1. The main contents of Meng Haoran's pastoral poems:
Meng Haoran is a representative writer of the pastoral school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and he is also the first poet who created a large number of pastoral poems in the Tang Dynasty. Most of his poems are landscape poems, or he writes about the scenery he saw in various places during his travels, or about the natural scenery of his hometown. Among them, lonely feelings are often mixed with frustration, and homesickness is integrated into the entertainment of the scenery. Such as Sleeping at Jiande, A Gift from Dongting Lake to Prime Minister Zhang, Homesickness on the River, etc. His pastoral poems mainly show the elegant feelings of seclusion and leisure. Such as "Passing the Old Village" and "Wandering and Thinking Back to Wang Baiyun".
2. The artistic features of Meng Haoran's pastoral poems;
(1) The style of Meng Haoran's pastoral poems is mostly peaceful and diluted, fresh and natural, not yet carved, but also extraordinary and refined. Shenqing Deqian commented: "Meng's poems are superior to others. Every time I don't want to find a job, Qing transcends customs and is unexpected. " Wen Yiduo said, "It's too light to read poetry. It's really Meng Haoran's poem." (Essays on Tang Poetry) However, some of Meng Haoran's landscape poems are magnificent and broad-minded, such as Presenting Zhang, Prime Minister of Dongting Lake, and Watching the Tide with Yan Gantang. Therefore, Hu Zhenheng of the Ming Dynasty said that he was "strong but easy to be sparse" (Tang Yingui Yin Qianpu). His pastoral poems are simple and natural, simple and pure, and full of life. For example, the natural scenery of simple living, a farmer, and the countryside in Passing Old People's Village are very natural and friendly in the faint pen and ink, and are deeply influenced by Tao Yuanming's poetic style.
(2) Meng Haoran's poems are light and rich in flavor, just as Shen Deqian said: "Xiangyang's poems get the Tao from quietness, so the language is light and the taste is not light." His poems are good at using plain language, integrating personal subjective feelings and emotional implications, creating Qingyuan's artistic realm, which contains strong emotional charm. For example, the language in "Spring Dawn" is very plain and natural, and in the bright spring, it reveals the feelings of hurting spring. Another example is "Sleeping in Jiande River", which smears the lonely mood of "worrying about guests" in the scenery of the sunset boat and the wild Qingjiang River. The language is plain and poetic, and the realm is good but not fake.
Second, Wang Wei
1. The main contents of Wang Wei's pastoral poems
Wang Wei is a representative writer of the pastoral poetry school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He is versatile and proficient in painting, calligraphy and music. In his early years, Wang Wei aspired to fame and fortune, and wrote many poems with heroic style, open realm and lofty sentiments, most of which were poems with the theme of frontier ranger, such as Youth Travel, Old Man Travel, Dragon Head Song, Frontier Ambassador and so on. However, in the history of Tang poetry, it is the pastoral poetry that lays its position and best marks its artistic achievements. The main content of his poems is to reflect pastoral seclusion and describe natural landscape. For example, Farmer Weishui, Autumn Night in the Deep Mountain, Zhongnanshan, Bird's Singing Stream, Chai Lu, Zhuliguan, Wu Xinyi, etc. Or write about the quiet and leisurely life in the countryside, or write about the quiet and beautiful natural scenery.
2. The artistic features of Wang Wei's pastoral poems
(1) Wang Wei's pastoral poetry is a highly unified poem and painting. Su Shi once commented: "There are fascinating paintings in poetry and poems in paintings." (Dongpo Zhi Lin) He is good at discovering and capturing the image characteristics and state of natural scenery, composing and selecting colors with the painter's painting skills, blending the poet's unique emotional experience, aesthetic feeling and spiritual realm of nature into the scenery, and creating a quiet, indifferent and elegant artistic realm.
(2) Some of Wang Wei's pastoral poems directly penetrate into the artistic realm of meditation and emptiness, which is the artistic embodiment of Zen and Zen interest in the poetic realm.
(3) Wang Wei's pastoral poems have both the natural artistic realm of Tao Yuanming's poems and the meticulous carving of Xie Lingyun's poems. The language is fresh, lively and clean, which is the perfect combination of simplicity and elegance. And language has a strong artistic expression.