To the master of Gu Quan.
Mingliuyi
Flowers and deep bamboo stones fascinate passers-by,
Dew cold lotus pond asked Yuan Gong;
Don't sweep the moss steps all day,
In the autumn wind, Ginkgo leaves the garden.
Main idea of the poem: The ancient temple is quiet, with deep flowers, bamboo green and rugged rocks, which fascinates the visiting guests. Frost and cold in the open air make the lotus in the pool decline. Ask the abbot (Gu Quan): Why did a ginkgo leaf fall in the temple yard, but it was not cleaned? The abbot replied: no, naturally there will be autumn wind to sweep.
Ginkgo biloba is a national first-class endangered and rare protected plant and the oldest tree species on the earth. It is a gymnosperm heritage left by the Quaternary Glacier Movement hundreds of millions of years ago, and other plants in the same class have been extinct, so Ginkgo biloba has the reputation of "living fossil".
Ginkgo trees grow slowly and have a very long life. Ginkgo biloba leaves are fan-shaped like duck feet, which was called "duck feet" in Song Dynasty. Ginkgo fruit is rich in nutrition, commonly known as "ginkgo". It takes about 30 years from cultivation to fruiting, so it is also called "Gongsun Tree", which means "the male species is edible".
Ginkgo tree is tall and swaying, lush and magnificent, especially in autumn, golden and intoxicating, and it is a common tree species in ancient temples. Many literati in the past dynasties have passed down poems about ginkgo biloba. For example, Ouyang Xiu, a famous politician and writer in the Song Dynasty, and Mei, the originator of the Song Dynasty, all have many harmonious poems about Ginkgo biloba (duck feet), among which Mei's "Duck feet tree of longxing temple and Qi" is very wonderful: "Every battle is flat and the shadow is clear." Lingyun branches are dense, like webbed leaves. The shadow falls on the neighboring temple, and the wind shakes the guests. Why don't you avoid the heat? The rain has covered the stadium. " .
To a Master in Gu Quan is written by Liu Yi, a poet in Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, there is no record of Liu Yi's life, except that he was from Haiyan, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty. This poem was written when the poet visited the abbot Gu Quan in the temple. According to the author's guess, it seems that it should be Tolin Temple in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi Province.
"Flowers are deep in bamboo and stones" is a famous sentence often written by famous poets in the Tang Dynasty. "Bamboo trails are secluded, leafy, and enter the Zen forest." "Yuan Gong" in Lu Lenglian Tang Wen Yuan Gong refers to the abbot of Tuolin Temple, a famous monk in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the founder of Pure Land Sect (Lotus Sect), Master Hui Yuan, and is used here to refer to the abbot Gu Quan. "The moss steps are not swept all day, and the ginkgo leaves in the garden fall in the autumn wind." Applying the question-and-answer form to poetry is unique and full of Zen.
The language of this poem is simple, and the words and sentences are carefully practiced. "Deep flower" is relative to "dew cold" and "leisure" is relative to "falling flower", especially the words "cold" and "falling flower" are very vivid, vividly depicting the leisure, quietness and profundity of the temple in autumn. Facing the beautiful scenery of the Zen Temple, a golden ginkgo tree covered the courtyard, making Zhan Ran ethereal and clear, with a clean heart.
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