There were poems in the early years, which were modern short poems, such as Trees in Winter, Woodpecker and Journey. Later, they seemed to be interrupted and moved to other places.
In fact, his favorite form of poetry is classical poetry, that is, quatrains, metrical poems and lines. Reading his prose collection, it is not difficult to find this feature.
Wang Lao's old-style poems can be roughly divided into three categories: travel notes, paintings and self-evaluation poems.
Probably Wang Lao didn't mean to say poetry. Almost all his poems have no titles, but they are naturally interspersed in the middle of writing, so he only introduces the background when quoting. Let's appreciate them one by one:
First, travel poems
Let me first introduce the four-line poem in "Find Me for Fifty Years". Time to write a poem? Yes 1987. At that time, Wang was going to Yunnan, and the excitement of revisiting his old place was beyond words. So the night before he left, he wrote three poems that were the same as before. This is one of them:
I haven't been back for a long time, and there are no such good lakes and mountains in my hometown.
Long beach is full of willows. You've been looking for me for fifty years.
Wang Lao has been in Kunming, Yunnan for seven years, and he knows a lot about Yunnan's human feelings and scenery. He has been moved by admiration, hasn't he? The plan to make this home is to return to Yunnan after 40 years, which must be deeply touched.
This is Kunming Cuihu Park that Wang Lao likes very much.
In essays such as Rain in Kunming and Flowers and Muxianghua, Wang Lao wrote a poem with beautiful artistic conception:
There are few laymen in the lotus pond, and the moss mark in the wild shop is one inch deep.
A cup of turbid wine after noon, fragrant flowers and wet rain.
According to the writing background of this poem, I privately drafted a topic, that is, "Walking with Sid in the lotus pond after the rain and seeing the Muxianghua in the pub yard". I wonder if Wang Lao will be satisfied after seeing it?
This is Muxianghua. I haven't seen it before. Really, if there is, I will like it very much.
1982 In March, Wang Lao traveled to Sichuan and visited Du Fu Caotang, Susan Temple and Sheng 'an Temple. Among them, visit Susan Temple? There is also Sheng 'an Temple, a poem left by Wang Lao. These two poems? They are all beautifully written, summing up the life experience of the previous generation of talents and writing them out? Admiration and nostalgia for them.
On that day, the family had five acres, which is still important.
The old wells in Hong Lan are still worthy of attention. How many plants has Dan Li replanted?
If you want to visit Susan Temple, will you? What season would you choose? Look at the two pictures below and make a choice!
Gui Hu Laogui grows new branches, and the lake rises to the old temple.
Who likes romance? The champion wrote lyrics and songs, and committed poems.
Sheng 'an Temple, located near Gui Hu, the new capital of Sichuan, is a ancestral temple built by later generations to commemorate Yang Shen, a talented person in Ming Dynasty.
If you go to Sheng 'an Temple, you can visit the historic sites while humming "Rolling East of the Yangtze River", and there must be a feeling of traveling through time and space.
Let's share another miscellaneous poem, Snow Water Song in Tianchi, which comes from the prose "Tianshan Scenery" and was written by Wang Lao after his trip to Xinjiang in September. 1982. In the text? Praise the beauty and magnificent scenery of Tianchi Lake? At present, the sentence is not enough to express its surprise, so it is pinned on poetry, so this poem came into being. This poem is long, but it is easy to understand.
The moon shines on the Tianshan Mountains, and the snow peaks are light blue.
Spring is warm and snowy, and water flows into deep valleys to become Tianchi.
Tianchi water is like peacock green, and the water is densely covered with pine trees.
Sometimes the snow mountain reflects, and the snow mountain reflects like jade.
Snow in Tianchi falls from the mountain, laughing and singing.
Mountains and rivers, like blue agate, spray flowers.
The snow flows long elms, and the wind blows the poplar green torch.
There are people where the snow flows, and dahlias are red and white.
Where the snow flows, the wheat is ripe and the mutton bakes new noodles.
At the northern foot of the snow stream, the descendants of Changyi gather.
How deep is the snow in Tianchi? These reserves are suitable for a year's rain.
I have been to the Gobi Desert from Yanshan to Tianshan.
Wan Li will never regret coming to the west. He will drink a glass of water from Tianchi.
Actually, there are many more. For example, when he was traveling in Suoxiyu, Hunan, he wrote poems about visiting Huanglong Cave and Baofeng Lake, going to Yunnan to attend the Water-splashing Festival, drinking tea and singing bamboo in Xiangxing Peach Blossom Garden, drinking tea and eating delicious food in Kunming, and so on.
Second, painting poems.
Copy a poem that Wang Lao painted peony for Zhang Kangkang, and take it as an example:
Show him Zhu. The road is always straight and oblique.
Seeing the loneliness of Luoyang Spring, the peony refused to open.
Third, self-evaluation poetry
There are several such poems, which one is the most representative? This song, right? China Writer sealed the self-evaluation poems of Wang Lao's paintings collected in the second edition.
I have an advantage. I've never been complete in my life.
I write very hard and the world is warm.
Sometimes I have good luck, stretch the paper and draw a fragrant spring.
Grass flowers follow the eyes, fish and birds are slightly true.
It's better to be vulgar than new.
You can only be self-indulgent, but you are reluctant to give it to you.
If you are happy, bring a bottle.
Isn't the image of a quiet and modest scholar who loves poetry and painting a vivid picture of Wang Lao's own life? In particular, the phrase "send a little warmth to the world" expresses his old man's life ideal.
How worthy of our love is such an amiable and respectable old man!
Wang's old-style poetry skills come from his own experience. His grandfather, Wang Jiaxun, painted tribute in the Qing Dynasty and wrote a good eight-part essay. When he was a child, Wang Zengqi laid a good foundation of ancient Chinese under the cultivation of his grandfather, and then studied Tongcheng School articles with his father's friends. All these efforts for his future? Writing poetry has a great influence.
Long-term accumulation, environmental impact, a poetic heart? That's what I did. You and I, the younger generation, should be encouraged in time. Time will not stay for anyone!