What best embodies the spirit of the Tang Dynasty is the song "Chrysanthemum":
When autumn comes on September 8th, after my flowers bloom, hundreds of flowers will die.
The incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is covered with golden armor.
This is Huang Chao's poem. It is said that he wrote it after he failed.
Li Shangyin
The fifty strings of the brocade harp are unprovoked, and each string and column reflect the past.
Zhuang Sheng was fascinated by butterflies in his dream, and looked forward to the emperor's spring heart with cuckoos.
The moon in the sea has tears, and the sun in Lantian is warm and the jade produces smoke.
This feeling can be remembered later, but it was already at a loss.
Li Bai basically said whatever he wanted to say, whatever he liked, and he did so freely and freely, for example:
Those who abandon me, yesterday I can't keep the day; those who mess up my mind will have many worries today.
Another example:
If you don't see it, the water of the Yellow River will come up from the sky and rush to the sea never to return. Don't you see, the bright mirror in the high hall has sad white hair, and it looks like blue silk in the morning and turns to snow in the evening.
If you are proud of life, you must have all the fun, and don’t let the golden bottle stand empty against the moon. It is my nature that my talents will be useful, and I will come back after all my money has been spent.
Obviously, there is no planning, wording, or sentence making here, only the joyful flow of whatever you want, and the magnificent flow of words coming out of the mouth.
Wang Wei is always able to integrate poetry and painting, and there are many majestic works: rivers flow beyond the sky and earth, and mountains are in and out. The desert is solitary and the smoke is straight, the sun is setting over the long river. After all, as a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, magnanimity is almost a must.
The most readable ones are the five unique paintings that look like sketches:
The hibiscus flower at the end of the wood, the red calyx in the mountain. There is no one in the stream. They open and close one after another.
This is a scenery shot. Beside the silent mountain stream, the Xinyi flowers bloom and wither quietly.
Introducing and absorbing without fear or scruple, creating and innovating without restraint and nostalgia, this is the ideological basis of the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. People of all colors, both Han and Hu men and women, could take turns in the battle, and all kinds of voices, whether clear or dirty, elegant or popular, could compete with each other. This was the social atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the new civilization must be diverse yet unified. Diversity because different people can have different choices; unity because contemporaries have the same feelings.
The mountains end with the plains, and the river flows into the wilderness. The stars hang down over the vast plains, and the moon surges across the river. Can you tell at a glance who wrote them?
The first two sentences are from Li Bai, and the last two sentences are from Du Fu.
Of course, more famous sentences should still come from Qijue. For example, Wei Yingwu's "The spring tide brings rain that comes late, and there is no boat crossing the wild road", Han Yu's "The light rain in the sky is as moist as crisp, the color of the grass looks far away, but it is not there", Yuan Zhen's "Once the sea was too big, except for Wushan Not a cloud", and Bai Juyi's "A setting sun spreads over the water, half of the river is rustling and half of the river is red. Poor night on the third day of September, the dew is like a pearl and the moon is like a bow."
Du Mu can be called the king of the seven masterpieces. Many of his masterpieces must be recorded in their entirety: silver candles paint the screen in the cold autumn light, and small fans flutter against the flowing fireflies. The sky is as cold as water at night, and I sit and watch Altair and Vega. This is really hard to put down, not to mention "stop and sit in the maple forest at night" and "the shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village".
——Excerpted from Yi Zhongtian’s Chinese History "Anshi Rebellion"