Poetry about love often brings tears to people's eyes, but poems about family affection rarely make people cry.
However, in the Song Dynasty, there was such a poet who reunited with his wife and children for a long time and wrote a poem with excitement, which was simple and made people cry.
Later, some people commented: Even If Du Fu regenerates, he can't write about him.
This tearful family love poem is the Northern Song Dynasty poet Chen Shidao's "Show the Three Sons".
"The Three Sons"
The third son had returned from a foreign family
To go far is to forget each other, and to return to the near is intolerable.
The children are already in sight, and their eyebrows are slightly unconscious.
Overjoyed, tearful.
Knowing that it is not a dream, the mind is suddenly unstable.
Many people do not know Chen Shidao.
He was an important poet of the "Jiangxi Division" of the Northern Song Dynasty, one of the "Six Gentlemen of Sumen", and a proud protégé of Su Shi.
At first glance, you may think that Chen Shidao is a big official with money and leisure.
In fact, Chen Shidao was born in a family of eunuchs, but in his early years, his family fell in the middle of the road and his life was difficult.
However, he was quite highly educated, and when he was sixteen years old, he met Zeng Gong, a literary titan at that time, and after reading his articles, Zeng Gong was shocked and praised him for being famous for his articles.
It is precisely because of his learning that Guo Kuo, who was famous in the political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty, married his daughter to him.
But helplessly, Chen ShiDao's family was poor, there was still a mother and sister in the family, unable to support the family, and his wife and children had to rely on their father-in-law for a living.
In the seventh year of Yuanfeng (1084), Guo Kuoren was put in charge of the Chengdu Prefecture Prison, and his wife, three sons and a daughter had to follow Guo into Sichuan.
Later, because of Su Shi's recommendation, Chen Shidao was appointed as a professor of Xuzhou Prefecture Studies, and at this time, he took his wife back to Xuzhou.
At this time, he had been separated from his wife and children for four years.
After a life and death farewell, and the sudden meeting with his wife and children, Chen Shidao's mood was in this song "Show the Three Sons".
You have gone far, I will not remember anymore, and when you are coming back, it will be difficult to control your thoughts.
This sentence is very similar to Song Zhi's question: "The near-homesickness is more timid, and I dare not ask the people who come."
It is precisely because of extreme longing that it is difficult to control emotions the closer you get.
The children stood in front of them, but the father could not even recognize their faces.
This sentence has been written for too long, and the children have become strangers.
When we meet this day, we are happy not to know what to say, the tears are over, and I smile miserably, and in this laughter, there is much joy, guilt and desolation.
Although I know that meeting is not a dream, my heart is still wavering, is this really not a dream?
A long farewell reunion, such as in a dream, this sentence originates from Du Fu's "Qiang Village": The night is more candle-like, relatively like a dream.
The whole poem has no canon, no strange words, and the language is simple and unpretentious, but when it is read, it makes people want to cry, because the feelings are too sincere and moving.
Even hundreds of years later, when we read this poem again, we will still be moved to tears, which is the charm of language.
Chen Shidao has "Houshan Poetry", which put forward the proposition that "poetry is better than clumsy, rather simple than hua, rather rough than weak, and rather secluded than vulgar". person
Even if it is simple and unpretentious language, as long as it is true and sincere, it is just as moving.
Many people pursue gorgeous rhetoric, wonderful language, do not know, sincere feelings are the most touching.
As a representative figure of the "Jiangxi Poetry School", Chen Shidao studied Du Fu, and Huang Tingjian once commented: "His compositions know the key of the ancients, and his poems are deeply rooted in the syntax of Lao Du, and today's poets cannot be."
The ancients said: Green, taken from blue and blue from blue; ice, water is cold from water.
For Chen Shidao, the Qing Dynasty critic Pan Deyu commented: "It flows out of the nature, and the pen strength is deep enough to be secondary, although the old Du Fusheng cannot be lived." (The Poetry of Yang Yi Zhai, vol. 6)
Chen Shidao's poems are revealed with true feelings and are deeply moving, even if Du Fu is revived, he cannot write about him.
This can be said to be the best evaluation of Chen Shidao.