This poem, translated into modern language, seems to be:
The vegetation on Jieshi Mountain is so dense,
It deeply captured all my eyes. ;
Jieshi Mountain, I love how ancient and steep you are.
You are so powerful, but you don’t want to show it in a busy place in the world!
What the poem expresses is the singer's sincere emotion of admiring Jieshi Mountain. It is written in a simple and smooth way, concise and comprehensive, and extraordinary in the ordinary. The tone of the whole poem is relatively plain, but full of charm. When the poet began to sing about Jieshi Mountain, he did not deliberately describe how strange and attractive the scenery of Jieshi Mountain was. Instead, he used a relatively straightforward sentence "hold my eyes" to explain and clarify everything in one sentence; the last two In this sentence, the poet personified Jieshi Mountain, using the "ancient steepness" of the mountain as a metaphor for people's upright, aloof, and different character from popular customs, so as to express the author's own feelings and aspirations. This poem about the mountains actually focuses on people’s thoughts and feelings. This is rare in ancient mountain scenery poems, but Liu Cha seems to have inadvertently written it so naturally, appropriately, truly and touchingly. , which makes the unique features of the ancient and magical Jieshi Mountain vividly appear on the paper and before your eyes, which is even more rare. From this point of view, "Love Jieshi Mountain" is indeed a mountain scenery poem with unique charm. As a person who has lived under Jieshi Mountain for a long time, reading it feels warm and unforgettable.
Liu Cha, the author of the poem "Love Jieshi Mountain", was a poet with unique experience and eccentric style in the Tang Dynasty. His biography was listed as a "disciple of the Han family" in the "New Book of Tang·Biography of Han Yu" , the "Dictionary of Chinese Writers" contains its entry.
"Liu Yi was also a scholar. He was less arrogant and acted like a chivalrous person. He killed people because of drinking. He was able to pardon and go out. He even read books and was able to sing poems. However, relying on the responsibilities he had suffered at the time, He couldn't look down on noble people and often wore clogs and rags. After hearing about it, he returned to the world and wrote two poems, "Icicle" and "Snow Cart". The Taoist is short and long, but his obedience is as tight as a relative. Later, he could not get rid of the guests because he held more gold and said: "It is better to flatter the people in the tomb than to live with Liu Jun." The more he couldn't stop, he returned to Qi and Lu, and he didn't know where he ended up. "In the New Book of Tang Dynasty, Liu Cha was recorded as "Liu Yi (yì)", and he was listed as "Hanmen" with Jia Dao, who called himself "Jieshi Mountain Man". disciple". Liu Cha's date of birth and death is unknown, but he was alive around Yuanhe time (around 813 AD). He was from Heshuojian, which is now Hebei Province. Liu Cha "lived in the Wei Dynasty when he was young, and he was associated with Jiao Meng, Lu Bing, and Tian Pang. He was a chivalrous man, strong and powerful, and went into the market, killing cattle, hunting hogs and dogs, and trapping birds." This means that Liu Cha lived in Weizhou (in today's Daming County, Hebei Province) when he was a teenager. He was associated with Jiao Meng, Lu Bing, Tian Pang and others. He behaved bohemianly, was very loyal, and was willing to perform chivalry. He is a strong man with great strength. He often goes to busy places in the market and makes a living by killing sheep, pigs and dogs, catching birds and finches. He has no legitimate occupation and makes a living in the market. Later, he "killed someone because of drunkenness. When he was pardoned, he lived in Qi and Lu, where he began to study hard. He was able to sing poems and loved the style of Lu Tong and Meng Jiao. However, he relied on the responsibilities of the past and refused to look up to noble people. ", "Always wear shoes and rags". That is to say, he later escaped for his life because of a drunken murder (probably as a chivalrous act). When he encountered amnesty, he came out of the world again and lived in Qizhou (today's Jinan City, Shandong Province) and other places not far from Weizhou (" "Lu" is an ancient place name, referring to the Wen, Si, Yi and Shu river basins south of Mount Tai). By this time, he no longer relied on his strength to make his way in the world as he had in the past, but began to study hard and devote himself to his studies. After studying, he wrote poems very well, and he loved the poems of his contemporaries Lu Tong and Meng Jiao, and learned their poetry styles and writing methods. Even after becoming a scholar, he still refused to look up to others and serve high-ranking officials as before. He often wore wooden shoes and tattered clothes, which made him get along well with the common people. Later, when he heard about Corporal Han Yulixian, he went to join the army. At that time, he had already written two long poems entitled "Icicle" and "Snow Cart", which showed that his artistic level was much higher than that of Lu Tong and Meng Jiao. Grandmaster Fan, an "astringent poet" who refused to plagiarize his predecessors and made every word and sentence his own, was full of praise after reading it and expressed his willingness to be inferior. Based on this, Han Yu accepted him as his disciple. While he was a disciple of Han Yu, his character was still as upright as before, and he often spoke out about the quality of other people's poems to their faces. However, he was upright and moral, and got along well with everyone, like a brother. However, he did not stay under Han Yu for long, probably because he was extremely dissatisfied with Han Yu's frequent writing of inscriptions for deceased dignitaries. Once he had a quarrel with Han Yu, and in a fit of anger, he took in his hand the reward given by the family of the deceased in Han Yu's case. , said: "This is obtained by flattering the dead in the tomb, why not give me Liu a longer life!" After that, he walked away. Han Yu couldn't dissuade him, so he had to let him go. Later, he returned to Shandong and Hebei for traveling, but no one knew his whereabouts. It is unknown how many poems Liu Cha wrote in his lifetime. Judging from the poem he wrote for Meng Jiao, "A sour poem about Master Meng, a bitter love poem about Lao Cha. There are hundreds of harsh poems, which are called Qiong Yao poems", there are at least more than a hundred poems. There are 27 of his poems that can be read today, which are collected in Volume 395 of "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty". Judging from the 27 poems handed down by Liu Cha, we can see that he was close to the common people throughout his life and was in conflict with the ruling class. Many of his poems reflect the hardships of people's lives in the Tang Dynasty and the arrogance and extravagance of the rulers. For example, in "Icicle", "The teachers are working hard for a long time, and the farmers are soldiers. The people are sighing."
