In the history of China, many emperors had high literary and artistic talents, such as Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Zhao Yao, the Emperor Huizong of song. However, there is an emperor, I believe many people do not know that he is a poet with high literary achievements, that is, the Sui Emperor Yang Guang.
For the Sui Emperor, our most direct impression of him is that he was a famous tyrant, and the Tang people gave him the nickname "炀", which means "to pay tribute to the distant masses", which firmly nailed him to the pillar of shame of history. However, today we are not going to discuss the historical evaluation of the Sui Dynasty Emperor, but to appreciate the two poems he wrote, "Spring River Flowers and Moonlit Nights".
The Sui Emperor was a very talented poet. According to the Sui Shu Ji of the Emperor Jiao, he was "studious and good at belonging to literature", and once proudly said: "When should the world be said to inherit Yu Xu and have four seas?" If lingyuan and the scholar are elected high, they should also be the sons of heaven. (Sui Shu Wu Xing Zhi) means: "Everyone in the world thinks that I became the Son of Heaven because I inherited the cause of the emperor, but even if I compete with the scholar for literary talent, I still have the qualifications of the heavenly son."
According to the New Book of Tang and Yiwen zhi, the Sui Emperor has a collection of fifty-five volumes, indicating that he wrote many poems, but only more than forty poems remain today. The main content of the sui dynasty emperor's poetry creation is the border poem and the palace style poem, of which the representative works of the palace body poem are two "Spring River Flower Moon Night".
Spring River Flower Moon Night
One
The twilight river is not moving, and the spring flowers are in full bloom.
The flow waves will go to the moon, and the tide will bring the stars.
Two
The night dew contains flowers, and the spring pond is full of moonlight.
Han Shui is a wandering girl, and Xiangchuan is worth two concubines.
Gongti poems, from the time of Emperor Wen of Liang. The Book of Sui records that "jianwenzhi is in the Eastern Palace, and it is also good to write." Qing Ci skillfully made, stopping between the banquets; carved Manzao, si ji boudoir. After giving birth to good things, they let go of the practice, and the government and the opposition were one after another, thinking that they were 'palace bodies'. "Palace body poems mostly write about the pleasure of the boudoir, and even describe perverted desires, rhetoric, and emotional pathology, so Mr. Wen Yiduo said that palace body poetry needs to be self-redeeming, and it was not until Zhang Ruoxuan's "Spring River Flower Moon Night" that the palace body poetry completed self-redemption.
On the road of self-redemption of palace poetry, the Sui Dynasty Emperor's "Spring River Flowers and Night Moon" is an extremely important work.
"Spring River Flower Moon Night" was originally a Song of Wu Sheng in Lefu, written by Chen Hou in the Southern Dynasty, but the original work of Chen Hou Lord has not been handed down, but in the style of Chen Hou Lord, the original poem must be a beautiful poem. The earliest surviving "Spring River Flower Moon Night" is these two poems of the Sui Emperor.
The twilight river is not moving, and the spring flowers are in full bloom. The evening is calm, as if it is not flowing, and the spring flowers are gorgeous and bloom all over the strait.
The two opening sentences of the poem describe a quiet and beautiful picture. In the "Selection of Ancient Poems on Chuanshan Mountain", Zhu Qian said: "'The Twilight River is not moving' is the Tang people's mastery, which is incomparable. Later Zhang Ruoxuan's "Spring River Flowers and Moonlit Nights" opens with "Spring River Tides and Even Haiping", which is obviously borrowed from the poetry of the Sui Emperor.
The flow waves will go to the moon, and the tide will bring the stars. The first two sentences are written quietly, and these two sentences are written in motion. The river rushes away, the tide comes, and the bright moon and stars reflected in the river seem to come and go with the tide of the river.
The night dew contains flowers, and the spring pond is full of moonlight. The dew in the night contains the fragrance of flowers, and the spring water pool ripples with the brilliance of the bright moon.
Han Shui is a wandering girl, and Xiangchuan is worth two concubines. Above Han Shui, I met a beautiful woman who was traveling, and above Xiang Shui, I met the goddess Empress E and Nü Ying of Xiang Shui.
These two poems of the Sui Dynasty Emperor, "Spring River Flowers and Moonlit Nights", wrote an extremely beautiful artistic conception, providing an aesthetic paradigm worth emulating for the later Zhang Ruoxuan. Although the last two sentences are also written about the private feelings of men and women like the previous palace poems, they are written very healthy and very beautiful, and they are the best in the palace poems.
From these two poems, it can be seen that the Sui Emperor was a very important poet, who laid the foundation for the prosperity of Tang Dynasty poetry, and was a poet who carried on from top to bottom.