Everyone's talents are different, but it does not hinder the individual's interests. A person who is intelligent by nature, likes to talk about style when writing poetry, but he is not funny. However, poetry creation does not need an empty shelf, and it cannot be made for the reader to fall into the fog after reading it. Even if Li Shangyin likes to use classics, his poetry is also integrated with true feelings, so that his works can be passed down for a long time.
There was a poet in the Song Dynasty whose talent was not outstanding and whose works were little known. However, because the poet loves nature and likes rural life, when he wanders between the green mountains and clear waters and sees the farmer's field weaving hemp, a sense of intimacy suddenly arises in his heart.
So the author's thousands of thoughts immediately turned into lines of poetry, which is also admirable. The following is a very famous song of Wen Tong, the Seven Laws, which is simple and unpretentious, showing the joy of mountain village life.
Late to the village home
Song Dynasty: Wen Tong
The plateau is indeed a small stone path, and the hedge lane is clear and the afterglow is extinguished.
The old coat flutters and the sang goes, and the white hakama rolls the water and rice returns.
Deep leaves lie around the stream of cattle, and the wheat is full of chickens flying around.
Smoke rises in the valley after the front stream, and the children each go out of the wood.
Speaking of Wen Tong, many readers may not be familiar with it, but everyone must know Su Shi well, and this talent is Su Shi's cousin. He was able to write and paint, and was deeply appreciated by many scholars. This poem shows a beautiful picture of peasant life, simple in writing, but it is very worth reading.
The poet once went on a business trip to a foreign country, passed a small village in the evening, there was no guest house nearby, and when he saw that the sky was getting dark, the poet decided to spend the night in the village. The first link points out the time and place, the mountain road is rugged and narrow, and the poet walks on the barren and hard soil slope without hesitation. As the sun sets, the light is uncertain, and the deep alleys of the bamboo hedges are still faintly recognizable, and the poet can't help but be secretly happy, and finally he can no longer sleep in the wilderness, so he speeds up his pace.
"The path of the stone is microscopic", which is the first sentence of the Famous Work "Mountain Stone" by the Tang Dynasty poet Han Yu. It refers to a rocky and hard road, indicating that the mountain road is difficult to navigate, and it is also secretly hidden that the mountain family is far away from the hustle and bustle and is remote.
The poet soon entered the village, and the jaw lian described the labor scene of the peasant family, "The old clothes are flowing and the style is gone, and the white hakama is rolled up in water and rice." "A woman is busy harvesting mulberry leaves, her worn-out clothes fluttering in the evening wind; a farmer, dressed in a white tunic, with his sleeves rolled up, is returning from his labor in the rice fields.
The author's delicate description immediately reminds people of the picture of male cultivators and female weavers, and also makes the cold and lonely mountain village suddenly full of vitality. People will also think of clear streams, mulberry trees, huts, cooking tobacco, and even naughty children, as well as yellow dogs that like to bark wildly when they see strangers.
The poet slowly approached the farmhouse, and in front of him was another vivid picture, "the deep leaves are scattered around the stream, and the wheat is full of chickens flying." "There are many reeds growing in the stream, an old cow is lying leisurely by the stream; the drying field is piled with harvest wheat, and a flock of domestic chickens are competing to peck at the grains scattered in the haystacks.
"Lying down and flying around" accurately depicts the calmness of the old cow and the strength of the chicken. It can be said that the cow, sheep, chicken, dog Tian Jiale and Caizi Miaosi are new in brushstrokes, and the neck link is only 14 words, which shows the action characteristics of livestock and poultry vividly, making people feel like they are in the scene and hear their voices.
The last two sentences are more interesting to the life of the peasant family, "The valley smokes in the front stream and the valley after the river, and the children each go out of the wood." "As night falls, cooking smoke rises, and people in the valley get busier. The adults packed up their farm tools, changed their clothes, and cooked on the fire, while the children helped close the firewood doors, add grass to the cowshed, and drive chickens and ducks into the cage.
The author only uses the three words "smoke rises" to concisely depict the busy situation of the peasant family, saving a lot of pen and ink, but leaving the reader with imagination space; and the child's "Guan Chai" also shows the children's sensible and lively side, giving people a deep impression, and also euphemistically expressing the poet's yearning for mountain village life.
Wen Tong's Seven Laws is purely white painting techniques, without exquisite metaphors and anthropomorphic techniques, without obscure allusions, but vividly depicts a beautiful picture of rural life. Although the author does not mention men and women in labor, the "old clothes fluttering in the wind and the white mandrowing water" are even more reverie.
The author expresses his praise for the working people between the lines, and also shows the hard and simple attitude of the villagers. At the same time, the old cattle by the stream, the chickens in the tanning field, and the children who know how to be considerate of adults all make people feel as if they are in a mountain village.