Known by Mr. Wen Yiduo as "the poem in the poem, the peak on the peak", "Moonlight on the Spring River" has fascinated countless readers for more than 1000 years. Zhang, who left only two poems in his life, was "isolated for all" because of this poem.
I came into contact with Zhang's works when I was in college. At that time, I was obsessed with classical poetry, and I always couldn't put it down when I met articles about poetry and music. After reading this poem, I was deeply moved by the beautiful and distant artistic conception. Spring, river, flowers, moon and night, each kind of scenery can be made into thousands of poems. However, Zhang dipped his pen in ink and wrote all the scenery in one poem, which was so profound and beautiful that people had to be impressed by his talent!
Later, I fell in love with Zhang. I wonder what kind of person can weave such a touching poem.
So, I began to collect his poems and consult his life. But there are too few records about him in history, no emotional experiences, no poems handed down from generation to generation, and only a few words about his life.
The only thing people can glimpse of him are the only two poems left. One is Answer My Boudoir Dream, and the other is Moonlit Night on the Spring River.
It seems that if you want to approach him, you must approach these two poems.
"Even the sea level spring tide, the bright moon * * * tide at sea. I drift thousands of miles, where there is no moonlight by the river? The river flows around Fangdian, and the moonlight shines on the flower forest like graupel. Frost flows in the air, you can't fly, but you can't see the white sand on the pavilion. There is no dust in the sky on the river, and there is a lonely moon in the sky ... "Zhang is really a painter. With a gentle stroke, the beautiful scenery in the moonlight on the riverside is very strange-the moonlight shines thousands of miles away, which riverside is not in the bright moon! The river twists and turns in the spring Yuan Ye where flowers and plants are everywhere, and the moonlight falls on the flower trees like a layer of snow.
There is no doubt that Zhang's observation of moonlight is extremely meticulous and subtle, otherwise he would not have got this magical pen. From this point of view, Zhang's attitude towards life and way of thinking can be said to be rigorous and prudent. A beautiful person who can find subtle things should also be a person who is responsible for his own life.
"Who first saw the moon by the river? When did Jiang Yue take the photo at the beginning of the year? Life is endless from generation to generation, and Jiang Yue is only similar year after year. I don't know who Jiang Yue is waiting for, but I see the Yangtze River delivering water. " Some people say that Zhang's words are an exploration of the mysteries of the universe. I didn't always think so. Although the poet meditates and leaps forward, he is still closely connected with life, pursuing and exploring the realm and philosophy of perfection and beauty in life.
I suddenly remembered Cao Zhi's sentence "Heaven and earth will be infinite, life will be first frost" and Ruan Ji's sentence "If life is dust, heaven will be infinite". Most of them think that the universe is eternal and life is short. However, Zhang is different. He jumped out of the trap of his predecessor and took on a new look. He just said that "life is endless from generation to generation, and Jiang Yue is only similar year after year", showing a detached and free-spirited and philosophical attitude. This is the echo of the vigorous symphony of life in the early Tang Dynasty!
"A piece of white clouds leisurely, green maple pu sorrow. Who will go boating tonight? Where do you miss Mingyue Building? Poor people wander upstairs for the moon, so they should leave someone to fill the mirror. The curtain of the jade pot could not be rolled up, but it was brushed back on the anvil. At this time, I don't know each other. I hope China will shine on you every month. Hongyan flies in the sky, and fish Long Qian jumps in the water. Last night, I dreamed that the idle pool had fallen, and the poor spring had not returned. In spring, the river flows away, and the pond falls in the moon and the west. The slanting moon hides the sea fog, and Jieshi Xiaoxiang Road is infinite. I wonder how many people will return every month. The moon is full of river trees. " Parting sadness seems to be an endless topic in the world. With the sudden change in Zhang's works, the lovesickness between homesick women and wanderers jumped from the paper and flowed like water. This endless yearning, moonlight, wandering and the poet's feeling are intertwined, falling on the river tree and also on the hearts of readers after a thousand years. It is fascinating and swaying.
