"Since the ancient imperial state, lush and beautiful. Four hundred years into a dream, sad, the Jin Dynasty crown into an ancient hill. Swim around the water, go up the stairs and go upstairs. The past is leisurely and gentle, and when you look back, the Yangtze River flows freely outside the sill. ”
This is Wang Anshi's famous work "Nanxiangzi", standing on the castle tower of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties "Jinling", looking into the distance, and the consciousness of thoughts began to drift into the dust and smoke of history. After traveling a long way through history, I came back to find that everything could be turned into a dream. The prosperity and magnificence of the past are no longer there, and only the Yangtze River is flowing lonely and lonely. Seeing such a scene, the poet sighed helplessly.
Jinling, as the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, has experienced the history of the car and horse, smoke and dust, is the city described by many poets, it has its own atmosphere of depression, loneliness, melancholy, etc., but whenever you have something unsatisfactory, you will go there to feel it and add it to your own poems to express your own melancholy.
The late Tang Dynasty poet Gao Toad ascended the Jinling City Tower and felt the changes in history and the turbulence of sorrow. Climbing the layers of heavy stairs, holding the handrail full of historical dust, sighing and coughing, adding a thick melancholy to the ancient capital of Jinling. Then I accidentally saw a "Jinling Map" depicting the prosperity of Jinling, which had a huge gap with the scenery I saw in front of me, so I left a masterpiece of eternity:
"Jinling Evening Look" Tang Gao Toad
Once accompanied by floating clouds to return to the evening green, like the sunset pan autumn sound.
The world is infinitely green hands, and a sad painting cannot be completed.
Once in the autumn, I was alone, only the floating clouds in the sky accompanied me, watching the sunset slowly falling in the autumn light, and my heart was full of incomparable sorrow. The first two sentences of the poet focus on the scenery, render the atmosphere, and prepare for expressing his emotions.
Nowadays, there are more painting masters in the world, but the pain in my heart can never be drawn. The emotion of "sadness" is materialized, and the world's painting masters cannot draw it, indicating that they are not ordinary sadness.
At that time, the Late Tang Dynasty was gradually declining, and Gao Toad was worried that the Tang Dynasty would one day decline and die like the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties of "Jinling", and the number of qi would eventually dissipate, and it was inevitable.
Somehow, the late Tang Dynasty poet Wei Zhuang also admired a painting about Jinling, and saw that it was also so prosperous, combined with Gao Toad's "Jinling Evening Look" that had been circulating at that time, and did not agree with it. Therefore, Wei Zhuang is like a "bar spirit", to die with it to the end, every sentence is raising the bar, but the emotions revealed are similar, and later it has become a masterpiece of eternity:
"Jinling Tu" Tang Weizhuang
Who says that sadness cannot be painted, painting people's hearts and people's feelings.
Jun looked at the six southern dynastic events, and the old wood hanyun filled the old city.
The first sentence is all open: who said that sadness can't be drawn? It's just that they want to paint in line with the expectations of the people of the world at that time, leaving a beautiful picture for everyone, and they can look forward to it at any time.
In order to make the world believe that the sadness they say can be drawn, the last two sentences are illustrated. If you look at these six pictures of Jinling, the desolate scenery of the old wood hanyun and so on is full of the ancient capital of Jinling, isn't this "sad"?
Although Wei Zhuang put forward a relative point of view on Gao Toad's every sentence, it can be said that he is a "bar spirit". But the ideas, opinions and emotions that the two of them want to express are almost no different, and they are all borrowing the ancient capital of "Jinling" to worry about the direction of the current Tang Dynasty.
As Su Shi said in "Fisherman's Pride", "The ancient dragon pan and the tiger stand on the ground, from the rise and fall of the Gongyi hanging." "No matter how glorious the city is, there will always be such a curtain call. Just like a country, when the luck arrives, it will naturally decay and go into decline or even collapse.