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Culture Weekly | cultural crisscrosses - the "snow" in Tang poetry, from heroic to narrow

Culture Weekly | cultural crisscrosses - the "snow" in Tang poetry, from heroic to narrow

"Where is the Yunheng Qinling family?" Snow and blue are not moving forward. In the first month of the fourteenth year of Tang Yuanhe (819), on the day that Han Yu was demoted to the history of Chaozhou, he was asked to immediately roll up and leave. Hurriedly on the road, when they reached Lantian Pass, their wives and children did not catch up, only their nephews and grandchildren ran up quickly. Han Yu looked back at Chang'an, only to see the Zhongnan Mountain, which was cut off by floating clouds, and the snow was crowding the Lantian Pass, and even the horses were hesitant to move forward. Depressed and helpless, Han Yu wrote this poem "Left Moved to Languan to Show His Nephew Sun Xiang".

Culture Weekly | cultural crisscrosses - the "snow" in Tang poetry, from heroic to narrow

The "snow" in the poem seems to lack "bloodiness", and its artistic conception has changed from the "heroic" in the Yongxue poems of the early Tang Dynasty and the Sheng Tang Dynasty to the "narrow", which is far from the meaning of many poets in the Early Tang Dynasty and the Sheng Tang Dynasty expressing their contempt for death, yearning for border passes, arduous expanse and pursuit of life through "snow".

Yang Jiong's "March from the Army", one of the "Four Masters" of the Early Tang Dynasty, highlighted the strong patriotic feelings of the literati and scholars and the spiritual outlook of rongbian generals who swallowed the morale of the mountains and rivers. "The beacon fire shone on Xijing, and my heart was uneven. Yazhang resigned fengque, and the iron rode around the dragon city. Snow dark flag painting, wind and noise drums. Ning is a centurion, and Katsu is a scholar. "It shows the tenacious and fearless spirit of the soldiers who braved the heavy snow to fight the enemy and the heroic courage of the war drums to bravely kill the enemy." The whole poem is only 40 words, but it describes the whole process of the literati throwing their pens into the military and participating in the battle, revealing that it is moral for each boy to earnestly perform his duty of "defending the family and defending the country".

Tang Dynasty "Seven Sacred Hands" Wang Changling", "Seven Songs from the Army? The fourth said: "Qinghai long cloud dark snow mountain, isolated city looking at the Jade Gate Pass." Huangsha wears golden armor in hundreds of battles, and does not break the Loulan and will not return it. The "snowy mountains" in the poem contain a wealth of feelings, including the attention of the soldiers on the border and the pride of their responsibility to defend their families and the country, and the lonely mood of the harsh environment on the frontier and the hardships of life on the side of the generals, all kinds of feelings are integrated into the desolate and vast, confused and dim scene.

Gao Shi, another famous poet of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, composed "The Second Song of Don Dong Da" when he bid farewell to his pianist friend Dong Tinglan in the sixth year of Tang Tianbao (747), which reads: "Thousands of miles of yellow clouds and white sun, the north wind blows geese and snow." Don't worry about the road ahead, don't know yourself, no one in the world knows the king. Generally speaking, the farewell poems are mostly works of poignant and lingering, low wandering and commemorative works, but Gao Shi writes parting but open-minded, majestic and heroic, sweeping away the old tune of lingering grievances, the cold day at dusk, heavy snow, it is very easy to cause people's sad mood, but Gao Shi's "snow" is used to set off the vastness of the northern realm, without any sense of misery and coldness. The poet passionately encourages his friends to embark on a journey to meet the future. And "Mo worries about the road ahead and does not know himself, and no one in the world knows the king" can be called the greatest consolation to Dong Tinglan, and this farewell is enough to inspire people's hearts and inspire people's hearts and morale.

