Editor's note:
"One Day, One Poem" is one of the "Classical Looking Back" series by poetry connoisseur Mr. Li Yuanluo, and is the latest revised edition published by Shanghai Oriental Publishing Center. This book collects 365 excellent poems (including poems, lyrics and songs) of the past generations, divided into 12 months, arranged day by day and equipped with ancient famous paintings, each appendix hundreds of words of appreciation of short articles, inch in a simple scale, and strive to connect the ancient and modern, across China and abroad, so that readers can have a volume in hand. With the authorization of the publisher, this platform selects and publishes 30 articles, two once a week. to feed the reader.
Excerpt from "One Poem a Day"
July 2
Give a crescent moon
(Tang) Miao's son
The early moon is like a bow that has not been wound, and it is clearly hanging on the edge of the blue sky.
When the people Mo Dao moth eyebrows are small, three or five reunions shine all over the sky.
The Tang Dynasty was an era of poetry. Because poetry is the center of the entire social culture, and the atmosphere of poetry is the main cultural atmosphere of the society, the early wisdom of the poetry of children or teenagers is like a flower that has not bloomed before spring has warmed, and the feathers have not yet spread their wings.
The most famous is Luo Binwang, one of the "Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty". "Goose, goose, goose, song to the sky. The poem "Wing the Goose", which he wrote when he was seven years old, has been selected into primary school Chinese textbooks and recited by Tong Mengjun. When the female poet Xue Tao was eight years old, her father pointed to a plane tree in the courtyard and chanted the sentence "remove an ancient tong in the court, and shrug into the clouds" to make her sequel, Xue Tao responded to the sound and said "branches welcome birds in the north and south, leaves send to the wind", which has become a good story to this day.
The Quan Tang Poems recorded: "At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Miao had a son who was seven years old, intelligent in interpreting texts, and summoned as a prodigy. Give the crescent moon poem, praise. This poem "Fu New Moon", the first sentence uses the "bow" as a metaphor for the form of the new moon, lively and vivid, the ending sentence predicts that the new moon will become a full moon, quite imaginative, a naïve childlike fun, a cloud of heaven, even if placed in the best poem of adults. However, the contemporary poet Yang Jinglong's "New Moon" is a different scene and sky: "The moon is like a hook / Like a little silver hook hanging by a daughter // Put away the curtain, put away the peace of mind / Put away the daughter's ten thousand beautiful gentleness // The moon is like a hook / Like a Sensen Wu hook worn by a man // The blade is like frost, the blade is like snow / The bloodthirsty man makes the world's creatures charcoal paint // The moon is like a hook / The railing is shot all over, and he goes to the West Building without words." ”
October 24
Shy Xia
Shijing Qin Feng
The pale leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost.
The so-called Yi people are on the water side.
The road is obstructed and long.
Swim back and see, like in the middle of the water.
蒹葭凄凄,白露未晞。
The so-called Yi people, in the water of Mei.
Trace the way, obstruct and rank.
Swim back and see, like in the water.
The white dew is not over.
The so-called Yi people are in the water.
Trace the way, the road is blocked and right.
Swim back and swim like you're in the water.
In the early 80s of the 20th century, some new poems were named "obscure poems", which caused fierce debate in the poetry circle. In fact, "hazy poetry" or poems with hazy beauty have existed since ancient times, and they have existed in ancient times, and the "Yingyi" chapter is the proof of the "Book of Poetry" more than 2,000 years ago.
Du Fu also has a poem entitled "蒹葭". In the old letters, "葭思", "蒹葭之思", "蒹葭人" became nostalgic clichés. Taiwanese writer Qiong Yao has the novel "On the Water Side", and the theme song lyrics of the TV series of the same name are: "Green grass, white mist, there is a beautiful person, on the water side." I want to go up the river and snuggle up to him, but there is a dangerous beach ahead, and the road is long and long. I wanted to go down the river and look for her direction, but I vaguely saw that she was in the middle of the water. And the poet Yang Jinglong also gave a poem with the title "Yingyi": "Looking through the autumn water without crossing." The great river has no end / The pale leaves. Early birth Huafa // traced to it. Eyelashes are white, frost falls on the head/wanders to follow it. Winter coats bloom all the way snowflakes // to winter. The surface of the water condenses into a layer of solid ice / as if in the middle of the water. Finally able to arrive // The so-called Yiren. Lidong had already returned home before Lidong. "It's really the opposite, I can't ask for it. It can be seen that ancient and modern time and space are separated and poetry is connected, and poetry on each side of the water also has its own maternal bloodline.
Li Yuanluo: Contemporary poet, essayist, scholar and researcher, honorary chairman of Hunan Writers Association, part-time, visiting and honorary professor of many universities, consultant of the Chinese Poetics Research Association, consultant of the poetry platform "Xiaolou Listening to the Rain". He has published about 30 poetic works and poetic cultural prose works such as "Poetic Aesthetics", "Poetry Country Shenyou Yiyi Classical Poetry Modern Reader", "Tang Poetry World", "Song Ci World", "Yuanqu Mountains and Rivers" ("Poetry Culture Prose Trilogy", newly revised and revised).
Editor/Zhang Xuefang Review/Xiao Lou Listening to the Rain Proofreader/Feng Xiao