Autumn Ci is a seven-character quatrain written by Sadula, a poet in Yuan Dynasty. The first two paragraphs of the poem indicate the time and place, describing the scene of late-night palace car travel; The last two sentences describe the scenery seen by the queue all the way, and the attendants hold silver lamps to see the frost on the lotus leaves. There are only four sentences in the whole poem, with concise writing and meaningful artistic conception.
On the night of clear autumn, the palace car went out to build a chapter, and the purple clothes team lined up in two or three rows. A silver lamp was held by the dry shore of the stone fence, and the frost on the lotus leaf was visible. Creation background This poem is also called Gong Ci or Qiu Gong Ci. Among the poets in the Yuan Dynasty, Sadula is famous for being good at palace poems and lyric Yuefu.
Palace Ci is a kind of poetry with the theme of palace life. After Wang Jian, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote hundreds of palace poems, people named the theme after it, and there were many poems with the theme of palace poems in previous dynasties.
The writing time of this poem is unknown. It is generally believed that it should be between the first year of Yuan Shun (1330) and the second year of Shun (1332). At that time, Sadulla worked as a writer in Beijing Hanlin National History Institute, which was closest to court life and most likely to create works of this genre.
Appreciation of works:
This poem "Autumn Ci" has no sad artistic conception of ordinary palace ci, and its writing style is simple and meaningful. Sadulla is not only an excellent poet, but also an expert among painters. The poem "Autumn Ci" has a strong sense of picture, which is closely related to his good at painting. He intercepted this picture of court life without any sound interference. In the quiet night, a palace car and two or three rows of purple maids quietly traveled.
Under the strong light of the silver lamp, the frost on the withered lotus leaf in the pool water flashed with faint cold light. This kind of description, although it does not exaggerate the splendor of court life, can appreciate the exquisiteness of court life in details, and has its own luxury infiltration picture.