pertinent word representing everyone's opinions. In this way, the Yellow Crane Tower in Cui Hao is even more famous.