Year:
the Tang Dynasty
Author:
Wang Ji
Content:
There will be a wild mushroom running in the north field and millet cutting in the east.
It's worth flying at night when you meet a full moon.
Appreciate:
Wang Ji, who entered the Tang Dynasty from Sui Dynasty, had a simple and natural poetic style, washed away the old habits of Qi and Liang Dynasties, and was unique in the early Tang Dynasty. This little poem, which describes the interest of rural life, contains rich and meaningful poetic feelings in simplicity and plainness, which can quite represent his artistic style.
The first two sentences are about returning from farming activities. Beichang and Gaodong, but generally speaking, the field in the north of the house and the field in the east of the house are not real names. "Gao Dong" secretly borrows the poem "Go to Gao Dong for fun" in Tao Yuanming's "Going Home" to point out the identity of farming in seclusion. Yun Huo, that is, weeding beans, is an autumn ploughing activity, just like "cutting millet". These two sentences are very plain, without any description and rendering, so plain that there is almost no poem. However, it is in this casual and plain tone and soothing rhythm that the poet's pastoral life habits and a leisurely taste are revealed. Wang Ji's secluded living conditions are good. Taking part in field work such as "carrying fire" and "cutting millet" is just a relaxed and happy ornament of rural life for him. The harmonious balance of mind caused by this kind of life is the background and condition of the scene of "happy encounter on autumn night" described in the following two sentences.
"When the moon is full, it is worth flying at night." With a little fatigue and satisfaction after working in the fields during the day and a happy and comfortable life in the countryside, two old friends from the countryside met unexpectedly on this quiet and beautiful autumn night. It's a full moon night. The whole village and fields are shrouded in the brilliance of a bright moon, which is particularly quiet, leisurely and harmonious. Here and there, fireflies in autumn fly back and forth, weaving into changeable light patterns. Their appearance has added mobile intention and happy business to this quiet and leisurely mountain village in autumn night, so that it will not appear monotonous and cold. At the same time, the change of local flow in turn highlights the tranquility and serenity of the whole mountain village in autumn night. There is no positive description of the scene where two people meet, and there is no word "hi". But through this painting of autumn night in a mountain village composed of a dissolved bright moon and a small firefly, with the help of the two emotional words of "meet" and "more value", the poet's pleasure and intoxication in the beautiful scenery in front of him, his comfort and tranquility which are in perfect harmony with the environment, and *
Wang Ji was deeply influenced by Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi's thoughts. Although many of his poems show dissatisfaction with the shackles of feudal ethics, they often show independent and passive thoughts. Wang Ye, his masterpiece, inevitably has this negative tendency. Although this poem is about pastoral seclusion, it shows the unique beauty and understanding of this beauty in the autumn night in the countryside, with bright colors and rich flavor of life. His poems are honest and natural, but sometimes they are too straightforward and meaningless. This poem not only maintains the advantages of simplicity and naturalness, but also blends into the scenery, which seems to inadvertently dye a rich artistic conception. Judging from the development of landscape pastoral poetry, Tao's landscape pastoral poetry is mainly freehand brushwork, while Wang Wei's landscape pastoral poetry deliberately creates a beautiful artistic conception of blending scenes. This poem by Wang Ji can be said to be the forerunner of Wang Wei's pastoral poems. We can also see the influence of Tao poetry from poetry, but on the whole, it belongs to the future poetry development era.