Spring to autumn, the four seasons change, early summer in our hearts mostly represent comfort and vitality, all things after the birth of spring have begun to grow vigorously, everything is developing in the direction of luxury and prosperity.
The same is true for the ancients, many early summer poems are describing the nuanced changes in the surrounding environment, containing the poet's praise for everything and life in this season.
For example, the well-known "small lotus shows sharp horns, and there are dragonflies standing on the head", such as the expression of summer nights, "the family rains in the yellow plum season, and the grass pond is full of frogs", and then the description of the lotus fragrance and fruit are together in the "wind and hunting small pond." After the rain lotus flowers are full of incense. Shen Li Floating Melon ice and snow cool. ”。
But at the same time, there is no shortage of poets who use this season that should be lush to express the sorrow and loss in their hearts in contrast.
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Living deep in the city, spring to summer.
Providence pities the grass, and the earth is heavy and sunny.
And add a high cabinet, micro-note small window ming.
After the nest is dried, the flying body is lighter.
- Don Li Shangyin, "Evening Sunshine"
Li Shangyin's "Evening Sunshine" is a typical representative of expressing his inner feelings through the delicate description of the scenery, although he is in a secluded city, but in this spring and summer transition season, Li Shangyin ascended to see the sunset in the sky, and the beauty made him feel something. In his eyes, an inconspicuous little grass is also bathed in the comfort and beauty of the early summer and late sunshine, as if carrying the little brilliance of the evening sun, trying to grow upwards. The sunset that penetrated the windows of every household, the birds that flew freely and easily, were all the beauty that Li Shangyin saw in this early summer evening sunshine.
At that time, Li Shangyin was not a time of great spirit and everything that went smoothly, he was ostracized because he was caught in the party struggle, and was forced to leave Chang'an to find an errand in this remote town. Perhaps such a life moment is precisely when most people want to express their nostalgia and not to meet, depressed and difficult to understand, and Li Shangyin focuses on these grasses and trees in life, he looks at and reads so many beautiful scenery, although he does not deliberately express his open-mindedness, and he does not directly associate himself with whether he is a grateful summer grass, or a bird that soars freely, but we can still see Li Yishan who should be frustrated but praises the early summer at the height of the city tower.
Yes, for the author, leaving the whirlpool of power struggle may not be a bad thing, at least so that he no longer needs to face the pressure of the failure of the struggle at all times, perhaps it is this luck that can still be thought of when he is discouraged, which has created Li Shangyin, who is in the mood to blow the summer wind and watch the sunset in this "Evening Sun".
Su Shunqin of the Northern Song Dynasty also had a similar work, after experiencing the reduction of his post, he lived in seclusion to the Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou, and he once described the lazy and idle early summer as an official when he was no longer an official:
The courtyard is deeply clear in summer, and the pomegranates are open all over the curtains.
The trees are full of shade at noon, and the dream is flowing when the warblers sound.
- Song Su Shunqin, "Xia Yi"
Similar to Li Shangyin's "Evening Sunshine", this "Summer Intention" also focuses on the surrounding environment in the summer afternoon, the winding courtyard, the warm opening of pomegranate flowers, and the thick trees and the yellow orioles that wake up the nap on the trees. Although the whole poem does not directly express the author's ideas and attitude to life, the comfortable life scene through the afternoon nap that jumps to the mind is not to illustrate the author's calm mentality of living seriously when living in seclusion and living up to every scenery.
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Outside the smoke and dust in Jinli, there are eight or nine homes in Gangchon.
Round lotus floating leaflets, fine wheat falling light flowers.
Bu Zhai went from Zi Lao to the country on credit for the farmers.
Far from the omission of the order, do not ask Dansha.
- Tang DuFu, "For the Farmers"
Du Fu's description of summer is more of a personal complex emotion. This song "For the Farmer" was written by Du Fu after he temporarily lived in Chengdu after a long period of wandering, at this time when many parts of the country were in the midst of war, there was still a hint of tranquility in the small mountain village of Chengdu, which was greeting the summer scene, and the lotus leaves and fine wheat in front of him were heralding the arrival of a mature and prosperous season. However, although the author saw this scene, he was concerned about the flying artillery fire outside the village.
Du Fu's career was not smooth, he repeatedly ran into a wall, and after years of ups and downs, at this time he thought that he should "grow old from Zi", that is, to find a place to work in agriculture to grow old. However, although the author expresses this in the poem, it makes the reader feel that he does not really want to have the intention of ending his life, even if he is a farmer, he also thinks of "going to the country on credit", he clearly thinks of this country that has been in turmoil, he cynically ignores state affairs after so many disappointments, but the next sentence clearly shows that he is still the Du Fu who is worried about the country and the people.
