Wild Hope depicts a scene of Shan Ye and autumn. Looking around, Shan Ye is full of autumn scenery, which is more and more bleak in the afterglow of the sunset. On this quiet background, shepherds and horse hunters, with idyllic pastoral atmosphere, make the whole picture active. Wang Ye is the work of Wang Ji, a poet in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties. After Wang Ji entered the Tang Dynasty, he waited for a letter from the provincial secretary, and soon resigned and returned home. In Zhenguan, I was so happy that I turned back. This poem was written when the poet resigned and lived in seclusion in Gaodong (in Hejin, Shanxi).
People who are familiar with Tang poetry may not find this poem particularly beneficial. However, if we read this poem by Song, Qi, Liang and Chen in the Southern Dynasties in the order of poetic history, we will suddenly applaud its simplicity. The poetic style of the Southern Dynasties is mostly gorgeous, like a jewel-like lady wrapped in satin. Walking out of the women's group, I suddenly met a village girl with a cloth skirt. Without makeup, there will be a special charm. Ji Wang's ambition has such a simple advantage.
The genre of this poem is five-character verse. Since Shen Yue and others applied legal knowledge to poetry creation in the first year of Qiyong in the Southern Dynasties, this new genre of legal poetry has been brewing. By the early Tang and Shen Dynasties, the regular poems of the Song Dynasty had been finalized and became an important poetic genre. Wang Ji, more than 60 years earlier than Shen and Song, can write such a mature poem as Wild Hope, which shows that he is a man who dares to try new forms. The beginning and end of this poem are lyrical, and the middle is lyrical. After the repetition of emotion-scene-emotion, the meaning of poetry has deepened. This is in line with a basic composition of metrical poetry.
establishment and reign of a kingdom
Author Wang Ji, Tang Dynasty
Looking at the dusk in Gaodong, I want to rely on it.
Trees are all autumn colors, and mountains are only sparkling.
The shepherd brought the calf back, hunted horses and brought birds back.
Care for no acquaintances, Long song pregnant with Cai Wei.
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At night, I stood in Gaodong and looked at it from a distance. I hesitated and didn't know what to do.
Layers of trees are stained with autumn colors, and many mountains are covered with the afterglow of the sunset.
The shepherd drove the cattle home, and the hunter passed me with his prey.
Everyone is relatively silent and doesn't know each other. I really want to live in seclusion in the mountains.
Brief introduction of the author
Wang Ji (585-644) was born in Longmen, Jiangzhou (now Hejin, Shanxi). Wangtong's brother. Often high in the east, the number is high in the east. Shi Sui was the minister of the province. In the early Tang Dynasty, the former official was appointed as the province. After abandoning the official and returning to China. Most of his poems are about wine, praising Ji Kang, Ruan Ji, mocking Zhou and Confucius' ethics, exposing decadent negative thoughts and expressing dissatisfaction with reality. The original set has been lost, and later generations have compiled a subset (a Wang reactive set).