In terms of artistic style, Wang Changling's Four Musts are characterized by euphemism, subtlety, twists and turns, and profound artistic conception. Many of them expressed the poet's exposure and bitterness to reality through comparison and sustenance.
Wang Changling often uses big numerals, powerful verbs and accurate adjectives to express grand scenes or great minds, which embodies the strength and beauty of language. On the choice of nouns, Wang Changling chose elegant and typical language images.
Wang Changling had deep contacts with Li Bai, Gao Shi, Wang Wei, Wang Zhihuan and Cen Can. His poems are good at seven wonders, especially the frontier poems written in the northwest frontier before he reached the first place. He has the reputation of "Poet King Jiangning" and is also praised as "Seven Wonders" by later generations.
Take Seven Songs of Joining the Army as an example.
The whole poem is as follows:
There is a dark snow-capped mountain in Qinghai, with long white clouds and a lonely city looking at Yumenguan.
Yellow sand wears golden armor in hundreds of battles, but the loulan is not returned.
The translation is as follows:
The long mist rising from the transpiration on Qinghai Lake is covered with continuous snow-capped mountains, and the ancient city borders Yumen Xiongguan, separated by thousands of miles, far away.
In Wan Li, Huangsha, frequent battles have worn out the armor of border guards, but they are determined not to defeat the invading enemy and never go home.
Extended data:
Wang Changling (698-757), born in Jinyang, Hedong (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), was named Shao Bo, alias Chang 'an, Jing Zhao (now xi 'an). Famous frontier poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Wang Changling was born in a poor family in his early years, and lived mainly by farming. At the age of 30, he became a scholar. First, he served as the secretary of the provincial school book lang, then as a learned and ambitious official, and was demoted to Lingnan for his merits. At the end of Kaiyuan, he returned to Chang 'an and awarded Jiangning Cheng. The slandered dragon captain. An Shi rebelled and was killed by Lu Qiuxiao, the secretariat.
Wang Changling wrote nearly 200 poems in his life, and there are 18 1 poem. Among his few poems, there are 52 farewell poems, accounting for about a quarter. Seventy-four quatrains account for one-sixth of the quatrains in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. "Wang Changling Collection" consists of six volumes, and four volumes of poems are compiled today.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Changling