Introduction to the work
The author of "Wangchuan Farewell" is Wang Wei, and it was selected as the 17th poem in Volume 128 of "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty". Wangchuan Villa was first seen by Song Zhiwen in Wangchuan Valley. Later, the Tang Dynasty poet and painter Wang Wei built a garden on this basis and called it Wangchuan Valley. Now it has been lost, but later generations copied the "Picture of Wangchuan" based on the quatrains written by Wang Wei and his contemporary poet Pei Di in the "Wangchuan Collection" handed down from generation to generation.
Original text
Wangchuan Bieyeye
Author: Wang Wei of Tang Dynasty
It took him less than a year to go to the east mountain to plant the seeds after he returned. Springfield.
In the rain, the grass is green and the peach blossoms on the water are red.
Bhikkhu Youlou was a scholar of scriptures and a sage in his hometown.
We meet each other in our clothes, chatting and laughing in front of the door.
Notes
①Dongshan: Refers to Qichuan Bieye.
②Yulu Bhikkhu: refers to a Buddhist monk. Youlou, the personal name, the abbreviation of Youlou Pinluojiaye, was originally a heretic commentator, and later became a Buddhist monk. See Volume 32 of "Sifen Lv". Bhikkhu refers to a male monk who has received full ordination after becoming a monk. Sutras: Buddhist classics are divided into three parts: sutras, rules, and commentaries, which are called Tripitaka.
③ A man with a hunchback: Confucius was acquainted with Chu. He saw that a crippled man (same as a hunchback) used a long pole to stick to cicadas, just like picking up things with his hands. "God, what do you call a crippled father?" See "Zhuangzi Dasheng".
Introduction to the author
Wang Wei (701-761), also known as the Poetic Buddha, was also known as Vimalakirti. In Buddhism, he is a lay Buddhist of Mahayana Buddhism. He is a famous lay bodhisattva, which means a person who is famous for his purity and no pollution. It can be seen that Wang Wei's name has an indissoluble bond with Buddhism.
Wang Wei's achievements in poetry are multifaceted. Whether it is frontier fortresses, landscape poems, rhymed poems or quatrains, there are all excellent poems that have been passed down to the public. His poems were called by Su Shi "the poems of Tao Mojie, there are paintings in the poems; the paintings of Mojie, there are poems in the paintings." He indeed has unique attainments in describing natural scenery. Whether it is the magnificence of famous mountains and rivers, the vastness and coldness of frontiers and fortresses, or the tranquility of small bridges and flowing water, they can accurately and concisely create a perfect and vivid image, without much ink, lofty artistic conception, and complete poetic and painterly feeling. Fusion into a whole.
The Landscape Pastoral Poetry School was one of the two major poetry schools in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Its main writers were Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Chang Jian, Zu Yong, Pei Di and others. Among them, the one with the highest achievement and greatest influence was Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, also known as "Wang Meng".