Inscribed on the Zen Temple behind Poshan Temple
Chang Jian
Entering the ancient temple early in the morning, the first sun shines on the high forest.
The bamboo path leads to a secluded place, and the Zen room is deep with flowers and trees.
The light of the mountain is pleasing to the nature of birds, and the shadow of the pond is empty of people's hearts.
All sounds are silent, except for the sound of bells and chimes.
Poshan is located in today's Changshu, Jiangsu Province. The temple refers to Xingfu Temple. It was rebuilt from the alms house of Ni Deguang, the governor of Chenzhou during the Southern Qi Dynasty. It was already an ancient temple in the Tang Dynasty. The poem expresses the impression of the Zen courtyard after visiting the temple in the early morning. The style of writing is simple, the description is clear, the interest is profound, the artistic conception is blended, and the art is quite complete. It is a unique masterpiece among the landscape poems of the Tang Dynasty.
Explanation of poetry
I walked to this ancient temple in the early morning, and the rising sun shone on the towering jungle. A winding path leads to a quiet distance, where is a Zen room covered in the shade of flowers and trees. The mountains are bright and clear, the birds sing happily, and the reflections in the deep pools make people feel ethereal. Everything was silent, only the long echo of the bell could be heard.
Explanation of words
Zen room: the residence of monks.
Wan Lai: All kinds of sounds.
Poem Appreciation
Chang Jian's "Inscribed on the Zen Temple Behind Poshan Temple" has a unique conception. It is written closely around the Zen room behind Poshan Temple and depicts this specific realm. The unique tranquility in it.
The first couplet "Enter the ancient temple in the early morning, the first sunshine shines on the high forest" outlines the environment around the Zen room in the early morning. In the morning, the rising red sun shines golden sunlight on the temple and the trees in Yushan Mountain, making the temple more gorgeous and brighter, and the towering mountains and forests also become more green and lush, which is refreshing and refreshing. Here, the word "ENTER" describes the remoteness of the beautiful scenery of the ancient temple, and the word "Zhao" perfectly depicts the vitality of the rising sun, revealing the poet's joyful and high-spirited mood. The first couplet describes the distant view of Houchanyuan, which lays the foundation for the close-up description below.
The couplet "The winding path leads to a secluded place, and the Zen room is deep with flowers and trees", highlighting the three characters "Houchanyuan" in the title, describing the winding and winding path leading to the Backchanyuan and the quiet and charming scenery of the Backchanyuan. The monk's room is hidden deep among the flowers and trees, and has a fragrant fragrance. Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty once praised it with emotion: "I often like to recite Chang Jian's poem: 'The winding path leads to a secluded place, and the flowers and trees in the Zen room are deep'. Therefore, I imitate his words to make a couplet, which will not last long. The beauty of this couplet is not only reflected in the accurate depiction of the scene, but also in the profoundness of its ideological connotation. Buddhism advocates the purity of the six sense organs of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, without desires and pursuits, and asceticism. However, the Zen temple has lush flowers and trees, and the fragrance is fragrant, which implicitly and tortuously expresses the monks' passionate yearning and persistent pursuit of beauty. .
Appreciation of poems
When I visited the mountain temple in the morning, I saw the quiet bamboo forest, the clear water pool, the green mountains glowing, the birds singing happily, and the sound of bells and bells disappearing and disappearing. Such a quiet environment made the poet get rid of distracting thoughts and his heart suddenly became enlightened. Although the whole poem is about Zen houses and temples, it actually expresses the feelings of mountains, rivers and seclusion.
The language is simple and the imagery is profound; the conception is creative and the beauty lies beyond the words, leading people into a wonderful state in the ordinary.
