Zhang Xu's Peach Blossom Creek and Its Significance

Taohuaxi Tang Dynasty: Zhang Xu

A high bridge appeared on the clouds and asked the fishing boats in the rocks. Peach blossoms follow the water all day long, and the mouth of the peach garden is by the stream?

Translation:

A Gao Qiao appeared across the clouds and asked about the fishing boat on the west side of the rock. Peach blossoms flow all day. Which side of Qingxi is the entrance of Taoyuan Cave?

Precautions:

1, Taohuaxi: water name, at the foot of Taoyuan Mountain, Taoyuan County, Hunan Province.

2. Overpass: Gao Qiao.

3. Rocks: Stones accumulated in the water or rocks and deposits protruding from the water.

4. Fishing boat: a sentence from Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden.

5, all day: all day, all day.

6. Cave: refers to the cave that Wuling fishermen found in Taohuayuan.

Extended data value-added:

This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Taohuaxi and the author's inquiry about fishermen, and expresses a feeling of longing for a paradise and pursuing a better life. The poem is short in length, long in emotion and deep in artistic conception. In addition to paying attention to the refinement of words and sentences, it is also very clever in conception.

Poetry is written from far and near, from the front, and then from reality to emptiness by asking questions. The layout is quite novel and ingenious. The author's brushwork is light and free, he does not describe the scenery in a complicated way, does not spread bright and colorful colors, and uses the artistic conception of Peach Blossom Garden ethereally and naturally, thus creating a profound realm full of painting.

Author:

Zhang Xu (675-750) was born in Wuxian County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) in the Tang Dynasty, and his ancestral home was Hehe. Changshu county magistrate Zeng Guan and the long history of Jin Wu. Good cursive script, good wine, known as the world Zhang Dian, is also one of the "eight immortals drinking." At that time, his cursive script, together with Li Bai's poems and Pei Min's sword dance, was also called "three wonders", and his poems were also unique and good at seven wonders. The Eight Immortals with Li Bai, He and others.

Tang Wenzong once wrote a letter, regarding Li Bai's poems, Pei Min's sword dance and Zhang Xu's cursive script as "three unique skills". He also wrote poems, and was called "Four Gentlemen of Wuzhong" with He, Zhang and Bao Rong. There are "Stomach Pain Sticks" and "Four-character Poems" handed down from ancient times.