This poem "Playing with Yuan Zhen" is a famous rhythmic poem by Ouyang Xiu. This poem was written in the third year of Jingyou (1036), the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty.
Using simple and natural language to describe scenes and emotions, but the thinking is very detailed, the meaning is complete, and there is a kind and smooth style. The first two sentences are very proud of Ouyang Xiu. According to the "Western Qing Poetry" cited in "Tiaoxi Yuyinconghua", he once said to people: "If there is no next sentence, the previous sentence will not be as good as it is. If you read it, you will feel energetic."
< p> Later generations also said that it was "super wonderful". These two sentences have one effect and one cause, and the tone is coherent; the order starts with "suspicious", which leads to the explanation of "suspicious", so it seems to have twists and turns and is not flat; in addition, it also contains the poet's expectations when he was demoted. and disappointment. Therefore, although it is a sentence that sounds like spoken language, it is actually written very carefully.The relationship between the whole poem is also one couplet after another, and the meaning is subtle and subtle. Tang people's rhyme poems mostly used parallel images and discontinuous or jumping connections. Ouyang Xiu tried to form eight lines of poetry into a flowing and coherent rhythm. This was undoubtedly a new path after Tang poetry.
This poem "Playing with Yuan Zhen" is a famous rhythmic poem by Ouyang Xiu. This poem was written in the third year of Jingyou's reign (1036), the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. In this year, Ouyang Xiu moved to the left to be the county magistrate of Yiling (now Yichang, Hubei Province) in Xiazhou due to affairs, and became friendly with Ding Baochen (characterized by Yuanzhen), the military judge of Xiazhou. Ding Zeng sent a poem to Ouyang Xiu, and Ouyang Xiu wrote a poem in response to it that year. The first couplet of this poem describes the desolation of the mountain city; the couplet before the poem describes the desolate scene of the mountain city in detail, and the vitality contained in the heavy snow, cold thunder and rain.