Bai Juyi's "Viewing the Cutting of Wheat" and Wen Tingyun's "Morning Journey to Shangshan" are ancient style poems.
Archaic poetry is a poetry genre. Generally speaking, it is also called ancient style. Judging from the number of words in the poems, there are so-called four-character poems, five-character poems, and seven-character poems. Four words are one sentence with four characters, five words are one sentence with five words, and seven words are one sentence with seven words. After the Tang Dynasty, it was called modern poetry, so it was usually divided into two categories: five-character and seven-character poetry. Five-character ancient poems are referred to as Wugu; seven-character ancient poems are referred to as Qigu, and those using both three, five, and seven characters are generally considered Qigu.
"Guan Mao Mao" is an early work by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the busy farming scene during the wheat harvest season, denounces the heavy taxes that have caused the people's poverty, and feels deeply guilty for the poet's lack of merit and virtue, and that he does not work but can have enough food and clothing, and expresses the humanity of a conscientious feudal official. spirit of doctrine. In terms of writing techniques, the poet combines panoramic depiction with description of specific characters, and combines narrative and discussion to make the whole poem an organic whole.
"Morning Journey to Shangshan" is selected from "Notes on Wen Feiqing's Poems" (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1998 edition). It is a poem by Wen Tingyun, a writer of the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the cold and desolate morning scenery during the journey, and expresses the loneliness and deep homesickness of the wanderer. The lines reveal the frustration and helplessness of people on the journey.