It is "only"
Wang Ji's "Ambition"
Donggao looks forward to the evening, where can I rely on when I move?
The trees are all in autumn colors, and the mountains are only covered with sunset.
Herdsmen drive back calves, hunting horses return with poultry.
We look at each other without acquaintance, and sing long songs to pick up the flowers.
"Ambition" describes the autumn scenery of the mountains and fields, in a leisurely mood, with a bit of hesitation and depression. It is Wang Ji's masterpiece.
"Dong Gao looks out at dusk, where can I rely on?" Gao is a land by the water. Donggao refers to a place in Longmen, Jiangzhou, his hometown. After he retired to seclusion, he often traveled to Beishan and Donggao, calling himself "Donggaozi". "Yiyi" means wandering. "Where can I rely on?" is adapted from Cao Cao's "Dan Ge Xing", which means "the moon and stars are sparse, the black magpie flies south, and it circles the tree three times, and there is no branch to rely on", expressing the bored and hesitant mood.
The following four sentences describe the scenery seen in the dusk: "The trees are all in autumn colors, and the mountains are only covered with sunset. The herdsmen drive their calves back, and the hunting horses and birds return." Looking around, there is autumn color everywhere. It looked increasingly bleak in the afterglow of the setting sun. Against this quiet background, close-ups of the shepherd and hunting horses bring a pastoral pastoral atmosphere to life, making the entire picture come alive. These four poems are like an autumn evening picture of a mountain home, with light and color, distant and close-up views, static and dynamic, all perfectly matched. . "The trees are all in autumn colors, and the mountains are only covered with the setting sun." The mountains and fields are covered with autumn colors, and the setting sun makes it even more desolate and desolate. Song Yu said in "Nine Bian": "It's sad, autumn is the atmosphere, and the bleak herbs are shaking and decaying..." The couplet further exaggerates the depression of loneliness and helplessness through the autumn scenery under the setting sun. This couplet blends scenes and contrasts neatly, making it a famous line that has been passed down through the ages.
However, Wang Ji could not find solace in the countryside like Tao Yuanming did, so he finally said: "We look at each other without knowing each other, and we sing and pick flowers for a long time." He said that he was lonely and helpless in reality, so he had no choice but to reminisce about ancient times. The hermit made friends with people like Boyi and Shuqi.
People who are familiar with Tang poetry may not think this poem has any special benefits. However, if you follow the sequence of poetry history, starting from the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, and suddenly read "Ambition", you will be applauded for its simplicity. Most of the poetry styles of the Southern Dynasties are extravagant and gorgeous, like a jeweled lady wrapped in silk and satin. Walking out of the crowd of ladies, you suddenly meet a village girl in a Jingchai sarong. Her simple beauty without makeup will produce a special charm. Wang Ji's "Ambition" has such a simple benefit.
The genre of this poem is five-character poem. Ever since Shen Yue and others applied the knowledge of rhythm to poetry creation during the Qi Yongming period of the Southern Dynasty, the new genre of rhythmic poetry has been brewing. By the time of Shen Quanqi and Song Zhiwen in the early Tang Dynasty, the rhythmic poetry was finalized and became an important poetry genre. Wang Ji, who was more than sixty years earlier than Shen and Song Dynasties, could already write mature rhythmic poems such as "Ambition", which shows that he is a person who has the courage to try new forms. The first and last couplets of this poem express emotions, and the middle two couplets describe scenery. Through the repetition of emotion-scenery-emotion, the meaning of the poem deepens. This is in line with the basic structure of rhythmic poetry.