This poem is Jiangnan Spring. Today we will talk about the background of this poem and Du Mu's mood at that time.
"Thousands of miles of warblers crow green and reflect red, and the flag wind of Shuizhai Mountain fruit wine. Four hundred and eighty halls in the southern dynasties, how many towers are misty and rainy. "
This well-known poem is Jiangnan Spring. Du Mu described the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River with short but changeable brushstrokes, and talked about the historical problems of Buddhist temples in the south.
Because of its superb writing techniques, Jiang Nanchun has been praised by many experts in later generations and loved by poetry lovers, but I'm afraid many people don't know what makes the author helpless behind this poem.
Du Mu wrote Jiangnan Spring when the Tang Dynasty was in decline. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty perished, the royal family's dignity was swept away, and the people suffered greatly. As a poet with conscience, Du Mu lamented how difficult the times were and how bad the state affairs were.
Du Mu in the Tang Xianzong era, Tang Xianzong was a more successful emperor in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. He put down the rebellion in Huaixi, which was once a symbol of resurgence.
However, Tang Xianzong indulged in victory and lost his fighting spirit. He believed in Buddhism and lost his early fighting spirit.
Du Mu felt this. He is worried about the country and the people, and he has a premonition that the building will collapse. So when he witnessed the prosperity of Jiangnan, he recalled the history.
When Liang Wudi was in power, Nanliang was once at its peak. However, in his later years, Liang Wudi indulged in Buddhism and didn't ask about government affairs, which led to internal corruption and people's poverty.
Liang Wudi has built numerous Buddhist temples in the south of the Yangtze River, which has consumed a lot of manpower and material resources. Monks in temples are not engaged in production, resulting in the loss of a large number of labor in the country. On the contrary, many temples occupy a lot of social wealth and increase the burden on the people.
Finally, Nanliang perished, and Liang Wudi himself starved to death.
Du Mu saw the good season in Jiangnan, just as he saw the false prosperity of the Tang Dynasty at that time. Behind this prosperity, just as there are many temples in the south of Nanliang River, there is a huge crisis hidden.
This is the true mentality behind Du Mu's Jiangnan Spring.
By 850 AD, the Tang Empire had come to an end, and the wounds of An Shi Rebellion were difficult to heal. On the contrary, the country aggravated the crisis because of problems such as buffer regions, eunuchs and party struggles.
There was a hope of revival in the Tang Dynasty, but it was brutally killed by eunuchs and powerful ministers. After Tang Xianzong, the Tang Dynasty basically lost the possibility of revival, and could only be like a dying tall building, watching it decay day by day and finally crashing down.
Poets in the middle and late Tang Dynasty lost their high spirits and brilliance in the early Tang Dynasty, and became a little more introverted and bitter, which was caused by the changes in the national social environment.
Twenty years after Du Mu's death, the Huang Chao Uprising broke out and the Tang Dynasty soon perished.