Tanabata in a foreign land
Tang Dynasty: Meng Haoran
On Tanabata in other places, the hotel is full of worries.
I didn't see a woman threading a needle, but my mind was empty.
At the beginning of the warm breeze, the new moon began to set.
Who can bear to peek at the river people and ask about the bullfight?
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Being in a foreign land coincides with begging for luck, and it is even worse to see the hotel on the way.
Far away from home, I don't see my wife getting a needle under the moon, but my heart is empty and I miss my hometown.
The breeze blows away the heat of midsummer, the new moon is in the sky, and early autumn is coming.
Who secretly looked at the Milky Way with the pain in her heart? Is the Altair in the distant sky.
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Tanabata: It's the seventh day of July, a folk begging festival.
Creeping wind: a slight wind.
Hehan: For the Milky Way in the sky.
Jump: Describe the meaning of distant.
Bullfighting: star names. Altair
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Being in a foreign land coincides with Chinese Valentine's Day, which increases the homesickness of travelers. However, far away from home, I can't see my wife playing tricks under the moon. I am pregnant with a man on the moon, and the poet has a feeling of infinite travel and homesickness. Meng Haoran's poems boldly expressed his ideal wishes and injected fresh and rich flavor of life into Kaiyuan's poetic style.
Extended reading: Meng Haoran's unique aesthetic view of poetry
Meng Haoran also has his own unique views on the artistic form of poetry creation. He advocates that poetry should think in images, shape images through the language of poetry and express the meaning of poetry through images. Readers are proud of "abandoning images and forgetting words". In the poem Ben Li Yue Xin Zuo Ting, he wrote: "We should abandon the image and realize, but forget the words and reason. What do you get in silence? Singing is also awkward! "Meng Haoran borrowed the theory of' abandoning images and forgetting words' in Buddhism and Taoism philosophy, and advocated that the lyrical expression and expression of poetry creation should not be too straightforward, but should have overtones and meanings beyond images.
Meng Haoran also advocated that poetry should be "exquisite and natural" instead of being bound by near-body rhythm. Meng Haoran collected 267 poems, including 63 five-character poems, 6 seven-character poems, 30 five-character poems, 4 seven-character poems, 37 five-character poems, 9 five-character quatrains, and 8 seven-character quatrains. It can be seen that except for 69 ancient poems, all of them are modern poems, with the most five-character poems. It can be said that he was the first poet who wrote a lot of modern poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. However, most of these poems can't be regarded as modern poems in the strict sense. Poems such as Looking at the Night in the Boat, From Sending to Yangzhou, Sending Yanjiu from Dongting Lake, Sending New moths from Duxia, and Going to Yanshan with Friends do not conform to the duality of five-character poems. However, the poet spoke highly of them. Yan Yu's Cang Lang Shi Hua said: "Everything is orderly and sonorous."
The complete maturity of modern poetry forms was in the Du period before Meng Haoran. Du is also from Xiangyang, and he can't help but know. So, why doesn't he go the way of Lao Du? In this regard, Shi Buhua's "Poems on Servants" thinks: "There are two typos in the five-character method, both of which have typos, which must be opened in one breath, which is wonderful and natural. Novices should pay attention to confrontation and not fall into this situation. " In other words, Meng Haoran's five-character law is illegal because of its deep-seated aesthetic reasons. His pursuit of natural beauty is a correction to the excessive pursuit of formal beauty in the early Tang Dynasty. He combines ancient style with modern style, and his modern style is mostly ancient style. The metrical spirit of modern poetry is organically combined with the natural peace of ancient style, thus achieving the artistic realm of "beautiful artistic conception". Reading Meng Haoran's poems, we can't see the bondage of near-body meter, but there is a flowing nature. We should not only accept the rules of the near body, but also be burdened by the rules of the near body, and take nature as the first standard in everything.