Zhang Hu
Why is high expensive?
I might as well be virtuous.
Although Meng Tong has kept this festival,
Xiangyang belongs to Haoran.
Appreciation of Zhang Hu's Poetry
"Chu Shi" is a name for those who are not officials or officials. Today, they are called Mr. XXX. "Meng" refers to Meng Haoran, who has no fame in his life. He only worked as a doorman in Jingzhou, Zhang Jiuling, and later died in Buyi. From Li Taibai to Wen Yiduo, he thought that he was not an official mainly because of his inner truth; But judging from Meng Haoran's poems and deeds, I'm afraid not. Because even in the Tang Dynasty, when writers and artists were highly respected, it was still the main outlet for intellectuals, and it was still a great humiliation and regret to die in rags all his life. Wei Zhuang asked Li He, Jia Dao and others to posthumously award titles to comfort the dead, which can prove this point. Knowing this, we have to pay attention to this quatrain written by the poet Zhang Hu.
"Why is it expensive to be a high-level talent? You might as well be a sage. " The first sentence says that a person's talent has nothing to do with his position, and the second sentence says that a person's virtue has nothing to do with his position. The truth of the two sentences is very abstract and not original. Reminds people of Zuo Si's Noble Handsome. Because of the terrain, the origin is not once. However, when the word "might as well" came out, it turned grievances into pride and turned out new ideas.
But the key to the success of these two sentences lies in the concrete implementation of "Meng", which is more convincing. "Poetry is poor and backward" can be explained from a dialectical point of view, just like a person who can be a big official is "born of sorrow". For Meng Haoran, who later became a recluse poet successfully, it is not only "why expensive" and "might as well be virtuous", it is not "expensive" at all, it is simply a great help to his "virtue". If you have a lofty and generous Meng Haoran, you will inevitably lose a poet Meng Haoran diluted by standards; The world would rather have the latter Meng Haoran than the former Meng Haoran.
"Although it is a festival held in Meng Jian, Xiangyang belongs to Haoran." In the last two sentences, the poet carried out Meng, another great man in Xiangyang, for comparison, and the idea was ingenious. This man is Meng Jian. In the thirteenth year of Yuanhe, he was appointed as our ambassador, presided over by Shannan, and was the secretariat of Xiangzhou. He comes from a well-known family, has a successful career, and is rumored in Tang Shi, so he is a prominent figure. But compared with Meng Haoran, he is a poor poet. In the eyes of the Tang people, a talented' poet' can arouse the admiration of more than a dozen senior officials, and even be regarded as a spiritual leader (please pay attention to verbal honorifics such as' son of the poet' and' son of the poet').
As an honor, only excellent poets can get it by borrowing a place name (place of origin or place of governance). The "laurel" poets include Meng Xiangyang, Wang Jiangning, Cenjiazhou, ... Xiangyang belongs to Meng Haoran and only to Meng Haoran. Therefore, although Meng Jian can be a parent in Xiangyang and write poems, he can never be regarded as a "Xiangyang person".
Meng, with the same surname, is a poet, but there are coincidences and misfortunes, and there are differences between official history and unofficial history. Judging from the value concept of "official standard", Haoran is not as clean as Meng Jian; However, judging from its contribution to the spiritual wealth of the world, how can Meng Jian compare with Haoran? The last two sentences are not only ingenious, but also profound.
"Qu Ping's Ci Fu hangs the sun and the moon, and the king of Chu is empty."
Intellectuals in Tang Dynasty had their own unconventional values. This is reflected in Li Bai's poems and Zhang Hu's short poems.
In the long river of human history, it is often not those high-ranking officials and powerful people who remain immortal, but those outstanding poets and artists. This poem illustrates this truth.