Author: Pei An Ge, Source: Tang Poetry Song Poetry Ancient Poetry (id: tsgsc8)
There is a plot in Zhang Yimou's fantasy blockbuster "The Great Wall" in which the leader of the Chinese army stationed at the Great Wall and resisting the attack of the giant beast was sacrificed, and at his funeral, the drum band sang a song based on a poem to pay tribute to the hero who sacrificed himself for the country, and the lyrics of the lyrics are the familiar "Out of the Plug":
Qin Shi Mingyue Han Shi Guan, the Long March of Ten Thousand Miles has not been returned. But to make the Dragon City fly will be, not to teach Humadu Yin Mountain. ——Wang Changling, "Out of the Plug"
Tragic lyrics with the rhythm of farewell, this shot of the film allows many viewers to substitute for the scene, experience the fearlessness of a general who died in a hundred battles, and the song "Out of the Plug" that appeared in the movie is well-known today, it is the Tang poem recited by every child when he learns to speak, it is a touching line in countless classic film and television works, and it is also a moving scene that many people can't help but think of when they mention the hero of their home country.
The poem's author, Wang Changling, was an excellent border poet who was born in the Tang Dynasty and was known as the "Seven Sacred Hands" because he was good at writing the Seven Absolute Poems.
He was born into poverty, and his life experienced several different identities and lives, from a young farmer to a disciple of Songshan Xuedao, from a volunteer who went out on a border expedition to a school scribe who entered high school, and then slowly moved towards a wandering life of being degraded for no reason.
Wang Changling was depressed all his life in the official arena, and he did not leave a million family fortunes after his death, but his poetic works, literary style, are still enduring today more than a thousand years later.
In all his works, there are two types of themes that are particularly shining, one is the biansai poems, and the other is the gift to friends series, which is also inseparable from his life experience. After all, the days of joining the army were Wang Changling's most scrappy time, and the sincere heart he insisted on throughout his life was to help him make friends and be close to many literati.
The casting pen under the prosperity of the pen from rong
Wang Changling was born in the most prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, for the country, he has always been with a firm love and heart of service, after Tang Xuanzong implemented military reforms and established a recruitment system, Wang Changling did not hesitate to choose to defend the frontier, with the enthusiasm and passion of young people, confidently opened his own road to serve the country.
At this time, Wang Changling was 26 years old, which was the most wanton and dashing year. The days of defending the frontier were fraught with hardships. The desert and the wind and sand, war and death, have become the most common life faced by Wang Changling, and it is this unique period of time that has created this great border poet in history.
Wang Changling's poems on the side of the river not only praise the chaotic heroes who are not afraid of life and death and bravely march forward with "the great wall battles in the past, and the salty words are high", but also the "golden armor on three sides, only in the courage to break the courage" to describe the excitement of the army's great excitement after the good news came from the front, and there are also "tens of thousands of people, and those who go have no whole life" to lament the cruelty of the battlefield and the sadness of the difficult war.
Beacon City West 100-foot Building, dusk alone in the autumn. More Qiang flute Guan Shan Yue, no that golden boudoir thousands of miles of sorrow. ——Wang Changling, "From the Army, Part I"
The pipa dances for a new sound, always closing the mountain and saying goodbye to the old. The chaos is endless, and the high autumn moon shines on the Great Wall. ——Wang Changling, "From the Army: Part II"
The "March from the Army" series is one of Wang Changling's masterpieces of Biansai poems, describing his feelings in the life of the frontier. At that time, he was sitting on the shu tower listening to the "Guan Shan Yue" played by Qiang Di, and he understood that there were soldiers who were thinking of their distant homeland and relatives. Although there are new pipa dance songs in the army from time to time, the general enemy is not as strong as the emotional impact brought by "Guan Shanyue" to everyone, only because it represents the expectation of returning to the hometown.
Far from home and looking forward to reunion, this is the true state of mind of every frontier warrior, Wang Changling wrote the emotions seen in his eyes into a desolate and powerful poem. In his pen, whether it is a bonfire singing and dancing, or a blade before going into battle to kill the enemy, it will always reflect a face of longing.
