Liu Changqing's poems are very grounded, quite lifelike, and I like his works. The poem "Autumn Climbing Wugongtai Temple Distant View" included in the "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" is one of them.
However, this poem is not suitable for people who are proud of the spring breeze, it is only suitable for reading when they are lost, or when they are slightly depressed, and they can resonate spiritually.
Autumn day to climb wu gongtai temple overlook
[ Tang ] Liu Changqing
After the ancient platform is shaken, the autumn day looks at the hometown.
There are few people from the wild temple, and the water in Yunfeng is deep.
The sunset is still strong, and the cold chimes fill the empty forest.
Worried about the affairs of the Southern Dynasty, the Yangtze River has been unique to this day.
Liu Changqing seems to like to use this kind of long title to compose poems, such as his other narrative poem of similar style, "Sending Li Zhongcheng back to Hanyang Beiye", which is almost the same.
Autumn climbed wu gongtai temple overlook, a total of ten words, but the time, place, events of the poem, one by one explained very clearly...
Time: Autumn. According to historical research, the "autumn day" mentioned in the poem should be a few days before 761 AD, that is, in the autumn of the second year of Tang Shangyuan, Liu Changqing was degraded for the second time and was ordered to return to Beijing to accept "re-pushing".
Location: Wugongtai Temple. There are two key words to explain here. The first is Wu Gongtai, which was specially built during the Southern Dynasty when The Great General Shen Qingzhi of the Liu Song Dynasty attacked the King of Jingling, Liu Zhi, and later, the Later Chen general Wu Mingche was reinforced and increased because of the needs of the war, so it was later named "Wu Gongtai" because of Wu Mingche.
Wugongtai Temple, should be the first temple in Wugongtai, or is a temple built on Wugongtai, I have not studied in depth, Quan made such a conjecture. The location of Liu Changqing's poem is actually this temple.
Event: Overlook. There is really not much strange about this, but people are poets, and people can make poems that have been passed down through the ages by looking at them at random.
And its extraordinary features are also in the poet's life and the special encounter when writing poetry.
Liu Changqing, the "long" in his name, cannot be pronounced "Chang", but should be read as "palm".
Liu Changqing was a famous poet in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and his life was not smooth, probably because of his upright personality, but there were also factors that were not in time.
The date of his birth and death is unknown, but according to historical research, it should be between 709 and 791, and it seems that he is still a high-lived person today. His experience is so bumpy, but it is not as short as Li Bai and Du Fu, which shows that human life expectancy has a significant relationship with genes, and the rest is nonsense.
Liu Changqing had two experiences of being degraded during his life. When he composed this poem, it was he who was degraded twice and then received an edict from the imperial court to return to Beijing to accept the "re-promotion". That is, the meaning of re-acceptance of assessment, evaluation, and then recognition of fate according to the situation. Of course, his heart was very worried, and he didn't know what the result would be in the later stage. Therefore, on such a desolate autumn day, on such a dilapidated nodal high platform, the feeling of homesickness arises spontaneously. This is where the beauty of the poem's mood lies.
Liu Changqing's "Autumn Day Deng Wu Gongtai Temple Overlook", the title of the poem is a bit long, the following I will be referred to as "Autumn Overlook".
"Autumn Overlook" has a total of eight sentences, two sentences in a row. Among them, the first and second sentences of the first and eighth sentences are not work pairs, but the third day of the sentence jaw and the fifth and sixth sentences of the neck are neat and tidy, which can be called a good pair.
At the same time, these four couplets have completely conformed to the rules of creation of the rhythmic poems - from beginning to bearing and turning.
rise. The first link, "After the ancient platform is shaken, autumn enters the hometown heart" points out the meaning of the poem. On a day when the autumn breeze is windy (the neck link must also be explained that it is the evening of the sunset), the poet is visiting the historical monument that has fallen down with a sense of homesickness, the Wugongtai Temple. These two sentences alone have already led the reader into a desolate, twilight scene, and can't help but enter a gray tone of melancholy atmosphere like a poet.
receive. The jaw and neck joints further write the scene and undertake the artistic conception of the first link. The poet came to a desolate country temple, because the Cloud Peak was separated by water, and the autumn mood was getting stronger, it was originally a rare place, and now it was even more deserted, which further set off the desolation and loneliness in the poet's heart, and the emptiness and loneliness of his own future and loneliness.
It should be said that the four poems of jaw and neck link, "There are few people coming from the wild temple, and the cloud peak is far away from the water" and "the sunset is still fortified, and the cold chime is full of empty forests" are respectively neat and tidy, which are two wonderful combinations, very bit Wang Wei's "Empty mountain after the new rain, the weather is late in autumn." Bright moon pine illumination, Clear Spring Stone upstream" artistic conception, but the expression of the heart is different.
The "Wild Temple" in the couplet is related to "Yunfeng", "Few People" to "Water Far", "Sunset" to "Cold Pipe", "Old Fortress" to "Empty Forest" are mutually causal, up and down linkage, the artistic conception is exquisite, reading makes people feel as if they are immersed, and the desolate and ethereal beauty is displayed like a handsome picture in front of them.
turn. The penultimate sentence of the poem "Autumn Overlook" should be a turning point. The poet has written scenes to convert lyricism, the "Southern Dynasty" in the poem has experienced the four short-lived dynasties of Song Qi Liang Chen, and now the monuments still exist, the hero is not there, the poet touches the scenery, both lamenting the reincarnation of the world, but also lamenting that he was not born at the right time. This is similar to Su Dongpo's "Chibi Huaigu" "The great river goes to the east to exhaust the waves, and the characters of the ancient winds" have the same magic.
combine. The last sentence of the poem "Autumn View", "The Yangtze River alone today", is actually an echo of the previous sentence "I am worried about the affairs of the Southern Dynasty". That is to say, despite the vicissitudes of the world and the passing of the Southern Dynasty, the water of the Yangtze River is still rolling east and flowing endlessly, and this sigh has some tragic and magnificent atmosphere, and also expresses the poet's expectations for his future future, just like the dawn that comes out of the haze, let people see hope. At the same time, I vaguely feel that the poet is expressing the sigh of Confucius: The son is in Kawakami, and the deceased is like Sifu!
Liu Changqing's "Autumn View" is only suitable for reading melancholy poems, so that it will have spiritual resonance, do not read it when you are full of ambition, that will make people feel no feelings.
I like Liu Changqing's poem, in fact, because of the mentality. I am fifty-four this year, there is no pressure at work, leisurely and leisurely for several years, in fact, there will always be a sense of loss from time to time, reading this poem will sometimes produce some inexplicable touches in the depths of the heart.
However, I am really mediocre. In any case, I am now born in a prosperous world, and this so-called loss is incomparable to Old Master Liu.