Some people say that one third of China's ancient poems are written under the moon, one third in wine and one third in boats. Moonlight is the most beautiful tenderness and alcohol is the best talent. Both of them are closely related to poetry and painting, which is undoubtedly an important occasion for poetry creation. However, how can a boat have such a great charm has puzzled many people.
The ancients loved to write poems on boats. In addition to the beautiful scenery on the boat, more importantly, poets are more likely to be aroused by feelings, homesickness or emotional injuries on the boat. When he is intertwined with surface ships, he always has a different charm.
This is just a perceptual reason. Whether you are looking at flowers or enjoying snow, you can have different feelings. There are three objective reasons why so many poems related to ships can be left in ancient poetry, which I personally think are more important. Let's discuss it with you one by one.
Ancient traffic was not as developed as it is now, and high-speed rail and airplanes were extremely convenient. You can go anywhere you want at any time and resist on the same day. At that time, the waiting horses were very slow. If you want to go far away, water transport is the most common and cost-effective way to travel.
Therefore, when the ancients traveled far away, they all chose to take a boat. I went to more places and felt more along the way, and naturally left more poems. Take the poet Li Bai as an example.
Li Bai left Sichuan for Chang 'an in Beijing by boat when he was young. On the boat, he wrote "seeing friends off at Jingmen Ferry" and "The water has taken you home and painted your boat for three hundred miles", watching the mountains and water in his hometown get farther and farther away, and his young self is about to move towards a broad life.
Later, I met my intimate friend Meng Haoran in the Yellow Crane Tower and sent him to the bustling Yangzhou. Meng Haoran can only go down the Yangtze River by boat. Li Bai wrote that "the solitary sail is far away from the sky, and only the Yangtze River flows in the sky", which means: in this spring March, my good friend went on a long trip to Yangzhou, and the shadow of the solitary sail gradually disappeared at the end of the blue sky, leaving me quietly watching the Yangtze River flow into the distant sky.
Later, I met the hospitable Wang Lun and was tricked into getting drunk in my hometown by this crazy fan. Although I didn't drink in peach blossom wine, I made a good friend and left by boat. Li Bai was about to leave when he got on the boat, but Wang Lun was reluctant to leave on the shore for a long time. "Li Bai was about to leave by boat when he suddenly heard a song on the shore. Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, so Wang Lun is better than me. "This picture has become an unsurpassed friendship scene for thousands of years.
When he was old, he was involved in the case of rebellion. Li Bai went to Yelang, the exile place, by boat. Fortunately, with the help of his friends, he was pardoned on the way, and he happily got off the Yangtze River. "When you bid farewell to the colorful clouds in Bai Di, you will return to Jiangling for a day. It goes without saying that the apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the canoe has passed Chung Shan Man.
Because the destination to be reached by boat is far away, we will pass through many places on the way, including bustling cities and quiet villages, rainy Jiangnan and endless Zhao Yan. So when you write poems on the boat, you can write a variety of scenery, because you see more scenery than at other times.
In ancient times, in addition to relatively simple modes of transportation, there were curfews that restricted people's activities. No matter whether you live in the city or the countryside, you should basically go out early and return late according to the forbidden time.
Taking a boat is the only mode of transportation that cannot be banned for 24 hours. Although you can't go to town at night, it's also beautiful to listen to the bells and look at the moon on the river.
Just like the most beautiful night in Suzhou, Zhang Ji heard the bell from Hanshan Temple outside the city on the passenger ship. "Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the midnight bell goes to the passenger ship", which is the bell that only people who take the boat have the opportunity to hear, and has since become the most sleepy bell of all China people.
Just like that autumn evening, Liu Yong bid farewell to the gentle girl for a boat trip and let out a sigh in the middle of the night. "Where will the wine wake up tonight, Yang Liuan, and where will the breeze fade away?" Every word is common, and every scene is common. Together, they wrote the deepest loneliness and lovesickness.
I also remembered that afternoon with a mighty spring breeze. Wang Anshi, 55, returned to his hometown by boat for a long time, and felt a little deep homesickness. "Jiang Nanan spring breeze is green, when will the bright moon shine on me?" Wang Anshi climbed the mountain twice, took charge of power, and climbed the mountain once to look at blood. In the end, only his hometown remained the same.
Being able to sleep day and night with water and pillow is a unique life experience in ancient times. Those late-night emotions need to be exported and those rambling experiences need to be recorded. Therefore, writing poems on the boat can take a longer time dimension, because your understanding of the mood is far better than other times.
The feeling on the road is better than sitting at home alone. Most good poems are written on the way. Then, a problem appeared. You can write on the stone when you visit places of interest, and on the wall when you are busy. How to write when a person is walking on the road?
Taking a boat just solved this problem. When you take a boat, you are always on the road, but you can free your hands and feet. There can also be desks and chairs for safe writing, which provides convenient conditions for writing poems on the way by boat.
Therefore, Du Fu, the most compassionate man, was still thinking about Chang 'an by boat for a long time during the Qingming Festival. "The spring boat sits in the sky, and the old flowers are like fog." At this time, he was less than half a year away from the last moment of his life, and his body was extremely weak.
"Yunbaishan green miles, sorrow changan straight north. "I'm worried because I miss Chang 'an. A word of "sorrow" not only ends the whole poem with dignity, but also has infinite affection.
So Bai Juyi, the most aloof person, listened to a pipa on a passenger ship by Xunyang River. "I see Fujian on Xunyang River, watching maple leaves and rushes at night, and the autumn wind is rustling." At that time, he was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima, which was the low point of his career. He has many feelings in his heart, but he has no intimate friends. "We are not happy-until the end of the day, we met. We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? " The hasty meeting on the boat made Bai Juyi feel that he had found his own life.
There is also the drunken Tang Palace, which roamed Dongting Lake by boat but left a lifetime masterpiece. "I don't know the water is in the sky after being drunk, and the boat is full of dreams." It is his only masterpiece, but it is enough. The works of this Ming Dynasty poet have been mistaken for Tang poems all the year round because of the "Taibai legacy".
When taking a boat, people are always on the journey, but their hands and feet are free. All creation can be done in time, and all inspiration can be saved in the present. Therefore, it is much more relaxed and comfortable to write poems on a boat than to walk on a mountain road.
There are many excellent poems related to navigation. Friends who are interested and have the opportunity can collect and sort it out by themselves. Welcome to share it in the comments section.
The above is my understanding and analysis of this phenomenon. If you have different opinions, please give me your opinions.