Author: Veil
Gong Zizhen (1792-1841), a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was a famous thinker, writer and pioneer of reformism in the Qing Dynasty.
When the people of the world were still intoxicated in the dream of the great power of the Heavenly Dynasty, the young Gong Zizhen soberly heard that the elegy of the end of the world was quietly playing. He shouted the Son of Heaven, pursued the law of change, and thirsted for talent:
I advise Tiangong to shake things up and demote talents in an eclectic manner. - "Miscellaneous Poems of The Self-Hai Dynasty: Its 125th"
However, Gong Zizhen's scientific expedition was not smooth, his ambition was difficult to reward, and he sank his life into a subordinate, and he had to float in the sea of words.
He was the first poet of the Qing Dynasty and the last master in the history of classical Chinese literature to be compared with Li Bai, Du Fu and Su Dongpo.
Liang Qichao read Gong Zizhen's article and said, such as being shocked;
Liu Yazi called Gong Zizhen's poems the first in three hundred years.
Gong Zizhen likes to write about falling flowers, and his falling flowers poems, with a unique personal style and a common tone of pity and sadness, present us with an unusual, peculiar, and beautiful magnificent scene.
<h1>1, spring to spring, flowers blossom and fall, this is a natural phenomenon</h1>
Falling flowers never return, often causing people to sigh at the passage of time, from the flowers to the impermanence of life, therefore, falling flowers have also become the core image of the poems on the theme of spring.
Ouyang Xiu used the mouth of the young woman in the boudoir to express his depressed feelings:
Tearful eyes asked Hua Hua without saying a word, and the red flew over the swing. - "Butterfly Love Flower: A Few Deep And Deep Courtyards"
At the end of spring, What Yan Shu felt was not all withering and declining, but also a happy reunion, and the flying swallows were the return of old friends, although there was relief, but the mood of the whole poem was still low, with a faint sadness:
Helpless flowers fell, and déjà vu returned. - "Huan Xi Sha A New Word Wine Glass"
Li Qingzhao thought about the whereabouts of the wanderer, ignoring the cold dew at night, staring at the flowers falling into the water, full of sorrow:
Flowers float from zero water, one kind of acacia, two places of idleness. - "A Cut of Plum Red Lotus Fragrant Jade Mu Qiu"
The most painful feeling about the fate of his life is Li Yu, whose good end of "forty years of home country, three thousand miles of mountains and rivers" collapsed in an instant, how many family and national enmity, how many grievances and entanglements, are contained in this short sentence:
Lin Hua thanked Chun Hong, too hurried. Helpless to come cold rain late wind. ——" Meet Huan Lin Hua Thanks Chun Hong"
Daiyu's "Flowers and Flowers Flying in the Sky";
Zhu Shuzhen "does not roll the curtains of flowers in the courtyard";
Wang Guowei's "The most is that the human world can't stay, Zhu Yan ci mirror flower ci tree"
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All these poems of chanting and falling flowers are all flowing with wisps of resentment, and Tang Yin has written thirty poems on falling flowers, but he still can't escape the sadness.
However, the falling flower poems reached Gong Zizhen's pen, breaking through the ordinary imagery and presenting us with a magnificent scene with a unique face.
<h1>2, the falling flowers are written like a wonderland, gorgeous and colorful</h1>
Falling flowers in the western suburbs
The western suburbs fall flowers in the world, and the ancient but wounded spring poems,
The western suburbs were exhausted, and Mr. Ding'an sold wine to reward it.
Mr. Spring people do not feel it, Mr. send spring people and sneer,
Hu Peng also got three or four sons, and everyone who went out of the city was stupid.
Such as the tide of Qiantang surging at night, such as Kunyang Zhan Chen invincible,
For example, the eighty-four thousand heavenly women washed their faces and poured rouge at this place.
The strange dragon monster phoenix loves to drift, why does the carp of the qingao want to go to heaven?
The Jade Palace was empty, and there was not a single moth eyebrow in the Three Hundred and Sixty Realms.
Another example is the troubles of Mr. Wang's life, and the trance grotesque is full of difficulties.
Sir read all three books, the most liked Vimal volume in many clear words,
Then he heard the flowers falling from the Pure Land four inches deep, and meditated on it.
The pure country of the West has not yet arrived, and the next pen is written in the qi language He Li Li,
Ander trees have endless flowers and rainier new good,
Three hundred and sixty daily is the time of falling flowers!
In March of the seventh year of Daoguang (1827), Gong Zizhen was 36 years old and failed the fourth meeting.
In order to alleviate the bitter mood, Gong Zizhen often gathered with friends at the Flower Temple of the Three Officials Temple in Beijing to drink, chant poetry, and talk in a big stride.
Here the green grass, flowers and trees, especially when the begonias are in full bloom, attracting countless tourists to come to watch.
On this day, after a strong wind, begonia flowers fell all over the ground. Compared with the brilliance of the branches, the color of the ground in front of you is another strange scene. The poet was stunned, first "discolored", then "god is stupid", and finally, the poet stimulated a surging imagination, thinking like a fountain, writing like a fly.
On the one hand, the poet compares himself with the unfortunate life of the falling flower, on the other hand, he does not fall into the old tune of "ancient but wounded spring poems", a series of novel metaphors let you feel the magnificent splendor of the falling flowers:
Like the thunderous Tide of Qiantang rushing in at night;
Just like the Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xiu defeated Wang Mang's 400,000 troops with 3,000 elites;
Just like the eighty-four thousand fairies in the sky washed their faces and poured rouge water on the earth together;
The petals of the petals that fluttered one after another were pale pink and light red, one moment like the strange dragon and phoenix floating in the east and west, and the next like the red carp carrying the immortals flying in the sky.
