-Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
Building a house is under human conditions,
There is no noise of horses and chariots.
Ask what you can do,
The heart is far from being self-centered.
Under the hedge of picking chrysanthemums,
See Nanshan leisurely.
The mountains are getting better every day,
Birds live in harmony.
There is a real meaning in this,
I forgot what I wanted to say.
This is the sixth of the twenty songs in Drinking. The main purpose of poetry is to show the poet's thinking process of understanding the "true meaning" by using the theory of "forgetting the image with pride" in Wei and Jin metaphysics, which is full of rational interest. However, it is not a boring philosophical deduction. The poem writes about carefree feelings and beautiful distant scenery. In the realm of scene blending, there is a philosophy that everything is in its place and entrusted for life. This philosophy is refined and condensed by the poet into epigrams such as "the heart is far away from oneself" and "the truth is inside", which gives readers rational enlightenment and makes the rhyme of the whole poem more beautiful and profound.
In the Song Dynasty, Zhu said: "Although the figures in Jin and Song Dynasties are still lofty, they all want official positions. Here, they speak freely, and there, they demand rights and goods. Can Tao Yuanming really have it? This is higher than the figures in the Jin and Song Dynasties. " This poem is a sculpture of different spiritual characteristics of this poem. Unlike ordinary hermits, he flaunts that he was born outside the dust, but "building a house is based on human feelings"; He is in a "human environment", but he can achieve "no car and no horse" and not dye worldly things. What is the reason? The poet said meaningfully: "The heart is far from self-centered". Peace of mind, peace of mind If you don't seek fame and fortune, even if you live in a downtown area, it's like living in a deep mountain. This profound truth is plain and touching by the poet. Poetry skillfully uses symbolism. "The bird is tired of flying, but it knows it is back." The birds coming back in the evening photos are in harmony with the people who see the mountains leisurely, as if they all found their homes in this quiet mountain forest.
Tao Yuanming's Drinking has 20 poems. This group of poems was not written after drinking, but the poet's dissatisfaction with reality and love for rural life on the topic of drinking, in order to escape persecution through drunkenness in a very sinister environment at that time. In the twentieth "Drinking", he wrote that "it is more fallacious to hate, so be lenient", which shows his good intentions. This is the fifth one. This poem is based on emotion and melts into the scenery, writing the carefree mood of the poet after retiring to the countryside.
The artistic conception of this poem can be divided into two layers, and the first four sentences are one layer. The poet's mood after getting rid of secular troubles shows his thoughts and feelings of despising officialdom and not colluding with the rulers. The last six sentences are on the first floor, which describes the beautiful night scene of Nanshan and the infinite fun that poets get from it. It shows the poet's true feelings and noble personality of loving rural life.
Evaluation "Building a house is under human conditions, but there are no horses and chariots"
Although the poet lives in a dirty world, he is not troubled by the secular world. The noise of horses and chariots is a portrayal of all kinds of ugliness in officialdom, such as fighting with each other and trying to get an official position. However, Tao Yuanming's "building a house" is not a very distant place. How can he not hear the sound of horses and chariots? The poet seems to understand the reader's psychology very well, so he used a rhetorical question "Ask what you can do" and then replied "I am far from my heart". As long as you stay away from the noise of those dignitaries, other aspects will naturally not entangle with them. These four sentences contain incisive philosophy of life, telling us that people's spiritual world can be self-purified. Under certain conditions, as long as we give full play to our subjective initiative, we can change the influence of the objective environment on ourselves and find the joy of life everywhere. The word "far" reflects the poet's spiritual world, extraordinary and free from vulgarity, and has no thoughts of fame and fortune.
Evaluation of "Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan"
This is a famous sentence that has been handed down for thousands of years. Because of the spiritual realm of "my heart is far away from myself", I will leisurely pick chrysanthemums under the east fence and look up at the mountains. It is so complacent, so different! These two sentences set off the poet's leisurely mood with the description of objective scenery. The word "carefree" is used beautifully, indicating that what the poet saw and felt was not intended to seek, but met unexpectedly. Su Dongpo was full of praise for these two sentences: "The second time I picked chrysanthemums, I happened to see the mountains. I didn't mean it at first, but I enjoyed it." The word "see" is also used strangely, and "see" happens by accident. The beautiful scenery of Nanshan just set off the carefree mood when picking chrysanthemums, and synthesized the "land without me" I forgot. If you use the word "hope", you will have Nanshan in your mind before you look at it. As a result, you will lose your naive interest in forgetting the plane. What is the beauty of Nanshan, which makes poets admire it so much? Then there is "the weather is getting better every day, and the birds are coming back", which is also the scenery that the poet inadvertently saw. In the beautiful evening scenery of Nanshan, birds fly back to the mountain together, and everything is free and adaptive, just like a poet who got rid of the shackles of officialdom and was carefree, and the poet realized the true meaning of nature and life here. "That makes sense. I forgot what I wanted to say." What did the poet realize from the birds of nature, Nanshan, sunset and autumn chrysanthemum? Is it a natural law that everything moves in its place? Is it a yearning for an ideal society of simple self-sufficiency in ancient times? Is letting nature take its course a philosophy of life? Is it a straightforward and sincere character? The poet didn't express it clearly, but asked questions implicitly for readers to think about, while he "wanted to identify himself and forget his words." If combined with the previous "building a house is human, but there are no horses and chariots", then "true meaning" can be understood as the real meaning of life, that is, life should not be squandered on fame and fortune, and should not be defiled by the filth of officialdom, but should return to nature and appreciate its infinite freshness and vitality! Of course, this "true meaning" has a great connotation, and the author has not said it all, and there is no need to say it. These two philosophical summaries give readers endless imagination and are memorable.
The whole poem is written in plain and simple language, and the form and content are highly unified. Whether it is writing about the beautiful scenery of Nanshan in the evening, expressing the leisure of seclusion, telling the fun of rural life, or telling the true meaning of life, it is full of fun. For example, "Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan" and "The mountains are getting better every day, and the birds are coming back every day", and the famous sentences that combine scenery, emotion and reason are self-evident as "What can I ask you?" Sentences such as "My heart is far away from self-prejudice" and "I have forgotten what I want to say" are plain, simple and natural, but they also have profound meaning, lofty, meaningful, chewy and endless truth and interest.