His poem seems to tell that look at the bright and bright autumn moon, which shines on the mighty Great Wall, and only it can sprinkle the tenderness of hometown on the warriors who are on the frontier.
As the lyrics of today's song sing: Look up and look at the endless gray clouds, the season, called loneliness.
Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain, isolated city looking at Yumen Pass. Huangsha wears golden armor in hundreds of battles, and does not break the Loulan and will not return it. ——Wang Changling, "From the Army: Part IV"
The desert wind and dust are dim, and the red flag is half rolled out of the gate. The former army fought in The north of the river at night, and has reported that it has captured Guhun. ——Wang Changling, "Joining the Army, Part V"
In addition to homesickness and nostalgia, the glory of the battlefield is also the main content of the "Marching from the Army" series. Wang Changling usually describes the scenery of the battlefield at the beginning of the poem, whether it is the lake and the sea and the isolated city under the clouds, or the dusk and dusk under the wind and sand and dust, showing everyone's breath-holding concentration under the end of the great war.
Yes, after all, war is cruel, and Wang Changling knows that every time the clouds and sand are blown, they may bring the tragic story of Ma Ge's body wrapped and sacrificed to the country.
"Huangsha wears golden armor in a hundred battles, and does not break the Loulan and never returns" is also a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages, and the detailed description in it makes people emotional. The soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles and even their armor is no longer as complete as they were at the beginning, but they are still determined to take the battlefield, and the fierce battle of the previous day has been exchanged for today's great victory. For every warrior, when he returns from success, he brings back only victory and never escapes.
Wang Changling spent his military time in such an environment, he never forgot his original intention and ambition to defend his family and the country, in the poems there is no shortage of depictions and praises of the image of not fearing life and death, trying to kill the enemy, he saw the heroism and tragedy that he had never had when he lived in the Central Plains, and wrote many poems that have been handed down through the ages in a difficult life.
A fellow man under a heart of ice
After Wang Changling returned to Chang'an from the frontier, he studied hard in high school and then passed the Erudite Hongzi Subject, which was not a small achievement among the readers at that time, but Wang Changling, who was born in the cold door, lacked background and introduction, and although he had the talent to learn, he was only the lowest-level school secretary lang and the county lieutenant of Fenshui County, and he did it for nine years.
However, fate did not intend to give preferential treatment to this cold student, so that he was degraded for some reason at the age of forty, was assigned to Lingnan, and was later pardoned by the world, and was arranged to be a county clerk in Jiangning, but was again demoted to Longbiao County Lieutenant eight years later. Wang Changling wanted to enter the official field of the capital all his life, to be loyal to the country and to shine on the lintel, but he could not really achieve his wish for a day.
Fortunately, because of his easy-going and sincere temperament, Wang Changling made many friends in his life, although he was not a high-ranking official, he was also a talented person. Among them, his friends are many famous poets: Li Bai, Cen Shan, Meng Haoran, Wang Wei and so on. Therefore, Wang Changling, who has many friends, wrote many excellent poems to bid farewell to friends in the continuous wandering of life.
Just as Wang Changling learned that his friend Cui Guofu had passed the entrance examination when he was preparing for the jinshi, he was full of happiness for his friend and said goodbye to Cui Guofu before he went to a different place to take up his post:
When lying high in the south, the beginning of the curtain is thrown out. Clear glow of water and wood, playing in the window. A few clouds of wealth and emptiness, cheng cheng changed into the present and the ancient. Beauty on the banks of the Qing River, is the night more bitter. How about a thousand miles, the breeze blows Landu. —— Wang Changling, "Playing with Brother Nan Zhai in the Moon Reminiscences of The Mountain Yin Cui Shaofu"
At the time of the border plug, Wang Changling's bright moon is a symbol of the soldiers' homesickness, and at this time, the bright moon has become his sustenance for lamenting the passing of time and not giving up friends. Things are changeable, as if it is too late to get together, so they send friends on a new journey. While praising his friend's literary talent and expressing his blessings for sending off, Wang Changling lamented his smallness in the years of this heaven and earth, and could only "change ancient and modern" with time, allowing himself to go further.
