For many friends who like ancient poetry, the reason why they like it so much is because in the short sentences of ancient poetry, they contain extremely rich and extremely deep feelings, and these words seem to have great power and can easily touch the softest places in people's hearts. The most valuable thing is that on the surface of a kind of emotional poetry, the poet's way of depicting it is very plain, just like the gossip in ordinary days, but plain language is often full of charm that can only be understood.
There was a very special poet among the poets of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "the prodigal son turning back", who is he? It is Wei Yingwu. In the Tang Dynasty, those who encountered the surname "Wei" should open their eyes, because in the Tang Dynasty, the "Wei" clan was generally a famous and prestigious family, especially the Wei clan of the Chang'an generation. Wei Yingwu was a male brother who grew up with a golden key. When he was a teenager, he was arrogant and debauched, and the people were tossed to death by him. During the Anshi Rebellion, Chang'an fell overnight, and Wei Yingwu also went into exile, and from that time on, he changed his mind and inspired him to read, and later became a great poet. Wei Yingwu's life is actually an inspirational story!
In recent years, a popular sentence "I have a pot of wine, enough to comfort the wind and dust" in fact, this sentence is from a poem by Wei Yingwu, the original sentence is "I have a scoop of wine, can comfort the wind and dust." Wei Yingwu is actually a pastoral poet, and in the Tang poetry combination, he is called "Wang Mengwei Liu" together with Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Liu Zongyuan. In fact, Wei Yingwu's poetic language is generally simple and simple, there are no strange words, and it is very readable.
What I want to share with you today is a seemingly bland poem by Wei Yingwu, although it has a light and shallow feeling when reading it, but if you read it carefully, you can feel the deep feeling that makes people can't help but read it again.
Autumn night sent hill twenty-two members outside Huaijun belongs to the autumn night, walking and singing cool days. Empty mountain pine nuts fall, the ghost should not sleep.
The "Qiu Twenty-Two Yuanwai" mentioned in the title of the poem was a good friend of Wei Yingwu, who worshiped Shangshulang as an official when he was an official, and later chose to retire to Linping Mountain to learn the Tao. From the title, we can see that the poet wrote this poem in order to express his deep thoughts about his friends. Friendship may not be as hot and fierce as love, but this feeling of babbling water is also timeless, sincere and moving.
The poet says in the first two sentences of this poem, "Now my heart is full of thoughts of you, and it is an autumn night, and I sigh as I walk and sigh that the weather is slowly getting cooler." Here he first writes about the time and season he is in at this time, it was an autumn night, the weather was very cold, but the poet was walking outside, from which we can also feel, presumably the poet came out to relax because he missed his friends.
Although it is only a short 10 words, here the poet explains the background of the whole poem clearly, which also sets the tone for the theme of the poem. The more at night, the more fragile feelings in people's hearts will surge up, especially the longing for relatives and friends, which makes people feel very uncomfortable, and it seems that the poet is also tormented by the feeling of longing.
So in the last two sentences of the poem, the poet expresses very bluntly his longing for his friends. The poet said that pine nuts must be falling in the mountains now, and you who live there must not have fallen asleep yet. Here the poet is actually describing what he imagined, he himself on this cold night, because he missed his friends, so he could not sleep for a long time, and had to go out for a walk to relax his mind, so he guessed that the other party should not sleep at this time.
The "ghost person" in "The ghost should not sleep" generally refers to the reclusive person in the poem, which shows that his friend is also a person who is indifferent to fame and fortune. In the first two verses of the poem, the poet describes himself, while in the last two sentences, the poet describes the imaginary friend, he uses the combination of virtual and real, and describes the scene in front of us and the imaginary scene in juxtaposed, which makes us feel the tacit friendship between him and his friends.
I am really glad that we are living in an era of information-developed networks today, even if we are far away from friends, we can also learn what the other party looks like here and now through phone calls or messages or circles of friends, otherwise we are likely to be like poets, on a cold autumn night, because we want to dispel the thoughts in our hearts, and go outside for a walk.