Modern Chen Zhihua pointed out in On Poetic Imagery: "The artistry of poetry depends on the degree of linguistic imagery." As one of the important parts of poetry art, image is undoubtedly the key to poetry, and language image as the material shell of image is undoubtedly crucial. Hugo, a famous French writer, once pointed out that "poets should choose distinctive things". Only distinctive things can give readers a deep and vivid impression and quickly and truly arouse readers' imagination and association. The moon, as a visual and sensory natural scenery, can enrich and deepen some thoughts for the shaping of images, thus explaining and realizing the deep connotation of "implication". It is precisely because of this vivid and rich language image that the moon occupies a very prominent position in China's history, culture, literature and art. In the pre-Qin period, there was a legend of "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon", and the old friends in the pre-Qin period lamented "Moonlight, Moonlight, Moonlight", and the story of "Monks knocking at the door of the moon" became a beautiful talk throughout the ages. These idioms, which come from the classics of ancient books, are full of the life feelings of ancient people in China. It's a great song that inspires the ancients to love and cherish each other. "Four or five toads and rabbits are rare on a moonlit night" (Meng Donghan arrives), and the image of the moon is the fleeting time of life, the smoke of beauty, the interpretation of life's joys and sorrows, and the boarding and bathing of love.
According to scholars' statistics, June reached a new development peak in the Tang Dynasty. Among the 1059 poems written by Li Bai, 34 1 mentions the moon, that is to say, every time Li Bai writes three poems, his brushwork must be integrated with the image of the moon. Li Bai loves the moon best, and Li Bai's death was to catch the moon in the water. "Li Bai, dressed in a palace robe, swam in the Quarry River, proud and complacent, with no one around, and died because he was drunk and caught the moon in the water." (Tang Dingbao's words of exhortation) Although later generations have verified that this statement is not credible, there is no doubt that Li Bai is a great moonlight poet, but the moon is clearer and darker, and sometimes life is endless. Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Changling, Li Shangyin, Meng Haoran ... often hold a scroll, eat and drink the bright moon, go to the window under the moon, study it carefully, or be confused, or stay, or conceive, or think, or remember, bathe in Yue Hui, take advantage of the moonlight, express the turbidity in the chest, release the sadness of heaven and earth, and experience the natural taste of nature. As a result, the moon and the poet formed a thousand-year story and a landscape, and also created an unparalleled reputation of Tang poetry. In the Tang Dynasty, the prominent position of poetry could not be separated from the inspiration, promotion and contrast of the moon.
First of all, the moon gave birth to Tang poetry to a certain extent. A large number of themes in Tang poetry are bathed in the filtration and infiltration of moonlight. Such as Lodi's Walking on the Moon, Guan Shanyue Jiangting Farewell to jathyapple, Looking at the Moon and Thinking of a Distant Place, Gulangyue, Yue Bai, asking for the moon in 1989, Solitude with the Moon, Moonlit Night, Moonlit Night Remembering Brothers, Jiang Lou Yue, Frosty Moon, Thinking of Quiet Night, etc. If there is no moon image, there will be no such poem title, the poet will lose artistic inspiration and aesthetic space for artistic creation, and he will lose the most beautiful fairy in poetry and a large number of immortal poems. For example, Zhang's Moonlit Night on the Spring River, Li Bai's Thoughts on Quiet Night, Drinking Poison to Quench Thirst, a night-mooring near maple bridge, Old Love in the River Building, Du Fu's Moonlit Night and other famous works in the history of China literature have never been published.
Secondly, judging from the content of poetry, the moon has become an indispensable part of Tang poetry. In the process of pursuing the artistic conception of Tang poetry, Yue realized the profound connotation of "meaning". The moon in the artistic conception structure of Tang poetry is extensive and diverse. The moon images in Tang poetry mainly include the following:
First, the front image of the moon. Dana said, "What nature provides is more beautiful than what is artificially created" (philosophy of art). The unique aesthetic environment of the moon in literary works is incomparable to the artificially created environment. Marx pointed out that "how an object becomes his object for him depends on the nature of the object and the nature of the essential power that adapts to it" because it is the stipulation of this relationship that forms a special way to affirm reality. "The uniqueness of each essential force" is just "the unique essence of this essential force, and therefore its unique objectification method." (Complete Works of Marx and Engels). There are inherent constraints among frontier fortress, bright moon and Guan, which form an inseparable organism, so the creation of frontier fortress poems is often inseparable from the shaping of bright moon and Guan. There are "Guan Shanyue" and "Interpretation of Yuefu Ancient Poems" in Yuefu Poems: "Regret for the Past." Anyway, it is the poet's usual method to make people homesick and miss their wives and the moon as sustenance. As early as before the Tang Dynasty, ancient poets were full of worries about "closing the mountain in March and May, visiting Qinchuan" (Guan Shanyue by Xu Ling), "jathyapple closing the mountain is bright, and the autumn scenery shines on the lonely city" (Wang Bao), and "Who can sit on the fragrant moon if you can't cross the mountain" (Joining the Army by Lu Sidao), and Tang poetry is not willing to lag behind. In Tang poetry, there are sobs about "the moon at the dragon's head is near the pass, and pedestrians play the flute at night" (Song of the Dragon's Head by Wang Wei), and there are mournful and lonely stories about "The moon hangs in the sky and the night is lonely" (Five Back Poems by Du Fu), and there are "The girl and I are here to watch the melancholy moon, and then we are China warriors" (Shen Quan's third) There is the vastness of "the bright moon closed in the Qin Dynasty, but the Long March people didn't return" (Wang Changling's "Out of the Great Wall"), the boldness of Gao Shi's "Let the horse go on a snowy day, and the strong flute guard the building in the moonlight" (Li Bai's "Listening to the flute on the Great Wall"), the elegance of Li Bai's "The bright moon rises from Tianshan Mountain in the boundless haze of the sea of clouds" (Guan Shanyue) and the boldness of Wang Changling. As a language image, the moon embellishes the environment into a vast and tragic frontier fortress style, and also transforms the frontier fortress, a unique geographical and physical space, into an artistic psychological space.
