Zhang Ruoxu, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty, was a pioneer in the history of Tang poetry. His poem "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" is known as "a single poem that dominates the entire Tang Dynasty". Zhang Ruoxu, whose given name and nickname are both ominous, was mainly active from the mid-seventh century AD to the early eighth century AD. He was from Yangzhou and served as a military officer in Yanzhou. His other deeds are unknown. As a poet in the early Tang Dynasty, Zhang Ruoxu, He Zhizhang, Zhang Xu, and Bao Rong were known as the "Four Scholars of Wuzhong".
Although Zhang Ruoxu was well-known at the time, his collection of poems and essays has not been handed down. Now there are only two poems handed down, one is "Moonlight Night on the Spring River" and the other is "Dai Dai". Answering a Girlfriend's Dream".
From the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, "Moonlight Night on the Spring River" was almost not taken seriously by others. More than a thousand years later, Zhang Ruoxu's masterpiece gradually became known. Since his poems were anthologized by Li Panlong during the Ming Dynasty, his poems have often appeared in many poetry anthologies.
"Moonlight Night on the Spring River" follows the theme of Yuefu in the Chen and Sui Dynasties to create, expressing the poet's touching feelings of leaving home and philosophical insights on life. The language of the poems is beautiful and moving, and the melody is beautiful. It is euphemistic and long, completely different from the excessive packaging of court poetry.
The poem "Spring River with Flowers and Moonlight Night" describes spring, rivers, flowers, moon, night and various related scenery. The moon is the theme, and the scenes contain philosophy and deep feelings, forming a hazy atmosphere. , a profound and wonderful artistic realm, which makes people endlessly explore and have endless fun. "Moonlight Night on the Spring River" surpasses all previous landscape poems, philosophical poems, and love poems. "Who by the river sees the moon for the first time, and the moon over the river shines on people at the first time. Life is endless from generation to generation, but the moon over the river is only similar every year." It reveals the eternity of the universe. There is neither longing nor sadness, but only a smile, and this smile The implication of is almost unknowable.
Zhang Ruoxu's "Spring River with Flowers and Moonlight Night" is like a wisp of spring breeze, standing out among the gorgeous palace-style poems, and preparing for the glorious bloom of Tang poetry later! Mr. Wen Yiduo gave a very high evaluation and praised it as "the poem among poems, the pinnacle of the pinnacle".
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