The original poem is as follows:
My heart is as strong as a stone,
Blue stars are like spring.
With a charming face and rosy face,
Lips are dark red and even.
Mother has small eyebrows,
Chanan Dieyun.
If you stand among the flowers,
Bees are wrong, very serious.
It can be said that there are many excellent poems in The Journey to the West.
Throughout this masterpiece, his poems can be roughly divided into four categories: landscape poems, human poems, war poems and Buddha poems:
1. Write landscape poems
As an illusory story, its poems are less bound by reality than ordinary landscape poems.
For example, the description of heaven:
Golden light rolls red neon, auspicious gas sprays purple fog.
I saw the worse gate, blue and heavy, made of glass;
Bright and beautiful, Baoyu is dressed up.
This poem vividly depicts a heaven that does not exist, as if there really is a heaven.
Step 2 write poetry
As a novel, The Journey to the West's description of characters is very important. Wu Cheng'en not only portrayed many vivid and profound characters through the plot of the story, but also used a lot of poems to describe it.
For example, on the way to the Western Heaven, the immortals tried to test the sincerity of the four masters and disciples to worship Buddha and learn from the scriptures, and became four beautiful women. Wu Cheng'en made a detailed description of these four people here:
Enchanting national color, gentle and graceful heart.
The bud is so charming that the embroidered ribbon floats in the dust.
Cherry blossoms are half smiling, and blue musk deer spray when walking slowly.
Full of pearls, shaking countless treasures;
The whole body is fragrant, delicate and delicate.
What do you think of Chuva's beauty and charming face?
Because it is "national color", it is "touching".
3. Syrian poetry
In this book, many descriptions of battle scenes are also expressed in poetry.
For example, the battle between the Monkey King and Qi Mu is described as follows: Although a stick is different from iron, soldiers are different from soldiers.
Mud iron bars are hammered, and six ding and six Jia are magical;
The best sticks are Tianhe Ding, Zhenhai Shenzhen Manahong. When two real rivals meet, there are endless solutions.
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One is the Great Sage and the other is Long Yuan. Then the weapons are introduced: one is a mud iron bar, and the other is a wishful bar. Then the description of the war is helpful to supplement the description in realistic novels.
4. Inherit Buddhist poetry
Wu Cheng'en was also keen on fame when he was young, but he never got what he wanted. It was not until he was forty-five years old that he was admitted to Gong Sheng, who was one year old. This also made him feel a little tired of the world and tried to seek liberation from Buddhism and Taoism. Therefore, in his poems, there is a kind of tranquility and peace of Buddhism everywhere.
For example:
The sky in Wan Li is pale and glowing, and the crows don't return to their nests until late. The city is brightly lit and quiet, which is the time for Zen monks. The description of the environment is sad and quiet, which conforms to the origin of Buddhism and makes people calm.