Wen Yiduo said: "in front of this kind of poem, all praise is rap, almost blasphemy ... this is the poem in the poem, the peak in the peak." Looking back from here, Lian is a process, needless to say, it is a process with his supporting role Luo. Working with another peak, Chen Ziang, cleared the way for the prosperous Tang Dynasty. " I'm afraid only Zhang deserves such praise!
However, according to textual research by literary historians, Zhang's poems have long been unknown. From the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, his poem "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" was almost neglected. It was not until the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty that Li Panlong included this poem in Selected Poems of Ancient and Modern Times.
You can imagine how lonely and difficult Zhang was in the early Tang Dynasty. Perhaps at that time, he was originally a poem, a clear, ethereal, beautiful and natural long poem. This poem was postponed because more people could not understand it. Fortunately, after thousands of years of "big waves scouring the sand", this well-known masterpiece has finally been preserved, and it has also won the reputation of "lonely articles overwhelming the whole Tang Dynasty".
Wandering between the pages of the whole Tang poem, I stared at the heartbreaking lonely name Zhang, and my thoughts were involuntarily immersed in his gentle and graceful words. I couldn't help it.
It's too early to close the fort. Don't look at the balcony. Try on the shirt and heat it, and find that the spring glow. Swallows peep at the curtains and bees draw clothes. Love urges Tao Liyan, and my heart sends strings to fly. Make-up wash each other, and the wind, flowers, snow and moon do not return. Where the dream enters, silence covers the heavy door.
This song "Answer My Boudoir Dream" wants to leave the palace, which seems to open the wind of arts and sciences.
The poet's first sentence hit the point, first writing about his wife's thoughts and seeing off his husband who was guarding the border. The parting scene is sad and moving, giving readers endless imagination. After writing Goodbye again, the heroine fell into a long struggle, but she still tried to dress up and decorate herself with a series of images, such as swallows, curtains, bees, painted clothes, peaches and plums, orchestral music and so on. To show her feeling of being bored but wanting to surprise her sweetheart. Finally, the author wrote that when I went to Qiu Lai in the spring, flowers blossomed, but people who should have come back did not. The sleeping thinking woman fell into the new distress of "idle people who only daydream don't dream of kings". After waking up in loneliness, she could only sigh helplessly and close the window again.
This poem describes the psychology of the characters in a unique way. Every sentence does not directly describe the mood, but every sentence is written about the mood. This is one of Zhang's poems "Quasi-Forever in My Heart", which can be seen from the poet's well-meaning (unique psychological description of the characters, seemingly direct but implicit emotional description, and side-by-side contrast technique of borrowing scenery to express emotion).
Zhang was born in Yangzhou, which is a beautiful place with beautiful scenery and people. All previous dynasties were places where literati stopped. Zhang Ziran, one of the "Four Scholars of Wu Zhong", was among them, and presumably his song Answer My Boudoir Dream was also written here. In this way, Zhang should be regarded as an infatuated scholar. His confidante should also be a woman with amazing appearance, admirable literary talent and gentle personality like Qinhuai Bayan. However, there is no way to verify these. His past, his legend, like petals falling into the soil, scattered in the long river of time and history, leaving no trace.
As a scholar-bureaucrat, Zhang didn't become a court minister and Yan. He is just a little Yanzhou soldier Cao. As a poet, he is not as outstanding as Li Bai and Du Fu, but he has also gained the reputation of "Poet Fairy" and "Poet Saint". But he has his beauty, he has his free and easy.
Zhang's poetic style plays a connecting role in the history of poetry. Together with the four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty, he laid a good foundation for the prosperity of poetry in the Tang Dynasty.
Later generations commented on Zhang: "In front of him, Li He and Li Shangyin were fresh and moist; Before his poems, Song Ci and Yuan Qu were its tributaries. Great Zhang! Like a lonely eagle, he drew a beautiful arc in the sky in the early Tang Dynasty. He is like a dazzling star, shining with eternal glory in the sparse night sky!