[Yuan] Ma Zhiyuan
Old vines are faint crows, small bridges are flowing, and old roads are thin horses. When the sun sets, heartbroken people are at the end of the world.
At dusk, a group of crows landed on an old tree with withered vines and made a piercing cry. Under the small bridge, the running water tinkled, and a thin horse on the ancient road struggled against the west wind. The sunset gradually lost its luster and set from the west. On a cold night, only lonely travelers wander in the distance.
This poem is very short, and there are only five sentences and twenty-eight words in a poem. There is no word "autumn" in the whole poem, but it depicts a bleak and moving picture of the suburbs in autumn, which accurately conveys the miserable mood of travelers. This successful song, known as the father of Qiu Si, embodies the artistic features of China's classical poems in many ways.
Expressing emotion with scenery and containing feelings in scenery constitute a bleak and miserable artistic conception in the blending of scenery and feelings. The first four sentences of this poem are all about scenery, and these scenery words are sentimental words. Words such as "withered", "old", "faint" and "thin" make the rich autumn colors contain infinite sadness and bitterness. And the last sentence "heartbroken people are at the end of the world", as a curved eye, is even more wonderful, which makes the scenery described in the first four sentences become the environment for people's activities and the fuse for heartbroken people at the end of the world. The scenery on the song is not only what Ma Zhiyuan saw during his trip, but also what he saw in his eyes. But at the same time, it is its emotional carrier and an inner thing. The whole song is full of emotion and scenery, which constitutes a touching artistic realm.