Zhang Ruoxu's Spring River under the Moon was praised by Wen Yiduo as "a poem in poetry, the peak on the peak"

After turning over many books, it is impossible to know the exact birth and death year of the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ruoxuan, only that he was a Yangzhou native, who served as a soldier in Yanzhou, and during the Shenlong period, He Zhizhang and others became famous as Wuyue scribes in Kyoto, and in the early years of the new century, he was known as the "Four Soldiers of Wuzhong" with He Zhizhang, Zhang Xu, and Bao Rong. I don't know what his name Zhang Ruoxuan's "virtual" is, but guesses that it is not the meaning of emptiness, but the meaning of heaven. There is a moon in the sky, or there is a moon in Zhang Ruoxuan's life, so it is not surprising that he can write the legendary classic "Spring River Flower Moon Night".

As a Yangzhou native, he must have stood on the edge of the Yangtze River countless times, and may even have bathed in the river. He must have been on a high place at night, looking at the flowing water of the Yangtze River in a round of bright moonlight, or thinking about the river water of a thousand miles at night when he couldn't sleep, when Mingyue was also peeking out the window, peeping at his vast heart. Imagine him writing this poem, and on a spring night he frowns and meditates, falling on his pen and paper, passion flowing like a river.

It is conceivable that the excitement and satisfaction after he finished the poem may be pacing in the house, and he may be unable to suppress himself, or he may push open the door of the house and once again stroll along the Yangtze River, shedding tears of excitement. Perhaps somewhere outside of Yangzhou, he missed his hometown as a wanderer, and expressed his thoughts about his lover by writing about his lover's thoughts about himself. Thus, "Spring River Flower Moon Night" was born, which is the result of his emotional implications. I don't know what he had hoped for the poem at the beginning, maybe he didn't think about it so much, maybe he only had the joy of finishing one poem.

"Quan Tang Poems" only selected two poems by Zhang Ruoxuan, for some reason, was it that he wrote less, or that everything else had been scattered? Song Guo Maoqian's "Lefu Poetry Collection" volume 47 is the earliest collection of Zhang Ruoxuan's "Spring River Flower Moon Night". From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, many Tang poetry anthologies have selected this poem.

"Spring River Flower Moon Night" was called "a lonely piece, but for everyone" by the late Qing Dynasty classicist and literary scholar Wang Minyun. Wen Yiduo praised the poem as "a poem within a poem, a peak on a peak". More than a thousand years have passed since the birth of this poem to the late Qing Dynasty, and Zhang Ruoxuan has received the highest evaluation he deserves. For more than a thousand years, the rushing river has exhausted countless popular characters, and his poetry has always been in books, in the recitation of generations.

Every poem that comes out of the poet has a wait, waiting to be evaluated, and this poem has waited too long. "I don't know who Jiang Yue is waiting for", and this poem must be waiting for the discerning pearl - it has finally arrived. The so-called classics must stand the test of time, which is immortality. In fact, before Wang Minyun and Wen Yiduo's evaluation, countless readers had already memorized Zhang Ruoxuan's poem in their lives. With the deepening of the study of "Spring River Flower Moon Night", its immortal charm is more and more recognized, just like the moon that shines for eternity.

We look back at the moon of the Tang Dynasty, which is always connected to Zhang Ruoxuan's name. At that height, it seems that only the Yangtze River is qualified to reflect it into the waves, and it has become the heart of the Yangtze River. It pins on the lovesickness of the world, and then borrows the flowing water to become a long-distance thought.

It was the bright moon of "co-tide birth", and Zhang Ruoxuan used his tidal heart to observe the rising tide of the river and the rising tide of people's hearts, what kind of harmony this is! The length of a great river is the length of emotion, and the beauty of a bright moon is the beauty of emotion. Whether it is the river flowing around Fangdian or the flower forest moonlight that is "like a thunderbolt", you can see the beauty of nature and the beauty of youth, and you can see the openness of Zhang Ruoxuan's vision and the delicacy of his mind. His spring river under the moon is a beautiful and infinite spring river.

A lonely moon in the air, countless lonely people on the ground, and it is precisely this round of lonely moon that comforts many lonely people. "Who on the banks of the river first saw the moon?" When did Jiang Yue shine at the beginning of the year? Life is infinite from generation to generation, and Jiang Yue is only similar every year. Zhang Ruoxuan's remembrance is too far, this is an endless remembrance, this is what a heart-warming remembrance, since then this "heavenly question" not only belongs to Zhang Ruoxuan, but also belongs to all those who read it. It's still the moon, but it's different from generation to generation, and the similarity is the lovesickness of the world.

This expression enlightened Li Bai and Su Shi. Li Bai wrote in "Asking the Wine to the Moon", "When is the moon in the blue sky?" I'll stop the cup and ask about it today... Today's people do not see the ancient time and month, but this month once looked at the ancients. If the ancients and modern people are flowing water, they can see the bright moon together", Su Shi wrote in the "Water Tune Song Head", "When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the blue sky". "I don't know who Jiang Yue is waiting for", I don't know how many people in the world are waiting for whom, a word "waiting" should trigger how many associations and imaginations we have. As many partings there are in the human world, there will be as much waiting as there is, and such waiting is like Jiang Yue's waiting, gradually becoming perfect little by little, and it is the thoughts in waiting that make it perfect! Zhang Ruoxu's Spring River under the moon is a spring river of acacia.

