The Yellow Crane Tower is located in the Yellow Crane Jitou, Sheshan, Wuhan, facing Nautilus Island. Together with Yueyang Tower in Hunan, Tengwang Pavilion in Jiangxi and Penglai Pavilion in Shandong, it is called "the first building in the world". The following is the information about the ancient poems about climbing the Yellow Crane Tower, which I compiled for you. Welcome to read!
Climbing the Yellow Crane Tower
Author: Cui Hao
where long ago a yellow crane bore a sage to heaven, nothing is left now but the Yellow Crane Terrace.
the yellow crane never revisited earth, and white clouds are flying without him for ever.
every tree in Hanyang becomes clear in the water, and Parrot Island is a nest of sweet grasses.
but I look toward home, and twilight grows dark, with a mist of grief on the river waves.
Note
1. Yellow Crane Tower: It is located in Wuchang County, Hubei Province. It was burned down by fire in the early years of the Republic of China. It is said that there was an immortal named Fei Wen in ancient times, and he ascended the immortal by crane here. Some people think that the past has gone by white clouds.
2. Youyou: It means long ago.
3. vivid: clear and distinct.
4. Parrot Island: In the southwest of Wuchang County, Hubei Province, according to the records of the Later Han Dynasty, when Han Huang Zu was the satrap of Jiangxia, some people presented parrots here, so it was called Parrot Island.
Translation
The legendary immortal flew by the Yellow Crane early,
Only the empty Yellow Crane Tower was left in this place.
The flying yellow crane can never return,
Only the long white clouds remain in vain for thousands of years.
I can vividly see the green trees in Qingchuan Pavilion in Hanyang.
The grass in Nautilus Island grows thick and thick.
I don't know where my hometown is from dusk to dusk.
it's worrying to face the misty waves!
Appreciation
This poem is a masterpiece of nostalgia. The poet boarded the Yellow Crane Tower, a historic site, and had a panoramic view of the scene before him. His poems were full of emotion, and he blurted them out, spilling a thousand miles. It is both natural and magnificent, and it is full of character. Poetry is not harmonious, but the syllables are clear and not awkward. It's really a one-stop job, and it has become a treasure that has been respected in past dynasties.
It is said that Li Bai went to this building and was greatly impressed by this poem. He said: "There is a scene in front of you, and Cui Hao's poem is on it." Yan Canglang also said that Tang people's seven-character poems should be the first. It serves to show that poetry is precious to nature, even if it is metrical. This poem is written with an open artistic conception, great boldness of vision, picturesque scenery and sincere feelings. And simple and vivid, just like spoken language, can not but be breathtaking.
the first couplet: the poet came here with great hopes for the Yellow Crane Tower, but the immortal drove the crane without a trace, and the crane left the building empty, and an ordinary river tower was in front of him. "where long ago a yellow crane bore a sage to heaven, nothing is left now but the Yellow Crane Terrace." The gap between the beautiful vision and the ordinary river building has laid a layer of lost background in the poet's heart, which has made a potential foreshadowing for the expression of homesickness complex.
antithetical couplet: "the yellow crane never revisited earth, and white clouds are flying without him for ever" is the antithetical couplet in the poem. The natural scene where the river meets the sky is more and more magnificent because of the white clouds. Affected by this scene, the poet's mood is gradually cheerful, and his feelings in his chest are also winged: the long history and beautiful legend of the Yellow Crane Tower are replayed in front of his eyes, but in the end, things are different and cranes are gone. What can people leave behind to stand the test of time? She is nothing else, she is letting the world die, the seas run dry and the rocks crumble, and giving up her constant nostalgia and nostalgia. This sentence has a universal meaning, which expresses the poet's illusion that the years are hard to come by and the world is at a loss, and also paves the way for the infinite sadness of writing about the difficulty of returning to the countryside, thus becoming a famous sentence of deep concern and repeated taste.
The meaning of "Yellow Crane" in the poem is very clear. Except for the entity "Crane", it should point to the meaning of "everything". "Never coming back" contains endless sadness of being born at an untimely time and waiting for no one at the age. "Baiyun" is unpredictable, which implies the author's unpredictable sigh. If this word and "empty leisurely" make people see the vastness of space, then "Millennium" makes people see the infinity of time. The combination of time and space has produced a sense of historical depth and space openness, which has even given birth to homesickness.
