Wen Tong was a great painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. His paintings were very popular and his poems were also well written. The great poet Su Shi highly praised him and critics praised him as "exquisite" ("Leng Zhai"). Night Talk"). His paintings and poems, just like the person he is, "are full of rhyme and rhyme, like clear clouds and autumn moon, with no trace of dust" (Wen Yanbo's letter to the same author in Chinese). The "New Sunny Mountain Moon" here is of this style.
The ancient Chinese poems that depict scenes pay great attention to poetic and picturesque qualities. Wen Tong's cousin Su Shi praised Wang Wei's poems as "there are paintings in the poems" and put forward the famous view that "poetry and painting are the same". Wen Tong is a painter and poet, so he is good at "describing natural scenery in poems, often connecting it with paintings, adding a technique to Chinese landscape literature (Qian Zhongshu's "Selected Notes on Song Poems").
The poem begins with the word "moon" in the title, saying that the sparse moonlight leaks from the branches and leaves of the tall green pine trees. The moonlight shines in the forest and interweaves with the shadows of the pine trees to form a black and white painting. The poet is enjoying the night scene in the forest. , lingering with nostalgia, unwilling to leave, without sleepiness, these four sentences vividly describe the moonscape in the forest, showing the poet's appreciation of the moonscape, "The tall pines miss the moon, and the falling shadow is like a painting." A sketch has three-dimensional images and two-dimensional patterns, reproducing the unique night scene in the mountain forest. The word "leak" vividly describes the situation of the moonlight shining through the dense shade of the trees, and the two words "painting ground" bring the forest to life. The shadow of the moon is carved three-quarters into the wood, which reminds people of the passage in the famous work "Night Tour of Chengtian Temple" written by the poet's cousin Su Shi: "The courtyard is like accumulated water, empty and clear, with algae and cypresses in the water, covered with bamboo and cypress shadows." We can follow Su Shi's descriptive thinking and imagine the various patterns of pine shadows "painting the ground" in Wen Tong's poems. The moon, shadows and people are organically combined through these four sentences and two crosses, forming such a quiet and unconventional, empty and bright thing. The clear world has many similarities with the artistic conception of Wang Wei's "Zhuli Pavilion" "The people in the deep forest do not know, but the bright moon comes to shine"
The five or six sentences describe the moon wandering in the forest. What you see below is related to the title of the poem "Xinqing". There is a lotus pond beside the pine forest. Due to the continuous wind and rain, the lotus leaves are rolled up; the fruit bases are rotten due to the corrosion of the rain, and they fall from time to time in the breeze. The sentence is what you can see, but the poet has been lingering for a long time, and his whole body and mind have become one with the natural world. Therefore, he uses his own emotions to experience the grass and trees in the natural world, and the lotus leaves in the pond are regarded as the fear of the wind. When the fruit falls, it is regarded as being sick due to rain. The ruthless vegetation has a deep emotional communication with the poet, and thus it also has human nature. Like the occasional bird song and the ticking of dewdrops in the quiet night, they all play the role of blending silence into sound, which further highlights the tranquility and charm of the night. In this state, the poem goes a step further and expresses it. The poet's own sentiments are expressed in the last two sentences that he is reciting poems in the night, accompanied by the weaver girl who is constantly singing in the forest. This ends with the weaver girl's incessant chirping echoing her own crooning. The poem is written very harmoniously, and the sound of poetry reciting and the chirping of insects add a bit of excitement to the poem, which is in sharp contrast to the silence of the first half of the poem.
The whole poem is full of silence. When describing a scene, two sentences should be used to describe the scene, and the scenery should be alternately blended and natural. Realistic. Through this technique, the quiet scenery of the moonlit night is intertwined with the poet's tranquil and indifferent feelings of being fascinated by the landscape, which closely resembles the landscape poetry style of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran.