Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties are temples filled with cigarettes everywhere. "Four hundred and eighty" is a statement that the Tang people emphasize the number, which is an imaginary index.
The poem "Jiangnan Spring" written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, says: "Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties, many towers are in the misty rain." Gaijiyan said that there were many temples in the Southern Dynasties.
Due to the prosperity of Buddhism in the Southern Dynasties, many emperors advocated Buddhism and built pagodas, especially their empresses and princesses. Therefore, there are many temples in the Southern Dynasties, and most of them are wood builders. Most Buddhist temples are built in the capital (now Nanjing).
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The four poems in "Jiangnan Spring" not only describe the rich and colorful spring scenery in Jiangnan, but also describe its vastness, profundity and confusion. Du Mu is particularly good at depicting beautiful and moving pictures in just four sentences and twenty-eight characters, presenting a profound and beautiful artistic conception, expressing subtle and profound feelings, and giving people the enjoyment of beauty and the enlightenment of thinking. ?
At the beginning of the poem, like a rapidly moving focus plane, it swept across the southern land: the vast south of the Yangtze River, Oriole was singing happily, and the green trees reflected clusters of red flowers; Villages by the water, battlements by the mountains and wine flags fluttering in the wind are all in sight.
Since this poem has a wide meaning, it can't refer to only one place, so it is always called Jiangnan Spring ... "He Wenhuan's statement is correct, which is due to the need of typical generalization of literature and art.. The same applies to the last two sentences. "Four hundred and eighty temples in the southern dynasties, how many towers are misty and rainy." From the first two sentences, the birds are singing, the red and green are set against each other, and the wine flags are flying, which should be a sunny scene, but these two sentences are clearly written in misty rain, only because the rain is different everywhere within a thousand miles.
The resplendent Buddhist temple, with its heavy buildings, originally gave people a deep feeling, but now the poet deliberately let it haunt in the misty rain, which added a hazy and blurred color. The word "Southern Dynasties" adds a distant historical color to this picture. "48" is a saying that the Tang people emphasize the quantity. ?
Jiangnan Spring reflects that the aesthetics in China's poems and paintings are beyond time and space, indifferent and free-spirited, and have the thought of "epiphany" of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and most of them show poetic feelings of nostalgia, seclusion and freehand brushwork.
Reference:
Baidu Encyclopedia-48 Temple in Southern Dynasties
Baidu Encyclopedia-Jiang Nanchun (Poems by Du Mu in Tang Dynasty)