Eight poems of the first Tang Dynasty Spring Wind Yang Liu Mei poems: Spring Wind is self-curious, and Yang Liu is the most suitable.
Pre-Tang refers to the literature before the Tang Dynasty, and the Pre-Tang Dynasty literature includes the literature of the Pre-Qin, Qin and Han Dynasties, Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Sui Dynasty.
So what are the characteristics of the poems of the first Tang Dynasty? That is, the literary language is still in the embryonic period of simplicity, mainly expressing sincere feelings, which is the source and upstream of Chinese poetry.
For example, the simplicity and openness of the "Book of Poetry", the sincerity and fierceness of "Chu Ci", the simplicity of "Han Le Fu", and the light and vividness of the folk songs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
At this time, poetry had not yet developed into the Tang and Song Dynasties, with exquisite and strict rules and systems, at this time three words, four words, no words, seven words, and even staggered sentence patterns to serve the emotions and content expressed. Because there are few constraints, it is particularly fresh and moving.
The creation of the four seasons can be traced back to the time of the Yellow Emperor in ancient times, and willow is also a tree species related to the lives of ancestors. Although it is not found in the Book of Poetry, the Book of Poetry itself is a pre-Qin folk song, which is circulated in case of its insidiousness. Among them about the wind and willow, Bibi are both.
"Once upon a time, Willow Yiyi."
Now I come to think, rain and snow. "Verses of the Book of Tsai Wei"
This willow yiyi, has been very anthropomorphic, this yiyi, is to describe the soft things swaying, is to use the human form to express a flowing state and posture, is the willow like a person wearing flowing clothes in walking and swaying, lingering.
Then what makes the willow have such a profound state is that in addition to its own long gracefulness, it comes from the blessing of natural wind. And the most beautiful willow, of course, is in the spring breeze.
Therefore, this poem should be the earliest poem to write the spring wind and willow. When I left my hometown, it was the spring when the willows fluttered, and on the road was my wife standing by the willows and reluctantly sending off.
And when I came back now, the road was full of wind and snow, and I was also old, and the rain and snow fell on the willow trees of the road village, and I could not see my wife waiting.
She probably didn't know, I came back at this time, and was she okay?
Regarding the custom of folding willows in spring, it should start from the ancient folk, and the age is no longer available. Using willow peach branches in early spring and hanging at the door of early spring to ward off evil spirits is the fear and worship and blessing of nature in ancient times. Because peach and willow branches were already the most common rural tree species in the Zhou Dynasty, their strong growth ability in early spring was believed to be able to drive away sneaky and disease.
The Han Dynasty set the first month of the lunar calendar as the beginning of the year, Chinese New Year's Eve to the New Year, in addition to the peach charm, there are willow branches inserted in the doorway. The farewell of the Han Dynasty was often also in the spring of the disease, folding the willow to send goodbye, blessing the health of the distant people, and containing the deep affection of lingering nostalgia, so the natural formation of the custom of folding willow to send people.
Willow has a variety of advantages such as flood resistance, shade, longevity, and beautiful posture, and has become an important tree species in the courtyard of the road bank since the Han Dynasty. Spring and willow are also inseparable, because around the spring, willow should sprout in the festival, the filament returns to green, contains fresh and upward vitality, becomes an important landscape tree in spring, and regulates people's mood.
Therefore, after the Han Dynasty, to welcome the spring and the New Year, to ascend to the high platform, the most beautiful scenery is to bathe in the spring wind, appreciate the willows growing more and more luxuriantly in the spring wind, that kind of soothing, breaking the suppression of winter, but also arousing the enthusiasm of flexible life.
"Spring breeze. Spring trees in the spring breeze.
The gossamer is like a net. Falling flowers are like fog.
First pan the Heavenly Abyss Pool. Also over thin willow branches.
Butterflies flutter. Swallow value feather ginseng pool. "Nanliang · An excerpt from Shen Yue's "Eight Verses and the Second Huipu Linchun Wind"
This is the ascent of early spring, usually New Year's Day, Spring Day, People's Day, are important days for ascending and praying, not to mention the early spring of the entire new month, in the leisure and happiness of the New Year and New Year, visiting relatives and friends everywhere, or playing at will, people's feelings about the spring wind and willows, is the most natural and sufficient.
This is a group of works by Nanqi Taishou Shen Yue in the place under his jurisdiction, building the Xuanchang Building, and taking friends upstairs to look far away.
I stood upstairs, facing the gentle spring breeze, and saw the spring breeze blowing through the distant spring trees.
At this time, the thin strips of the willows, bathed in sunlight, are like a thin net, while the plum blossoms bloom and flutter like fog in the wind.
The spring breeze blew down from the distant heavenly pond, and then blew through the thin willow branches like a net.
I saw butterfly wings fluttering in the sunlight and flocks of swallows flying over the water.
In fact, this poem makes me sigh very much, writing about the early spring spring breeze and willows. Fine romance, like a dream like smoke.
Because the willow at this time has not yet sprouted or has just sprouted, the smoke willow is like a net, floating in the spring breeze and sunshine of fresh and beautiful beauty, actually in the future generations are unparalleled. And like the net, this adjective, put in the present view, is still accurate and vivid.
Later generations often use willows like silk and smoke, but they do not know that this "like a net" is the most evocative state of the willow tree in the early spring wind.
"The spring breeze is full of emotion, the mantle is blowing and opening.
The peach blossoms are red and the willow leaves are as messy as silk.
The silk strip turns twilight, and the shadow falls into twilight for a long time.
Spring swallows dance in both pairs, and spring hearts are everywhere. "Nanliang · Xiao Gang composed an excerpt from Xie Hui's Thirteen Rhymes
The cold spring breeze is amorously stirring the curtains and urging you to open the windows.
