Blossoms on a Moonlit River in Spring
Year: Tang Dynasty
Author: Zhang
Genre: Yuefu
Moonlit Night on the Spring River follows the old theme of Sui Chen Yuefu, and expresses sincere and touching feelings of parting and philosophical understanding of life. The language is fresh and beautiful and the rhythm is melodious. Completely washed away the thick powder of palace poems, giving people a clear and ethereal feeling. Later generations commented that "Zhang's Moonlit Night on the Spring River is unique to everyone because of the style of Xizhou; Li He and Shang Yin are fresh and moist; As its tributaries, Song poetry and Yuan poetry show their extraordinary lofty status and infinite far-reaching influence. In this poem, "Lian Haiping is in the spring tide, and the bright moon on the sea is born in the tide", "There is no dust over the river, and there is a solitary moon wheel in the sky", "I don't know each other at this time, and I hope to see you in China every month" and "I don't know how many people will return home every month, and the moon will shake the trees all over the river" are all beautiful sentences with delicate descriptions and scenes.
Zhang has only two poems in the whole Tang Dynasty, which is really unremarkable among the poets in the Tang Dynasty. But those who truly love Tang poetry and Song poetry must know Zhang He's famous poem "A Moonlit Night on a Spring River".
It is said that the title of "Moonlit Night on the Spring River" comes from Chen and is "heartless". However, what Chen actually wrote under this beautiful topic is unknown because his poems have been lost. Yang Di Yang Guang, a dissolute emperor, left two earliest extant poems, Moonlit Night on a Spring River, but only five or four sentences are short and empty. Chen also wrote a poem "Flowers in the Back Garden of Yushu", which is often mentioned by later generations in literary criticism together with "Moonlit Night on a Spring River". This poem still exists in the world. Although it is seven words, there are only six sentences. Besides, it's disgusting, just like Yang Di, and it's a notorious palace poem.
Palace poems are centered on the court, with eroticism as the content, red and green, piled with incense and jade, flashy, absurd, empty and boring; From Liang Chen to Sui and Tang Dynasties, he dominated the literary world for more than a hundred years, causing darkness in the poetic country and leaving countless evils. The gentry in the Southern Dynasties lived a relatively comfortable life, and they used to write five-character poems as a means to show that they were literati. If they can't write poetry, they will be despised and unable to participate in social activities. Poetry has completely become an ornament of decadent life, and Jian 'an temperament and Wei and Jin character have long since disappeared. The poetry creation in the early Tang Dynasty followed the style of writing in the Southern Dynasties, and the poet "struggled for the strangeness of rhyme, and the ingenuity of a family." Long text, not the shape of moon dew; The backlog is full of cases, but it is only the shape of the wind and cloud. "Even Li Shimin, the founding father of Britain, can't avoid customs, let alone show the boldness of vision in the poem Sunrise by Song Like Mao and Zhao Kuangyin, that is," it's not dark under the sea, and it's not dark on the ground ". "Li Shimin appreciates the literary bath of the poet Zhang Changling, but Zhang Changling and others want to take the imperial examination. Li Shimin asked why, and the examiner said that their writing was not good material, so Li Shimin acquiesced.
He, Yang Jiong, Lu and Luo entered the poetry circle at the same time, and were called the four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty. Four outstanding poets played a pioneering role in the transition from classical poetry to regular poetry. Pei Hangjian, who is both civil and military, looks down upon these four men very much, saying that if a scholar wants to make great achievements, he must first rely on knowledge, followed by literature and art. Although Wang Bo has literary talent, he is superficial and doesn't like to appreciate the materials of Juelu. Yang Jiong can probably be a magistrate of a county, and it's good that we people can die well. These comments show that the development of new poetry is difficult. The four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty paved the way for the development of new poetry. Du Fu commented on the poems of the Four Masters: "Wang Yang, his contemporaries, were frivolous and never stopped. Second, Cao's name is ruined, and he does not waste rivers and mountains. " This evaluation is not only an objective reflection of the basic attitude of the poetry circle at that time, but also an affirmation of these four excellent poems.
Under the influence of the flashy style of writing in the Six Dynasties, court officials such as Song and Yan became a group of leading figures in poetry. Lu and Wang Luobin have been circling in the aftermath of Qi Liang, while Yang Jiong died early and went to a distant place to be an official, so the achievements of the four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty were not great. Wang Bo, with the highest achievement, left us with only good poems such as "However, China has our friendship and heaven has our neighbors", and there are almost no inspiring good poems, let alone providing a model for poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Perhaps it was Zhang He and his "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" that introduced the Tang Dynasty into the era of poetry.
Mr. Wen Yiduo once spoke highly of this poem: "In front of this poem, all admiration is rap and almost blasphemy." He added, "This is a poem among poems, the peak on the peak. Looking back from here, even Liu Xiyi is a process. Needless to say, Lu and his supporting actor Luo are both from Cheng Li. " It is said that Zhang and his "Moonlit Night on the Spring River" "cooperated with another peak and cleared the way for the prosperous Tang Dynasty-Zhang's contribution is immeasurable."