Wang Changling's farewell poems are often based on the description of scenery to pin emotions, the scenery of the whole poem from small to large, from the scenery in front of him to the change of time, his emotions penetrate into it, as if to tell the reader that what is presented in those things is not only the scenery itself, but also Wang Changling's emotions and thoughts.
Similar parting poems with mixed scenes and Wang Changling's "The mountain chief does not see the autumn city color, the sunset leaves empty water clouds", it seems that the whole poem is describing the scenery of Dongting Lake, but with the sunset river scenery and the invisible city tower to express the reluctance and helplessness of the friends to go away. Wang Changling and Li Baitong, as famous poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, felt sorry for each other, and when Wang Changling was demoted to the dragon standard, Li Bai also wrote a famous poem "I send my sorrows and the bright moon, follow the wind until the night Langxi" to express understanding and comfort.
When the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in China in 2020, one of the Japanese supplies to aid Wuhan reads "Qingshan is with the clouds and rain, Mingyue He was once two townships" for a time, which moved many Chinese people to tears, and this poem expressing the great emotion of the same wind and rain and common hardships is also from Wang Changling.
Yuanshui Tongbo picked up Wugang and sent Jun unaware of the injury. Qingshan is the same as the clouds and rain, and Mingyue He was once two townships. —— Wang Changling, "Sending Firewood to Serve the Emperor"
Wang Changling's friend Chai Shiyu traveled from Longbiao to Wugang, Wang Changling expressed his open-mindedness about parting and always being under the sky with his friends in the poem, no matter how many difficulties the friends will face after leaving this time, no matter how far away they are from seeing each other again, but the green mountains and the bright moon between us are connected with common joy and sorrow, and true friends can feel each other's hearts and wishes regardless of whether they are in a different place or not.
In the farewell poem, in addition to expressing his reluctance and blessings to his friends, Wang Changling will also use the send-off to show his original intention as before, the most famous of which is the "Furong Lou Sending Xin Gradually" written by him when he was in Jiang Ning:
Cold rain and river night into Wu, Pingming sent guests to Chushan Lonely. Luoyang relatives and friends asked each other, a piece of ice heart in the jade pot. ——Wang Changling, "Furong Lou Sends Xin Gradually"
After bidding farewell to his friends, the only Chu Mountain on the vast river seemed to be able to read Wang Changling's loneliness, on the one hand, when his friends left, he gradually felt that he was difficult to meet, and he was alone, on the other hand, he still adhered to his heart, stood tall in heaven and earth with a frank and broad mind, and still did not forget the sincerity of his own ice heart after encountering several times of debasement and exile.
This is Wang Changling, perhaps life did not give him the life he wanted, and even let him live under the wind and rain, although he was struggling and powerless, he never gave up on himself, never gave up his original intention.
Ironically, such a Wang Changling did not have a good end in his life. At the age of fifty-eight, he resigned his official post and returned to his hometown, and was brutally killed by Shi Lu Qiuxiao, the assassin of Maozhou, on the way, and the specific reason is still a mystery.
A few months later, Zhang Hao, who was then the envoy of Henan Jiedu, beheaded Lu Qiuxiao for the crime of delaying the warplane when quelling the Anshi Rebellion, and before the execution, Lu Qiuxiao pleaded with Zhang Hao's men on the grounds that there was still a mother in his family who needed to be supported, and Zhang Hao replied:
"Wang Changling's relative, with whom do you want to raise?"
Yes, when Wang Changling was killed by Lu Qiuxiao, there was still an old mother in the family waiting for her son's return.
In the end, what awaits is the most unfortunate news in the world.
Wang Changling's death was sad for Zhang Hao, and even more painful for many of his friends. People who know him well know that Wang Changling is no longer young in the blows of the years, and he is no longer the teenager who wrote "But make the Dragon City fly in the future, and do not teach Humadu Yin Mountain", but he is still the open-minded, clean and gentle Seven Sacred Hands in everyone's heart.
Only because he has never betrayed his original intention in this life, "a piece of ice heart in the jade pot", this is the most pertinent evaluation of Wang Changling's life.
-Author-
Pei An Ge, a serious girl who loves words and hot pot.