Tang poetry reached its peak with the efforts of Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu and Gao Shi. No matter how difficult it is for poets in the middle Tang Dynasty to play tricks, how to find their own way in poetry creation is a difficult problem for Liu Yuxi.
Faced with the height that poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty could not reach, poets in the middle Tang Dynasty had to change. Looking at it now, they chose the specialization in subject matter, broadening and digging deep at the level that previous poets did not reach. For example, Li Yi chose four frontier poems, which surpassed Wang Changling, Gao Shi and other frontier poets in conciseness, massiness and melody. Liu Yuxi, on the other hand, chose to reminisce with the Four Wonders. When I passed Nanjing, I wrote Five Topics of Jinling, and Wuyi Lane was the second one.
Most people in the Tang Dynasty wrote nostalgia and recalled the prosperity of the Six Dynasties. In fact, the troubled times of the Six Dynasties were not necessarily more prosperous than those of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. However, just like Ming Di's description in the Tang Dynasty, it is better to write allegorical memories of the past dynasties than to directly say in poetry that the present is not as good as before.
Liu Yuxi wrote this song of nostalgia to miss the Six Dynasties. The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties was Jinling. The "Suzaku Bridge" and "Wuyi Lane" mentioned in the poem are places where Plutocratic family, generals and nobles live together. In Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, it was always the politics of gatekeepers. The most distinguished gatekeepers in the Six Dynasties were Wang Dao and Xie An. They were like clouds, and talented people came forth in large numbers. The place where they live is equivalent to our current military compound, or the government family area.
But what did the poet see? "There are wild grass flowers on Suzaku Bridge, and the sunset at the entrance of Wuyi Lane is oblique." These once prosperous places are now covered with weeds and shrouded in the lonely sunset, showing an extremely bleak twilight scene.
Seeing this kind of scenery, the poet turned to discuss the last two sentences, which are the subtlety of the famous works of the ages: "Xie Tang, the old king, died and flew into the homes of ordinary people." These swallows, who lived in Plutocratic family during the Six Dynasties, have now flown into the homes of ordinary people.
The flying swallow, which is crowded with people, has written down the vicissitudes of life with a history of hundreds of years. Swallow is naturally not the swallow of the past, and its family status is no longer the family status of the past. Obviously, this Suzaku Bridge and Wuyi Lane have long been a civilian gathering area.
He only has a few strokes, like a long shot in a movie. With swallows dancing in the air, the background of Wuyi Lane is cleverly switched in time and space. From the perspective of swallows, we flew into the homes of ordinary people, only to find that this was a famous house many years ago, and now it is ruined, leaving only the sunset. I remembered those heavy buildings and carved buildings in my heart, and I was lost in my heart and finally sighed.
The scenery of the whole poem "Wild Grass Flowers" and "Sunset Oblique" is unremarkable, but it has a long aftertaste. Writing swallows has a unique perspective, but it hides the poet's feelings about the changes of the world and the vicissitudes of life.
This four-line poem is neat, simple and popular, but it is meaningful, and it is the aftertaste of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.