The bright moon can exist in isolation across time and space. The moon is a kind of sustenance and fantasy for recruiters who guard the frontier and treat women in boudoir. They are willing to follow the lonely moon and shine on their loved ones. The poet freely created the space beauty of the moon and frontier fortress with this complex, represented by in my heart forever by Shen Ruyun:
It is difficult to send books to geese, and it is also difficult to dream. May the lonely moon shine on Fu Bo camp.
Here, the poet described the thoughtful thoughts of thoughtful women and poured out his hidden hatred for anyone. Thinking women "can't sleep because of sadness, wandering around in clothes" ("When is the bright moon"). In the process of "wandering alone outside the house" (ditto), she looked up and saw only a lonely moon hanging in the sky. "I don't know each other at this time, and I would like to take care of you every month" (Zhang's "Moonlit Night on the Spring River"), so the idea of "I would like to take care of the camp with the lonely moon" naturally came into being. The poet's great feeling of the space beauty of the moon and frontier fortress is very prominent.
The moon is material, spatial and cultural. From the infiltration and nourishment of the moon water, the poet encountered a huge and far-reaching sense of space in the unique landscape and hit it off! What is the poet's wish to follow the lonely moon? It is the spotless frontier fortress space consciousness caressing and soothing the moonlight.
Second, the time image of the moon. The moon rises and sets, and the moon is full and short. Moonlight is passing away, and the passing of moonlight unfolds in the time of life, so moonlight is still life and time. The ancients often used the image of the moon to lament the passage of life and years. Li Yu said, "When are the spring flowers and the autumn moon? How much do you know about the past? The small building was easterly again last night, so the old country could not bear to look back at the moonlight "("Yu Meiren "). In Li Yu's eyes, the past is like a dream, and he can only make sad memories in the moonlight. " The tragedy of his tortuous fate is fully displayed in the time flow of Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon. Not only Li Yu and Du Mu's Two Runzhou Poems (Part I) also say:
Generally, the Southern Dynasties were broad-minded, and the poor Eastern Jin Dynasty was the most romantic. Yue Ming wants to wash clothes here, and when he hears it, he blows out his worries.
Whether it is the broad-mindedness of the literati in the Southern Dynasties or the romance of the famous places in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they are just passers-by in a hurry on the historical stage. Poets think of the ancients from the moon, and the ancients reflect reality. Rich imagination connects people hundreds of years later, and makes history and reality, modern people and the ancients, the scenery in front of them and the events in their hearts integrate in time and space. Since moonlight is alive, it is connected with time consciousness through life consciousness. When will Li Bai from The Moon in the Sky come? Stop for a drink, ask "Today", and explore the philosophy of life that "today's people don't see Gu Yue, but this month's life was like the ancients", thus sending out the feeling of life that "today's people look at the bright moon so much". Who first saw the moon in Chunjiang? When was the photo taken at the beginning of Jiangyue? "The question leads to the sadness that" life is endless from generation to generation, and Jiang Yue is only similar year after year ". Jiang Yue is heartless, while water is heartless. In the helplessness of "I don't know who Jiang Yue treats, but I see the Yangtze River delivering water", the poets have to be awed. In essence, it is the suppression and imprisonment of talents by feudal autocratic society, and their lofty aspirations, lofty sentiments and intelligence are also helplessly dispelled in the passing of the moonlight in history: "Today, only Xijiang Moon has shone on people in hades" (Li Bai's Visit to the Ancient Tai Su), and their lives and ambitions are often drowned and wasted in the passing of "moonlight like water". "Huai Shuidong old moon, late at night, over the female wall." "Old Moon" caused the poet to sigh and cherish the memory of history. Here, the moon once again leads to eternal and profound cosmic consciousness.
