Meng Jiao, a savage in the East, was a poet in the Tang Dynasty, a native of Wu Kang, Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang), and a Han nationality. There are more than 500 existing poems, among which the short five-character ancient poems are the most, and there is no rhyme. His masterpiece is Wandering Sons. Known as the "poet's prison", it is also as famous as Jia Dao, and is called "Jiaohan Island Thin". ?
the song of the homeless
The Wandering Son was written in Liyang. Under the title of this poem, Meng Jiao once annotated himself: "Mu Ying Li Shangzuo."
Meng Jiao drifted in his early years and was poor all his life. Until he was fifty years old, he got a humble position as a county commandant in Liyang, and ended his years of wandering life. He lived with his mother. The poet's career was frustrated and he experienced the indifference of the world. At this time, he felt the value of his family more and more, so he wrote this heartfelt and touching poem praising his mother. In this poem, "How much love is there when an inch of grass grows?" has been praised by people for thousands of years, and it is synonymous with the inability of children to repay the kindness of their loving mothers.
Meng Jiao is not only called "prisoner of poets", but also a poet. Bitter singing refers to the characteristics of poetry creation in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, focusing on creating and refining words, pursuing the strangeness of thoughts and creating new languages.
Representative poets are Meng Jiao, Li He, Jia Dao and Yao He.
One of the characteristics of Meng Jiao's poetry creation is that he is famous for his bitter songs, pays attention to creating and refining words, and has strange ideas; In addition, his poems mostly show poor and bleak life, with secluded poetic environment and steep and tough style. Of course, there are some simple poems in Meng Jiao's poems, such as Ode to a Wanderer.
Meng Jiao wrote the most ancient poems: short stories and five ancient poems. Some reflect the reality and expose the evil of the buffer region; Some care about people's sufferings and resent the inequality between the rich and the poor; Some show the affection of flesh and blood; Some depict landscapes, etc. Some write about career setbacks; There are also personal grievances and poverty, sighing old diseases; The poem "Going out is an obstacle, who wants the world to be wide" reflects the hardships of the world and also shows the author's extreme state of mind.
Meng Jiao's poetry anthology has 10 volume of Meng Dongye's poetry anthology. He has a hard life and a Geng Jie temperament. He kept moaning all the way. But writing poetry is fun for poets, but it seems to be poverty for others. Who knows whether the poet likes it or not?