According to historical records, after the death of Jiang Yan, a politician and writer during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xiao Yan, the Emperor of Liangwu, mourned for his plain clothes, which can be seen in his position at that time. If you don't know the history, Jiang Yan's name will be very strange to you. If the two idioms of "Wen Tong Remnant Jin" and "Jiang Lang Cai Exhausted" are mentioned, especially "Jiang Lang Cai Exhausted", everyone knows it, and the allusions behind these two idioms come from Jiang Yan. Today, we will enjoy the ten poems of Jiang Yan together, experience the poet's pride and profound life experience behind the words, and believe that you will like it.
Jiang Yan spent more than 60 years in his life, through the Song, Qi, and Liang dynasties, his personality was introverted, he was studious at a young age, and he was able to write poetry at the age of six. During the Liu Song Dynasty, Jiang Yan was favored by Liu Jingsu, and Xiao Daocheng, the founding emperor of the Later Qi State, heard of Jiang Yan's talents and recruited him into his command, and from then on, the official field was promoted all the way. Later, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu raised an army, and Jiang Yan surrendered until his death, completing a legendary life. Jiang Yan was good at resignation, and on a par with Bao Zhao, the two developed the Southern Dynasty dictionary to a peak and held a prominent position. The number of various literary works of Jiang Yan is second only to Shen Yue, and his poems have survived more than 100 times, although his achievements cannot be compared with the cifu and the piao wen, but his poems are also excellent works, poetic and far-reaching, which is relatively prominent in the Southern Dynasty period.
Judging from the life of his official eunuchs, the ups and downs of the Liu Song Period, such as walking on thin ice, did not improve during the Qi Liang period. In terms of life, Jiang Yan suffered grief, the loss of his father at a young age, the loss of his son and wife in middle age, the loss of his daughter in his later years, and the encounters of officials and eunuchs and life affected his outlook on life and world outlook. Most of the more than one hundred and forty poems in the surviving world of Jiang were written at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of Qi, during which his path of official eunuchs was still in its infancy. His poems are mainly based on five words, but also four or six words and riotous works, influenced by the atmosphere of the times, rich in language rhetorical skills, careful words and sentences, and integrate their own life experiences into the poems, the first capital is a gripping poem.
It is not difficult to find that Jiang Yan's poems include four major elements, the pain and loneliness of losing a loved one, the friendship during the war, the feeling of life and the reflection on life. He lost his beloved son and wife in the same year, faced his wife's old things, saw things and thought about people, and burst into tears, combined with the embellishment of the scene, highlighting the poet's sad and lonely state of mind, which was deeply moving. In addition, from the background of the times, the Liu Song, Qi, and Liang dynasties changed, the wars were constant, people were at peace, it was difficult to find a voice, and it was very rare to meet a confidant who knew the roots and told his emotions. In Jiang Yan's poems, there are more than ten poems about friendship, and in the text, they reveal their uneasiness about the world, and they also have disappointment and sadness about reality.
It is worth mentioning that Jiang Drown in individual poems laments the poverty of his own life. He was born in the Cold Gate, and such a life influenced his career advancement, especially in the Song and Qi dynasties, his eunuch road was extremely difficult, high or low, and he was also sent to prison because he was suspected. The country is very good, the family is painful, the poverty of the world, all kinds of factors make it self-pity, show its sad feelings, and at the same time adhere to the ideal of serving the country, which is reflected in its poems. Similarly, since the ideals of the early Confucian Zhishi could not be realized, Jiang Yan turned to The Taoist Interpretation in order to seek inner liberation and liberation, and to find the true meaning of life. This is the contradiction between ideal and reality, and the source of the poet's inner pain, and this kind of poetry is intriguing to read.
From the perspective of poetry themes, pseudo-ancient poems are the most eye-catching in Jiang Yan, and they are also talked about by later generations. The poet reversed the pattern of pseudo-ancient poetry in the form of five words, which had a profound impact on the later generations of Zhong Rong and other famous artists. His pseudo-ancient poems are mainly sad, peaceful and majestic, reflecting the aesthetic pursuit of diversity and compatibility, while integrating the poet's life experience, reflecting the poet's pride, and enhancing the style of pseudo-ancient poetry in the Southern Dynasty period.
Traveling poems are also a major category created by Jiang Yan, but such poems are rarely mentioned. Although the travel poems are mainly about describing scenes, it is difficult to see the poet's leisurely mentality behind the poems, and the mood is a depression, which is not unrelated to its bumpy eunuch road, humble origin and painful life experience. In short, his poems have a strong personal color, closely linked to their fate and experience, and their mood rises and falls with fate and experience.
Undoubtedly, during the Southern Dynasty, Jiang Yan was not only a political figure, but also had profound literary attainments, although his poetry was not as influential as his rhetoric, but the poems reflected the emotions revealed by life encounters, and could also highlight the poet's aesthetic pursuits, which is worth savoring. Today, we will enjoy the ten poems of Jiang Yan and experience the deep meaning and sadness behind the words.