Third, the melancholy image of the moon. In Tang poetry, the moon is still emotional. In nature, the moon's surplus and cloud's deficit, the moon's surplus and deficiency are isomorphic with the perfection and deficiency. When talking about the artistic conception of poetry, Liang Qichao said, "On the moonlit night, there is a banquet, a song and dance, a half-open embroidered curtain and hand in hand, which is even more enjoyable." Thinking of women is more sad, sitting alone at the scene, promoting weaving and singing the wall, and maple leaves circling the boat. Therefore, the moon described by poets is often associated with emotions of emotions. Although Ren Wei's Cao Pi wrote a poem "The bright moon shines on my bed, and the stars and rivers flow westward until the night is still young" in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and Xie Lingyun also wrote a sad poem "The bright moon shines on the snow, and the north wind is strong and sad", there is still great anti-war in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang poetry, besides the famous "On a cold night, Jiang Feng sleeps with fishing fire", there is also the sadness and loneliness of "A leaf on both sides of the strait, I sail alone on the moon" (Meng Haoran's "From Tonglu to Yangzhou"). The profound meaning of Wang Jian's "I don't know who will fall in Qiu Si tonight"; Bai Juyi "* * * should cry at the sight of the moon, for the heart, in five places, all sick with the same wish" Meng Meng shed tears; Qian Qi's "Twenty-five strings played on a moonlit night, grievances can't be settled but fly" is unsightly ... Among the poets in the Tang Dynasty, the moon, as a melancholy image, is cleverly conceived. Rich in imagination, ethereal brushwork, lyrical and indirect, full of interest, it has gained immortal artistic life and vague artistic atmosphere.
Fourth, the love image of the moon. The moon is emotional, with the entanglement of willow branches on the moon, the sadness in the moonlight and the loneliness of tall buildings under the moon. When love reaches the depths, the moon is naturally associated with love. Although "nothing in life is more than affection" and "nothing is more than affection", the moon is still the best place to express affection and love: Xie Zhuang's Moon is a Thousand Miles away (Yuefu); Meng Jiao's "Thinking Only after Parting, and heaven remains our neighbourhood" ("The past is not resentful"), Zhang Jiuling's "The moon is now full of the sea, and the end of the world is * * *" ("Looking at the moon and thinking about a distance"). Deep affection, into "I wish people a long time, a thousand miles * * * good wishes." Moon loves Zen and bears witness to love. No matter Li Taibai who is free and easy, Li Yishan who is affectionate, or Shaoling who suffers from depression, they can't refuse the witness of moonlight, and under the gentle caress of moonlight, they can restore people's true colors. At that time, the loss of a poet, the passion of a gifted scholar, and the worries of a poet were all presented in the spotless moonlight ... listening to the whereabouts and heart sounds of love. In the emotional world of love, the feelings and expectations of the Tang people are magnificent and ethereal, and their love is also very hot and strong. The infatuation in The West Chamber is urgent, the emptiness of "I woke up, and the moonlight shone" is lonely, and the infatuation of "The moon sets and the stars are sparse and the sky is high, and it is difficult to dream without a lonely lamp" is deep. The vast sky under the bright moonlight is still the inducement and huge space for lovesickness. After parting, "I don't know each other at this time, and I hope the moon shines on you", and the feelings caused by moonlight haunt the melancholy and confusion of love. "The moss and mangroves under the steps are clear, and the rain is thin in the middle of the month" (Li Shangyin's Final Residence); On a moonlit night, it's stormy and rainy, and lovers are "in the sky". When the "Hongyan flies too far and the fish and dragons dive into the water", it's time to add more sadness! As a result, the boundless sorrow for the moon has become an endless time and space for acacia: "Upstairs wants to rest at dusk, and the jade ladder crosses the moon like a hook" (Li Shangyin's "Two Gifts (I)"), and the moon makes acacia, and Li Shangyin keeps talking for a thousand times and ten thousand times. Of course, the moon water of time may kill and dilute love. "Where are the people who come to see the moon together? The scenery is vaguely like last year "(Zhao Shu's" Feeling Old in the Tower on the River "). Where can I find the beautiful image under the moon again? That is, if you call it back, I'm afraid it won't be the feeling at that time. The good dream has gone, the past is like smoke, and the old traces left in the air are floating in the lost sky of love. If this is the case, in the eyes of the dead lover in Iraq, there is only the desolate and desolate landscape of "he stared at the desolate moon from the temporary palace, and he heard the bell in the late rain, cutting his chest" (Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow). Love, against the sad moonlight and heartbroken bells, is even more sad. "Where the Iraqis are, the smoke is vast." "What do you think?" Therefore, we have to grieve for "endless hatred". At this moment, under the gentle touch of moonlight, all the love elegies floating in the sky are beautiful through the ages!