Necklace: "every tree in Hanyang becomes clear in the water, and Parrot Island is a nest of sweet grasses." With a turn of the pen, the legendary immortals, the Yellow Crane and the Yellow Crane Tower turned to what the poet saw in front of him, and the illusory legend turned to what he saw in front of him. In a clear sky, the trees in Hanyang City across the water and the lush grass on Nautilus Island painted an empty and distant picture, which set the stage for the poet's homesickness.
coda: "but I look toward home, and twilight grows dark? With a mist of grief on the river waves. " When the sun goes down, night comes, birds will return to their nests, ships will return home, and wanderers will return home. But where is the hometown of wanderers in the world? The fog on the river is misty, and the thick fog is born under the eyes. It is a kind of faint tears and a generalized homesickness that concerns the whole world. When you ask about your hometown, you are homesick. In the face of this situation, there is no reason for anyone not to be homesick. The poem ends with a "worry", which accurately expresses the poet's mood when he boarded the Yellow Crane Tower at dusk, and at the same time, it takes care of the metaphor at the beginning, and expresses the lingering homesickness with ups and downs, so as to convey the feelings outside the words, show the feelings inside and draw the echoes outside.
Explain
Cui Hao's early poems mostly wrote about boudoir feelings, reflecting women's lives; Later, when I went to the frontier fortress, the frontier fortress poems I wrote were generous and heroic, and the poetic style became bold and unrestrained. But Cui Hao's most famous poem is Yellow Crane Tower. According to legend, this poem was impressed by the great poet Li Bai. In the Song Dynasty, Ji Gong's Chronicle of Tang Poetry, Volume 21, placed a bet on the poem Yellow Crane Tower, saying, "The legend of the world is too white:' There is no way to see the scenery in front of you, and Cui Hao inscribed a poem on it.' He wrote the poem "Phoenix Terrace" to compare the outcome. "Yuan Xin Wen Fang's Biography of Tang Talents also recorded Li Baideng's Yellow Crane Tower, because he saw Cui Hao's poem, that is," Go without doing anything, gather hands for philosophers ". Of course, this legend may not be true, and Ji Yougong expressed his doubt at the back of the note. However, Li Bai's poem "on climbing in nanjing to the terrace of phoenixes" is indeed similar to Cui Zuo's in writing. As for his poem "Nautilus Island": "Parrots have been to Wujiang River, and Jiangshangzhou spreads the name of parrots. Parrot flies west to Longshan, He Qingqing, the tree of Fangzhou! The spring breeze and warm clouds wind up the fragrance of the orchid, the peach blossoms fall into the river to form layers of brocade waves. At this time, the relocation of guests is extremely eye-catching. To whom is Cheung Chau alone in the moon? " Then not only the first four sentences are similar in format to Cui Shi's poems, but also the style of the whole poem is forced to be simple. The first volume of Ying Kui Lv Sui written by Fang Hui in the Song and Yuan Dynasties pointed out: "Taibai's poem is a poem of great effect, all of which were processed in May and June, and the ending sentence contains sighs, so it is still not very restrained." Therefore, this poem has always been highly praised. Yan Yu's Poems on Canglang in the Southern Song Dynasty holds that "Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower should be the first of the seven-character poems in the Tang Dynasty." Until the influential Three Poems of Tang Dynasty edited by Sun Zhu in Qing Dynasty, Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower was put in the first poem of "Seven-character Rhyme".
Of course, the reason why The Yellow Crane Tower has become a masterpiece through the ages mainly lies in the aesthetic implication of the poem itself.
first, the artistic beauty of the combination of image and reality.
The former address of the Yellow Crane Tower is Huangqi Jitou in the Yellow Heshan (that is, Snake Mountain) in Wuchang. According to legend, it was built in the period of Wu Huangwu in the Three Kingdoms, and it was repeatedly destroyed and repaired in successive dynasties. In the past, the balcony, the pillow mountain and the river were magnificent, magnificent and ethereal, and there were some doubts about the "Fairy Palace". Legend has it that the immortal Zi An rode the Yellow Crane here (Records of Qi Xie), and every time Fei Yi ascended the immortal, he rode the Yellow Crane here (Records of Taiping Universe). The poet climbed the building and looked far away, imagining things, and the first four sentences of the poem began with legends, which led to inner feelings, and the scenery contained feelings and images. Fairy rides a crane, suddenly gone, never to return, fairy goes to the empty building, leaving only the sky and white clouds, a thousand years long. It not only contains the feeling that the years are gone and the world is boundless, but also faintly reveals the boundless weather and soaring heroic spirit of the Yellow Crane Tower, and the beautiful legend of the immortal crossing the crane adds magical and charming colors to the Yellow Crane Tower, which makes people think far and wide.