The Yangtze River sends flowing water, and the time sent away is also a time that never returns. Everything in the human world seems to be in progress, such as the parting of "Qingfeng Pushang", such as the white clouds of "going to leisurely". In Zhang Ruoxuan's Spring River Flower Moon Night, there is "Tonight's Flat Boat", and there is the "Bright Moon Building" where women and women think of each other. The parting of the world is always helpless, and the lovesickness is always so long. It is not so much the bright moon wandering upstairs as it is the externalization of human emotions. Zhang Ruoxuan guessed that Mingyue "should take care of the mirror table of people", and I thought that Na Si Woman must be "Zhu Yan thin in the mirror". In that "jade curtain", in that "anvil of the mashing clothes", the moonlight that cannot be swept away is the thought of si woman. She looked at the moon, thinking that her husband should also look at the moon at this time, and she hoped that the moon with her eyes could flow to her husband's body.

How touching is the acacia pulled by a bright moon! From the geese in the sky to the fish and dragons in the water, every trace of moonlight is a thought, and every ripple is a pictogram of thought. Tonight the moon is bright, and the parting brings people inner mutilation, what a contrast. The flowing water is originally gathered and dispersed, and tonight's river has a parting whisper, how should this set off the different mood? The spring night formed by the melting of the moon and the Yangtze River seems so meaningful.

Flowers fall into the pool, that is the beauty of the twilight of the sigh; spring half of the return, that is the helplessness of leaving the family. The spring river under the moon is about to flow away in the spring, and the moon on the river is also falling little by little. Just when the sea fog hides the oblique moon, whose thoughts become particularly strong, crossing the distance of the road? "Jieshi Xiaoxiang Infinite Road", the distance is infinite, and the thoughts are also infinite. "I don't know how many people have returned by the moon?" The falling moon shakes the river tree", the "don't know" here is really unknown, and it is this expression that leaves us with room for aftertaste.

In order to wait and look forward to their own return home, people who have gone far away should also go home, but for the sake of livelihood and future, there are still people who have left home, there is still helplessness of not returning, and the love of those who are waiting and looking forward to it is constantly like a spring river. How many partings of the world sprinkle in the woods by the river with the afterglow of the moon. Perhaps there was a gust of wind, and the setting moon also shook the tree by the river with the wind, stirring up the endless acacia of the tree, and the root of the acacia continued to extend in the depths of the earth. The earth has always been the land of acacia, the spring river has always been the spring river of acacia, and the people on the earth have always been people who miss each other. Zhang Ruoxuan thus made the end of a poem, and the afterglow is like the long spring river under this moon. The most expressive thing on the earth is the Spring River, which embraces the moon and seems to embrace the flower forest illuminated by the moon, and countless languages in the world are integrated into the river, with no end in sight.

Compared with Zhang Ruoxuan's poetry expressed in those years, "we don't hear each other at this time", now even if we are far away, we can talk and video, and "looking at each other" is the face of a person, not necessarily the moon. When we lament the great progress of the times, we also feel that there is less of that strong lovesickness, so every time we read Zhang Ruoxuan's "Spring River Flower Moon Night", it is extraordinary.

Compared with the Yangtze River under the moon in summer, autumn and winter, Zhang Ruoxu has more beautiful and nostalgic flavors under the spring moon, the fragrant "Fangdian", the melancholy of "Qingfeng Pushang", the acacia in the "Bright Moon Building"... Everything is presented in a "growing" way, and his endless thoughts and extraordinary expressions determine the immortality of this poem.

We are touched by the open mood of the poem and the gaze of the poet. Walking into the poem, it seems that we are also the geese in the sky, as if we are also the fish and dragons under the water, thinking about infinity in the moonlight of poetry. Zhang Ruoxu's moon and spring river are the soul of this poem.

In the poem, Zhang Ruoxuan deeply melted into himself, whether it is a remembrance of the universe or a contemplation of life, you can see the poet's great thinking. The vastness of the poet's vision stems from the vastness of the heart, the delicacy expressed by the poet comes from the delicacy of the heart, and the poet's affection comes from his love for nature and life.

More than a thousand years have passed, but as long as you read Zhang Ruoxuan's "Spring River Flower Moon Night", you will enter that unparalleled artistic realm, and you will think of Zhang Ruoxu's Spring River under the moon. The spring river under the moon in his eyes is the spring river in his heart, and the spring river under the moon in his heart also belongs to the spring river in the hearts of countless people who read his poem, and the meaning shared is like the moonlight overflowing the Tang Dynasty and illuminating future generations.

Regarding "Spring River Flower Moon Night", as well as the saying of "a single piece pressing all Over the Tang", it can be seen how much the evaluators like this poem. Of course, it is possible to disagree with this statement, but it is impossible to deny the eternal value of this poem, just as it is impossible to deny the round of "lonely moon" in Zhang Ruoxuan's poem. What kind of transcendence is that, what kind of height it is, with the light that illuminates all things, evokes the true feelings of the world.

Original title: Wang Lixian: Zhang Ruoxuan's Spring River Under the Moon

Source: China Social Science Network - China Social Science Daily

Author: Wang Lixian

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