In the whole poem, the beautiful scenery of the summer is contrasted with the author's negative emotions, and the author's cynical words are contrasted with the true thoughts in his heart, so that the reader feels the impact of the author's emotions: in the era of "the country breaking the mountains and rivers", how many times Du Fu has experienced efforts and disappointments, and how many times he has suppressed and struggled, and only then has he gradually felt powerless against the fate of his own country.
3
Ruoye Creek picks lotus women, laughing at the lotus flowers.
The sunshine new makeup is bright under the water, and the wind is wafting in the air.
On the shore who is the home of Ye Lang, three three five five reflects the Yang.
The purple mule hissed into the falling flowers, and saw this stumbling empty intestine.
--Tang Li Bai, "Picking Lotus Songs"
If Du Fu's "For the Farmer" reflects his emotions through the linguistic side of "duplicity", Li Bai's "Picking Lotus" is a direct expression of inner depression and hesitation. Unlike most people who describe the summer environment and scenery, Li Bai describes the joyful scene of the girls in the lotus picking activities. The girls with new makeup, the laughter in the lotus, the lotus fragrance in the wind, the water flowing clearly to the bottom, a summer full of life breath is vivid in the author's pen, and there are those who faintly see groups of three or five through the cracks of the tree, showing the beautiful and shy state of the young people, which leave a deep impression on the poet in this summer and the season.
However, as soon as the words turned, the last sentence of the poem, the poet rode a horse and stepped through the falling flowers, and also quickly bid farewell to the beauty in front of him. Li Bai suddenly felt lost, and the beautiful scenery of summer in front of him seemed to be as fleeting as so many splendid things in life. He may not have been immersed in it yet, but all this has disappeared from sight. The author uses such a beautiful and perishable situation at the end of the poem to express the depressed mentality that the time of life has flown by, but he has not been able to do anything, and even failed to achieve his ambitions in a limited time. In our impression, Li Bai has always been a wild and uninhibited, free and flowing image, but we all know that such a poet also has a hesitant mentality of lamenting that his years have passed and his ambitions have not yet been accomplished.
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The festivals and things urge each other to be new, and the obsessive children retain the spring.
Fang Fei Xie should not hate, Xia Mu Yin yin is lovely.
——Song Qinguan, "The Obscure Day of March"
Qin Guan's "Obscure Day Even Question in March" reflects the optimistic and open-minded mentality in summer. The poem first explains the fact of the change of seasons, and at the same time points out that so many poets are sad about spring and autumn, and the passing of spring is always tragic, as if at the tail of spring, everyone is expressing the powerlessness and sadness of "staying in spring without any plan". And Qin Guan is different, he shows the natural meaning of the change of seasons, since it is a natural law, why fall into it and feel sad and unable to extricate himself, it is better to respect the laws of nature, let yourself bid farewell to each season with a calm and indifferent attitude, and meet the next change.
"Fang Fei Xie why hate, xia mu yin yin is lovely" is the finishing touch of this poem, in such a state of mind, the author is not passively accepting the objective law of the alternation of the four seasons, but also shows that in fact, summer has the same beautiful scenery as spring, trees lush, lush growth, in fact, is the same beautiful scenery as a hundred flowers in spring. The whole poem is short of four sentences, which vividly expresses the optimism and open-mindedness of the poet. At the same time, by describing the mentality of the spring and summer changes, it is not to show the poet's outlook on life: different stages of life have different beauty, sometimes do not have to feel sad for the loss of the current luck, or encounter adversity, knowing that the life behind will not have unexpected beauty and surprises, the so-called "blessing and misfortune" we often say, that is. After all, no one's life can always be in a good situation, and maintaining a calm state of mind to face gains and losses is the key to trying to live at each stage.
In fact, the cherry blossoms in spring, the trees in summer, the full moon in autumn, and the first snow in winter are the sources of light written by the ancients, they observe and sigh, just as the wind around them may stop, but the wind in the hearts of the literati always rises again. Perhaps generations of talents will always grow old, but the four seasons will never stop. Regarding the emotions in summer poetry, some people are happy, some people are sad, some people are calm, and some people are frustrated, and it is precisely because of this that we can read these thousands of years later and feel the joys and sorrows of poets and even the entire era.
-Author-
Pei An Ge, a cheerful girl who loves words and hot pot.