To Jia Dao. Who wrote this poem?

To Jia Dao is a seven-character quatrain written by Han Yu, a literary family in the Tang Dynasty. This poem mentions Meng Jiao and Jia Dao at the same time, praising their poetic achievements.

To Jia Dao (1)

Meng Jiao was buried in North Mangshan (2), and the situation has been idle for the time being.

I'm afraid the article will be cut, so I live in Jia Dao.

Sentence annotation

(1) This poem was first seen in the volume "You Xuan Ji" compiled by Wei Zhuang in the late Tang Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, some people suspected that it was not written by Han Yu. Up to now, Qian Zhonglian's summary of Han Changli's poems is "suspected pseudo-poems", but there is no evidence.

② North Mangshan Mountain: In the north of Luoyang today, after the Eastern Han Dynasty, the royal family and noble families were buried here. Han Yu's Epitaph of Mr. Yao Zhen: "Tang Yuanhe died at the age of nine at Mr. Meng's house in August ... In mid-October, Fan gave him a gift, but he was buried in Dongzu's tomb in Luoyang."

Vernacular translation

Meng Jiao was buried in Beimang Mountain after his death, so without him, the situation of the poetry circle was temporarily suspended, and the poetry circle seemed to be silent.

God was worried that the fate of a generation of poetic immortals would be completely cut off, so he recreated a Jia Dao and brought him to the world to help pull the tide of poetic immortals.

Brief introduction of the author

Han Yu (768-824) was a writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty. The word goes back to Heyang, Henan (now Mengzhou, Henan). Claiming to be the county magistrate Changli, he is known as "Han Changli" and "Mr. Changli". Zhenyuan eight years (792) Jinshi. He used to be a doctor in Guo Zi and assistant minister of punishments. He was demoted to the tide secretariat for discouraging Xianzong from welcoming Buddha bones. After the official to the official department assistant minister, also known as the Korean official department. Dead "Wen" Advocating the ancient prose movement, his prose was ranked as the first of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties", and he was also called "Liu Han" with Liu Zongyuan, and was praised as "the master of articles" and "the literary Sect of one hundred generations". His prose writing theories, such as "the unity of literature and Taoism", "vigorous words and appropriate expressions", "doing good deeds" and "acting according to words", have important guiding significance for future generations. His poems strive for novelty, and sometimes they are deviant, which has a great influence on Song poetry. There is a collection of Mr. Changli.