Although Cui Hao's poem "Yellow Crane Tower" violates the taboo of legal poetry, it is still rated as the first of the Seven Laws of the Tang Dynasty by posterity, which shows its high artistic level. This poem is naturally exquisite in terms of introduction and lyricism, the whole poem is naturally natural, vertical and horizontal, fluent in syllables, and has a long rhyme, which is the seven laws of "the wonder of eternity", and there are few poems that can be compared with it.
In the "Biography of Tang Caizi", it is recorded that when the poet Li Baideng saw this poem, he could only stop writing and sighed: "There is a scene in front of you, and Cui Hao's inscription poem is on the top." But Li Bai was still difficult to reconcile after all, "to Jinling, it is to make a Phoenix Terrace poem to imitate it", and wrote a poem "Dengjin Ling Phoenix Terrace". Li Bai's poem is considered to be comparable to the Yellow Crane Tower, or even far beyond the Yellow Crane Tower.
Ascend to Jinling Phoenix Terrace
Don Lee Bai
Phoenix on the phoenix stage phoenix tour, phoenix to the Taikong River self-flow.
WuGong flowers and grass buried in the path, the Jin Dynasty crown into an ancient hill.
Three mountains and half of the blue sky, two waters divided into egret islands.
There are always floating clouds that can cover the sun, and Chang'an is not seen to make people sad.
This poem was composed by Li Bai after he was given the gift of gold during the Tianbao years and left Chang'an and ascended to the Phoenix Terrace during his southern tour of Jinling. It is not difficult to see that this poem has many similarities with Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower".
The rhymes of the two poems are all under the flat sound of eleven, and the themes are hanging on the past and hurting the present. Cui Hao wrote Huang He, Li Bai wrote Phoenix, and deliberately repeated it three times. The two poems are also basically the same in terms of structure and content poetry. So, where does Li Bai's poem win?
The poem is written from the legend of the Phoenix Terrace, saying that the Phoenix has gone, the remaining Terrace is empty, and only the river is still running alone. The phoenix is a legendary sacred bird that inhabits the sycamore and feeds on bamboo, and has always been considered the auspicious rui of the prosperous world. It is said that in the sixteenth year of the Southern Dynasty Song Yuanjia, three phoenixes appeared in the capital city of Jinling, so the phoenix platform was built here.
However, when Li Baideng came here, Jinling was already a relic of the Six Dynasties. The poet lamented that the phoenix has passed away, and the vacancy of this stage is actually lamenting that the prosperity is no longer there.
The jaw lian inherited the "phoenix to the sky" and wrote, sighing that the prosperity of the Six Dynasties has passed away, like a smoke and clouds. The palaces of the Six Dynasties have been deserted, the once popular figures have long passed away, and the dynasties have changed and the things are not human. The poet felt sad because of this, and also harbored hidden worries about the Tang Dynasty.
The neck joint changed from virtual writing to real writing, from nostalgia to writing what you saw in front of you, and the battle was neat and tidy, and the artistic conception was broad. In the distance, the three mountains were faintly visible, as if there were none, as if half of them fell beyond the blue sky, and the river was also divided into two branches by the Egret Island.
The poet is not immersed in the nostalgia for history, but nostalgic for the past and the present, and puts his eyes back to the present, paving the way for the sigh of the tail link.
The tail link expresses the sorrow and indignation in the poet's heart, using the metaphors of "floating clouds can cover the sun" and "Chang'an does not see" to be treacherous and unclear, and the wise people are useless, expressing concern and concern about the fate of the country, as well as disappointment in the bleak future of the individual and the lack of access to the country.
The whole poem looks at the mountains and rivers, that is, the scenery is nostalgic for the past, and the scenery is hurting the present, and the meaning is far-reaching. Li Bai's poem is similar to Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower" poem in terms of style and momentum, as Fang Hui's "Yingkui Law Essence" commented: "The momentum of the law is not easy to A and B." ”
But the emotions of the two poems are different, Cui Shi expresses homesickness, while Li Shi expresses the sorrow of worrying about the country. It is precisely for this reason that some people believe that Li Bai's poem far surpasses Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower" in terms of style and realm, as commented by Qu You in the Ming Dynasty's "Guitian Poetry": "Patriotism and concern for the will of the king are far beyond the thoughts of the countryside." ”