The reason why "being thin in a suburban island" comes from the poetic style of Meng Jiao and Jia Dao mainly refers to the narrow pattern, poor mood and bitter spirit reflected in their poems. Both of them are decent officials who have never done anything in their lives. Meng Jiao, essentially Geng Jie, is a person who is not good at communicating with others. After taking three exams, I won a Jinshi at the age of 50 and got a poor little official position. But he usually spends his time drinking, playing the piano, making friends and writing poems, and is indifferent to government affairs. Finally, someone else took his place, went home with half his salary and lived a poor life. Therefore, his poems are becoming more and more "cold", such as: poverty and illness can be ashamed, so there is no new fur on the bed. Spring burns the skin and the meal is bitter. Tired sleep smells and strong words sound soft. Cheng Yan was caught in a trap, and his tears did not dare to flow. Silently in your heart, you will continue to worry about it. ("Disease") If you don't stop studying at night, there will be sorrow in your suffering. How not to be idle, heart and heart are enemies. It hurts to die, and you will be ashamed for many years if you are humiliated. There are no straight branches in the green laurel, and Bijiang misses the old tour. (Night is fading away) Jia Dao used to be a monk, so he is a "poetic monk". Biography of Talented Talents in the Tang Dynasty said that he "lived in Beijing for 30 years, and lost his literary field repeatedly, so he became a pagoda". Although he was so poor, he still didn't hide Jia Dao's humanity. One day, Xuanzong traveled incognito the temple where Jia Dao was located. He moved upstairs when he heard the sound of singing poems upstairs. When he saw a poem on the box, he took it out and read it. Jia Dao didn't know the emperor, so he made a sudden snatch and took it away. His expression was cold and sarcastic. Thanks to the emperor's grace, I went downstairs and left. Later, Jia Dao realized that something was wrong and was frightened. He rushed to the palace to confess his crime. This surprised the emperor. The interpretation of this story is too unreliable, but it shows the temperament of Jia Dao.
Meng Jiao and Jia Dao have lived in poverty for many years. Although they were rewarded and subsidized by Han Yu at that time, they did not get rid of the difficulties in real life. So in their poems, words like "tears", "hatred", "death", "sadness" and "bitterness" can be seen everywhere.
"Autumn wind whispers, sad people hate to leave. At the moment when he was driven away, he faced each other with tears in his eyes and wanted to say something to each other, but he cried before he opened his mouth. There are thousands of words in my heart, but at this moment, I am too sad to say them. Forget it, and heaven remains our neighbourhood. " (Meng Jiao's "Farewell the Old and Welcome the New") "Try to see my concubine and your tears, two drops of water. Look at the hibiscus, who died for this year. " (Meng Jiao's poem "Resentment") "If you don't write a poem for a day, your heart is like a waste well. Brush inkstone is pulley, chanting is slap. If the DPRK smokes heavily, it will still be clear. Books are with people, and there are many hardships between the lines. " (Jia Dao's Play for Friends) That's it. "A poet should beware of prosperity, but demons can haunt wanderers" (Du Fu), because the poet has lived in poverty for many years, it is possible to get in touch with the society, and his poems are more temperamental and artistic. Although Meng Jiao wrote such lofty sentiments as "Proud spring breeze, horseshoe disease, seeing flowers in Chang 'an one day" after he passed the examination of Jinshi, he also wrote "the thread in the hands of a loving mother, making clothes for the body of a wayward boy" and so on. Please look at his homesickness: "A sad person saw a candle at night and a hometown book burst into tears"; He wrote that the world is cold: "Abandoning it is like a knife wound"; He wrote about the emotional world like this: "Try my concubine and your tears, two drops of water"; He described the desolation of nature like this: "The cold dew dreams are broken, and the cold wind combs the bones. "."Poetry comes from the heart, from the heart. " (Su Shi's Reading Meng Dongye's Poems) This is the style of Meng Jiao. In Hanshu Hermit Poems, he said, "Meng Jiao's poems are poor and secluded, which is really bitter. From its syntax, Gree can be seen. It calls itself' singing at night, if you sing ghosts and gods. How not to be idle and be enemies with your heart. ""Although Jia Dao is not as good as Cold in the Suburb, it also has its own distinct personality. He wrote, "When I asked your students under a pine tree," he replied, "My teacher went to pick herbs." However, through these clouds, how can I know which corner of the mountain it is facing? The detached S poem once revealed that "it takes ten years to grind a sword, but the frost blade has never tried." Today, the monarch's test is full of injustice, so he is in high spirits, but his poems are mainly "bitter songs", so they are still narrow-minded. He himself described it this way: "Two words for three years, a song with two tears. If you don't appreciate your confidant, you will return to the mountain. " The most popular story about Jia Dao is the allusion of "Deliberation". It is said that he has been addicted to lettering for a long time, and one day he actually collided with Zhao Hanyu's motorcade, was photographed left and right, and pushed to Han Yu's face. "The island is real, undecided, wandering like an elephant, and I don't know how to avoid it", so I collided with an adult. It turned out that he was absorbed in thinking that "the bird stayed in the tree by the pool and the monk knocked at the door." The verb "push" in The Monk Knocks on the Moon cannot decide whether to use "push" or "knock". Han Yu is not surprised. He stopped to think for a long time before saying, "Good typing." Since then, I have made friends with Jia Dao, and I have also "taught grammar, climbed pagodas, and promoted to Jinshi." In fact, these two words can be used, but using "knock" has a kind of sound beauty, which can better set off the artistic conception in the dead of night.
Because Meng Jiao and Jia Dao usually write poems, they always think hard about their own words and sentences, coupled with the influence of the objective factors mentioned above, their poems will naturally have a "cold, thin and embarrassed" style. They are all "bitter poets" in the history of China's poetry. The difference is that Meng Jiao was the five great masters in ancient times, and Jia Dao was the first of the five laws.
According to the 752nd page of the Records of Jingxian County, Hebei Province, "Jiadao Village is more than 50 miles southwest of the county seat. There is Yungai Temple next to the village, where Jia Dao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, became a monk.