Jiang Yan, a native of Kaocheng, Jiyang (now Kaocheng County, Henan Province), was a famous poet in the Southern Dynasties and lived in the Song, Qi and Liang Dynasties. Jiang Yan's poems in his early years are quite particular, such as "Cool grass scatters fireflies, decaying trees gather cicadas" ("Parting from Liu Changshi"), "White dew raises the golden harp, and the breeze swings the jade harp" ("Qing Si Shi") and so on. And they fight very accurately, which is quite obvious in tempering kung fu. Yan's poems are good at imitation. His famous Thirty Miscellaneous Poems respectively imitated the representative works of thirty poets from Han Dynasty to Liu Song Dynasty. Although it lacks artistic originality, it can quite understand and express the different styles of different poets. Among them, Tao Zheng Jun Tian Ju imitates Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems, such as Sunset Avenue Black. Looking back at fireworks, waiting for a young child, and so on, won the interest of Tao poetry. Therefore, this poem has been mixed in Tao Yuanming's poems for a long time, and even Su Dongpo, who loves Tao poetry deeply, can't tell it apart.
However, in his later years, Jiang Yan never produced any decent works, which the world called Jiang Lang's exhaustion. But why is there a shortage of talents in Jiang Lang? Why did the spark of his artistic creation go out?
Everything happens for a reason. When he was a teenager, Jiang Yan's family was poor. He works hard, doesn't like to talk, seldom makes friends, and studies hard all day. I finally got to know Liu Jianping Song and Wang Liu, and embarked on the road of being an official. At first, when Jianping Wang Liu wanted to give up his tactics, he also wrote fifteen poems to satirize him. As the stars turn, Jiang Yan himself gradually racked his brains for power and fame. For example, the chief of the East South China Sea went home to attend his funeral. As a county official, Jiang Yan insisted on taking charge of the affairs of Keli County, but he was relegated to the rank of Xing Wu (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang). For another example, in order to please Emperor Gao Di of Qi, Jiang Kui claimed that he had the superior conditions of "five victories", while the enemy had an insurmountable "five defeats", and the language involved flattery. Even Emperor Gaudi of Qi said, "You talked about it." Jiang Yan was in power, and the art of war was completely drafted by him. Later, he also served as a title of generals in ancient times recorder (that is, a small book) and commander of the Eastern Jin Military Region, in charge of imperial edicts and national history. As soon as Ming Di acceded to the throne, Jiang Yan was immediately appointed as the court, added to the work, moved to the top scholar's long history, and added as the general of the auxiliary country. In his later years, he proudly said to his descendants, "I have all the fame and fortune I have said in my life." I want to eat and drink in time and have money. How rich should I be? "
As soon as he entered the official career, Jiang Yan was obsessed with fame and fortune, and all his energy and intelligence were completely spent on promotion, honor and disgrace, and red tape. He naturally has no time to take care of poetry creation, and it is difficult to become famous by accident.