When Liu Yuxi, a famous poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, was born, it was nine years since the Anshi Rebellion.
Over the past nine years, all skin injuries, large and small, in the Tang Dynasty have almost healed, except the knife that stabbed the heart.
When the mood is gone, everything will be chaotic. After the Anshi Rebellion, the fate of the Tang Dynasty took a turn for the worse. Liu Yuxi was born in the middle Tang Dynasty, where the vassal region and eunuchs gradually gave the cloven foot.
Liu Yuxi was a scholar very early. When he was young, he was full of enthusiasm and supported reform and change. Soon, with the failure of the reformists, Liu Yuxi officially ended his career as a Beijing official and began his roaming journey on the land of China.
China never lacked poetry. Liu Yuxi's Wandering did write many famous sentences and articles, which were passed down to later generations.
Among them, there is a group of poems, especially famous-"Langtaosha".
There are ***9 poems in this group of "Langtaosha", and you should be most familiar with "Jiuqu Yellow River Wan Li Sand". This article will take you to appreciate the eighth poem in the group.
Although this poem is not as magnificent as the Yellow River, it has profound philosophy and Liu Yuxi's own attitude towards life and setbacks, and is worth reading.
Liu Yuxi [Tang Dynasty] Mo Tao's slanderers are as deep as waves, and Mo Yanke is as heavy as sand. Although it is hard, it is difficult to blow out crazy sand when it is not golden.
There is more than one place name in this group of poems "Langtaosha". There are many rivers such as the Yellow River, Luoshui, Bianshui, Qinghuai, Nautilus Island and Zhuo Jinjiang. So there is a saying that this group of poems was written after Liu Yuxi ended his journey and settled in Kuizhou. It was 822 AD and Liu Yuxi was just 50 years old.
This poem belongs to the epitaph, so there is no need to take the routine of writing scenery and expressing emotion. The opening is Liu Yuxi's brave words.
Don't say that slanders are as deep as waves; Don't say that people who have been demoted "sink" like sand.
Pay attention to the words "deep" and "heavy" here. These two words were originally used to describe wave sand, that is, what Liu Yuxi saw in front of him at this time, but they transferred the characteristics of wave sand to slanderers and refugees through "Ru" and "Similarity".
The description of the scenery has become a portrayal of one's life.
Slander like waves; When the guests leave, it will be like deep sand.
This is a very pessimistic statement, but we all know Liu Yuxi. His birth gave him some atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and he was full of high spirits and optimistic all his life. Until he was old and sick, he could write a sentence like "The sky cleared up".
Therefore, the pessimism in front is just a foreshadowing, which is to promote first and then suppress, to meet the heartfelt expression in the following articles.
"Before you dig for gold, you need to do a lot of hard work to blow away the crazy sand."
This poem should have been written by Liu Yuxi in the Yellow River. He is observing the life of the gold digger, washing sand again and again, letting the sand seep down, leaving real gold one by one.
In his eyes, life should be like this. Whose life will be smooth sailing? In fact, if you want to achieve something, you will only encounter more suffering and torture than ordinary people.
But all the process is to find gold and turn yourself into gold.
Recently, I learned a sentence: "Learning ancient poetry requires its meaning, and don't seek for its floating words."
It is best to learn the meaning of ancient poetry. Don't just pick out flashy words to decorate the facade of your article.
As Lu You said, "Kung Fu is beyond poetry", Liu Yuxi can leave one poem after another full of heroism and philosophy, which is by no means pieced together by other people's words.
Because first I live an optimistic, confident and heroic life, and then I can write such a poem.
When reading poetry, we should also learn the spirit of the ancients through poetry, which can be beneficial to our lives.