A note for an absent person by Tang Jiadao.
Meaning 1 The pine tree asked the boy, where is the master? He said that Master had gone to collect herbs, which was in the mountains, but there were white clouds all around. I don't know where he is.
I went to visit a hermit and met a boy under a pine tree and asked his teacher. He said that the old teacher had gone out to collect medicine. It's in this mountain, but the clouds are deep and the forest is dense. I have no idea where it is. This poem adopts the form of self-help question and answer, which is simple and close to spoken English. Although not directly writing about hermits, hermits are reclusive.
I asked your student under a pine tree, and the child said that Mr. Wang had gone up the mountain to collect medicine. I only know that he is in this mountain, which is foggy, but I don't know where he is. The original poem describes a hermit's carefree life away from the secular world. The poem is full of meditation and has the interest of quiet beauty. "But, through these clouds, how do I know which corner of the mountain it is facing?" It is the favorite poem of those who seek seclusion and success. If you ask for directions and know that someone is somewhere, but you can't find it, you can also use these two poems to describe it.
Whole poem
A note for the absent.
[Tang] Jia Dao
When I asked your students under a pine tree, "my teacher," he replied, "went to pick herbs."
However, through these clouds, how can I know which corner of the mountain it is facing? .
Note 1 Male: underage. The Book of Songs Feng Wei Crane: "The branch of Crane is admired by teenagers."
Appreciation of the whole poem 1
Write poems about the special life style of hermits; A short poem with rich connotation and distinct structure.
The title of Encounter is actually a literary arrangement of Encounter, which has no title, so it is impossible to promote a way of life far from the world of mortals, but it is meaningless to meet someone. In classical poetry, life written in the form of "deep cloud", "in the cloud" and "outside the cloud" mostly expresses a theme: being far away from the secular, being free and casual. From the "hermit" in the poem, we can analyze the author's subconscious outlook on life. The author is a man who has become a monk, but he has been persuaded by Han Yu to return to the secular world, but he has not stood out in the world of mortals and is still struggling in his career. His subconscious will yearn for the empty world and be interested in the people there, which is his value orientation. The hermit in the poem has a boy, either cultivating immortals or seeking immortals. It is said that "collecting herbs" is the need of cultivation, not the people who collect herbs to sell, otherwise how can they live in seclusion? Therefore, the theme of the poem is to appreciate the life of seeking immortality through monasticism and express contempt for secular life.
The structure of this poem is very distinctive. There are only four sentences, but the capacity is very large. It is the basic structure of poetry to be composed entirely of question-and-answer sentences, and the complex and profound connotation is expressed in simple question-and-answer sentences. Omitting the author's deletion, leaving a lot of blanks for readers to fill in, which is also a prominent feature of its structure. "I" asked the boy under the pine tree, and the question was omitted. There should be at least a few words for boys, which is in line with communication in daily life, but readers can make up these words. After the boy said "Master went to collect herbs", there must be something like "I" asking "Where to collect herbs", and then the boy's answer, that is, the last two sentences, but the author of the question "I" was also omitted. The last two sentences are of course the essence of poetry. The seemingly ordinary answer is actually a literary description. These two sentences are beautiful. First, the scene is good, the clouds are lingering, including heaven and earth, which are boundless and virtual; Second, the image of a hermit is admirable; Thirdly, the theme of poetry is implicit; The fourth is the beauty of language, which seems clear, but it is pure and refined.
Appreciation of whole poems II
Although this poem has only twenty crosses, it is full of scenes.
The beauty of this poem is that it contains feelings and doubts. The poet looked for a hermit, but he didn't meet him. Only his disciples were there. So he asked the boy, "Where is your master?" The boy replied, "Master went to collect medicine." The poet asked again, "Where did he go to collect medicine?" The boy replied, "I went to this mountain to collect medicine." The poet asked again, "Can you help me find it?" The boy looked reluctant: "There are mountains and clouds, how do I know where he is?" This series of questions, just four sentences, make the melancholy and helpless scene left by an absent ecluse surface.
This poem has been deliberated and pondered repeatedly. He not only wrote the scene of Panasonic's question and answer, the scenery of dense trees in the mountains, but also wrote the recluse character, which can also be appreciated outside the poem.
Creation background
This poem was written by Jia Dao, a monk in the middle Tang Dynasty, when he visited a hermit in the mountains. Who is the hermit? Some people think it's Jia Dao's mountain friend Sun Xia. It is difficult to verify the specific creation time of this poem.
Brief introduction of the author
Jia Dao (779 ~ 843) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word wave fairy is wave fairy. John young (now Zhuoxian County, Hebei Province) was born. At the beginning, he became a monk with no name and surname. Later, he returned to nature and repeatedly cited scholars. He used to be the main book of the Yangtze River (now Pengxi, Sichuan) and was called Jia Changjiang. His poems like to write desolate and lonely places, with many bitter words. Be good at five laws, pay attention to words and sentences, and work hard. With the same name as Meng Jiao, it is known as the "thin suburban island". There is the Yangtze River Collection.