Cui Hao (c. 704–754), poet of the Tang Dynasty. A native of Bizhou (汴州; present-day Kaifeng, Henan). Legend has it that Cui Hao visited the Yellow Crane Tower and left a poem "Yellow Crane Tower" cloud:
The people of the past have gone by the Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is empty here.
The yellow crane is gone, and the white clouds are long in the air.
Harukawa calendar Hanyang tree, yerba buena parrot island.
Where is the Nippori Pass, the Yanbo River makes people sad.
Yellow crane tower
Soon, Li Baideng saw Cui Hao's poems at the Yellow Crane Tower and admired them very much. At that time, some people asked Li Bai to leave a poem, and out of respect for Cui Hao, Li Bai modestly said: "There is a scene in front of you, and Cui Hao's inscription poem is on the top." So "I did nothing and took the hands of the great master." As a result, the literary world has left a good story throughout the ages.
However, after all, Li Bai belonged to the kind of poets who were full of creative genius, and did not fully enjoy themselves when he climbed the Yellow Crane Tower, so he "went to Jinling and wrote Phoenix Terrace poems to imitate it." That is, shortly after that, when Li Bai was touring the Jinling Phoenix Platform, he followed Cui Haoyuan Rhyme and composed "Dengjin Ling Phoenix Platform". Poetry Cloud:
Phoenix on the phoenix stage phoenix tour, phoenix to the Taikong River self-flow.
WuGong flowers and grass buried in the path, the Jin Dynasty crown into an ancient hill.
Three mountains halfway outside the blue sky, a water divided into egret islands.
There are always floating clouds that can cover the sun, and Chang'an is not seen to make people sad.
Nanjing Phoenix Terrace
"Yellow Crane Tower" is a poem written by the poet when he climbed the Yellow Crane Tower. The Yellow Crane Tower was built in the second year of Wu Huangwu (223) and is named after the building site in Huangheji. Legend has it that the ancient immortal prince Ann flew by the Yellow Crane. It is also said that during the Three Kingdoms period, Fei Wenzhen took the crane dengxian here. And got the name. Cui Hao came to visit the Yellow Crane Tower when he was frustrated, and his feelings matched the legend, touching the inspiration and sending this great song. The first four sentences are born from the legend: the people of the past and the yellow crane went, and the "empty" yu this building was only the name of the yellow crane. Hanging the past hurts the present, and the emotion is full of emotion. Then the yellow crane went to write the real scene in front of him, the white clouds were leisurely when the yellow crane flew by, and the yellow crane was gone, and the white clouds were still leisurely. Then it's just "empty" and leisurely. This "empty" word has a lot of feelings. These four sentences are not opposed, and three "yellow cranes" are used in a row, not avoiding repetition, unrestrained, and flowing away naturally. The whole artistic conception is empty and distant, and it is a good way to convey the poet's feelings of loneliness at this moment. The last four sentences evoke a sense of life and homesickness from the scene in front of you. Harukawa calendar, yerba buena. "Calendar", dazzling scenery, "萋萋", confused color. If you haven't returned from a long trip, where is the township? Looking at Hanyang trees, parrot islands, rivers, and township passes, looking around at the vastness, wandering and helpless, ending with the word "sorrow". Nostalgia is endless, dilemma, can not stop, a thousand kinds of thoughts are like the smoke waves on the river confused and endless.
The language of the poem is fresh and fluent, free from the shackles of the law, and is respected by the literati of all generations as the masterpiece of the Yellow Crane Tower. Climbing the Yellow Crane Tower, there is a sigh of "there is a scenery in front of you, and Cui Hao's inscription poem is on the top", and there is no work to go. Later, he wrote poems such as "Parrot Island" and "Dengjinling Phoenix Terrace", which were repeatedly imitated.
As soon as Li Bai's poem came out, he immediately won the praise of "similar to Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower, and the momentum of The Law is not easy to change". Indeed, Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower" and Li Bai's "Dengjinling Phoenix Terrace" are both double walls of Deng linghuaigu. However, on closer reading, it is not difficult to find that Li Bai's generalization and artistic conception are higher than Cui Hao's. The first two sentences of Li Shi summarize the artistic conception of Cui Hao's first four sentences, freeing up a second link and enriching the ideological content of the poem. Cui Haohuaigu is "homesick", while Li Baihuaigu is "worried about the country", compared with the two, Li Bai's ideological realm is also higher than Cui Hao's.