In the thirteenth year of Tang Tianbao (754), Cen Shan, who served as an envoy to Feng Changqing for the second time, was appointed as the envoy of the Northwest Court of An, and wrote "White Snow Song to Send the Military Judge Back to Beijing" written when sending his former military judge on the wheel platform, whether it was strange in peace or in sorrow, it was always full of positive and enterprising spirit. "The north wind swept the white grass to the ground, and Hu Tian flew snow in August. Suddenly, like a spring breeze in the night, thousands of trees and pear blossoms... The east gate of the wheel sent Jun to go, and when he went, the snow filled the Tianshan Road. The mountain loop turned around and did not see jun, and the snow left a horse line. The whole poem takes the change of snow scenery in one day as a clue to recount the process of sending his predecessor back to Beijing. The beginning of this poem is very peculiar, not to the snow and the first to spread the sound of the wind, just as the so-called "pen has not yet been swallowed, all is the spirit of flying snow", the romantic thoughts and grand feelings expressed in the poem, making people immediately feel that the wind and snow outside the plug can be played, appreciated, but also evoked people's warm memories of spring. The whole poem is rich and broad in connotation, magnificent in color and romantic, majestic in momentum, and distinct and unique in artistic conception, especially "Suddenly like a spring breeze in the night, a thousand trees and pear blossoms" has become a golden sentence of Yongxue that has been recited for thousands of years.

In addition, such as Wang Wei's "When the teenager was fifteen or twenty, he won the Huma ride on foot... Try to flick the iron coat like snow, talk about holding the sword to move the star text", Li Ji's "camping without a city, rain and snow have even the desert." Hu Yan mourned and flew at night, and Hu Er's tears fell in both pairs"; Li Bai's "Washing the Troops and Branches of the Sea Waves, Releasing Horses in the Snow and Grass in the Tianshan Mountains"; and the poems and Poems of Biansai and Yongxue in the early Tang Dynasty by Luo Binwang, Shen Qi, Chen Ziang, Du Zhenyan, and Chang Jian, Liu Changqing, Wang Zhizhuo, and Chu Guangxi in the Sheng Tang Dynasty, contain the ideals of serving the country, accumulating bian gong, and realizing the value of life, showing heroism and magnificence, and also setting off the heroic image of border guards heroically killing the enemy and defending the frontier. These poems are inspiring and inspiring.

However, the famous poets Bai Juyi, Lu Lun, Li He, Li Shangyin, Du Mu, Zhang Yuan, Wang Jian, and other famous poets of the middle and late Tang Dynasties also wrote poems of Biansai and Yongxue, whether it was Bai Juyi's "The night knows the snow is heavy, and when you hear the sound of folding bamboo", Li Shangyin's "The swirling bead curtain is over the pink wall, lighter than the willow is heavier than the frost", or Li He's "The desert sand is like snow, the Yanshan Moon is like a hook", Du Fu's "chaotic clouds are low and twilight, and the snow dances back to the wind", the snow is still the same snow, the border plug or the border plug, the war is still a war, but the "snow" in the poem has become less magnificent. The imagery of boldness and exuberance is more melancholy and desolate, full of sorrow, and even gives people a sense of decadence.

The late Tang Fan's notebook novel "Yunxi Friendship Discussion" under the "He Rong Irony" article said that when Tang Xianzong was in power, Beidi repeatedly violated the border, and Tang Xianzong summoned ministers to discuss countermeasures, and the ministers mostly held the theory of harmony and affinity. Tang Xianzong remembered the "History of Yong" by the Middle Tang poet Rong Yu: "In the history of Han Jiaqing, Ji Huan was a peace relative. Sheji is the Lord, and the woman is safe and secure. How can you put the jade appearance and try to be quiet and dusty? Underground Millennium Bone, who is the assistant minister. And said, "If this person is here, it will be convenient for Langzhou to stab history." Tang Xianzong also smiled and said, "The merits of Wei Dai (the Grand Master of the Jin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Strong Lord and rong) are so cowardly." "The ministers understood and never again mentioned the matter of peace.

Although the middle and late Tang Dynasty's Biansai poems and Yongxue poems are not inferior in artistic skills than those of the early Tang And Sheng Tang, the overall style has been very different, and there are fewer strong, majestic, fierce, pleasant and inspiring imagery. Why? The Middle Tang Dynasty poet Rong Yu saw the beginning, mainly because after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, political corruption, frequent civil wars, the people did not have a good life, the whole society changed from the same hatred and hatred to the same room to, the literati rioters were generally sad and miserable, how could they have the heart to sing the passionate and compelling Biansai poems and Yongxue poems! In addition, I think there is another important reason, after experiencing the "rule of Zhenguan" in the early Tang Dynasty and the "Kaiyuan prosperous era" of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, people gradually indulged in a comfortable life, refused to change and challenge, and the "shangwu spirit" of society was also replaced by the consciousness of "good men not soldiers". Therefore, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, it is difficult to see the magnificent and proud poems of Biansai and Yongxue.

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