The county is in a state of disarray, with landslides and floods, no ripe grains in the pans, no mulberries and hemp on the ridges, etc. In "Snow Cart" there is "The hungry people in the shopping malls are freezing to death, and they are still being eaten by jackals while they are dying." When the official car first returned to the city, the fortress was not complete, and there were no fireworks for thousands of miles. Why should chickens and dogs be too resentful? God will not pity me.” What do you want to do? Hidden deep in the palace to protect yourself from the heat and heat. I can only defend myself in the ninth level, how can I believe that there is blood in the ruts, and all the farmers are crying. After the weapons and soldiers were slaughtered, who in the wild would bear the bones? The garrison has been short of food for a long time, who is transporting red millet to Taicang... I sigh for the people of Sri Lanka." The former refers to the endless war and the scene of thousands of miles of ice and snow in the wilderness, while the latter refers to the frozen bones on the road. , but the government turned a blind eye, ignoring the scene of no one transporting the bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle, and no one delivering the lack of food and grass on the front line, but sending trucks to carry the ice and snow to the palace to escape the summer heat. The words in these two poems are strange and penetrating. He also has some poems that express his feelings directly and use objects to describe people, such as "Cultivation", "Ce Meng Dongye", "Drinking Alone", "Composing Poems", "Words on behalf of Niu", "Don't Ask for Divination". ", "Hungry Ode", "Ask Yourself", "Old Hatred", etc., among which there are many wonderful works. He is "as broad as the sea in wine, and as bold as the sky in poetry". He believes that "it is better not to write poetry without knowing the sound". "Writing poetry requires "an open mind when chanting loudly, and the pen and tears fall". His poems are strange but not difficult to understand. They often find miraculous results in the ordinary, and their sentences are sharp and sharp, often containing an air of indignation and injustice. After reading it, The poem "Love Jieshi Mountain" was probably written when he traveled to Jieshi Mountain after leaving Han Yu's family. It is listed as the 24th poem among all the poems left. , which contains a spirit of anger and injustice, as well as developed thoughts and characters. The reason why he loves Jieshi Mountain so much is because Jieshi Mountain is located in a remote corner, but it is ancient, steep, and steep. It just makes the poet feel emotional about the scene, and he can rely on it to express himself. The character and sentiment that he is proud of. It is precisely for this reason that when the poet ended his trip to Jieshi Mountain, he could hardly take his eyes back.
The same is true for the poem "Love Jieshi Mountain". A vivid portrayal of the life and ambitions of the poet Liu Cha who called himself "Lao Cha" in his later years. In his later years, Liu Cha traveled to the deep mountains and forests of the north, and compared himself to Boyi and Shu Qi who did not eat Zhou millet in order to starve to death in Shouyang Mountain. The poem "Don't hold on to the past and send it to Chaozhou, South Korea" says: "The ancients all hold on to the past, and they do not hesitate to be cold, hungry and sad. Today's people are also clinging to the past, taking matters into their own hands and sitting in danger. The old chrysanthemum is blooming in the frost, and the wild pine embraces the snow. King Wu has also come to the Ming Dynasty, so I would rather mourn the hunger of Shou Yang..." In "Ce Meng Dongye" it says: "... King Wen has passed away, who can take care of his lordship? Guarding the same hill between life and death, I would rather be full or hungry. Everything is paid for with a glass of wine, and everyone laughs crazily. "In "Hungry Ode" it is said: "King Wen has been away for a long time, and the wise men are as low as the soil. My wife and children died of hunger, but I dared to love Mo Jinzhuan. "It is very likely that he arrived at Jieshi Mountain to view the scenic spots when he went to Shouyang Mountain near Lulong City to pay homage to Yi and Qi. In addition, Liu Cha and Jia Dao were both listed as "Hanmen disciples" in the "New Book of Tang". The relationship between them must be quite good, and Jia Dao, who is famous for "push" and "knock", is a native of Fan Yang (now Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province) who calls himself "Jieshi Mountain native" in his life (see "Biography of Tang Talents" by Xin Wenfang of the Yuan Dynasty). It is very likely that he visited Jieshi Mountain when he was a young monk and traveled around as a monk, and he was very fond of Jieshi Mountain's "not traveling in the world" (Jia Dao once often sighed to himself: "Those who know Yu Suxin are the only ones who can reach the peaks of Nanzi Pavilion and Bai Pavilion") Hermit's ears."). Liu Cha also traveled to Jieshi Mountain in his later years and left his own travel traces and poems in Jieshi Mountain. He was probably influenced and infected by Jia Dao.
Worth it It is pointed out that Liu Cha was the only one after Cao Cao to leave a poem specifically describing Jieshi Mountain. "Love Jieshi Mountain" was produced in the late Tang Dynasty, more than 600 years apart from Cao Cao's "Guan Cang Hai" poem. It shows that from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the ancient Jieshi Mountain has always been a famous sea-viewing mountain in the coastal area. Its "green" appearance and "ancient and steep" posture have made many poets who have left their travels in the area very thoughtful and unbearable. "Song to chant ambition". Liu Cha's poem is also a strong evidence that today's Jieshi Mountain is the ancient Jieshi Mountain.