Chai Lu
Don? Wang Wei
No one can be seen in the silent valley, only the voice is heard.
The shadow of the sunset shone into the depths of the forest, and the scenery on the moss was pleasant.
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The first sentence first describes the empty mountain positively, focusing on the empty mountain and cold mountain. After that, the second sentence comes out, using local and temporary "sound" to set off the whole and long-term emptiness. The third and fourth sentences describe empty mountains and then deep forests, from sound to color.
The poem depicts the quiet scenery of the empty mountains and deep forests near Chai Lu in the evening, which combines dynamic and static, fresh and natural, and has far-reaching artistic conception.
"There seems to be no one on the empty mountain, but I think I heard a voice." As soon as the poet wrote, the empty mountain was desolate, inaccessible and silent, but then someone sounded and suddenly heard the sound of the empty valley, which broke the stagnant silence. But it is precisely because of this noise that this silence is more profound and thorough, and after the speech, this silence will be more lengthy and lonely in this valley.
"The sunshine there enters a small forest and reflects light from the moss." The two poets put aside their voices and turned to describe colors and light. The afterglow of the sunset, through layers of dense barriers, shines directly into the depths of the forest and shines on the moss in the dark. At this time, the sky is dark, and all kinds of scenery are multi-toned, and the contrast between light and shade is very bright. Nearby are gradually elongated shadows cast on the ground, and the depths of the jungle are very quiet because of darkness. Therefore, in this case, a bright sunset glow quietly comes, which must be very eye-catching. This light passes through thousands of waters in Qian Shan and comes to the most secluded place. It seems to be the last ray of light in this deep forest belt, and it is so long and vicissitudes. At the same time, "moss" is the representative of darkness, while "returning to the scene" is the symbol of light. They are all common things in nature, one yin and one yang, which are wonderful and have deep Zen meaning. Notes on Tang Poetry: "The scenery is full of affection, and the feelings are full of affection. It is really a sacred place to think about."
Further reading: Wang Wei's frontier fortress military poems
In Wang Wei's works, the themes of the army and frontier life are "joining the army", "going west in Gansu", "the branch of Yan", "hunting and watching", "making the frontier" and "writing the frontier", which are magnificent and domineering. "The Song of the Dragon's Head" and "The Journey of the Old General" express the sadness that the generals are not rewarded for their meritorious service, and reflect one aspect of the internal contradictions of the feudal ruling class. "Hunting" vividly describes the hunting scene. Yimen sang the chivalrous spirit of historical figures. The four poems in A Boy's Journey show chivalry, boldness, vivid images and smooth brushwork. These works are generally believed to have been written by Wang Wei in his early years.
There are also some poems, such as Fu on Four Sages, Fu on Allegory, Fu on Unfortunate Encounter, etc., which were written when eunuchs relegated to Jeju. The fifth of Six Chances, Zhao Nv Yan Ya, expressed indignation at the unreasonable phenomenon that the rich nobles dominated the official career and the talented people were frustrated, and reflected some dark sides of feudal politics in Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods.
Luoyang Galand Ji, Xi Shi Yong and Zhuliguan express their feelings and satire on the dignitaries through comparison. Women's sufferings are described in Mrs Xi and Ban Jieyu. They are sad and have certain social significance.
Some lyric poems that give gifts to relatives and friends and describe daily life, such as farewell, friends, I watched you go down the mountain, sent Li to pick up the bones at Lingaotai, sent Yuan Er to Anxi, sent Shen Zifu to Hedong, and went up to the mountain for vacation to miss Shandong brothers, lovesickness, miscellaneous poems and you from the old country, which have been told by the population for thousands of years. "Send Yuan 20 An Xi" and "Acacia" were broadcast as music at that time and were widely sung. These poems are all five-character quatrains or seven-character quatrains, with sincere feelings, beautiful and natural language and simple and profound beauty, which can be compared with Li Bai and Wang Changling and represent the achievements of quatrains in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Extended reading: Wang Wei's influence
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, Zhuliguan and Wu Xinyi are all weak, and they are designed to be quiet and interesting. 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.