(A) Poetry is like a picture scroll, beautiful.
Su Shi once said, "Poetry is like painting in charm, and painting is like poetry in charm" (Dongpo Zhi Lin). Wang Wei is versatile. He brought the essence of painting into the world of poetry and painted vivid works for us with spiritual language and beautiful brushwork. His landscape poems are about colors, such as "An egret flies over a quiet wetland, and a mango bird sings in a tree in midsummer" ("My Wangchuan House after a long rain"), "The grass is green in the rain, and the water is burning in peach blossoms." ("Wangchuan Bie Ye") "White water is outside the field, and Bifeng is behind the mountain" ("New Sunny Wild Hope")
Wang Wei's landscape poems pay attention to structural pictures, which make them rich in levels, from far to near, and even both dynamic and static, with good sound and more dynamic and musical beauty, such as "songs contain sound in the wind, flowers reflect the pool" ("Lin Yuan is a matter of mourning for his younger brother") and "trees touch the sky from a thousand valleys, and cuckoos crow on a thousand peaks". After a night in Shan Yu, hundreds of silky waterfalls will appear on every mountain top. "(Bao Zizhou made Li)" Where people live, it is like a wave in the far sky. " (Looking at the Han River) "Autumn grass rings, cicadas in the mountains are sad. (Working in the mountains in early autumn) Another example is autumn insects in the mountains: an empty mountain after the rain, standing in the autumn evening. The bright moon shed clear light from the cracks and cleared the fountain on the rocks. The bamboo forest is sonorous, the washerwoman returns, and the lotus leaves are swaying to get on the canoe. Spring spring might as well give it a rest, and the autumn sun can stay on the hills for a long time. There are close-ups of distant views, looking up and looking down, cool colors and warm colors, and voices and sounds, which fully integrate the beauty of painting, music and poetry. Wang Shanshui's poems are characterized by quiet humanity. Ruzhulou: I am leaning alone in the dense bamboo, playing the pipa and humming a song. The voice is too low, and no one can hear me except my partner Mingyue. The quiet bamboo forest and the bright moonlight made the poet furious, screaming in the sky and depressed. But there are so many thoughts, only the bright moon knows each other.
The remoteness of verve is the soul of painting in Wang Wei's poems. Chai Lu said: "There seems to be no one on the empty mountain, but I think I heard a voice. The sun entered a forest and shone on me from the green moss." In the poem, the author deliberately describes that he was alone in an empty mountain and deep forest, and saw a beam of oblique rays of the sunset shining through the gap in the forest and sprinkled on the moss in the forest. The poet captured the most fascinating moment in the vast and complex natural scenery, and painted a quiet and peaceful picture with simple pen and ink, which was far-reaching and fascinating.
(2) Scenes blend together, just like nature itself.
Wang Wei's landscape poems are picturesque, and many of them are full of affection. Many of Wang Wei's landscape poems are full of strong local flavor and life interest, showing his leisurely life and quiet state of mind. For example, the sixth sentence of "Seven Pastoral Songs" says: "Peach red, willow green is more smoky. The flowers fell at home, but the maids didn't sweep them, and the Ti Ying Shanke still slept. " My message to Pei Di from my cabin in Wangchuan said, "The mountain is cold and blue now, and the autumn water has been flowing all day. At the door of my thatched cottage, leaning on my cane, I listened to the cicadas singing in the evening breeze. Sunset lingers at the ferry, and the smoke from supper rises from the house. Oh, when will I make a wish to the great hermit again and sing a wild poem under five willows? Express your feelings of diluting idleness in the beautiful scenery and rich pastoral atmosphere. Another example is a farmhouse by the Wei River: "The sun shines obliquely in the countryside, and cattle and sheep go home along the path. A rugged old man in a thatched door leaned against a cane and thought about his son, the shepherd boy. There are whistling pheasants? Full ears of wheat, sleeping silkworms and peeled mulberry leaves. Jojo and Fu Tian greet each other cordially. No wonder I yearn for a simple life, and I am surprised to be' micro'. " Write from the details, capture the typical plot and express infinite affection.
Wang Wei's love writing also talks about the separation of lovesickness and the care and comfort between friends. In the poem "Qi Shang Farewell Zhao", I wrote: Laugh when we meet, and cry when we send each other. My grandfather confessed that I was already sad to leave, and I was more worried about the city. In the cold season, the distant mountains are clear and bright, and at dusk, the river inverts. Untie the rope. Go away and watch you. I'm still standing for a long time. Rich and affectionate, come to the front.
In Wang Wei's poems, scenery is used to express feelings, and scenery is used to set off feelings, which makes his scenery memorable and lyrical. For example, "Lin sent Li to pick up the skeleton": "What is Chuanyuan when sending Lin?" Birds are still flying and pedestrians are still walking in the sunset. "Write love without words, just copy the scenery." Send Yang Changshi to Zhou Guo: "Birds travel thousands of miles and apes crow at twelve o'clock. "It is not only a landscape language, but also a sentimental name. It combines the desolate scenery of the road with the sadness of travelers, which is natural and implicit and memorable.
