When it comes to the most popular poets of the Tang Dynasty, in addition to Li Bai and Du Fu, it is Wang Wei. Li Bai's poems are full of immortal breath; Du Fu's poems, full of the spirit of a saint; Wang Wei's poems, ethereal and elegant, are full of a Breath of Buddha.
Su Shi once commented that Wang Wei's poems are paintings in poetry, and he entered the poems with Buddhist principles, hoping to realize the true meaning of life between Buddhism and landscapes. He is good at writing five-word poems, whether it is five-word sentences or five-word poems, there are many excellent works.
Although he rarely wrote seven-word poems, he was a masterpiece when he wrote one. His seven-sentence "Sending Yuan Er envoy Anxi" was the pinnacle of the Seven Absolute Works in the Tang Dynasty and was widely circulated. His seven-word poem "Ji Yu Chuan Zhuang Zuo" is also known as the tang Dynasty's seven laws of the pressed scroll. But such a masterpiece, but people say that it is plagiarized, what is the matter?
The rain and the forest fireworks are late, and the steamed quinoa cooks and cooks the east.
Desert paddy field flying egret, yin yin summer wood yellow oriole.
Yamanaka learns to meditate on the hibiscus, and Matsushita Kiyosai folds the dew aoi.
The wild old man and the people quarreled, and the seagulls were even more suspicious of what happened.
Wang Wei's poem "Ji Yu Chuan Zhuang Zuo", the first four sentences write the scene, the last four sentences write about his reclusive life. This poem was written in the later period of the poet, when Wang Wei lived a life of seclusion, and most of the poems written were related to Zhongnan Mountain and Yuanchuan.
The rain and the forest fireworks are late, and the steamed quinoa cooks and cooks the east
This joint article describes the life of the Tian family: the rain for several days has accumulated a lot of water in the mountains and forests, and the fireworks have come later than usual; when lunch is made, it will be sent to the field.
A "late" word, very cleverly written. It not only shows the change of fireworks due to rainy weather, but also subtly shows the poet's state of mind. If a person is usually in a hurry, he cannot observe that the cooking smoke rises later than usual. It can be seen that the poet's poem is leisurely.
Desert paddy field flying egret, yin yin summer wood yellow oriole
In the vast desert paddy fields, egrets are flying around, and in the deep mountain forest, the beautiful chirping of yellow orioles is heard.
This link is a famous sentence throughout the ages, and it is also the best proof of Wang Wei's "painting in poetry". The poet must have seen a lot, and he chose only "egrets" and "yellow orioles". The egrets fly, it is visual, it is dynamic; the yellow oriole chirps, it is auditory, it is static. Desert paddy fields, which are vast and extended; yin and yin summer wood, are narrow and focused. It is these two scenes that set off each other that makes the picture so rich and layered.
Yamanaka learns to meditate on the hibiscus, and Matsushita Kiyosai folds the dew aoi
The poet lives deep in the mountains and forests, where he meditates on his mind, watches hibiscus and feels life, and Matsushita eats fasts and meditates on Zen.
Many things in the world have been experienced, and the poet is now far away from the hustle and bustle, and finds a peace in his heart.
The wild old man and the people quarreled, and the seagulls were even more suspicious of what happened
I, the old man in the village, have been informal, fighting with people, why should the seagulls be suspicious?
This joint poet uses two allusions. "Contending for a seat" comes from "Zhuangzi Fables": Yang Zhu went to learn from Lao Tzu, and on the way, the host of the hostel welcomed him, and the guests gave him a seat; later, when he returned from his studies, the tourists no longer gave him a seat, but competed with him. It shows that Yang Zhu no longer has the reserved spirit of the literati at this time, and has become natural. The poet uses this to say that he is living here in seclusion, that he has lost his former habits, and has become like the people of the mountains.
"Seagull" comes from the "Liezi Yellow Emperor": There are people on the sea who are close to seagulls and do not suspect each other. One day, his father wanted to catch the seagull home and come to the beach, but the seagull no longer believed him. Here is to say that he has lived in seclusion in the mountains, and those people outside should not have any handle to suspect themselves.
In the past, some people said that this poem was the ultimate of "empty ancient and accurate to the present", and was pushed as the pressed scroll of the Tang Dynasty's seven laws, especially the two sentences of the jaw link "Desert Paddy Field Flying Egret, Yin Yin Xia Mu Huang Li", which has become a unique song for thousands of years. But because these two sentences are written too well, they are suspected of plagiarism.
Li Zhao, a Tang dynastyman, saw that Li Jiayou's poetry collection contained the sentence "Flying Egret in paddy fields, Yellow Oriole in Xia Mu", and ridiculed Wang Wei for plagiarizing other people's works, saying that he was "good at taking people's articles and saying that they were good at taking people's articles and saying that they were good at jia sentences".
Later, Hu Yinglin, a Ming Dynasty man, came out to defend Wang Wei, saying, "Ma Jie Sheng Tang, JiaYou Zhong Tang, Ande's predecessors pre-stolen?" This Masakatsu uses The Mahabharata. This means that Wang Wei was a person in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Li Jiayou was a person in the Middle Tang Dynasty, and it was impossible for the predecessors to copy the sentences of the later generations, it should be Li Jiayou who copied Wang Wei.
In fact, Li Jiayou and Wang Wei were people of the same period, but they were only slightly later than Wang Wei, and as for who copied whom, it is still uncertain.
Leaving this aside, Wang Wei's sentences are indeed much stronger than Li Jiayou's, and Ye Mengde of the Song Dynasty gave his own views in "Poetry of the Stone Forest":
The Tang dynasty called "waterfield flying egret, Xia Mu huang li" for Li Jiayou's poem, Which Mo Jie stole, not also. The benefits of these two sentences are adding the words "desert" and "yin yin", which are the initiation of The Mahabharata for Jiayou, in order to see their own wonders, such as Li Guangbi's general Guo Ziyijun, the first order, several times more wonderful.
Wang Wei's poems are not simply more than "indifferent" and "yin", but create an artistic conception. The word "indifference" can be seen in its vast expanse; the word "yin" can be seen in its depth and elegance.
The Ming Dynasty scholar Gui Tianxiang said in his book "Approving the Sound of Tang Poetry":
"Paddy field flying egret, summer wood yellow oriole", everyone can do it, compared to the four words of "desert" and "yin", poetry wins.
It can be seen that the goodness of this poem is due to these four overlapping words, without which the charm of this poem is much less. As for whether Wang Wei copied Li Jiayou or Li Jiayou copied Wang Wei, it is not something we should pursue, we just need to appreciate this wonderful poem.