This is the most beautiful season of the year, far better than the late spring of the green willow.
Appreciation of Foreign Minister Zhang Shiba: immediately appointed Minister of Water Resources. Officials outside the system.
In the third year of Changqing (823), Han Yu presented a poem by Zhang Ji, the minister of water resources.
In the second poem in this series, the author said, "Mo Daoguan is busy being the boss, but no one is young." Young people are chasing spring, flapping butterflies, playing with flowers, and directly feeling the wonderful interest of nature with their childlike eyes. The boss's pursuit of spring is another scene. The official business is complicated and the world is vicissitudes. After fully experiencing the ups and downs in the world, I leisurely embarked on the journey of spring and enjoyed it to the fullest. At this moment, childlike innocence is important, and it is important to find its rich meaning in ordinary things.
Don't you believe it? Look at two poems written by Han Yu in his later years-"The rain in the sky is crisp, and the grass in the distance is near." The streets of Chang 'an, the imperial capital, are raining in Mao Mao. The rain is so light, so soft and so moist, like butter. No, it also has the extraordinary characteristics of cultivating everything that ghee does not have. Under the nourishment of drizzle, look at the color of grass. From a distance, it is hazy, extremely clear and brand-new, and it is waiting for you to approach. Instead, I feel that I have lost my green color, but I see the delicate grass buds that have just been drilled out of the ground.
In this poem, the author only adds meaning to "grass color". First, arrange a typical environment for it. "Tianjie" and "Xiaoyu" have pointed out that they were born in the imperial city, which was in early spring, rendering a strong spring atmosphere. Then, the author described his different feelings from afar. There were many kinds of scenery that could be absorbed into poetry in early spring. The gurgling stream, the euphemistic warbler and the dancing Shuang Yan can all symbolize the return of spring to the world, but the author vividly depicts a meadow, which may be a reflection of his unique mentality as a poet. The color of grass in the drizzle, if anything, first conveys the breath of spring. It doesn't want to compete with all kinds of flowers for the splendid spring in March, nor does it want to compete with Yuliu for the favor of your wife. It is lonely, silently showing people the vitality germination and recovery of nature. It ... don't you have a noble and refined temperament and talent? From the ordinary grass color, the author saw the unusual spirituality that it can communicate with people, and felt extremely happy. He wrote a hymn in his heart-"The most beneficial thing is a spring, which is better than a willow."
Huang Shucan commented on the sentence "Grass Color": "Portrait is very hard. Just like a painter intentionally or unintentionally sets colors. " Indeed, the author is like a superb ink painter, who only paints the grass without dye, and his brushwork clearly reproduces the faint Bi Hen, which is true from a distance, but not from a close look. Therefore, writing the grass color in early spring can be described as both form and spirit. Before Han Yu, Wang Wei wrote "The Han River overflows", and the second couplet said: "This water runs through the world, and there are both mountains and mountains." Later, Ouyang Xiu implicitly put a poem into the word, and said at the beginning; "Pingshan fence leans against the clear sky, and there are both mountains and colors." The similarity of mountain scenery is the characteristic of the distant open place, and its background is the outside world and clear sky, so it is far away, so it has a sense of confusion. The background of Han Yu's poem is "the sky is like crisp drops", so the brushwork described by the author naturally turns to a grass color, not to mention the theme of the poem is to reveal the fresh feeling of everything sprouting in early spring! It can be seen that the author wrote the scenery in this way, not unintentionally, but intentionally. He created the artistic realm of "intentional or unintentional" for it, and that is the real master of poets.
Note [1] Tianjie: the street in the imperial city.