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In history, many literati have often been multi-talented, some of them have excellent skills in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and literature, some have gone on horseback to kill enemies and get off horseback to compose poems, both literary and martial arts, and some have benefited the world in the political arena and are also brilliant in the literary world. For example, Wang Wei is good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, Su Dongpo is proficient in poetry and literature, painting and calligraphy, and Cao Caoxin abandons the disease lu you Yue Fei is a martial artist who can kill the enemy Wen can write poetry.
However, although some literati are multi-talented, they often obscure their talents on the one hand because they are too dazzling, so that they are so little known. For example, Cao Cao's military and political poetry and other aspects of talent are too great, but few people know that Cao Cao was still a calligrapher; there is also Zhao Meng in the Yuan Dynasty, whose calligraphy achievements are too high but obscure his reputation as a poet and lyricist.
The same was true of Zhang Xu, a famous calligrapher of the Sheng Tang Dynasty. Zhang Xu, known in history as "Grass Sage", is called "Sage" in calligraphy and cursive, which shows the high level of achievement. Zhang Xu was famous all over the world during his lifetime, and together with He Zhizhang, Zhang Ruoxu, and Bao, he was called the "Four Soldiers of Wuzhong", Du Fu included him in the "Eight Immortals in Drinking", and he was also called "Upside Down Drunk", and his cursive calligraphy was called "Sheng Tang Three Absolutes" with Li Bai's poetry and Pei Daniang's sword dance.
However, nowadays, the world only knows Zhang Xu's calligraphy achievements, but few people know that Zhang Xu is also an outstanding poet. His cursive writing is crazy and unpredictable, but his poems are beautiful in style and beautiful in mood. There is even another poem that has been selected into the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang", which is the following "Peach Blossom Creek":
Peach Blossom Creek
Don Zhang Xu
Hidden flying bridge across the wild smoke,
Ishiji Asked the fishing boat on the west bank.
Peach blossoms with the flow of water,
Where is the cave in Clear Creek?
Zhang Xu's most prestigious is drinking and cursive writing, it is rumored that he will go crazy whenever he drinks and get drunk, and then write into a book, and even write with his hair dipped in ink, getting a nickname of "Zhang Epilepsy", which can be said to be the most crazy calligraphy master in the history of calligraphy. But Zhang Xu's poems take on a very different style from character and calligraphy.
For example, "Even if the sun is clear and there is no rain, the deep clouds are also stained with clothes", "Laughing at the Qingxi Moon, Qinghui is not tired of much", "I want to find Xuan Xuan And list Qingzun, the smoke and clouds on the river are twilight", "The sunset is exhausted, the sand birds are fishing on the boat" and other beautiful and exquisite verses are from the hands of this crazy calligrapher, although there may not be able to surpass Wang Wei, but it is enough to deserve "painting in poetry". In particular, this "Peach Blossom Creek", which was selected into the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty", was even praised as "four sentences worthy of a "Peach Blossom Origin"".
This "Peach Blossom Creek" is a scene poem written by Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Origin". The beginning sentence of "Hidden Flying Bridge Across the Wild Smoke" describes the distant view of the deep mountains and wild valleys surrounded by clouds and smoke, the long bridge of the mountain stream looming, hazy like a fairyland, and the opening chapter creates a deep and mysterious artistic conception.
The second sentence, "Ask the fishing boat on the west bank of Ishiji", turns to describe the close-up scene. Nearby, the water is rugged with convex rocks, fishing boats swaying, and Peach Blossom Creek sparkling. The dynamic beauty of the close-up view is combined with the hazy beauty of the distant view, as if it is a quiet and bright landscape painting, the mountain stream in the distance is deep, and the peach creek in the near distance is bright, which is intoxicating.
Three or four sentences follow a "question" in the second sentence, bringing the character into the picture: "The peach blossoms follow the flowing water all day, where is the cave in Qingxi?" ”。 A "question" word still reflects the poet's yearning for the hazy scenery in the distance, and the last two sentences express the words of the question: I only see the peach blossoms floating out with the stream, but I don't know where the paradise is in this clear stream?
It seems to regard the fisherman in front of him as the fisherman of Wuling who once entered the peach blossom garden, and the hazy place of the distant "hidden flying bridge between the wild smoke" as the paradise, euphemistically and implicitly expressing the poet's very yearning for the paradise and feeling vague and difficult to find.
At the same time, such a fiction in the language of questioning depicts the wonderful scenery of Taoyuan Cave in the distance from the side, which is reverie and fascinating. In just four sentences, the brushstrokes are brisk and free, the conception is novel and ingenious, the artistic conception is profound, and the emotional rhyme is long, creating a deep realm with pictorial meaning and full of interest, as if people have entered the taoyuan realm in "The Tale of Peach Blossom Origin", which makes people deeply intoxicated.
It is no wonder that the retired soldier of Yutang selected this poem when compiling the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty", and even gave it high praise: "Four sentences are worth a "Peach Blossom Origin""!