Portrait of Xie Lingyun
Xie Lingyun is a famous poet in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and a descendant of Xie Xuan, a famous Eastern Jin Dynasty poet. When he was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he inherited the title of Patriarch. Later, he held many important positions. After Liu Songjin, Xie Lingyun also suffered. First his title was cut, and then he was killed by Song Wendi at that time. He is only 49 years old. Although Xie Lingyun died early, his style of being indifferent to fame and wealth and indulging in mountains and rivers still had a great influence on later generations.
Xie Lingyun was born noble. He was a famous aristocratic family at that time. He grew up in a Taoist temple in Qiantang when he was young. It is estimated that this also had a certain impact on Xie Lingyun's later calm mentality. He read widely in his early years and was able to write poems in his early years. At the age of eighteen, he attacked the palace. At the age of twenty, he officially became an official and held many official positions. However, Xie Lingyun's mind is not in the official position. In order to facilitate sightseeing, he also specially designed a detachable clogs, which can remove the front teeth when going up the mountain and the back teeth when going down the mountain, making it convenient to go up and down the mountain.
Later, Emperor Song Wudi replaced the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Xie Lingyun was even less interested in power. The court urged him to be an official several times before he was willing to go. However, after taking office, he still didn't get into the business, thinking about traveling all day. If that's the case, maybe it's ok, but when the court wanted to arrest him, he dared to resist arrest, and even later plotted to let people save themselves in exile, so Song Wendi couldn't bear it anymore and killed him.
Xie Lingyun's famous sentence
Xie Lingyun created a lot of works in his life. Although there are not many excellent poems, there are also many famous sayings. His unique style was very rare at that time. His refined words brought unique fresh interest to the poetry world where metaphysics prevailed at that time. Next, I-I will show you some classic quotes by Xie Lingyun.
Famous poet Xie Lingyun
Xie Lingyun's most famous poem in his life is "Spring grass in the long pond, willow flowers singing birds" in Climbing the pond upstairs. These two poems have been praised by countless people. At first glance, these two sentences are very common, with nothing unique, simple words and ordinary scenes, but if you look at them together in the whole poem, you can see the unique charm of these two sentences. According to poetry, Xie Lingyun was recovering from a serious illness at that time. Compared with the prosperous scenery, this relatively simple spring vitality can impress Xie Lingyun more. At that time, the poetic style was still famous for its flowery words. In that environment, such fresh sentences naturally stand out and are loved by readers.
"The moon shines on the snow, and the north wind is strong and sad." The moon was supposed to be soft and quiet, but the following sentence changed the context of this poem. In cold weather, the cold moonlight shines on the heavy snow, giving people a high and gloomy feeling. This is the visual experience, and then the auditory experience. The wind is roaring, and the word "strength" shows the fierceness and cry of the wind.
Landscape Poems by Xie Lingyun
Throughout the history of China's poetry, Xie Lingyun is an indispensable figure. He played a very important role in the development of China's landscape poems. His landscape poems integrate natural beauty into poetry, making landscape an important theme of poetry.
Portrait of Xie Lingyun
China's poetry has always been based on freehand brushwork, and rarely describes poetry with things as the theme. Before that, Tao Yuanming was a famous pastoral poet and an outstanding freehand brushwork poet. For Tao Yuanming, writing poetry is just an expression of life, so there are not so many words describing mountains and rivers in his poems, mainly based on the blending of scenes. In the hands of Xie Lingyun, landscape poetry began to take shape formally. The beauty of Sheung Shui has become the theme of poetry, and realism has become the center of the whole poem. Xie Lingyun spared no effort to the beautiful scenery, sketching out every detail and every beautiful beauty in the landscape and presenting it to the readers again.
