The Original of Travel Notes in the Country and Appreciation of Wang Yucheng

Yucheng Wang

The horse crossed the chrysanthemum and crossed the mountain road, leaving the horse to walk freely.

Listen to the sound of thousands of valleys at night and watch some peaks silent in the sunset.

The leaves of huanghuali are as red as rouge, and the fragrance of buckwheat flowers is as white as snow.

To my dismay, the village bridge is like my hometown!

Wang Yucheng was a pioneer of political reformists in the Northern Song Dynasty. During the period of Emperor Taizong and Emperor Zhenzong, he advocated political reform many times. "Sharpen one's knife, plan to build a flag of speaking frankly" is famous for speaking frankly and daring to remonstrate. But "the straight road is difficult to enter, and there are many officials." Wang Yucheng was demoted for three times because of the jealousy of those in power. I was demoted to Shangzhou for the first time, Chuzhou for the second time and Huangzhou for the third time. In September of the second year of Chunhua (99 1), Nidaoan of Luzhou falsely accused Xu Xuan, and Wang Yucheng was dismissed and demoted to Shangzhou Yingyong. Shangzhou, a county in Shaanxi today, was a desolate and barren mountainous area near the northwest border at that time. It was dry all the year round and Jing Ke was depressed. Ying Yong's deputy envoy is responsible for awarding officials, and he is not allowed to sign books and business. He came from humble origins and lived in poverty. Wang Yucheng has ten acres of land in Dianyuan, Shangzhou, and grows his own vegetables. But he fell in love with the poems of Du Fu and Bai Juyi during his first exile. Taste the cloud: "To live in exile, read more poems of Bai Gong." There is also a poem that says, "Let's be the last with Lotte, and dare to be the first with beauty." He wrote many poems in Shangzhou, and his poetic style has also changed greatly. The village line chosen here was made in Shangzhou in August of the third year of Chunhua (992).

Wang Yucheng's Agriculture in the World (Song History). He worked in the country mill with his father since childhood and is very familiar with rural life. This poem describes the scenery he found when he lived in Shangzhou and wandered freely in the mountains, and shows his deep feelings of loving rural scenery and missing the countryside. But if we only regard it as a poem about scenery, it may be omitted. In fact, apart from three or four sentences describing the scenery, the most noteworthy thing about this poem is that it truly describes the subtle psychological changes in the process of people's transformation from "wildness" to "homesickness". At first, this process of psychological transformation was unconscious, hidden and hazy, but in the end it was clear and obvious, and the poet himself was strongly aware of it. In the first two sentences of this poem, he said that he believed in Mashan, regardless of the distance, which aroused his interest in Shan Ye. Trusting horses is to let them go at will, but not aimlessly, but deeply attracted by Shan Ye's rich autumn scenery. This kind of wild interest leads to believing in horses, and believing in horses is accompanied by wild interest, and the interest is getting stronger and stronger. The author's attitude is carefree, and he is completely immersed in the pleasant autumn atmosphere around him along the way. He can't help but "forget the distance of the road" like the fisherman in Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden. The two couplets in the middle, that is, the mountains and rivers and village scenery seen along the way in the village trip, have aroused the author's endless wild interest. Couples, write sunset in the mountains, autumn sounds everywhere. The noisy and quiet realm of the dusk of the mountains and the sunset glow of several peaks complement each other, showing the calmness, profundity and broadness of the earth and the whole nature. To refer to the natural sound between heaven and earth. Zhuangzi's Theory of Everything says that there are three kinds of sounds: nature, earth and human voice. Wanhe itself is silent. Before sunset, the wind rises on the mountain, blowing rocks and vegetation, forming the sound of evening. This kind of twilight, which began in the four fields and spread to the void, is a common sight of Zhongshan savage in the twilight. In this regard, the previous sentence "thousands of valleys" is vertical and horizontal, and the next sentence "several peaks" is abrupt. The contrast between the two has a sense of picture and three-dimensional sense. "Sound" and "silence" refer to the existence of each other; "Including Sunset" and "Sunset" have both movements, and the contrast between light and shade makes the picture inject or add melody, which makes each other interesting. At the same time, the word "contain" is sound and invisible, the word "stand" is thin and towering, and the language is also skillful. Therefore, this pair of sentences has always been praised. This poem is a couplet about mountains and valleys, with a broad realm. Couplets are translated into field scenery and successful farming. Li Tang and Duli are deciduous trees with red leaves in first frost. Buckwheat has white flowers, so flowers bloom like snow. Five or six sentences are red and white seen in the fields of the village, which will become more and more conspicuous in the twilight, showing colorful autumn suburbs, and Qiu Cheng can look forward to it. These six sentences are full of the author's wild interest, and the whole tone is relaxed and happy, without touching homesickness. But the last two sentences of the poem took a sharp turn and suddenly "disappointed" after singing. Because when the poet vaguely felt that the common scenes in Shangzhou mountain village in autumn were so familiar and cordial, "the original trees of village bridge are my hometown", watching these "original trees of village bridge" suddenly opened his memory window. The mountain village scenery in front of us is just the reappearance of the hometown scenery. He loves the countryside and his hometown. He likes these mountains, peaks, pears, buckwheat and villages in Shangzhou. Then, the endless wild excitement suddenly turned into irresistible homesickness. The village line leads to Yewang, and Yewang turns into homesickness. The end of the sentence is the turning point of the whole poem, which makes the realm change suddenly. Originally hazy homesickness, through the trip to the countryside, suddenly enlightened, so that the poet himself clearly realized. This sudden psychological change and potential homesickness suddenly rose to the level of consciousness because of the trigger of "Village Bridge Original Tree", which can ask the author himself "What's the matter?" Understanding this change in the author's psychology adds a layer of meaning to the previous description. If you go back and reread it, the sexual taste will be different. Wang Yucheng's poem "Casting Time" said: "I still pray to repay your kindness less and return to Woshan Village to be an old farmer." It turns out that it is his ambition to retire and return to his hometown!