Appreciation of Gu Kuang's poem "Mountain Farmhouse"

# Appreciation of Poetry # Introduction Gu Kuang's six-character quatrains are simple, light and natural, and write out the authentic qualities of farmers. Let's learn about this poem together. Welcome to read it!

Mountain farmhouse

Banqiao people cross the spring, and Mao Yan crows at noon.

Chen Mo bakes tea with black smoke, but he likes to bask in the sun in the valley.

The first two sentences are two independent and closely connected pictures. The previous picture, The Sound of Banqiao People Crossing Springs, depicts a Banqiao near a mountain farmer's home. Under the bridge, gurgling mountain springs flow. On the footbridge, everything you see and hear is clear and jingling. "The sound of people crossing the spring" seems unreasonable, but it does express the unique feeling of people crossing the slab bridge filled with the sound of spring. There is a picture in the poem. This picture is a sound painting that seems to hear the sound of spring. This sentence describes the environment near the farmhouse, and the word "Guo" is dark. The "man" in The Traveler is actually the poet himself, but when he writes it, it looks like he is painting himself, and the lyrical subject seems to be integrated into the object and become a part of the scenery.

In the last picture, the second sentence, "The crow crows in the morning under the Mao eaves", says "Go to Shan Nong". The humble house in Mao Yan is the true nature of "mountain people"; The crow at noon seems to break the silence of the mountain village, but it also reveals the unique leisure and tranquility of the farmers in the mountain village. In the warm sunshine, the eaves were quiet, except for a few long crows. This conveys the unique flavor of a mountain farmer who is far away from the hubbub and the whole family is working. "There are no idle people on the farm, and housework is in the south" (Wang Wei's "New Sunny Wild Hope"). Here, I wrote about the silence of the rooster in the afternoon, just to counter the busyness behind the silence. In terms of expression, this sentence is mainly dynamic contrast; From the implication of the content, it is busy with superficial idleness. So in a few words, the brush strokes will naturally receive Shan Nong's works.

Further Reading: A Brief Introduction to Gu Kuang's Life

Gu Kuang was a scholar in the second year of Zhide (757). From the second year of Jianzhong (78 1) to Zhenyuan (786), when Han Kun was the secretariat of Runzhou and the naval minister of Zhou Zhen, he was called the shogunate judge. In the third year of Zhenyuan, he was recommended by Li Bi, and was able to enter the DPRK as a supplement. In the fifth year of Zhenyuan, Li Bi died of illness and was demoted to Raozhou to join the army in March and April this year. The reasons for his demotion are said to be "arrogance destroyed the imperial court" (Li Zhao's Supplement to the History of the Tang Dynasty) and "disobedience and exclusion by the public" (Huang Fushi's Preface to Gu Kuang's Poems). When I was demoted to Suzhou, I sang poems with Wei. Zhenyuan left Raozhou for ten years and settled in Maoshan in his later years. In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan, Huangfushi met him in Yangzhou (Preface to Gu Kuang's Poems). In the sixth year of Dali (77 1), I worked as a salt supervisor in Yongjia, and once wrote "Xianyou", describing that Li Ting in the upper reaches of Feiyun River was looking for mountains to cut down trees, lost his way, and sacrificed water at first sight. There are more than 300 farms, springs, bamboo, fruits and bridges here.

Gu Kuang's birth and death dates from the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725) to the 9th year of Yuanhe (8 14), but according to the textual research of Dong Ti, Huang and Gu in Qing Dynasty, the novel was not written by Gu Kuang. Textual research on Gu Kuang's Preface to Sending Li Ya to Push Eight Lang to the East shows that Gu Kuang was still alive about 50 years after he ascended the throne in 757, that is, around 806. According to the latest research by Jiang Yin and Zhao Changping, Gu Kuang was still alive until the last years of Yuanhe.

Extended reading: the characteristics of Gu Kuang's poems

Gu Kuang said in the preface to Elegy that poetry is "the way of chaos, the ambition of Wang Hua, the king of prosperity". I believe that there is no escape from vocal education. Is it a talented person in American literature? " Emphasize the ideological nature of poetry and pay attention to enlightenment. He once imitated the Book of Songs as Thirteen Instructions on How to Make Up for Death in the Ancient Times, and also imitated the preface of the Book of Songs, taking the first sentence of the poem as the topic to show the theme. For example, I'm sorry for Fujian and I'm complaining about extravagance, which pioneered Bai Juyi's "New Yuefu" with the first sentence indicating its purpose. His Yuefu poems are sharp and reflect the reality directly. Chapter 13 of the old adage is his masterpiece, among which Yao is the best. In the Tang dynasty, officials in central Fujian often used young children as eunuchs, and the crimes of harming the people were revealed in the poems, which made people feel sad.

In Gu Kuang's seven-character poems "Gong Zi Xing" and "Three Difficult Poems", the extravagant life of aristocratic children is exposed and the foolish behavior of feudal emperors in pursuing immortality is satirized, which has important practical significance. Another example is "Li Sacrifices Heaven to Play Ziou Song", Nu Play Pipa Music, and Li Huzhou Confucian Play ". Through rich and vivid metaphors and the rendering of environmental atmosphere, the description of music is quite excellent. These poems are rich in imagination, unique in artistic conception and rich in colors, which are the inspiration for Li He's later songs. Huangfushi's Preface to Gu Kuang's Poems says that he is "inclined to long sentences, vigorous and vigorous, and often takes the moon by surprise, which is unexpected and unusual". At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the poet and monk Guan Xiu wrote a poem "Reading Gu Kuang's Songs", which was full of praise for his seven-character quatrains.

Gu Kuang has four wonders, fresh and natural. For example, Su satirized Xuanzong's quest for immortality. Poems on the Garden and Poems on the Palace describe the sadness of the ladies-in-waiting being imprisoned in the palace. Zhuzhiqu is a book that studies Jiangnan folk songs.