<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > a daily poetry hunt, pay attention to the reading dogs! </h1>
"Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" is the most widely circulated in the anthologies of Tang poems in previous dynasties, and it can be said to be a household name. The reason why it can be so popular is that when the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" was selected and compiled, it took "the most popular works of Tang poems, and selected the most important ones" as the standard, and selected those tang poems that were both classic and beautiful, and of moderate length, easy to understand and easy to recite.
All in all, most of the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" are selected as famous masterpieces, from Wang Yang Luluo of the Early Tang Dynasty, Li Bai Du Fu Wang Wei Meng Haoran of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, King Changling Wang Zhi GaoShi of the Middle Tang Dynasty, Bai Ju Yi Yuan Liu Zongyuan Liu Yuxi of the Middle Tang Dynasty, and Li Shangyin Du Mu of the Late Tang Dynasty.
However, even the famous poets must be selected for both classic and beautiful poems, which must be easy to understand and easy to recite. If the language of the poems is obscure and the style is too different, it is difficult to be selected. For example, Li He, who is known as "ghost talent", his poetic achievements are by no means inferior to his contemporaries, but because of his strange poetic style and strange poetry, his speech is difficult and difficult to understand, and even a single poem has not been selected into the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty".
In fact, there are two other Middle And Tang poets whose poems are not suitable for inclusion in the "Three Hundred Tangs", they are Mengjiao and Jia Dao, who are known as "suburban cold islands and thin islands". Both of their poems are very focused on refining words, and the language is difficult, the rhyme is more stilted, and the words are more sad, so they are called "bitter bards". "Suburban cold island thin" refers to the difficult words and sentences of the two people's poems, and the poetry is narrow.
However, both of them had poems selected for the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty", and Mengjiao had two poems, "Spirited Female Exercise" and "Wandering Zi Yin", which could be selected due to the universal educational significance of poetry. And Jia Dao only has one poem selected, this poem is only four sentences and 20 words, but it is like a heavenly god who has perfected the realm.
And come and enjoy this incarnation of the "bitter bard" Jia Dao:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the seeker is not encountered</h1>
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Matsushita asked the boy, and the teacher took the medicine and went.
Only in this mountain, the clouds are deep and unknown.
This poem "The Seeker Does Not Meet" Jia Dao went to the mountains to find a hermit friend Changsun Xia, who failed to meet the feeling of writing, this poem was not only selected into the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty", but also selected into the primary school textbook. Even many preschool children's enlightenment books have also selected this poem, and some people have specially matched this poem with animations for enlightened young children, which shows its charm.
This poem is only 4 sentences and 20 words, very simple and easy to understand, to the effect that he went to the mountains to find a hermit friend but did not meet, only the friend's boy apprentice was there, so he asked the boy in Panasonic, and the boy said that the master went to collect medicine, as for where to collect medicine, the answer was only in this mountain where the clouds were deep and did not know what!
Although the general idea is simple, the timeless mood and beauty contained in the poem are very rich. The whole poem is a question-and-answer style, with three questions and three answers. The first sentence, "Matsushita asks the boy", is the first question, which follows the doubt of "the hermit seeker does not meet" in the question, and the question is about "What about your master?" Words like that. The second sentence, "The teacher takes the medicine and goes", is the boy's answer.
The third sentence was supposed to be the second question, but the poet omitted the question "Where to go to collect medicine" and instead replied directly to the boy: "Only in this mountain"!
The last sentence, "The clouds are deep and unknown," is the third Q&A, which also omits "Where is this mountain?" The question, and the boy's answer should have been "do not know", but the poet extended the word "do not know" to "the clouds are deep and do not know", ending with the scenery of the vast white clouds, and the mood was suddenly born.
Simple four-sentence question and answer, there are also "green pine", "medicine", "green mountains", "white clouds" and other scenery interspersed, as if the beauty of light makeup is better than thick wipes, the meaning is timeless. The green mountains and white clouds are vast and faint, which also sets off the style of the hermit and the sadness that the poet never encounters.
And the poet's emotions also rise and fall with the question and answer, from the expectation of the "hermit seeker", to the disappointment of "not meeting", to the hope of meeting the boy's inquiry, but the second disappointment of "picking medicine", followed by the poet's persistence in asking again, in exchange for the three disappointments of "this mountain", and finally still asking where in the mountain, but in the end it is the blankness of "not knowing the place". There is a heart to seek but not to meet, it is expected to meet and difficult to meet, but it can be encountered but not encountered in the end, all of which have turned into "clouds deep and do not know", leaving a mystery that attracts people's reverie for eternity.
Jia Dao's poem is fresh and natural, the words are frank, and there is no trace of human fireworks, as if it has entered the realm. This natural style is very different from the difficult works that it usually crafts and ponders.
Later poets also praised this poem, calling it "a wonderful sound outside the heavens", "more into the realm", "unpredictable" and so on. Such a masterpiece, it is indeed deserved to be selected into the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty"!