1. Reward:
The poet strolled to Poshan Temple in the early morning. At this time, the rising sun was rising in the east, and the golden light was like an arrow, shining brilliantly on a towering ancient tree. It is a joy to walk along the winding and deep tree-lined path, singing softly. The graceful bamboos and green trees are pleasing to the eye and lingering over you. Unknowingly, he had been transferred to Houchanyuan. That neat and elegant Zen room, with bright windows and clear windows, is simple and solemn, with a profound sense of Zen. I also saw that the beautiful trees and flowers here are lush and beautiful, and the fragrance is rich and refreshing, refreshing and refreshing. Looking around, the mountains are beautiful, the aura is floating, all things are prosperous, and the feathered birds are singing freely; standing on a clear pool, the clear water is trickling, and the ripples are rippling. You can see that the sky, the earth and your own figure are all clear and clear in the water. Everything makes the birds and people feel at ease, as if all the vulgar distractions in the world have been washed away. The natural world is so quiet. In the trance, only the sound of the bells and chimes echoed in the entire mountain temple. The lingering sound lingered and dispersed thousands of miles away, giving people a refined state of emptiness and tranquility.
This poem was written by Chang Jian, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. It describes the unique quiet scenery of the Zen Temple behind Poshan Temple and the poet's special feelings in this scenery. It looks like a landscape travelogue describing landscapes, but in fact, the most important thing is that it reveals a strong Zen tendency. The poem abandons the traditional line drawing technique, advances layer by layer, and gradually achieves success in the ordinary, until the mind is purified and the soul is converted. The first couplet "Enter the ancient temple in the early morning, the first sun shines on the high forest" breaks the topic directly, points out the time and place, and depicts a common natural scenery. Although there is nothing surprising and it is probably easy to pick up, it has a different purpose: to attract readers to wonder. Explore the emotion of victory and pave the way for the following. The mandibular couplet, "A winding path leads to a secluded place, and the Zen room is deep with flowers and trees", is a famous line that has been sung through the ages. The main line of the whole poem should be the neck couplet "The light of the mountain pleases the nature of the birds, and the shadow of the pond empties the human heart." The natural interest of this line and the joy of the human heart are integrated into one, creating a harmonious and perfect symphony. Wang Anshi's famous sentence "The spring breeze turns green on the south bank of the river" has always been praised by people because of the good use of the word "green".
The usage of the words "joy" and "empty" in these two poems is the same as the word "green". They are both adjectives used as verbs, and the words "yue" and "empty" contain Buddhist thoughts. Therefore, the beauty of these two sentences is even greater than that of Wang Anshi. As for the last couplet "Everything is silent here, but the sound of bells and chimes remains", there seems to be a contradiction, because since all the sounds in nature have been silenced, where can the sound of bells and chimes come from? Even so, when we understand the first few lines of the poem, we can see that the poet has long been washed away from the worldly dust, his heart is empty and joyful, and he has completely escaped into the embrace of the quiet and beautiful world of the perfect unity of nature and Zen. Here, the illusion of "everything is silent" will naturally occur. Moreover, the sound of bells and chimes makes the silent Zen courtyard even more emptier. It makes this solemn world more solemn, and it makes a moment become eternity. There is a poem that goes: "The noisy cicada forest is more quiet, and the bird singing mountain is more secluded." It can be said that the two have the same purpose but different tunes! In short, this poem is coherent and coherent, without the suspicion of piling up words and phrases.
2. Analysis:
Chinese landscape poetry has been quite mature by the Tang Dynasty. Literati often have some sustenance when writing such poems, and they like to combine landscapes with Buddhism and Taoism. To bond together and get some solace from it, some catharsis. "Inscribed on Poshan Temple Houchanyuan" is one of the best works. The words "temple" and "forest" in the first two sentences of this poem have a Zen meaning, but they are not far-reaching. Only when the poet leads a winding path and enters the back Zen courtyard, he gets the wonderful line "The mountain light is pleasing to the birds, and the pond is beautiful." The shadow empties the human heart", which can push Zen to a profound state. Most of the landscape poems of the prosperous Tang Dynasty sing about seclusion and leisurely mood, but each has its own unique style and achievements. Chang Jian's poem is about enlightenment while traveling. It has the popular sentiment of the landscape poetry of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but its style is elegant and clear. In terms of art, it is different from Wang Wei's sublime and Meng Haoran's plainness. It is indeed unique. Unique.