Excellent literary works are always an organic combination of content and form, and some major themes and themes need to be reflected in a solemn and solemn style, and poets often use ancient or rhythmic poems. The structure of the seven-word sentence is relatively short, and it is known for expressing emotion and style, so this kind of subject matter rarely adopts the form of a sentence.
But there are also some masterpieces that write about major events in history, but they are very successful, which requires poets to dare to break through conventions and conceive uniquely. Li Bai was an outstanding poet of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, and he was once named Hanlin by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, which not only proved his talent, but also gave him a great sense of honor. Although Later, Shi Xian did not want to be bound and decided to leave Chang'an, Tang Xuanzong still gave Jin a return.
After the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong was forced to wander around, and Li Bai had planned to go to the rescue, which showed that Shi Xian's feelings for the emperor were extremely complicated. The following introduces Li Bai's very unpopular poems, only four short sentences, but unique artistic ingenuity.
The Emperor's Western Tour of Nanjing
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
Whoever said that the king had difficulty walking, the six dragons were happy.
The earth turns the Jinjiang River into Weishui, and the heavens return to the jade base as Chang'an.
In June of the fifteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan attacked Tongguan, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled to Sichuan. In August, Emperor Suzong of Tang ascended the throne at Lingwu and honored Emperor Xuanzong as Emperor Taishang. Later, Emperor Xuanzong returned to Chang'an and changed Chengdu to Nanjing, Fengxiang to Xijing, and Chang'an to Zhongjing. At this time, Li Bai was sentenced to be assigned a night lang, and he sadly recorded xuanzong's avoidance of chaos into the river. Sichuan is in the west of the country, Chengdu is in the south of Chang'an, and tianzi is out of Beijing, which is called a patrol.
The poem begins with a rhetorical question, who said that the king had difficulties in walking? The rebels advanced and rushed out, and the Janissaries mutinied in the middle of the way, And Xuanzong could not settle it, and finally could only sacrifice Yang Guifei to barely quell this serious accident. Li Bai is not unaware of this, but deliberately asks back, so that readers immediately want to know the answer.
But then the poet does not elaborate on the reasons why it is not difficult, and the second sentence depicts a lively scene. Horses that are more than seven feet tall are called dragons, and Tianzi's car uses six horses, so it is called six dragons. The car is driving west, and thousands of people are celebrating, how can it be difficult to walk? A question and an answer outlines the relationship between the emperor and his subjects in the poet's mind.
The last two sentences are concise and solemn, linking Chengdu in Nanjing with Chang'an in the capital. Chang'an is on the shores of the Weishui River, Yulei is a mountain near Chengdu, and the Jinjiang River is the water flowing through Chengdu. Because the emperor came, the heavens and the earth turned, so the Jinjiang River also seemed to have become a Weishui, and Yulei was like Chang'an. That is to say, the Son of Heaven takes the four seas as his home, and because of The coming of Emperor Xuanzong, Chengdu is also Chang'an.
The poem is clearly somewhat whitewashed and exaggerated, rather than a true reflection of the situation at the time. It was clear that it was a chaotic escape, but the author wrote it as if he were a normal outing; it was originally a war, and Li Bai wrote the whole process as if it were peaceful. This, of course, is to smear the dark lord with grease and powder, and talk to cover up his shame.
There are objective reasons why the poet writes this way. In feudal society, the emperor was a natural honor, and the courtiers had the responsibility to hide their faults for him, that is, the so-called "secret for His Holiness", and even Li Bai could not get rid of this confucian traditional concept.
Moreover, the tang dynasty poets' feelings for Tang Xuanzong were also very complicated, and he worked hard in his early years to form the rule of Kaiyuan, but in his later years he was really dazed and confused, which finally led to the Tianbao Rebellion. The rule of Kaiyuan was the culmination of the Tang Empire's prosperity, and after that it got worse and worse.
Therefore, when the poet looks back on this period of history, he always has to associate the Kaiyuan Shengshi with him, and at the same time has to associate the events that happened during the Tianbao years with him, which is both deeply nostalgic and has a lot of helpless condemnation, so there is a mixture of love and pity, hatred and regret.
There are also many poems by the Tang Dynasty who chanted Kaiyuan's testament, and Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song" is a typical example, which begins with condemnation and ends with sympathy, all for the same reason.