Many poems of the Tang Dynasty are very subtle, and the author does not express his feelings directly, but simply describes the scenery, but lets the reader chew carefully. Through some flexible combinations of images, the author enlightens people to make associations, but these associations have both substantive connotations and are closely related to social life.
For example, different authors will have their own feelings by hanging on the same historical site. Cui Hao came to the Yellow Crane Tower and found that the surrounding herbs were green, and he really liked it, but the smoke wave was vast and sad. When Li Bai bid farewell to Meng Haoran here, he depicted the beauty of fireworks in March, and then saw the distant shadow of the lone sail and the blue water flowing east, and his heart immediately surged with the intention of farewell.
Another poet of the Tang Dynasty was belittled many times, and although his fate was uncertain, it also made him well-informed. Once he came to Jinling City and saw that the ancient buildings were in ruins, he felt miserable. The following introduces Liu Yuxi's famous Seven Absolutes, the realm is thick, implicit but not revealed, but full of endless emotions.
Stone City
Tang Dynasty: Liu Yuxi
The mountain is surrounded by the homeland, and the tide empties the city and returns to loneliness.
In the old days and months east of Huaishui, the female wall came late at night.
When the Jin people traveled to the famous mountains, they felt that everything had to be attributed to the void of the xuan, and when people read these poems, they would feel that there was nothing to do about them, and there was no need to do anything. Although there are vicissitudes in the Tang poems, it is more a worry about the current situation.
Liu Yuxi lived in an era when the Tang regime was in decline, and the poet's heart was full of depression and loss. The poet hopes to learn lessons from history in order to revitalize the Tang regime.
Stone City is the ancient name of Jinling, which has been the capital of the country during the Six Dynasties era and was abandoned during the Tang Dynasty. It has been a long time, but it has left endless lamentations for future generations. Liu Yuxi looked back on the vicissitudes and changes of the past two hundred years, and he was also deeply touched.
The first two sentences point out that the mountains and rivers are harmless and life is impermanent, and the poet stands on the stone city and looks out, only to see the tide surging and the waves splashing, but the empty city seems so desolate that the rushing river tide also feels lonely.
The last two sentences turned to the moon, and the great poet Li Bai once wrote: Today's people do not see the ancient time and the moon, and this month once looked at the ancients. Liu Yuxi also looked at the moon and sighed, he might even think that Chang'e in the Toad Palace was well-informed, and when he saw the ruined scene on the Stone City, he would definitely not be able to bear to look at it directly.
The "old time and month" is still the same as usual, over the female wall, but the prosperity of the past has long ceased to exist. And countless popular characters are only prominent for a while, and eventually they are still in vain and become legends in people's memories.
The walls, tides, and moons at the end of the author's pen are still the same as two hundred years ago; but the barrenness and loneliness of the empty city are simply incomparable with the prosperity of that year. The author's feelings about the rise and fall are overflowing with words, although only the landscape and the moon are written, and the prosperity of the six generations is nothing, which makes people feel sad and worried.
The tide of the Yangtze River beats the city wall, the bright moon rises to the sky, and the natural world is still alive and well, operating according to the inherent laws. Although the Stone City is empty and prosperous has become an old dream, the author is convinced that if the Tang Dynasty also has the spirit of endless life in nature, it can still restore its former strength.
Liu Yuxi also once had a poem, "A thousand sails on the side of the sinking boat pass, and the sick tree heads in front of Wanmu Spring." Such a famous sentence makes people have an uplifting passion in addition to emotion. The author uses the movement of nature and the changing picture of human society to draw people's feelings and inspire people to cheer up.
The author's aesthetic sentiments are implicit in the last sentence. The agility of the imagery and the development of the mind constitute the dynamic beauty of this absolute sentence. Some people will read decadence in this poem, and they think that since everything is empty after a thousand years, why should they be diligent? Some people feel that they should cheer up their spirits, even if they can't leave a name in history, they must also realize the value of life, and people should live a lifetime, not waste a day. Friends agree with which view, welcome to share!