From Han Yu's "Showing Eighteen Members of Zhang Shui Department in Early Spring": "The sky is raining and crisp, and the grass is far and near. Most importantly, the benefits of a Spring Festival are definitely better than cigarettes and willows.
Poetry appreciation:
This poem is a seven-character quatrain for Zhang Ji, the Ministry of Water Resources, which describes and praises the beautiful scenery in early spring. Ranked eighteenth among the brothers, so he was called Zhang Eighteen. The style of poetry is fresh and natural, simple and colloquial. It seems dull, but it is by no means dull. Han Yu himself said, "Being poor is strange, and it becomes dull" ("Send the teacher to john young"). It turned out that his plainness was hard-won.
The first sentence points out the light rain in early spring, and describes it as smooth and moist with "moist as crisp", which accurately captures its characteristics. The sentence is fresh and beautiful. There is also Du Fu's "Good rain knows the season, when spring comes." Sneaking into the night with the wind, moistening things silently "has the same effect."
The second sentence closely follows the first sentence, which describes the scenery after the rain. From a distance, it seems to be there, but from a close look, it depicts the hazy scene of grass soaking in rain in early spring. Write down the characteristics of spring grass when it just germinates, if not, sparse and short. Can be compared with Wang Wei's "fog, it disappears when I enter them" and "the color of the mountain is yes and no"
The third and fourth sentences praise the scenery in early spring: "The most important thing is the benefits of spring, which is better than tobacco willow." The light rain and grass color in early spring are the most beautiful things in the spring of a year, far exceeding the late spring scenery of the city of smoke and willow.
Poetry about spring scenery, in Tang poetry, mostly takes beautiful late spring, but this poem takes early spring chant, thinking that early spring scenery is better than late spring, which is innovative. The exquisite observation of the scenery in the first two sentences is admirable, and the last two sentences are even more unexpected, such as the sudden arrival of cavalry.