Shu Dao Nan is a five-character ancient poem written by Yin Keng, a poet in the Southern Dynasties. The first few words, from praising the predecessors' trip to Sichuan, lead to the description of Sichuan mountains and rivers. In the middle four sentences, Shu Dao is difficult to write, and the pen is freehand from the big picture. Minshan is towering, covered with snow all year round, with endless plank roads and endless deep valleys. Ten times the road destroys the car, and the seven-star bridge blocks the mount.
The last two sentences express the feeling of "fame and fortune" through the concrete description of Sichuan mountains and rivers, which is the natural expression of the inner contradictions of poets who were born in troubled times and experienced difficult official career. The whole poem outlines the high risk of natural situation with washed pen and ink, and blends into the sadness of the poet's life experience, making this poem a breakthrough in ideological significance.
It is impossible to verify when and why Yin Keng entered Shu, but judging from the sentence "Rain falls and fog closes, he is faint and the sun sinks" in Passing the Tomb, he should arrive at Shu via Gansu Road more than once. Yinkeng's behavior is different from others. He is not an aristocrat. He is not proud of being an official. The early "Difficult Shu Road" was nothing more than praising the difficulty of Shu Road and lamenting the fame and fortune.
The main images of this poem are "snow flying in the mountains", "shadow stacks burning repeatedly", "ten percent of the wheel is destroyed" and "riding a star bridge", but the foothold lies in the moral of the difficulty of Shu Road. In addition to describing the hardships of Shu Dao, the whole poem also makes analogies from other categories, expressing the feelings of difficult official career. In the ideological sense, it is obviously a breakthrough compared with the works with the same theme that only describe the difficulties of mountains and rivers in Sichuan.
Literary appreciation
The difficulty of Shu Dao was originally a detailed description of the dangers and obstacles of Sichuan mountains and rivers. Although this poem by Yin Keng also sings the traditional content of Sichuan mountains and rivers, it also praises Wang Zun and reveals the idea of "fame and fortune", which is a slight breakthrough and rich in ideological significance. Let's start with the trip to Shu by our predecessors.
This is a tribute to Wang Zun's fearlessness and loyalty to serve the country, and also a description of the mountains and rivers in Sichuan through his trip as the secretariat of Yizhou. The following four sentences, "high sensitivity and snow", begin to describe the mountains and rivers in Sichuan. "There is snow in Gaomin, and the yin stack burns repeatedly."