Appreciation of Jia Dao's ancient poem Looking at the Snow and Sunny Night

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Jia Dao's "Looking at a Sunny Snowy Night" was written in Chang 'an, and he lived in Caotang Temple in Guifeng, southwest of Chang 'an, with his younger brother (the ancients took the same great-grandfather, half-brother and younger brother as brothers). The poem describes what I saw and felt at that time, especially expressing my feelings by borrowing things, highlighting the feeling of loneliness. The whole poem unfolds in "looking" and describes three aspects: "snow", "sunny" and "evening".

The whole poem is as follows:

Leaning on a stick, looking at the sunny snow, the clouds are heavy.

The firewood man returned to the White House, and it was freezing cold.

Wildfire burns grass, and broken smoke gives birth to lycopodium.

But I went back to Shanxi Road and heard the bell at dusk.

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This is a five-character poem. The first couplet wrote: "Looking at the sunny snow with a stick, there are tens of thousands of clouds." When I start writing, I will point out the word "Wang". At dusk, the sun is shining in the snow, and the poet is traveling abroad, leaning on crutches and looking into the distance. "Wan Liyun is heavy" is what Wang sees. The poet used exaggeration to highlight the richness of "Yun Xi". In this sentence, the poet chose two images of "stream" and "cloud", one on the ground and the other in the sky. The poet combined these two images, which not only opened the distance, created the imagination space and improved the aesthetic realm of poetry, but also looked at it from the mountain. In the oblique sunlight, the stream and the clouds rising above mix together and take care of each other, showing great concern for each other. .

The couplet followed closely the first couplet and wrote: "The firewood man returns to the White House, and there is danger in the cold." The White House is a small room. In ancient times, it refers to the housing of civilians. Because there is no color decoration, it is named. This sentence comes from the "Xi Cloud" in "Xi Cloud weighs tens of thousands". The last sentence said that in the stream, fishermen rowed back to the hut and the sun set. The application of "cold" in Cold Weather is wonderful, which not only shows the cold scene in the mountains when the sun sets, but also reflects the sadness in the poet's heart. Especially when it is combined with the verbs "Gui" and "Xia" (both meaning to return and go home), it means that what belongs to you will return, and what belongs to you will go down, while the poet lives in a temple and can't go back. At this moment, he can't help but feel sad because he failed in the exam. It can be said that this seems to have the same effect as Ma Zhiyuan's "Tianjingsha Qiu Si", in which it is written that "old vines faint crows, small bridges flow, ancient roads are sparse, the sun sets, and heartbroken people are in the end of the world".

In a change of meaning, the poet wrote: "Weeds burn on the mountain, and the smoke breaks loose." Smoke is like a cloud of smoke. "Cao Gang" looks like a weak grass, but in fact it is particularly energetic. This means that the mountains in the distance are overgrown with weeds. Jinsong is gloomy, and the haze of sunset seems to be born intermittently among pine trees. Here, the poet used "wildfire" and "quitting smoking", which not only showed one bright and one dark, but also showed the change of time. "Wildfire" reminds me of Bai Juyi's poem "A Farewell to Ancient Grass", "Wildfire is still unfinished, and the spring breeze is blowing high". In fact, maybe the poet just wants to show the tenacious vitality of this "Cao Gang". It can be said that the poet here shows his purity, frugality and lofty aspirations by borrowing images such as "wildfire", "grass" and "rock pine".

Appreciating the beautiful scenery after the snow, the poet wrote: "But I went back to Shanxi Road and heard the sound of dusk bell." The "back" in the previous sentence means looking back and looking back at the past. When night fell, nothing could be seen, so the poet had to go back to the temple. One of the words "que" can be said to be an adverb, which shows the poet's reluctant feelings incisively and vividly. The poet clearly heard the bell in the mountain temple. The clock here is very meaningful. It can be said that it not only "hit" the feelings hidden in the poet's heart-the sorrow of life in the barren hills and ancient temples, but also hinted that Gotama was born in the poet's heart (that is, Sakyamuni, here suggesting that the poet entered the Buddha). Therefore, this song "Ring the Bell at Dusk" is a concentrated expression of the poet's feelings, and it is also a reflection of the poet's thought of "making a misty promise in the end, and the rooftop is a close neighbor" (Jia Dao's "Seeing No One"). This ending is not only full of words and infinite meaning, but also arouses readers' imagination and thinking, thus improving the aesthetic effect of poetry.

In art, first of all, the description of scenery is very distinctive, vividly showing the characteristics of "snow", "sunny" and "late". Secondly, the words are accurate and vivid, showing the infiltration of language. Third, the image is implicit, imaginative and appealing. Fourth, show Jia Dao's poetic style of "being cold and thin".