Cui Hao (704-754) was born in Kaifeng, Bianzhou. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was a scholar in the 11th year of Kaiyuan. He is quick-witted and good at writing poems, and he is a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Wen Yuan Biography of Old Tang Dynasty was mentioned by Wang Changling, Gao Shi and Meng Haoran, but his career was ups and downs, and all ended in failure. There are not many historical records.
The fairy of the past has flown away by the yellow crane, leaving only an empty Yellow Crane Tower.
The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years.
Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass.
But I looked at my hometown, and the twilight was getting thicker, and the mist of sadness was filled on the river waves.
The Yellow Crane Tower is one of the four famous buildings in China. There are many poems about the Yellow Crane Tower in past dynasties, but Cui Hao's Seven Rhymes is the best. This poem is not only Cui Hao's masterpiece and handed down from generation to generation, but also laid a lifelong title for him. Three hundred Tang Poems lists this poem as the first of the seven laws. Cang Hua said: "Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower should be the first of seven-character poems in Tang Dynasty."
Note 1. Yellow Crane Tower: The former site is on the Yellow Crane Tower at the bridge head in Wuchang today, with its back against the Snake Mountain and overlooking the Yangtze River. 2. Previous life: the legendary immortal. There are two kinds of sayings: one is that during the Three Kingdoms period, Shu people benefited from crossing the crane to ascend the immortal, and once rested on the Yellow Crane Tower; It is said that Xian Zi 'an once passed the Yellow Crane Tower by crane. 3. Qingchuan: it means that Hanshui shines in the daytime. 4. Hanyang: Today, Hanyang in Wuhan is located at the angle between the Yangtze River and Hanshui River, facing the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang across the river. 5. Nautilus Island: Located in Erli Yangtze River, southeast of Hanyang, it is gradually washed away by the river. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huang Zu killed Miheng and was buried in the mainland. Mi Fei once wrote "Parrot Fu", which was later called Parrot Island.
Reading Tips This poem introduces the ancient times to readers with rich imagination and returns to reality. All kinds of feelings and natural scenery blend together, and the writing is open-minded, ambitious, picturesque, sincere, simple and vivid, just like spoken language, which is amazing. In the past, there was a saying that "writing is based on qi". The first four sentences of this poem seem to be spoken casually, but they rotate in one breath and go with the flow without hindrance. The word "yellow crane" appears repeatedly, but because of its imposing manner, readers are scrambling to read on, and they have no time to pay attention to its overlap. This is a taboo in metrical poems, and the author seems to forget that he wrote seven laws. Let's see: the five or six words in the first couplet are the same as "Yellow Crane", the third sentence is almost all linked sounds, and the fourth sentence is finished in three levels like "ethereal and distant", regardless of any antithesis, using the syntax of ancient poetry. Here, the author practices poetry according to the principles of "putting meaning first" and "not hurting meaning with words", which is why he wrote such a rare poem in the Seven Laws. The first half of this poem is very reformed, and the second half is about what I saw and felt in the building, describing the grass and trees overlooking Hanyang City and Nautilus Island from upstairs, and the homesickness caused by it. This is put first, then collected. If you just put it away and don't accept it, it's not seven laws, but seven ancient ones. This poem seems to be divided into two parts. In fact, the text is the focus from beginning to end, with only one breath in the middle. This seemingly continuous connection is also the most orderly from the beginning, inheritance, transformation and combination of rhythmic poetry. It is precisely because of its superb art and great success that this poem is praised as the swan song of the Yellow Crane Tower. Later, when Li Bai went upstairs, he found Cui's poems and even called them "wonderful, wonderful!" So I wrote four doggerel poems to express my feelings: "I punched the Yellow Crane Tower and kicked Nautilus Island, and Cui Hao wrote a poem on it", so I stopped writing. Later generations built a pavilion on the east side of the Yellow Crane Tower, named "Li Bai's Writing Pavilion", which made the name of the Yellow Crane Tower more prominent.
This poem is a standard seven-character verse style, and its writing feature is to put it first and then collect it. The reading rhythm is dignified. The first two couplets should "put down" imagination, voice and emotion, and focus on the personnel changes of "historical progress and inheritance". Perhaps there is a sense of "vicissitudes" in the language, and it is no harm to lengthen the language a little. Facing the real scene in front of us, the last two couplets should be "collected". Although "Hanyang Tree" and "Nautilus Island" are not close-ups, there is still a big gap in time and space from the previous "history", so it is better to "grab" them with solid momentum. At the end of the couplet, I wrote about my homesickness at sunset on the Yanbo River, and I should also pay attention to "homesickness" when reading.
Recommended sentence: the yellow crane will never come, and the white clouds will never fly without him.