The Yellow Crane Tower is named after the Yellow Crane Mountain where it is located. The so-called "immortal riding a crane" is a myth when it is attached to its name. However, the poet skillfully used these legends to grow out of the void, thus making the poem have a fascinating artistic charm. Then I wrote the real scene, and the scenery across the river is beautiful: the sunny river, the green trees in Hanyang area are clear and numerous, and the grass on Nautilus Island grows very luxuriantly. Hanyang Parrot Island was originally a sandbar in the Yangtze River in the southwest of Wuhan. It is said that it was named after Mi Heng wrote "Parrot Fu" here at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was gradually washed away by the river. Today, Parrot Island is no longer the hometown before the Song Dynasty. The scenery in front of us is bright and open, full of vitality, which makes people feel relaxed and happy, and they linger and forget to return, even until sunset in the river, dusk strikes. Cui Hao roamed south. I have been away from home for a long time, facing the heavy twilight and vast smoke, and I feel homesick: "but I look toward home, and twilight grows dark? With a mist of grief on the river waves. " The poet wrote along with the trend, which not only showed the author's rich and complicated inner feelings, but also showed the colorful natural scenery, changing feelings and changing scenery of the Yellow Crane Tower, resulting in a beautiful and moving artistic conception. Just as Shen Deqian, a Qing Dynasty poet, commented on this poem in Volume XIII of A Collection of Tang Poems: "The meaning is like the first, and the words are written in a vertical pen, so it is good at the wonders of the ages."
the second is the beauty of painting with magnificent weather and colorful colors.
Painting in poetry has always been regarded as an artistic standard of landscape poetry, and The Yellow Crane Tower has reached this wonderful level. In the legend of immortals riding cranes, the first couplet depicts a close-up view of the Yellow Crane Tower, implying that this building is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the situation is magnificent. In the lyric of lamenting "the yellow crane never revisited earth", Zhuan Lian described the prospect of the Yellow Crane Tower, showing the spectacular sight of the building soaring into the sky and surrounded by white clouds. The beautiful scenery of the neck couplet directly outlines the bright sunshine on the outer river of the Yellow Crane Tower. The tail couplet lingers and croons, indirectly showing the hazy evening scene on the lower river of the Yellow Crane Tower. On the whole picture shown in the poem, there are close-range, long-range, day-view and evening-view of the Yellow Crane Tower alternately, with wonderful changes and magnificent weather. Against each other are the immortal yellow crane, the famous building resort, the blue sky and white clouds, the sandbar in Qing Chuan, the green trees and grass, and the sunset river, with vivid images and colorful colors. The whole poem is full of artistic meaning and beauty in poetry.
Third, the musical beauty with natural tone and clear syllables.
Rhyme has strict metrical requirements. In fact, Yellow Crane Tower is not a standard seven-rhythm. First, the fifth and sixth words in the first and second sentences are actually "yellow crane", the third sentence is used with six strokes, and the fourth sentence is finished with three tones. There is no need for antithesis, almost all of them are the syntax of ancient poems, and the words "Hanyang Tree" and "Parrot Island" in the fifth and sixth sentences seem to be right and wrong. The reason why it is considered as a masterpiece of "Seven-character Rhyme" lies in its natural tone and clear syllables, in addition to its artistic conception and painting beauty as previously analyzed. The first four sentences of this poem are blurted out, followed by the letter, in one go, and go straight down the trend, so that there is no time to take care of the metrical antithesis of the seven laws. "Although the scenery is broken on the fifth and sixth days, the gas is also overflowing and the income is the same, so it is valuable." (For Fang Dongshu's comments in Qing Dynasty, see Gao Buying's Poems in Tang and Song Dynasties, Volume 5. ) because the whole poem turns in one breath, it flows naturally when read. In addition, the repeated use of disyllabic words, reduplicative rhymes and reduplicative words or phrases, such as "Yellow Crane" and "Return", disyllabic phrases, reduplicative phrases such as "Here" and "On the River", and reduplicative words such as "Youyou", "LiLi" and "Lush" contributed to the sound of this poem.