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"It's a common thing in Qi Wang's family, and Cui has heard it several times before." Although the poet is recalling his past contacts with Li Guinian, what he reveals is his deep nostalgia for the "Kaiyuan Shengshi". These two sentences seem very light, but the feelings they contain are deep and dignified. "Wang Qi Zhai Li" and "Cui Tang Jiu Qian" seem to blurt out, but in the eyes of the parties, the place where these two literary celebrities often gather gracefully is the place where the colorful spiritual culture of Kaiyuan Shengshi is concentrated, and their names are enough to evoke the poet's good memories of "Shengshi". At that time, it was "unusual" for a poet to get in touch with an art star like Li Guinian, but "several times" was not difficult. In retrospect, it was an impossible dream. The feeling of separation between heaven and earth contained here, readers must combine the following two sentences to taste. In the overlapping singing and chanting, the two poems reveal the poet's infinite attachment to the prosperity of Kaiyuan, as if to prolong the aftertaste.
Dream-like memories can't change the present reality after all. "It's the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and it's the season of falling flowers." Jiangnan, with its beautiful scenery, was originally a paradise for poets in Chengping era. In the meantime, the poet really faced the "lost season" with withered eyes and the wandering artists with white hair. The season of falling flowers is like an impromptu book and a special care, between intentional and unintentional. These four words are metaphors of the declining world, social unrest, the decline of poets and diseases, but the poet does not deliberately use metaphors at all, which is particularly confusing. In addition, the two function words "exactly" and "you" in the two sentences are full of ups and downs, and there are infinite feelings between the lines. The beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is in a strong contrast with the chaotic life experience of being divorced from the times and sinking. An old singer and an old poet reunited in the wandering, and the flowing scenery dotted with two haggard old people became a typical portrayal of the vicissitudes of the times. It mercilessly confirmed that the "Kaiyuan Shengshi" has become a historical relic, and an earth-shaking change has reduced Du Fu and Li Guinian, who experienced the prosperity, to an unfortunate level. Feelings are deep, but the poet wrote that "falling flowers meet the monarch again", but he accepted it in a dim way, and there was a deep sigh and painful sadness in silence. So "the beginning is the end", I don't even want to say a word, which is very meaningful. Shen Deqian commented on this poem in the Qing Dynasty: "The meaning is not applied, and the case is not broken." The poet's meaning of "inapplicability" is not difficult to understand for a party with similar experience like Li Guinian. For readers who are good at understanding people and discussing the world in later generations, it is not difficult to grasp. Just as Li Guinian sang "endless dreams of rise and fall, endless sadness, endless sadness of mountains and rivers" in "The Palace of Eternal Life, Tanci". Although it is sung repeatedly, it means no more than Du Fu's poems, but it is very similar to what the playwright deduced from Du Fu's poems.
Four poems, from Village of Emperor Qi's "Smell" song to Cui's face, and then to the emphasis on "Hui", "Wen" and "Hui" in the south of the Yangtze River, connect the vicissitudes of the times and great changes in life in the past 40 years. Although no poem directly relates to the life experience of the times, through the poet's recollection and regret, it shows the shadow of the great turmoil that brought havoc to the material wealth and cultural prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the great disaster and trauma it caused to people. It can be said that "the chaos of the world, the rise and fall of the New Year, and the desolation of each other are all among them" (Sun Zhu's comment). Just as there is no set on the stage of an old play, the audience can imagine a very broad spatial background and event process through the singing performance of the actors; Also like a novel, it often reflects an era through a person's fate. The successful creation of this poem shows that a short genre like quatrains can have a great capacity for a great poet with high artistic generalization and rich life experience, and when expressing such rich content, it can reach an effortless and seamless artistic realm.