Quatrain
Du Fu (Tang Dynasty)
Two orioles sing green willows, and a row of egrets go up to the sky.
The window contains the autumn snow in Xiling, at the gate of Wu Dong Wan Li boating.
Su Shi once said, "Shaoling's calligraphy and painting are intangible." Du Fu's quatrains are really a wonderful landscape banner. In the center of the picture are several lush weeping willows, and yellow is singing gently on the branches. Above the face is a blue sky, and a group of egrets point to the blue sky. In the distance, the mountains are faintly visible, and the peaks are still the same snow for many years. Half of the hut was exposed nearby, and the front door was open. The author absorbs two pieces of goose yellow in a piece of green and draws a white line obliquely in a light green space. The organic combination of point, line and surface makes the color bright and harmonious. This idea just shows that the poet Du Fu is good at "following the crowd" and "managing the position" like a painter.
Although it is a poem describing natural scenery, it contains rich thoughts and feelings. Fine willows and new green, isn't this the color of spring? Orioles sing, isn't this the sound of spring? Egrets fly back from the south with spring tourists. At the same time when the Chunjiang River overflowed, ships from Jiangdong came from thousands of miles away, indicating that people have started a year-long activity focusing on spring. All this constitutes a distinct theme-spring is coming. The author described these fresh, lively and energetic things with keen observation, and took a picture of ten thousand kinds of spring fighting for freedom. Poets associate it with the snow on the mountain and the long years on the earth. From the ships in the river, we can see the vast territory of the motherland. Qian Qiu and Wan Li are so broad-minded. This poem was written in 764 AD. Du Fu was "wandering in the southwest between heaven and earth", wandering down and out, but his will was still strong and his mood was still cheerful and optimistic.
This little poem, with plain language, has no strange words and dangerous words, and it seems that it has not been carefully scrutinized; Actually, it is not. First of all, look at the confrontation. The quatrains don't require the sentences to be relative, but Du Fu made the four sentences of this poem form two couplets, and every word in a couplet is paired and very neat. Looking at the words again, the words "containing" and "parking" in the couplets are extremely elegant. The word "containing" is particularly wonderful because it points out the position of the poet: the poet is indoors through the window. Moreover, all the above landscapes are included in the poet's eyes. In this way, it is not a plane imitation of nature, but also shows the poet's grasp and appreciation of natural beauty. Besides, the word "berth" can also be replaced by "side" or "horizontal", which is rather vague. The word "berth" can show that those long-distance ships from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River not only pass by here, but stop in front of the door, indicating that they are nearby. There is a boat parked outside the door. Isn't the poet's hesitation just a little news here?