The autumn moon is ice, and the old guest records the list.
Coody Leng's dream was shattered, and the cold wind combed his bones.
The disgusting words were printed on the table, and my intestines turned to worry.
Doubt is unfounded, and empty listening is groundless.
The phoenix tree is withered and towering, and the sound is like a funeral bomb.
Meng Jiao wrote fifteen Poems of Autumn, all written in his later years. Most of the content is to review life, analyze the world, and lament poverty, illness and loneliness, which is a true portrayal of his life and mind in his later years.
This one is the most successful in art, and one or two sentences are naturally matched, starting from the season and artistic conception, starting from the whole poem. "Old guests" refer to long-term guests. At the age of fifty-six, the poet was recommended by Yinzheng Qing Yu in Henan Province, and went to Luoyang with hope to do micro-jobs. He has written this set of poems for six or seven years. After the official career was frustrated, the family lost their children and mothers, and life became increasingly difficult, which made the poet exhausted, poor and sick, and high-spirited. The former "spring breeze" mood was already exhausted. On this night of "autumn is deep and the moon is bitter" (the ninth day of autumn), the poet can only pour out his heart to the moon alone. However, in this sad autumn festival, "old bones is afraid of the autumn moon, which has a sword" (the sixth part of Autumn Huai), the moonlight seems to be too cold. This poem is touched by "ice" moonlight, which makes people feel terrible. With the ambition of "being single", they feel even more at a loss. Three or four sentences are extremely poor. Coody Leng and Steep Wind were born of autumn. "Dripping Dream" and "Comb Bone" are from "Ambition List", with fine needle and thread. Dewdrops are silent and even dreaming, and then quail clothes are torn and sleepless at night. It is conceivable that the so-called poor people are thinner even in their dreams. Autumn wind, such as comb invasion, helpless diet, skinny, exposed ribs, can be seen. Here, the poet not only describes the feeling of being frozen and hungry on the surface as it is now, but also profoundly writes the mentality of "the old man is different from day to day, and life and death force him to worry about the country and the people" (the tenth part of Autumn Huai): it is a pity that the beautiful "dream" of his life has been completely broken, why not swallow his voice, cry bitterly, and "sort out" the past carefully. Why not frost the sword and freeze the heart? Ten words, it can be said that every word is accurate, meaning pun, profound meaning. Then, five or six sentences are extremely written about physical and mental diseases. Sick in bed, sick in bed, night sweats, and even a human figure, which is the pattern drawn by the disease on the mat. How shocking it is to write about the weakness of the sick body! I thought about it day and night, and my heart turned nine times. It turned out to be a knot. This exaggerated metaphor describes how heavy the pain of the soul is. The essence and meticulous description of poetry can be seen in poetry. Because of poverty and illness, the spirit is also sick, so that auditory hallucinations are produced out of thin air, and ghosts are suspicious for no reason. Here, the poet writes plainly, and the specific description in Autumn Huai (the fifth) can be used as a footnote: "Bamboo wind suddenly talks, boudoir eavesdropping. Ghosts and gods are full of decline, and it is difficult to separate them. " The last two sentences are natural and ingenious. On the surface, it is a supplementary description of "empty listening" and "doubtful thinking": autumn wind blows tung trees, dead leaves fly and rustle, which sounds like someone is playing a sad tune. In essence, paulownia is a good material for making piano, and poets use paulownia to describe their unfortunate experience and dry but still standing image; In the sound of "mourning", we seem to have heard the poet's life's bitter songs and lamentations, which have infinite charm.
Meng Jiao did write too many poems about poverty and illness like Autumn Huai, which showed that he was not broad-minded enough and was ridiculed as a "cold worm" and a "poet prisoner". But it also truly reflects the living conditions and depressed mood of frustrated literati in feudal society, and expresses their grievances to frustrated literati. With its novel conception, ingenious conception and amazing language, it represents the artistic pursuit of "Kuyin" poets in the middle Tang Dynasty.