Peach blossoms follow the running water all day. Where is the cave in Qingxi?
Taohuaxi is at the foot of Taoyuan Mountain in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province. There are many peach forests on the bank of the stream. In late spring, trees are colorful and streams are gurgling. According to legend, Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is located here. The Peach Blossom Creek described by Zhang Xu does not necessarily mean here, but implicitly uses its artistic conception. This poem is graceful in conception, profound in taste and rich in painting.
"The faint flying bridge is separated from the wild smoke", which is fascinating from the beginning: the mountains are everywhere and the clouds are lingering; Looking through the clouds, the long bridge across the mountain stream is flickering, as if nothing had happened, as if flying in the void. How deep and mysterious this realm is, it is like entering a fairyland. Here, the static bridge and the floating wild smoke set each other off: the wild smoke makes the bridge static and ethereal, flying in the air; The bridge turns wild smoke into silence, just like hanging a gauze curtain. Looking at the bridge through this curtain makes people feel a kind of hazy beauty. The word "ge" makes these two kinds of scenery set each other off and become an artistic whole; The word "ge" also implies that the poet is watching from a distance. If he stands by the bridge, he won't feel "grid".
Draw a close-up below. Nearby, rocks are exposed in the water, such as islands (rocks); On the fallen stream, there are fishing boats swaying gently, and the scenery is beautiful. "Ask the fishing boat on the west side of the Rocky Mountain", a word "ask", and the poet also shows us the beauty of the landscape and the modality of the characters from this landscape painting. The poet stood by the ancient Rocky Mountain and looked at the endless peach petals and fishing boats drifting on the stream. In a trance, he seems to regard the fisherman in front of him as a Wuling fisherman who once entered the Peach Blossom Garden. The word "ask the fishing boat" vividly shows this longing modality. He asked innocently and interestingly, "Peach blossoms follow the water all day. Where is the hole in Qingxi? " He seems to really think that this kind of "flowing" peach petals flow from the peach blossom source, so it is related to the peach blossom entering the Taoyuan Cave. Where is this hole in Taohuaxi? This questioning of the fisherman profoundly expressed the poet's longing for heaven. However, the Peach Blossom Garden is fictional, and the poet certainly knows that the fisherman has no answer. He asked knowingly, which also vaguely revealed the helplessness of the poet's ideal state. The poem came to an abrupt end, but the question raised in the last sentence aroused people's wonderful reverie. The poet's brushwork is exquisite, from far and near, from reality to emptiness, constantly changing angles to show the scenery; However, I didn't make a complicated description, just a few strokes and a brief outline. The interest outside the ink is like a freehand painting, which is subtle and intriguing.
Zhang Changshi, namely Zhang Xu, was born in the Tang Dynasty (Suzhou, Jiangsu), and his date of birth and death is unknown. The word "Gaobo" has a long history, so it is called Zhang Changshi. I like to drink, often write books after getting drunk, or write books with my hair soaked in ink. The world calls them "Zhang Dian", together with Li Bai, He, Li, Li Jin, Cui Zongzhi, and Jiao Sui, they are also called the Eight Immortals in Wine. He is good at regular script and cursive script, especially cursive script. His calligraphy is unique and original. The regular script "Notes on nirvana in fire" adopts the brushwork of Ou Yangxun and Yu Shinan, which is dignified and rigorous, without losing the rules, showing the exquisiteness of regular script. "Xuanhe Shupu" commented: "Its name is based on jumping grass, and as for small cursive script, it does not reduce the beauty of cursive script. Although there are many strange things in his cursive script, he seeks its origin, and there are all people in the painting who cannot be disciplined. "
His calligraphy originated from the "two kings" and is original and innovative. His regular script is accurate. The rules are extreme, and Huang Gu is called "the first in the Tang Dynasty". If his regular script is more inheritance than creation, then his cursive script is a great innovation and development in calligraphy. Han Yu said, "Xu is good at cursive writing, but he can't cure his book." Change is like ghosts and gods, so don't be arrogant. " Du Fu wrote in Song of the Eight Immortals: "Zhang Xu's three cups of grass are sacred. He waved his paper like a cloud before taking off his hat to reveal the top of the maharaja. " He can sublimate the art of calligraphy to the artistic realm of expressing calligraphers' thoughts and feelings with abstract points and lines. In the art of calligraphy, his handwriting seems strange but not strange. The key is that the pen for stippling completely conforms to the traditional rules. It can be said that he used traditional techniques to express his personality and became a creative calligrapher worthy of his own time in calligraphy. Broad, fresh and unrestrained, far more than the previous calligraphers' works, with a strong flavor of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Xu is unrestrained, likes to drink, often dances after getting drunk, and then returns to the table with a pen and ink.
Some people called him rude and gave him a crazy nickname. In fact, he is very careful. He believes that everything he touches in his daily life can inspire his writing. To get something occasionally is to melt it into your own calligraphy.
At that time, as long as people got a piece of his paper, they all regarded it as a treasure, and it was hereditary and true. At that time, Zhang Xu had a neighbor and his family was very poor. I heard that Zhang Xu was very generous, so I wrote to Zhang Xu, hoping to get his support. Zhang Xu sympathized with his neighbor, so he said in his letter: You only need to say that this letter was written by Zhang Xu, and the asking price can be several hundred gold. Neighbors sold letters in the street according to his words and sold them out in less than half a day. The neighbors are happy to go home, and thank Zhang Xu very much. At that time, people called Zhang Xu's cursive script, Li Bai's poems and Fei Min's sword dance "Three Musts".