Introduction to the work
The author of "Sending Qiu to Tangzhou" is Wang Wei, and it was selected as the 25th poem in Volume 126 of "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty".
Original text
Sending Qiu Wei to Tangzhou
Author: Wang Wei of Tang Dynasty
There is dust in Wanluo, and your life is very difficult. pungent.
The four sorrows are connected to the Han River, and hundreds of people follow each other.
The locust trees are overcast in the clear day, and the poplar flowers are blooming in late spring.
The emperor is willing to send each other off, and the emperor embroiders his clothes.
Comments
① Qiu Wei (694-789?) was a native of Jiaxing, Suzhou (now Zhejiang). As a filial stepmother, Ganoderma lucidum grows in the hall. After failing in repeated examinations, he returned to the mountain to study for several years. In the early years of Tianbao, he passed the imperial examination and became the prince's right concubine. He was more than eighty years old and his mother was in good health, so he was given half of his salary. He was good at poetry and was friendly with Wang Wei (701-760) and Liu Changqing (709-780), and they often sang in harmony with each other. He resigned when he was more than 80 years old and died in Zhenyuan Dynasty at the age of ninety-six. According to legend, he was the longest-lived poet in the Tang Dynasty. Most of his poems are in five characters, with a quiet and elegant style, mostly about pastoral scenery. He was one of the authors of the Pastoral Landscape Poetry School in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The most famous ones are "Inscribed on Nongfu's Cottage", "Looking for the Hermit in the Western Mountains but Not Encountered", "Zuoye Lihua", "Panruoye River" and so on. For example: "The cold beauty dominates the snow, and the lingering fragrance suddenly enters the clothes" ("Pear Blossoms in Zuoye"), which is a good sentence; "When will the spring breeze come? The green lake has already gone up the mountain" ("Inscribed on Nongfu Lushe"), Gong Yu The word "Lian" is derived from the phrase "The spring breeze turns green on the south bank of the river" in Wang Anshi's "Bochuan Guazhou". The original collection has been lost.
②Tangzhou: In the first year of Tianbao, it was changed to Huai'an County. In the first year of Qianyuan, it was renamed Tangzhou, and its administrative seat is now Biyang, Henan. Before leaving for Tangzhou, Qiu Wei wrote a poem "Farewell to Wang Wei" written by Wang Wei in return, which you can refer to.
③Wan: Today’s Nanyang, Henan. Luo: Luoyang.
④One hundred people: refers to the whole family. Sui: A vassal state that was enfeoffed in the early years of the Zhou Dynasty. Its hometown is Sui County in present-day Hubei Province. In the Tang Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Suizhou. Suizhou is adjacent to Tangzhou. ⑤ Chao Duan: Chao Zhong, the person in Chao Zhong.
Introduction to the author
Wang Wei (701-761), whose courtesy name was Mojié, was known as the Poetic Buddha, and his given name was Vimalakirti. In Buddhism, he is a lay Buddhist of Mahayana Buddhism. He is a famous lay bodhisattva, which means a person who is famous for his purity and no pollution. It can be seen that Wang Wei's name has an indissoluble bond with Buddhism.
Wang Wei’s achievements in poetry are multifaceted. Whether it is frontier fortresses, landscape poems, rhymed poems or quatrains, there are all excellent poems that have been passed down to the public. His poems were called by Su Shi "the poems of Tao Mojie, there are paintings in the poems, the paintings of Mojie, there are poems in the paintings". He indeed has unique attainments in describing natural scenery. Whether it is the magnificence of famous mountains and rivers, the vastness and coldness of frontiers and fortresses, or the tranquility of small bridges and flowing water, they can accurately and concisely create a perfect and vivid image, without much ink, lofty artistic conception, and complete poetic and painterly feeling. Fusion into a whole. For more articles on ancient poetry appreciation, please pay attention to the column of Wang Wei's Complete Poems of "".
The Landscape Pastoral Poetry School was one of the two major poetry schools in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Its main writers were Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Chang Jian, Zu Yong, Pei Di and others. Among them, the one with the highest achievement and greatest influence was Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, also known as "Wang Meng".