Xie Lingyun's landscape poems were fresh and elegant, which caused a great sensation at that time. Only then did I know that writing poetry can still be like this. This new feature of "melody fading away" began to become the trend of writing poetry at that time, which influenced the poetic style of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and even had a certain impact on the prosperous Tang Dynasty. At the same time, because Xie Lingyun's poems pay more attention to the description of scenery and are independent of the poet's emotions, they can't reach the realm of blending scenes like some poems. At the same time, they also have their own styles and characteristics in structure. Generally speaking, people write about their travels first, then what they see and hear, and finally express their feelings, forming a unique pattern, which is naturally suspected of procrastination, so Xie Lingyun's poems have also been criticized.
Generally speaking, Xie Lingyun made a great contribution to the creation and prosperity of landscape poetry, making landscape poetry an independent form of poetry after the Southern Dynasties, which had a far-reaching impact on later generations.
Characteristics of Xie Lingyun's Landscape Poems
As we all know. Xie Lingyun is an important poet in the history of China. Before him, landscape appeared as an ornament of poetry, and he was the first person to create on a large scale with landscape as the theme. He used exquisite and delicate words to integrate the beauty of nature into his poems, which is an important pioneer of China's landscape poems. Here is a brief analysis of the characteristics of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems.
The scenery of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems
First of all, the Wei and Jin Dynasties were the times when metaphysics flourished, and the creation of landscape poems was also carried out in the way of metaphysics. Landscape is a prop used by poets to appreciate the interest of metaphysics, and Xie Lingyun himself has good attainments in the field of Buddhism in Laozi and Zhuangzi, so the word Buddhism and Taoism often appears in his poems. Therefore, it can be said that Xie Lingyun's landscape poems did not jump out of the shackles of the times in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and were still deeply branded with metaphysics. But it is worthy of recognition that there are few abrupt metaphysical words in his landscape poems. Basically, Hyunri is well integrated with the scenery, so it is not vague at all.
From the artistic features, Xie Lingyun is beautiful, and the simple scene presents a beautiful artistic conception through his description. Some of these artistic conceptions are exquisite and refined, some are profound and beautiful, and so on, which makes readers immersive. Later generations often mentioned when praising his landscape poems: "If clear water produces hibiscus, it is naturally lovely." It can be seen that the most important artistic feature of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems is fresh and natural, without flowery words and artificial sentences. After careful tasting, they appear more pure and natural.
Looking at many of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems, although due to the limitations of the times at that time, some of them may appear to be neglected in tailoring and inadequate in preparation, paying too much attention to the blending of Hyunri, and some of them are obscure, but their flaws are not concealed. Many of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems still occupy a place in the history of China's poetry with their beautiful and refined style.
Xie Lingyun at the end of the year
Xie Lingyun has created a large number of works in his life, including many classics, among which "Over the Years" is an outstanding poem. In this five-character poem, Xie Lingyun skillfully combines his feelings, external scenery and profound metaphysics, perfectly reproducing the state of mind and sad environment at that time.
Xie Lingyun's calligraphy at the end of the year
Xie Lingyun's life is more difficult. Although he was born well, it was in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it was not long before he was replaced by Liu Song. As a hero of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xie Lingyun naturally became the target of Liu Song's attack. According to time, this poem should come from his later life. At that time, it was not only suspected by the court, but also tolerated him, and political affairs were chaotic.
The first two sentences of the whole poem come straight to the point and express feelings. Xie Lingyun skillfully used the phrase "I can't sleep, if there are hidden worries" in the Book of Songs to lament that I can't sleep at night and feel sad. This kind of worry is not only a simple worry that you are about to get old and your life will be destroyed, but also complicated feelings in the past, unattainable demands and personnel changes.
Three or four sentences were seen by the author when he was insomnia. The bright moon shone on the snow, and the wind roared violently, just like a sad cry. This scene is just similar to the author's mood at that time, so it shows the author's inner sadness and anxiety. The last five or six sentences express the author's sad feelings about the impermanence of the world and the passage of time through the spare strength of "snow" and "north wind" This kind of life is fleeting and the years are changing.