The use of numbers in poetry is full of fun
There are countless numbers in poetry in ancient Chinese poems, and they can be found everywhere at your fingertips: Li Bai's "The roc rises with the wind in one day and soars ninety thousand miles" . Du Fu's "Two orioles sing in the green willows, and a row of egrets ascend to the blue sky." Bai Juyi's "It takes three days to test jade, and seven years to identify the material"...
Some poems, although they use many numbers, still give people a beautiful enjoyment because they are used skillfully. . For example, the ancient children's enlightenment poem "Looking two or three miles away, you can see four or five houses in Yancun, six or seven pavilions, and eighty or ninety flowers." The 20 words use 10 numbers, but they appear natural and not stacked, like a well-proportioned landscape painting, making it catchy to read. Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty wrote: "One scream, one ileum is broken, three springs and three months are recalled." It delicately and truly expresses the author's heartbroken feelings due to homesickness. "Water Fairy Night Rain" written by Xu Zaisi of the Yuan Dynasty: "There is a sound of Wuye and a sound of autumn, a bit of banana and a bit of sadness, and the third watch returns to the dream after the third watch." Another poem by Chen Yuan actually uses 10 characters for "one": "One sail, one oar, one fishing boat, one fisherman, one fishing hook, one bow and one smile, one river, bright moon, one river autumn." vividly. It reproduces the scene of fisherman fishing on a moonlit night, as if witnessing it with your own eyes.
Zha Shenxing’s poetry collections in the Qing Dynasty are also unique. He used a verse with numbers from each of the four poems by four great poets to form a new poem: "The mountain flowers on both sides of the bank are blooming like snow, and a cup of One glass after another. I urge you to drink more wine, February has passed and March has come." It adopts Liu Yuxi's "Bamboo Branch Poems", Li Bai's "Drinking with a Mysterious Man in the Mountains", Wang Wei's "Weicheng Song" and Du Fu's "Quatrains". Together, they are integrated and seamless, showing no trace of patchwork. And the meaning of cherishing the spring scenery is as if it were your own, which is amazing.
Whenever I see our ancestors using boring numbers to add infinite interest to poems, I can't help but be eager to try them. In the past two years, I have actually written some digital poems. Although it is far from the ancients, and it is inevitable to imitate others, it is finally put into practice. In early autumn, new persimmons are on the market, and I suddenly realize: As the ancients said, one leaf knows autumn, doesn’t this persimmon also know autumn? ! Time flies by so fast, more than 9 months of the year go by in a blink of an eye. Time flies so fast! Then he wrote a poem to encourage himself: "In a flash, I discarded my fan, and now I know autumn with a persimmon. Months passed in a flash, and I never looked back."
If your birthday passes noon, how much do you want in this lifetime? Don’t slack off for a moment, one day will bring three autumns! ”