Nineteen Ancient Poems occupies an important position in the development of five-character poems and is also of great significance in the history of China's poems. Their themes, contents and expression techniques have been imitated by later generations, almost forming a pattern.
His artistic style also influenced the creation and criticism of later poems. As far as the actual situation of the development of ancient poetry is concerned, Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long is called "the crown of five words", while Zhong Rong's poems praise it as "flawless and golden".
Nineteen Ancient Poems is a general term for nineteen poems created by literati in Han Dynasty and compiled by Xiao Tong in Southern Dynasty. This 19 poem is customarily titled with the first sentence, as follows:
Again, the grass beside the Qingqing River, the cypress on the Qingqing Mausoleum, a good banquet today, high-rise buildings in the northwest, hibiscus picking on the river, bright moon and bright night, bamboo alone in Ran Ran, strange trees in the courtyard, and morning glory all the way.
Back in the car, Dongcheng is tall and long, driving to the East Gate. The parting day is rare, the birth year is less than 100, the spring is chilly, and the guests from afar have a bright moon.
Nineteen Ancient Poems is a remarkable symbol of the humanization of Yuefu ancient poems, which profoundly reproduces the disillusionment and sinking, the awakening and pain of the soul during the great transformation of social thought in the late Han Dynasty, and expresses several basic and common feelings and thoughts in life. The language of the whole poem is simple and natural, the description is vivid and true, and it has a natural artistic style.
Liu Xie:
Liu Xie (about 465 AD ~? ), the word Yanhe, originally from Juxian County, Dongguan County (now Dashenzhuang, Dongguan Town, Juxian County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province). Minister Liang of Southern Dynasties, literary theorist and critic, son, captain.
When I was a child, my family was poor and eager to learn, and I learned the theory of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism by famous monks and eminent monks. He wrote Wen Xin Diao Long, which was praised by Prime Minister Shen Yue and was invited to serve in the imperial court. He used to be the recorder of Linchuan Wang (Xiao Hong), a captain of infantry, and the general manager of the prince.
After the death of Prince Xiao Tong of Zhaoming, he felt sad and asked to become a monk without Liang Wudi's permission. Then, burning with the ambition of invention, Dharma became a monk and died in Ding Lin Temple.
Wen Xin Diao Long introduces ancient and modern literary styles and their practices, and ranks as three famous literary and historical criticism works with Liu Zhiji's Shi Tong and Zhang Xuecheng's Shi Wen Yi Tong, which establishes its position in the history of China's literary criticism.