There was a Q&A on the Internet: Who is the stupidest poet in history?
A: Ja Island.
Q: Why?
A: Because Jia Dao has a poem, two sentences for three years, a groan and a double tear.
Two verses, it took three years to write. This is indeed a very "stupid" poet, but the two poems that have been suppressed in these three years have become classic sentences and will be passed down to future generations.
"Two sentences and three years" comes from Jia Dao's "After the Inscription Poem", which is jia Dao's inscription after the poem "Sending the Invincible".
Is there anything wonderful about "Sending the Invincible" that Jia Dao painstakingly wrote?
Let's take a look at this poem.
"Sending the Unworthy"
Gui Feng Ji is new and sends this caotang person.
麈 [zhǔ] tail with the temple, 蛩明 for the time being.
Walk alone in the shadow of the pond, counting the trees.
Eventually there will be smoke and the roof as a close neighbor.
No: Monk, original surname Jia, Cousin of Jia Island. Guru: Buddhism calls a person with virtue, wisdom, and good deeds a guru.
Jia Dao once lived with No one in the Caotang Temple of Guifeng in the southwest of Chang'an, and there was no way to travel south to Lushan, so Jia Dao made this poem to bid farewell.
After the rain, the blue sky on Gui Peak is particularly fresh, and we send off the Caotang Temple. In the autumn of the singing, he took the tail of the elk and left the monastery and temporarily said goodbye to his relatives.
His lone figure was reflected in the pool water, and he rested many times by the tree. In the end, he responded to Yanxia's covenant and took Tiantai Mountain as a close neighbor.
In this poem, Jia Dao expresses his nostalgia for his cousin and his yearning for a quiet place in Buddhism.
"Alone in the shadow of the pond, counting the edges of the tree" is a famous sentence in this poem.
"Two sentences in three years, one groan and two tears" is to express the difficult process of writing this sentence.
"Two sentences and three years" is naturally an exaggeration, but there is no doubt that Jia Dao has put a lot of effort into writing these two poems.
So, what is the good thing about the sentences that Jia Dao spent a lot of effort to write?
Farewell to the cousin, the cousin's lonely walking figure, reflected in the pool water, giving people a sense of loneliness hanging from each other. His cousin was tired from his journey, so he kept resting by the tree, which added to the loneliness of loneliness.
Alone, the pool is photographed. Tired, tree-dwelling.
Lonely, cold, rushing to the face.
Xie Hao, a cloth poet of the Ming Dynasty, commented on these two sentences in the "Poetry of the Four Mings": Jia Dao", "alone in the shadow of the pond, counting the edges of the tree", its words are leisurely and elegant, and they will be obtained by chance, and it is difficult to match.
He said that Jia Dao's two sentences, the meaning of the words is leisurely and elegant, must have been obtained by chance, and it is difficult to find the right sentence to match it.
Jia Dao is known as a "bitter bard" poet, who writes poetry to win by casting words and refining sentences, deliberately seeking work, and the mood is partial to desolation and misery.
These two divine strokes of Jia Dao are naturally also the result of "bitter groaning".
The Tang Dynasty poet Mengjiao and Jia Dao were also called "Suburban Cold Island Thin", Mengjiao was called "Poetry Prisoner", and Jia Island was called "Shi Nu".
Shi Nu, Jia Dao is willing to become a slave to poetry, in order to write good poetry, hard work.
Because of aishi, Jia Dao also had two "car accidents".
Among them, the allusion of "deliberation" is the most well-known.
Jia Dao rode a donkey, thinking about whether a poem was good with "pushing" or "knocking", and did not look at the road at all, so he bumped into JingZhao Yin Hanyu's car.
Fortunately, Han Yu is also a poet, he does not blame Jia Dao at all, and he thinks with him and suggests using the word "knock". The two became friends.
However, not everyone is Han Yu.
Another time, Jia Dao rode a donkey all over the street, the autumn wind was in full swing, the leaves were full of leaves, Jia Dao chanted "The leaves are full of Chang'an", but it has never been a good sentence.
He also rammed the car of Liu Qichu, who was jingzhao yin at that time. Liu Qichu did not have the good temper of Han Yu, and he was so angry that he locked up Jia Dao for one night before releasing him.
Jia Dao writes poetry, works hard, and loves to ponder. Every sentence and word of his poem has been repeatedly tempered and revised with heart.
What is even more wonderful is that after he writes it, he makes the reader not see any trace of the revision at all, as if it is completely out of nature and in one go.
Many people call him the most "stupid" poet, but in fact, he is the most serious poet.
Word-for-word deliberation and sentence-by-sentence tempering show his serious and prudent attitude toward writing poetry.
When Jia Dao died, the family had no money, only a sick donkey and a piano, which was emotional.
His whole life seems to have been spent writing poetry, so how can we bear to harshly rebuke such a serious and bitter poet?