#Poetry Appreciation# The introduction "After the Poetry" is a five-character quatrain written by Jia Dao in the Tang Dynasty, written after "Send to the Incomparable Man". Jia Dao's poetry writing has the spirit of perfecting every word and sentence and striving for perfection. Let's learn about Jia Dao's five-character quatrain "After the Poetry" with Wu. Welcome to read!
"After the Poetry"
Tang Jia Dao
It takes three years to get two sentences,
One chant brings tears to my eyes.
If you don’t appreciate your good friend,
I will go back to my hometown in autumn.
Appreciation
This poem "After the Poem" is an annotation added after the two lines of "Walking alone in the bottom of the pond, counting the breath of the tree beside the tree". It means that these two lines of poem "Walking alone in the bottom of the pond, counting the breath beside the tree" were written by me after three years of hard thinking. Every time I recite them, I can't help but shed tears. If my close friend cannot understand the meaning of these two sentences, then I will have no choice but to return to my hometown in the mountains and never come back again. "Two sentences are obtained in three years, and one recitation brings tears to my eyes." It reflects the poet's hardship and hard work in writing poetry, and also shows the poet's strict requirements for himself. It has a great influence on future generations and should be an example for future generations to learn from. Fang Qian's poem "Only recited a five-character sentence, and a few mustaches were white", "Recited a five-character sentence, it took a lifetime to recite it", and Lu Yanrang's poem "Yin'an twisted a few mustaches with one word", all of which came from Jia Dao. These two sentences. However, later generations also have their own opinions on poetry and articles. For example, Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty said, "Articles are made by nature and can be obtained by skillful hands. They are completely flawless and do not require human effort." I wonder what Jia Dao would think after knowing this. .
Extended reading: Jia Dao's life
Jia Dao's family was poor in his early years. He once lived in Shi Village, Shiyukou, Fangshan, and left behind Jia Dao Nunnery. When he was 19 years old, he traveled around and got to know Meng Jiao and others, and he studied with Han Yu because of him. After returning to secular life, he was repeatedly cited as a failure to become a Jinshi. Tang Wenzong was the chief registrar of Changjiang County (now Pengxi County, Sichuan), so he was called "Jia Changjiang". His poems are skilled in carving, and he likes to write about desolate and lonely places, with a lot of sadness and sadness. He said that "two sentences are obtained in three years, and one recitation brings tears to my eyes." But later he joined the army in Puzhou Sicang and died in his post. There are 10 volumes of Yangtze River Collection, containing more than 390 poems. There are also 3 volumes of Xiaoji and 1 volume of "Poetry" handed down to the world. His poems like to describe desolate and lonely environments, and there are many words of bitterness. He is good at five-character poems. Pay attention to the refinement of words and sentences, and work hard. The allusion of "examination" comes from his poem "The monk knocked (pushed) on the moon gate". He is the author of "Yangtze River Collection".
Jia Dao and Meng Jiao are both known as "Jiao Han Dao Shou", Meng Jiao is known as "Poetry Prisoner", and Jia Dao is known as "Poetry Slave". He dislikes interacting with ordinary people throughout his life, "The Biography of Talented Scholars of the Tang Dynasty" He was called "the most knowledgeable person in the world". He just likes to compose poems and recite them hard, working hard on the words.
In the winter of the fifth year of Yuanhe (810), I arrived in Chang'an and met Zhang Ji. In the spring of the following year, he arrived in Chang'an and paid a visit to Han Yu, where he was deeply appreciated for his poems. Later, he returned to secular life and was repeatedly cited as a Jinshi. During the reign of Emperor Wenzong, he was demoted as the chief administrator of Changjiang (now Daying County, Sichuan) due to slander. He once wrote the poem "Sick Cicada" and "To stab the minister" ("Chronicle of Tang Poems"). In the fifth year of Kaicheng (840), he moved to Sicang, Puzhou to join the army. He died in Puzhou on July 28 (August 27), the third year of Wuzong Huichang's reign (843).
Jia Dao’s poetry formed a genre in the late Tang Dynasty and had a great influence. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Wei was listed as one of the seven people who were promoted to the hall with "Qing Qi Ya Zheng" in "Poet's Host and Guest Picture". Li Huaimin's "Host and Guest Picture of Poets in the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty" of the Qing Dynasty called him "a strange and secluded suffering master", and listed many of his "house-in-house" and "door-to-door" disciples. Li Dong of the late Tang Dynasty, Sun Sheng of the Five Dynasties and others respected Jia Dao very much, and even burned incense and worshiped his portraits and collections of poems, as if they were gods ("The Biography of the Talented Scholars of the Tang Dynasty", "Junzhai Study Chronicles"). Jia Dao is the author of 10 volumes of "Yangtze River Collection", and there is a photocopy of the Ming Dynasty version of "Sibu Congkan". Li Jiayan's "New School of Yangtze River Collection" uses Jia's poems collected in "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" as the base, with reference to separate editions and related collections and anthologies, as well as the appendices "Jia Dao Chronicle", "Jia Dao Friendship Test" and the compiled Jia Dao The island poetry review is relatively complete.
Extended reading: Jia Dao's creative attitude
According to records in "Old Book of Tang", "Poetry of the Whole Tang Dynasty" and the epitaph written by Su Jiang for Jia Dao, Jia Dao He was from Fanyang County at that time. As Jia Dao wrote in a five-character quatrain entitled "The Swordsman": "I have sharpened a sword for ten years, but the frost blade has not been tested; today I show you the sword, who has any injustice?" The poet obviously wanted to use this to express his feelings. express his own feelings.
However, the reason why Jia Dao became famous was not because of his heroic spirit, but because of his bitter chanting. The most familiar allusion of "examination" comes from this man. There is no doubt that it is much better to write "The monk knocked on the door of the moon" than "The monk pushed the door of the moon". This has almost become the most common example of paying attention to calligraphy. However, if you know these basic techniques of "refining" words, can you be called a struggling poet? The problem is of course not that simple. Otherwise, it would be too easy to become a great poet.
Jia Dao’s painstaking chanting actually resulted in a lot of hard work in refining meaning, sentences, and characters. And these are inseparable from the ideological content and contemporary nature of the work. First of all, we see that Jia Dao puts great effort into refining his mind, so his works have fascinating artistic conception. If you write a poem but it has a poor artistic conception, tastes like nothing, and makes people lose interest in reading it, then it is not as good as no poem at all. Once you have a good artistic conception, you must also ensure that this artistic conception can be fully expressed in words.
Every line and word of Jia Dao's poems has been refined repeatedly and carefully revised. But after he finished writing, the readers could not see any trace of modification at all, as if it was completely natural and completed in one go. It can be seen that the so-called bitterness can only be said from the perspective of the author's hard work, but from the perspective of readers' appreciation, the author's suffering should not be seen.