The Hermit Seeker Doesn't Meet (Don Ja Island)
Matsushita asked the boy, and the teacher took the medicine and went.
Only in this mountain, the clouds are deep and unknown.
Jia Dao is a representative work of the Bitter Yin School, with a thin and stiff style, and is called "Suburban Cold Island Thin" with Mengjiao. He was not good at the five extremes, and the five laws that needed to be carefully written were his long-sleeved and good dance style. However, the occasional five absolute "Hidden Seekers Do Not Meet", but the tone is fresh, self-evident hermit style, the author is willing to be promoted to the first of the Tang Dynasty's five absolutes.
This poem is not complicated, even primary school students can understand the meaning, but the aesthetic experience given to people is extraordinary, and the most important thing is that the old poetry of our country has the characteristics of exhaustion and infinite meaning.
"Panasonic asks the boy" points out the location: Panasonic; points out the event: ask the boy; but literally we don't know who is asking, what question is being asked. Immediately after that, there was an answer: "The teacher of speech took the medicine and went." Naturally, we know what the problem in the previous sentence is, and we know exactly what the incident is. Needless to say, it's wonderful. "Only in this mountain, the clouds are deep and unknown", and in the previous sentence, we know the structure of the whole poem: one question and three answers. But its beauty is worth analyzing.
The first sentence, "Matsushita asks the boy," is a "point" in space: under the pine tree.
In the second sentence, "The teacher is going to take the medicine", we seem to see this little boy stretch out his finger and point out the whereabouts of the master, which is a "line".
In the third sentence, "Only in this mountain," the poet looks at the boy's finger and sees a mountain, which circles an area, not elsewhere, only in this mountain, which is a "face."
The last sentence "the clouds are deep and unknown", the poet looks from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, the viewpoint rises, only to see the clouds filled, the mountain fog loops, the realm is two vera to three dimensions, the picture is also three-dimensional, this is a "body".
From "point" to "line" to "surface" to "body", we see that in just two crosses, its poetic realm is gradually expanding, and the elements are constantly enriched.
Not only that, in addition to the progression of space, there is also a turn of tone. Try the boy's answer. The poet asks where is the "hermit" of the boy's master? The boy "took the medicine from the teacher", and it is conceivable that the poet was disappointed not to visit the hermit, which was a "fall". But the boy then said, "Only in this mountain," meaning that it is not elsewhere, and seems to be traceable, and when the poet hears this, his mood must be happy. Finally the boy said, "The clouds are deep and unknown," and although it is only in this mountain, it is not easy for you to find him in this cloud and mist. When the poet heard this, he looked at the mountain and became worried, which was another "fall."
We can see that in the three sentences of the boy, the poet's mood was successfully mobilized three times, "falling" - "rising" - "falling". In just two crosses, there are so many layers of design, it is really breathtaking.
The title is "The Seeker Does Not Meet", so the imagery that appears in this poem also fits the poetic context perfectly.
The first is "Pine Down", a product of deep mountains, a word that has become a symbol of the Hermit's festival since Confucius 's "years of coldness, and then withering after knowing the pine cypress" (Analects). Tao Qian has "The old man appreciates my fun, and the pot is the same." Ban Jing sat under the pine and counted how drunk he had returned." (Tao Yuanming, "Twenty Songs of Drinking"). Wang Changling has a poem: "Dew on the flowers, lie down at night and wind down." (Wang Changling, "Fasting Heart"). The poem begins with "Panasonic", which gives people a hermit style when they are shot.
And "medicine collection" is simply the standard for hermits. The most famous hermit of medicine was Pang Gong, a high priest of the Han Dynasty who was not a scholar of the Han Dynasty, who was not a hero, and finally "took his wife to lumen mountain, because the medicine collection did not rebel" (Later Han Shu Yimin Liechuan 73) caused infinite nostalgia for posterity. Meng Haoran has a poem of "Lumen Moon illuminates the smoke tree and suddenly arrives at Pang Gongqi's hermitage." (Meng Haoran, "Night Return to Lumen Mountain Song")
After that, whether it is "mountain" or "cloud", it is very suitable for the person being chanted, the thing being sung, and the state of the chant. These images carry their own cultural beauty, and form an extremely beautiful poetic scene under the poet's pen, giving people a bland and leisurely aesthetic enjoyment.
Even a poet critic as critical as Wang Fuzhi has a very high evaluation of this poem:
"Picking amaranth" means to swim calmly before words and after words, and naturally produce its weather. That is, of the five words, the Nineteen Songs still have this intention. Tao Ling can almost seem to be like this, and this is absolutely perfect. "Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the South Mountain", "The birds are happy to have a trust, I also love my Lu", and the non-Wei Yingwu "Bing Wei Sen Painting Blade, Swallow Sleeping Condensed Fragrance" and asked Jinye. (Wang Fuzhi, "Poetry of Kun Zhai") The Nineteen Songs and the passages such as "Picking Mushrooms on the Mountain" stop at the holy testimony. Since Pan Yue took a chaotic heart, he made a chaotic tune, and then the yuan sound was extinguished several times. After the Tang Dynasty, there were those who could do this, and there were many of them. One sentence in one fell swoop, "Matsushita asked the boy" is already there. For example, "Strange to make up the cabinet closed", and stop half a sentence, more into the realm. (Wang Fuzhi, "Poetry of Kun Zhai")
The poem "The Seeker Does Not Meet", with the volume of just two crosses, constructs a rich layer of poetry, which is concise and eternal, inexhaustible, and the aesthetic characteristics of traditional Chinese old poetry are most seen, so the author privately believes that this poem is regarded as the first of the Tang Dynasty.