Zheng Gu wrote a seven-tone "Partridge", which is a household name and all the rage. Its poem says:
Those partridges frolic on the warm smoky wasteland to see how neat their colorful feathers are; Look at their behavior, the category is similar to that of lively pheasants during the day.
When it rains, the grass on the southeast lake of Dongting Lake passes through from Anil Kumar Bachu Lake; The petals of Huangling Temple fall and partridges sound.
A wanderer smells wet sleeves, and a good man sings low eyebrows.
Xiangjiang River is wide, and bitter bamboo bushes are deep in the west.
Partridge is a beautiful bird, with brightly colored feathers, resembling a pheasant and as big as a pigeon, distributed in the south of Chinese mainland. It is said that "there is no hook in the cloud", which is also commonly known as "walking on the road is not a brother." The ancients often used the partridge cry to express the loneliness and sadness of the relocated people and the thoughts of the wanderers for their loved ones.
Zheng Gu's "Teacher Yi Yan Tang" and this poem "Partridge" are highly valued by poets and poets of all ages. There is a poem saying: "Zao Mei is a lyricist, and Qi can't thank him"; There is a poem saying: "The teacher of one word has worshipped, and he lingers alone after the early plum blossom"; There is a poem that says, "I just read a scroll of Yuntai, and I suspect that the sound of partridges is in my ears"; There is a poem saying: "The old pine beside the reading hall makes the address desolate and the partridges sing"; There is also a poem that says, "Why is the partridge poem popular for thousands of years?" . In the Yuan Dynasty, the new study room praised Zheng Gu for "tasting partridges and warning them". In Qing Dynasty, Jin Shengtan called the poem "Zheng Yanggu" "Bi Xing's Legacy"; Shen Deqian also said that the poem "Partridge" was "better in three or four words than" Hook "and praised it as" winning by charm ". The Appreciation Dictionary of Tang Poetry, published by Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House 1983, also said that the poem "Partridge" was "far from the spirit, but it still showed the poet's strong homesickness" and praised "the poet firmly grasped the emotional connection between man and partridge"
On the issue of evaluating all Zheng Gu's poems, scholars of past dynasties expressed their opinions. Ouyang Xiu in Song Dynasty said in "Poems on June 1st" that Zheng Gu's poems are "extremely interesting and full of eulogies", but he bluntly said that "the style is not high". Tong Zong's opinion is very euphemistic. He said that Zheng Gu's poems are "well-fed and well-fed, although the style is not very high", but "the meaning of a word of exercise is rarely out of line". The new viewpoint in Yuan Dynasty was slightly different. He believes that "Gu is clear and bright, but not vulgar." . However, Ye He Fei Jiashu spoke highly of Zheng Gu in the Ming Dynasty. Ye praised Zheng Gu as a heavyweight with a history of 300 years in the Tang Dynasty. Fei Jiashu not only praised Zheng Gu's "lofty Sao altar", but also said that his poem was a masterpiece of "Du Li is stubborn, is it the same as the suburban island?". There is also a saying in the Summary of Sikuquanshu, which was edited by people in the Qing Dynasty, that Zheng's poems are "often in tune with the style, but independent in thought", but "to get rid of its superficiality and take its essence, he will become a master in the late Tang Dynasty".
However, it is good to call him "elegant male generation" or "not very high style", but they all have their own needs and opinions. Objectively speaking, from the perspective of "getting rid of the floating and getting the essence", Zheng Gu has made remarkable artistic achievements in poetry creation after all, and some of his works are indeed of profound social significance. His "After Chu Peace, Rural and Farming Decoupling"; His "visit the neighbor's multi-finger grave and ask for directions to move to the original place"; His "when the mutinous soldiers take a break, the old friends are all"; His "ten mouths are still eating, and the news in Sichuan has not stopped"; In addition, his poems such as "I can't be the master of anything, hunger is mostly self-cultivation" mostly expose and criticize the social reality of the decline of the late Tang Dynasty and the poor people, and express the poet's thoughts and feelings of caring for and sympathizing with the sufferings of the working people. Although it is difficult to compete with Du Li, it inherits Du Fu's realistic tradition, so it is called "the poetic history of Xian Tong in the post-Luozong and Zhaozong times" in the late Tang Dynasty by later generations, and it can really be called "the master of the late Tang Dynasty". Zheng Gu's other poems, such as chanting things, parting or feeling, are fresh and popular in style, light and fluent, and beautiful in language. For example, in "Chrysanthemum", "The dew is wet and the autumn fragrance is full of pool shore, and the origin is not envious of the height of tile pine"; For example, in "Haitang", "I can't see enough when I'm drunk, so I envy his butterfly branches"; For example, in "Farewell to Friends in Huaishang", "Several bagpipes leave the pavilion late, you go to Xiaoxiang and I go to Qin"; For example, in the singer at the dinner table, "There are also Jiangnan guests in the seat, don't sing partridges against the spring breeze"; Another example is the chanting of "moss on the wall, rain remembering spring fields all night" in Middle Age, with beautiful writing, euphemistic thoughts, rich emotions and lasting charm. After reading it, it is pleasing to the eye and memorable.
People in Yichun's hometown have always respected this famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. They once put him and (in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was the magistrate of Shu County, and it was not easy to live in seclusion to avoid his brother), Han Yu (the head of the eight great masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, who was once demoted as a historian), Li Deyu (the son of Ji Li Fu, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, who was once demoted as a long history, and later as the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty), and Zhao Lu (originally belonging to Yichun, later returned to the room) in the Song Dynasty. In the old days, there was a street named "Zhegu Road" in the south of Yichun City to commemorate "Zhegu Zheng". In recent years, Yichun City has vigorously developed and constructed human landscape. In the Yuanshan Park completed in 2004, a "Zhegu Pavilion" was built in the name of "Zhegu Zheng". When tourists come here, will people who "just read a roll of Yuntai" "listen to the partridge"? ! (Wang Jinghui)