When the famous Tang poet Liu Yuxi fell to the ground, 9 years had passed since the Anshi Rebellion.
In the past 9 years, the large and small skin trauma of the Tang Dynasty has been almost healed, and there is no remedy for the knife that stabs the heart.
When the mood is gone, everything is chaotic. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty's fortunes took a sharp turn for the worse, and Liu Yuxi was born in the Middle Tang Dynasty, where the eunuchs were gradually showing their feet.
Liu Yuxi was a very early soldier, and as a young man, he was full of enthusiasm and supported the reform of the restoration. Soon, with the defeat of the Restoration faction, Liu Yuxi also officially ended his career as a Beijing official and began a roaming journey on the land of Shenzhou.
There has never been a lack of poetry in the land of China, and Liu Yuxi has written a number of famous sentences on this trip to "wander", which have been passed down to future generations.
Among them, there is a group of poems, which are particularly famous - "Waves and Sands".
There are a total of 9 poems in this group of poems, and the most familiar one should be the "Nine-Qu Yellow River Wanlisha". This article will take you to appreciate the 8th poem in the group.
Although this poem is not as magnificent and imposing as the Yellow River, it has a deep philosophy and Liu Yuxi's own attitude towards life and setbacks, which is worth reading.
Lang Taosha Qi's Eight Liu Yu Xi [Tang Dynasty] Mo Dao's rumors are as deep as the waves, and Mo Yan's migration is like sand sinking. Although it is hard work, blowing out the wild sand begins to reach gold.
The group of poems "Waves and Sands" involves more than one place name, and there are many rivers such as the Yellow River, Luoshui, Beishui, Qinghuai, Parrot Island, Maojin River and so on. Therefore, one theory is that this group of poems was composed after Liu Yuxi had completed his journey and settled in Kuizhou, when it was already 822 AD, and Liu Yuxi was just 50 years old.
This poem belongs to Yan Zhi poetry, so there is no need to take the routine of writing scenery lyricism, and the opening paragraph is Liu Yuxi's bold words.
Don't say that rumors are as "deep" as the waves; don't say that people who are degraded are "sinking" like sand.
Note the words "deep" and "deep" here. The two words were originally used to describe the waves and sand, that is, the scene that Liu Yuxi saw in front of his eyes at this time, but through "as" and "like", the characteristics of waves and sand shifted to rumors and emigrants.
The depiction of the scenery becomes a depiction of one's own life.
Rumors are fierce, like waves, and when people move away, they are like sand sinking into the abyss.
This is a very pessimistic sentence, but we all know Liu Yuxi as a person. When he was born, he divided the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty into him, and his life was high and optimistic, until he was old, he was sick, and he was able to write sentences such as "For Xia Shang is full of heaven".
Therefore, the pessimism in front is only a foreshadowing, it is to promote the first to suppress, in order to meet the lyricism of the later text.
"Although it is hard work, blowing out the wild sand begins to reach gold."
Liu Yuxi wrote this poem, which should still be in the Yellow River. He was watching the life of the gold digger, washing the sand over and over again, letting the sand seep down, leaving a grain of real gold.
In his eyes, life should be like this, whose life will be smooth? In fact, if you want to achieve a career and want to hone into real gold, you will only encounter more suffering and torture than ordinary people.
But all the process is to find gold, to make themselves into gold.
Recently, I learned a sentence: "To learn the poetry of the ancients, it is advisable to seek its meaning, not to hunt its floating words, and to make a façade language in vain." ”
To study the poetry of the ancients, it is best to seek meaning in them. Don't just take the embossed words and use them to decorate the façade of your article.
As Lu You said, "Kung Fu is outside the poem", Liu Yuxi can leave posterity with one arrogant and philosophical poem after another, not by piecing together other people's words.
It is because I first lived an optimistic, confident and heroic appearance, and then I could write such a poem.
When we read poetry, we should also learn the spirit of the ancients through poetry in order to benefit life.
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