So you see the peach blossoms outside the window, a little bit of beauty in the branches, you see the willows swaying in the wind, chaotic as silk, very moving.
This messy beauty is not a feeling that only contemporary people can appreciate, as early as more than a thousand years ago in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, some people liked this willow tree to bring messy fluttering style in the wind.
The willow was bathed in the dusk sun, and the shadows of the trees grew longer and longer.
In the dusk, the swallows both flew back home, my heart was as soft as willow, and I thought of the most beautiful emotions.
Very delicate, very vivid, very subtle. The evening breeze gently blows the willows and walks on the way home.
"The spring breeze is self-evident, and the willow is the most suitable."
The wicker is constantly on the ground, and the poplar flowers are good for the top.
Spring is everywhere, and time is often lost. Nanliang · Excerpt from Xiao Gang's "Spring Day Wants to Go to the Forest Poem"
This opening sentence is a beautiful sentence with beautiful feelings. The spring wind is originally very magical, not to mention the willow and the spring wind, the good wind and beautiful willow, free to float.
You see that the willows are hanging on the ground, how spectacular the green is, like a group of young girls in green, in the wind with soft waists, singing and dancing, more lovely, countless white poplar flowers fly up, wrapped around the green trees, like spring snow on the green clothes.
This is the genius of color. The tender green willow tree is like a dance dress, and the willow flower, like flying flowers and snow, this color match, fresh and not greasy, even if it is placed on the clothing, it is also a beautiful freshness, not to mention, he writes a flowing beauty.
Everywhere is the fresh beauty of spring, which makes people love this spring, and often lose sight of the brevity of this beauty.
Because the season is like this, it amazes your eyes, but smiles and leaves, so that you can suddenly perceive the passage of time and give birth to the sadness of spring.
"Ambiguous Yang Yuntai, Spring Willow Hair New Plum."
The willow branches are extremely soft, and the spring breeze comes at will.
Tan Shu Qing curtain closed, Linglong Zhu fan open.
The beauty is hopeful, and the sound of the car is not thunder. "Nanliang · Xiao Gang's "He Xiangdong Wang Yang Yun Lou Eaves Liu Poem"
It's the spring breeze of early spring willows. When the spring willows sprout, the plum blossoms are just right.
And the willow bathed in the spring wind, the willow is soft, swaying with the wind, infinitely clinging. A romantic day in early spring.
The woman hung a winter blue curtain in the room, slowly pulled it open, and then opened the window again.
So that the wind outside the window blows the aroma of wicker and plum blossoms, and the face comes to the face.
She stood by the window, looking at the thicker spring clouds in the sky, afraid that there would be a rain coming.
Was she just waiting for the spring rain? Yes and no.
She was looking forward to the arrival of her lover and the king, hoping that the thunder she heard was not only the spring rain bathing in willow plum blossoms, but also the wheel sound of her loved ones returning, which was the spring wind and spring rain she needed most.
Although it is written about the palace grievance, this resentment is an expectation with youth and feelings.
Like the longing of spring breeze and willows, a true love is like spring rain.
"The willow tree has a spring breeze, one low after another.
Who can remember each other in the void and sleep alone in the three yangs. Sui · Anonymous "Reading Songs Eighty-Nine Songs, Fifteen"
Reading the lyrics is also a kind of folk song between the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty.
Lyrical, concise and sincere.
The willow was taken care of by the spring wind, and the willow swayed, sometimes high and low, and it was the joy of knowing and loving each other.
Who like me, just by reminiscing and waiting, sleeps alone and spends the whole spring?
I'm not as good as Willow.
The Han Dynasty "Nineteen Ancient Poems" has "Willow in the Yu Yu Garden, a woman on the floor of Yingying." The prodigal son will not return, and the empty bed will be difficult to keep alone. ”
Here it is cleverly used to express one's fate of being left out in the cold.
"Baidu is not once, a thousand letters do not return."
The spring breeze blows willows, and the gorgeous sky wanders. "Sui · Anonymous "Eighty-Nine Songs of Reading Songs, Thirty-Seven"
A hundred times of waiting, but rarely come back once, wrote a thousand letters, but you still did not come back.
It is the most beautiful season of spring wind and willows, and I am left alone to guard my youth, wandering in the beautiful scenery of good times.
The folk songs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties era, many of which take women as the theme and express delicate voices, are very rare in the history of literature, because in later generations, although the economy is rich and there is such a prosperous era as Tang and Songming, women's voices are suppressed by mainstream literature.
Such frank emotional poems are regarded as women's infidelity, not publicized and imitated.
"Lang is like Luoyang flower, and concubine is like Wuchang Liu."
When the two places cherish the spring breeze, when will they join hands. "Sui · Zhang Bilan's "Sending Ruan Lang Poems"
This is a beautiful poem that normally expresses separation and love.
You are like the plum blossoms blooming in Luoyang City at this time, and I am like the willows that Wuchang City clings to at this time.
The same spring breeze blows in both places, but you are in Luoyang and I am in Wuchang.
When will we be able to be together, under the same spring wind, Lang is like a flower, I am like a willow, and we can live together in the spring that belongs to us?
Such a normal poem expressing the feelings of husband and wife, after the Tang and Song Dynasties, there are few reproductions and masterpieces.
Friends who like poetry, may wish to look at the poetry of the pre-Tang Dynasty, because it is the source and upper class of Chinese poetry, like the spring water on the clear mountain, with a pure and simple atmosphere.
Although the poetry of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty developed in a more refined and standardized direction, people who really loved poetry will gain the courage to write out spiritual emotions from the poetry of the first Tang Dynasty, and maintain the flexibility, sincerity and freshness of the spring wind and willows.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.