In Wang Wei's poems, many people express their feelings directly, which often appears natural and smooth, with implicit meanings. Such as "Send Yuan 20 An Xi": Weicheng is rainy and dusty, and the guest house is green and willow. Sincerely advise friends to drink a glass of wine, and it is difficult to meet their loved ones when they go out to Yang Guan in the west. Care and consideration are beyond words.
The beauty of Wang Wei's love writing lies in his simple and popular description of the real scene, which contains deep and graceful feelings. One of his "Acacia", with a small red bean, is a classic of "Acacia".
Wang Wei writes about love with many metaphors. Such as "Two Miscellaneous Poems": I live by the river, with my door facing my mouth. There are often boats from the south of the Yangtze River that send portraits of Wang Wei.
Not at home. You have just come from our hometown, and we must understand the world. When you passed my window, did the plum blossom bloom its first cold flower? . I have seen cold plum hair and heard birds singing. Looking forward to the spring grass, I am afraid of my previous life. The whole article does not have the word "acacia", which seems handy, but in fact, every sentence is profound. With the metaphor of "cold plum" and "spring grass", the feeling of lovesickness is vividly on the paper.
(3) Poetry permeates Zen and is elegant and ethereal.
On the contrary, many of Wang Wei's poems are cold and quiet, far from the world, full of Zen, and the artistic conception of mountains and rivers has gone beyond the ordinary plain natural aesthetics and entered a religious realm, which is the inevitable embodiment of Wang Wei's Buddhist cultivation. Wang Wei lived in an era when Buddhism flourished. Scholar-officials learning Buddhism is very popular. Several times of political dissatisfaction and seclusion in his life made Wang Wei concentrate on studying Buddhism in order to despise fame and fortune and get rid of his troubles.
Some poems can be traced back, such as Crossing Ji Xiang Temple: I don't know the way to Jixiang Temple, but I wander under the mountains and clouds for miles. In the evening, come to the empty pool and meditate quietly to suppress the dragon. "Some poems are ethereal, without Zen, but also with Zen. Like a gazelle, there is no trace. For example, I will walk until the river blocks my way, then sit down and look at the rising clouds. One day, I met an old woodcutter, laughing and never coming back (I was in the seclusion of Zhongnanshan), and the wind blew my belt, and my pipa was as bright as the mountains and the moon. You ask me good or bad luck? Listen, there is a fisherman singing on the lake! (Answer to Deputy Governor Yin Zhang) It is full of Zen machines that are close to nature, body, materialization and fate. Another example: there seems to be no one on the empty mountain, but I think I heard a voice. Sunlight enters the grove and reflects to me from the green moss (Chai Lu); The hibiscus flowers at the end of the wood are full of red calyx, and flowers bloom and fall one after another. (Wu Xinyi); People are idle, osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and empty. When the moon comes out, the birds are startled, and the sound enters the spring stream. Everything is silent, illusory and impermanent, with no purpose, no consciousness, no joy of life, no sorrow of death, but everything is immortal and eternal, as Hu Yinglin's poems and Yao's Tang poetry "Expression" commented: "Reading makes people forget their life experiences, and all thoughts are silent, which does not mean that they are rhythmic. "
The influence of later generations
Wang Wei's landscape poems are mostly written in the later period. Compared with his predecessors, he expanded the content of this kind of poetry and added its artistic style, which made the achievements of landscape poetry reach an unprecedented height. This is his outstanding contribution to China's classical poetry. Among them, the pastoral poems describing rural scenery and farm life are full of pastoral sentiment, showing his leisurely interest and calm and comfortable state of mind. Such as farmhouses on the Wei River and pastoral songs in spring. More works focus on the picturesque scenery of the countryside, "New Sunny Wild Hope": "The new sunny Yuan Ye is vast and has no atmosphere. There are no idle people on the farm and the home is in the south. " Autumn Night in the Deep Mountains describes the beautiful scenery of the mountain village when it rains at dusk. Those landscape poems in Wang's poems that depict the beauty of natural tranquility have high aesthetic value. Such as "Qingxi": I once drove the river of yellow flowers and chased Qingxi water first. 10,000 laps over the mountains. On a journey of less than thirty miles. The rapids buzzed on the piled rocks, but the light dimmed among the dense pine trees. There is no water in the water, and weeds are flourishing on the shore. Deep down in my heart, I have always been pure, Qingchuan Dansuo. Oh, stay on a wide flat rock and cast the fishing line forever! .
Throughout, the heart shines on the water, the heart is lined with the water, and things and I blend, which embodies an inherent pursuit of beauty. While some pastoral poems focus on rendering ethereal artistic conception and lonely feelings. For example, "Zhu" and "Zhu" are both weak points, aiming at quietness and interest. This will undoubtedly have a certain negative impact on later landscape poems. Wang Wei is brilliant, and the infiltration of different arts has had a far-reaching impact on his poems. He put painting into poetry, which made his landscape poems poetic.
The language of Wang's poems is implicit, fresh and lively, with varied sentence patterns and rhythms, loud and harmonious phonology and musical beauty. In a word, Wang Wei's landscape poems have a far-reaching influence on later generations, both in subject matter and artistic style.