The flowers are gone, the branches are empty, just like the Jade Emperor's palace has just been washed away by the water; looking down, the petals are piled up, and the red light is everywhere...
"The Tree of Ander has endless flowers and rains new good, three hundred and sixty daily is when the flowers fall!" Finally, the poet gathered the strength of his whole body, in the brilliant magnificence of wanyan flying, spewed out his true feelings for the falling flowers, although his life was bumpy, but still harbored the firm belief of reform and endless life, and saw the new life and hope in the decline!
<h1>3. Write the falling flowers like thunderbolts and thunder, and the ground shakes the mountains</h1>
Miscellaneous poems of the third
The wind is strong and the spring soul is blown, and the tiger and leopard are deep and sleepy.
In the end, the flowers were in a good mood, and they were silently grateful for the jade emperor's grace.
Fate is not good, the merit is indefinite, 48-year-old Gong Zizhen finally discouraged, decided to resign from the government and return to the south.
When I was about to leave the capital, it was the time when the flowers were blooming, and although it was beautiful, the strong wind blew people unbearably. (Ganggang wind, a word from Taoism, means strong wind in the high heavens.) Spring soul, that is, falling flowers. ）
There are countless poems that have fallen flowers and hurt spring, and I have never seen a poem so powerful and fierce and imposing.
"The wind is strong and the spring soul is blown, and the tiger and leopard are deeply lying in the nine." This wind is not only powerful, a "dust" word, but also full of strength, completely unlike the ordinary expressions such as "blowing" and "blowing". The opening chapter indicates a sinister and unpredictable, and sure enough, the "tiger and leopard sinking" in front of the door is not a symbol of the evil forces of decay? Let you not enter, realize your ambitions, and quickly make you feel the anxiety and uneasiness of "the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings".
The poet was born into a famous family, an official eunuch family, and although he had great talent, he did not reluctantly win the jinshi until he was 38 years old. When he was preparing to show his ambitions, he was excluded from the core of power by those in power on the grounds that his writing was not good-looking.
The poet uses the metaphor of the falling flower to describe the withered life and laments the unfair treatment he has received.
However, despite the bumpy situation and the gray mood, the poet turned his thoughts: "In the end, the flowers are in a good mood, and they silently feel the grace of the Jade Emperor." ”
He was like a falling flower, about to leave the capital in a gray and slippery way, and his mood was actually quite good, not only did he have no resentment, but he was also grateful to the emperor.
Which vassal should not show thanks to the emperor? It's just a retort of Pili Yangqiu.
Even if it is beaten and excluded, the falling flowers in Gong Zizhen's pen are not flying and blinding, and they are red. "Gang Wind, Dustpan, Tiger and Leopard, Nine Dragons", the sentence is heavy and full of tension, so that the falling flowers are like thunder, surging forward, rushing away, breaking the reader's psychological expectations, presenting Gong Zizhen's unique aesthetic image.
<h1>4, in the drifting flowers to see hope and beauty</h1>
Miscellaneous poems of the fifth
The vastness is slanted away from the melancholy day, and the whip is the end of the world.
Falling red is not a merciless thing, and it is more protective of flowers when turned into spring mud.
In the nineteenth year of Daoguang (1839), it was the late spring, the fangs were shaking, the poet stepped on a piece of falling flowers and walked south, although there was still sorrow and sadness in his heart, but it was no longer as fierce as the "Gang Wind Force Spring Soul", he wanted to understand, although the capital did not have my place of use, I still had a passion for blood, and I could do my best for the country at any time.
The poet said so, and did so.
After Gong Zizhen returned to Hangzhou, he did not have good mountains and rivers in his hometown. In 1841, with the sense of mission of the times, Gong Zizhen came to yunyang Academy in Danyang, Jiangsu To give a lecture, transforming into spring mud and cultivating the growth of the country's flowers.
This year, Lin Zexu banned smoking in Humen, Guangzhou, and there was friction between China and Britain, followed by the Opium War.
The development of history is in Gong Zizhen's prophecy.
Gong Zizhen repeatedly wrote letters to Liang Zhangju, the governor of Jiangxi in Shanghai, asking him to work with him to plan the defense of the enemy. Liang Zhangju also looked forward to Gong Zizhen's going to help, who expected, before the trip, Gong Zizhen suddenly passed away.
Liang Zhangju writes in the poem:
Bohai Jia Gongzi, strange feelings like old age.
The article is unconcerned, and the talent is extremely arrogant.
Just about the wind and clouds, He Yuanlu was shocked.
Until the last moment of his life, Gong Zizhen's veins were flowing with the blood of worrying about the country and the people, and he was not cooled by the bumps in his career and the difficult reward for his ambitions.
Just as he wrote in his poem: Falling red is not a merciless thing, and it is more protective of flowers when turned into spring mud.
Even if you are abandoned like a falling flower, you must maintain a new life. Gong Zizhen's broad-mindedness and persistent belief also made his poems exude a different and vigorous upward force, becoming a famous sentence.
Gong Zizhen's falling flower poems exude their own unique personality, mixed with the loneliness and misery of their own lives; they contain the pride and dreams of serving the country; and they also use unique aesthetic imagery to pin the author's infinite vision and hope for a better future.