The Eternal Moon in Ancient Poems
“I hope that people will live forever and that thousands of miles will bring beauty to the moon.” At night before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sky is clear and the air is clear, and a bright moon shines on the ground. The fragrance of cinnamon is floating and intoxicating. People feel nostalgic for the moon and express their nostalgia for the moon. Reunion is the most beautiful time in the world. Under the influence of our unique national psychology and national culture, with the help of people's rich imagination, natural and human affairs, and virtual human emotions in the external images, the moon is endowed with life, emotion and spirituality. Therefore, the bright moon as The media that triggers emotions and the images that cast emotion often appear in large numbers in poetry. Looking through the poetry of past dynasties, Yongyue's works are countless and have various forms of expression.
Among these poetry works, the number of people looking at the moon and embracing people is the largest. Wang Jian of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: "The ground in the courtyard is white with crows roosting on the trees, and the cold frost silently wets the sweet-scented osmanthus. Tonight, when the moon is bright and everyone looks out, I wonder who is missing in autumn thoughts?" Du Fu's "Moonlight Night" said: "The fragrant mist clouds wet the servant girl, and the clear jade arms are cold. . When I lean on the scorpion, my tears will dry up." The two express the delicate feelings of missing relatives in a different place. Zhang Ruoxu's poem: "The curtain of the jade house cannot be rolled away, but it will come back when the clothes are smashed and brushed on the anvil." A pun expresses the longing of the missing woman vividly, but it is also subtle and tactful. Zhang Jiuling's poem: "The bright moon rises on the sea, and the end of the world is at this moment." It is a longing for friends.
On the night of the full moon, the bright moonlight affects the homesickness of many wanderers. Hometown is everyone’s starting point and also everyone’s spiritual destination. Although we are far away in the world, we still see this bright moon. It is precisely based on this reality of seeing the bright moon thousands of miles away. Therefore, poets will naturally be moved by the scene and use the bright moon in front of them as their spiritual reference and sustenance. Poet Li Bai's "Quiet Night Thoughts": "There is bright moonlight in front of my bed, I suspect it is frost on the ground. I look up at the bright moon and lower my head to think about my hometown." This poem has aroused the excitement of countless people living in foreign lands for thousands of years. The poet Du Fu's "The dew is white tonight, and the moon is the brightness of my hometown." Bai Juyi's "The mother-in-law should shed tears when looking at the bright moon. My hometown feels the same in five places overnight." Meng Haoran also said in "Su Jiande River": "Moving the boat to park the smoke In Zhuzhou, the sun is setting and the trees are low, the river is clear and the moon is close to the people. "
The cold moon is silent, which makes people sad. The clear moonlight is a natural phenomenon, and the loneliness of human beings is a psychological phenomenon. , the intertwining of the two creates the bleak effect of the cold light of the bright moon cutting people's intestines. For example, Li Bai's "Song of Love": "The sun is full of lust, and the flowers are full of smoke, and the moon is as bright as a sleepless night." Li Yu's "Crying in the Dark Night": "Speechless, I went up to the west tower alone, the moon is like a hook. The lonely phoenix trees in the deep courtyard lock the autumn." Liu Yong's "Where to Sober Up Tonight? Bank of Willows, Dawn Wind and Waning Moon" are works of this type.
There are also many poets who regard the bright moon as a very high state to think about life and the universe, and to express their noble character of purity and purity. Li Bai's "Wine to Ask the Moon" and Su Shi's "Shui Tiao Songtou: When Will the Bright Moon Come" are the most representative. The former creates the sentimental, beautiful and lofty moon, reveals the poet's unconstrained thinking, combines the overturning of human affairs and good wishes, and reveals a rich philosophy; Yu Qinggao uses the waxing and waning of the moon to express his feelings about the flow of the universe and the joys and sorrows of life. Zhang Ruoxu also has a good poem: "Whoever sees the moon for the first time by the river, and who first sees the moon on the river." The poem is ethereal and unique, and it is thought-provoking.
In terms of the sense of time and space, the bright moon can easily arouse people's nostalgia for the past, and some works have appeared that express patriotic emotions by chanting the moon. For example, Liu Yuxi's "Stone City": "The old moon on the east side of the Huai River came over the female wall late at night." It is a lament for the disappearance of the Soochow regime. Similar to Li Bai's "Now there is only the moon on the Xijiang River, which once shone in the palace of King Wu." "People" has strong emotions of past and present and tragic power.
In short, due to emotional identification, the moon naturally appears in large numbers in ancient poetry as a unique image. Exploring this literary phenomenon will help deepen our understanding of the connotation of poetic works and the personality charm of ancient literati, and will also help deepen our understanding of our rich and colorful national culture.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and it’s time for another "water on a thousand rivers and a moon on a thousand rivers".