The Tang Dynasty was an empire of poetry, with more than 50,000 poems extant. In "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty", the word "rain" appears more than 6,500 times, and there are more than a thousand poems related to rain, and it is difficult to count all the best lines. Such as "The morning rain in Weicheng is lightly dusted" (Wang Wei's "Weicheng Song"), "The sunrise in the east and the rain in the west" (Liu Yuxi's "Zhuzhi Ci"), "A person walks in the yellow plum rain" (Bai Juyi's "Langtao"), "Slanting wind" "The drizzle does not have to go home" (Zhang Zhihe's "The Fisherman's Song"), "The cold rain comes into Wu at night" (Wang Changling's "Two Songs for Xin Jian in the Furong Tower"), etc.
It rained continuously for I don’t know how long it lasted, and the ponds were full and overflowing. In the window, the shadow of the candle shines brightly, and a lonely figure bends over the desk to send a letter to a friend far away in the north. Some people say that it is sent to the "wife". It doesn't matter who you send it to. It's the lingering friendship (love) that has touched the heart and caused excitement for thousands of years. Li Shangyin's poems are often famous for their beautiful words and vagueness, but this poem is unsophisticated, free and clear, and has no trace of modification. The sentence "I asked you about your return date has not been announced" comes suddenly, as if a bored traveler suddenly received a letter from a friend, or just like a friend sitting around chatting and blurting out the question after hearing his friend's inquiry.
The author's writing suddenly stopped again, and his eyes moved to the window. In the sound of rain, he seemed to see the pond full of water... "Bashan", "Yeyu", "Qiuchi", with the word "rise" , space and time are integrated and dynamically flowing. It's a scene, it's also a feeling, it's a scene clearly, it's a feeling hidden - what fills the pond is clearly the waves of emotion. This poem is a back-and-forth contrast in space (Bashan Night Rain - Returning to Hometown - Recalling Bashan Night Rain); it is a loop contrast in time (Tonight - Future - Tonight). Time and space shift, thoughts gallop, and friendship lingers... This is a rain of longing and love, permeating the night sky of Bashan Shushui, lingering endlessly in the tunnel of time... This rain also falls on the land of Bashu. But it is completely opposite to Li Shangyin's heart-wrenching autumn rain: this is a spring rain, a pleasant "good rain"!
Du Fu lived a wandering life. In his later years, he had his own thatched cottage by the Huanhua River in Chengdu, where he spent a few years of rare peace. "There is spring water in the south and north of the house, but I can see a flock of gulls coming every day." "The window contains the snow of Qianqiu in the West Ridge, and the door is docked with a ship thousands of miles away from Dongwu" - this is the scene in front of him. The spring rain moistens the earth, and all things revive, and "all the flowers are in full bloom" (Tang Xianzu's "The Peony Pavilion·Dreams"). The early spring is refreshing and refreshing. Han Yu once said with emotion: "The light rain in the street is as moist as crisp, and the color of grass looks far away but not close. It is the best thing about spring in a year, and it is better than the smoke and willows that fill the imperial capital." ("Early Spring Presents the Water Department, Zhang Shiba Yuanwai") The spring rain is always misty and gentle like smoke, unlike the summer rain, which is warm and the autumn rain is desolate. In another poem also written in the thatched cottage. In the poem, Du Fu once used "fish come out in the drizzle, and swallows slant in the breeze" ("Two Poems on the Water Threshold to Heart") to delicately describe the dynamics of fish and swallows in the gentle breeze and drizzle in the spring evening.
Wei Yingwu's poem "The light rain comes at night, but I don't know how spring grass grows" ("Seclusion") is another expression of "Sneaking into the night with the wind, moistening things silently". The characteristic of spring rain in Chengdu is that it falls at night, so " "The wild paths are all dark with clouds", and "the river boat fire is only bright", and the rain stopped in the morning, so it is "red and wet", so the flowers are "heavy". Sneak into the night with the wind, moistening things silently - more It is an attitude towards life and a way to live in the world.
Among the ancient poems that Chinese people have memorized since childhood and will never forget them for the rest of their lives, this one definitely ranks among the top three. I wrote this poem on a spring morning while living in seclusion in Lumen Mountain (Xiangyang, Hubei Province). The five-character quatrain is like a short story. It has to be captured in fragments and moments in the limited twenty words, and there is no time to reproduce it slowly. Foreshadowing. The whole poem is like flowing clouds and flowing water, natural and rich in charm, long and profound, and a unique and wonderful scene. The first two sentences are in front of the eyes. Before I get up from the bed, I have already imagined that there are early birds "everywhere" from the birdsong. The third sentence leads to the memory of the "sound of wind and rain" last night, until it once again imagines the falling flowers everywhere outdoors, and the lingering feeling of cherishing spring. This poem is also a famous poem about spring scenery, and this poem appeals to hearing to exaggerate the spring morning; "A branch of red apricot comes out." "The Wall Comes" appeals to vision. The two poems have different approaches but the same purpose.
It is said that Meng Haoran once had the opportunity to meet Emperor Xuanzong and ordered him to recite what he had written, so he recited: "Bei Quexiu wrote to Nanshan Returning to my hut, I have been abandoned by my incompetent master, and my old friends are sparse. My gray hair is driving me to old age, and I am always worried and unable to sleep. The window is empty under the pine moon. "Why don't you ask me for help?" Abandon Qing? Why don't you say: The steaming clouds and Meng Ze are shaking Yueyang City. "Because of this, I abandoned him and returned to Xiangyang."