Chapter 35 One sentence can be passed down through the ages (2)

Among the poets of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Tao is by no means a famous name.But his "poor bones by the Wuding River, still in the dream of a boudoir in spring" ("Long Westward Journey") is a famous sentence that is full of sorrow and beauty, and makes people cry.In order to resist the invading enemy, the frontier guards fought desperately, and thousands of people died in one battle.The poor corpse by the Wuding River is still the person my wife Chungui misses every day and often sees in her dreams.The first time I read these two sentences, my heart constricted, and I couldn't bear to read it again.The warm and delicate spring boudoir, the desolate Wuding River, the young and handsome husband in the dream, and no one to bury any dead bones on the river beach. In sharp contrast, fate has fallen from the peak of hope to the bottom of despair. The protagonist is still unaware, still looking forward and waiting.Such a tragedy has the shocking power and appeal across the ages.In my opinion, if measured by the unit of "sentence", there is no one better than Tang poetry to complain about the cruelty and suffering of war.Only these two sentences can compete with heavyweight long poems such as "San Li" and "San Bie".

Zhao Gu suddenly became famous because of the excellent line "At what point in the remnant star do geese cross the sky, and a flute sounds and people lean on the building" in "Chang'an Autumn Watch", he won the reputation of "Zhao Yilou".But in my opinion, "A man leans on the building with the sound of the flute" is not as good as his "Moonlight is like water and water is like the sky" ("A Feeling of the Old River Tower"). The sentence "Flute" describes the sound of several flutes, and the lone guest leans on the roof of the building, which is indeed rich in imagery and full of poetic hints; but "Moonlight is like water and water is like the sky" describes the river and night sky on a moonlit night, which is spotless. , Misty and ethereal, but also contains the memory of the people who watched the moon together last year, implying that missing is everywhere, and poetic confusion permeates between heaven and earth.Compared with the "flute" sentence, it is more beautiful, more artistic, and more natural.

Cao Song was also a poet with an unknown date of birth and death. He was poor all his life, and he did not get a Jinshi until he was in his seventies. He was one of the "five elders" who were ridiculed at that time.But he wrote an immortal verse: "One general is successful and ten thousand bones are dead." ("Ji Hai Sui") the poet wrote: Please don't talk about the great achievements of being a marquis. It takes tens of thousands of people to achieve the feat of a general. The price of life.This regular phenomenon is revealed so clearly, powerfully, and shockingly, the sharp contrast between "one general" and "ten thousand bones", "gongcheng" and "ku" is highly generalized, pierces the heart and lungs, and is thought-provoking.

There is also "Luohua people are independent, and micro swifts fly together".Many people attribute these two sentences to Yan Jidao's name.Yan Jidao's "Linjiang Fairy" ("After the dream, the tower is high and locked, and the curtain is low when you wake up. Last year, when the spring hatred came. The fallen flowers were independent, and the swifts flew together. I remember Xiaoping first met, the double heart word Luo Yi. Pipa strings I said lovesickness. At that time, the bright moon was there, and it once returned under the colorful clouds.”) is a famous work in Ci, and the use of these two sentences has a clear artistic conception, which has the merit of sublimation.But these two sentences are indeed the original creation of another poet——Weng Hong, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty.What is written is: In the season when the fallen petals are falling, a lonely person stands alone in the courtyard for a long time; in the falling spring rain, swallows in pairs fly around briskly.It expresses such sadness: Swallows fly together, but people are independent, youth will be exhausted, and good days will never come again.Weng Hong’s poems are full of complex images, and the semantics are not coherent enough. Therefore, as a whole, Yan Jidao is much better than Yan Jidao, but the copyright of this sentence "can be passed down through the ages" belongs to Weng Hong. Cheers to the little-known poets of the ages.

Thinking of Zhang Jiuling, I am a little hesitant, because he is not an ordinary person, he is more prominent than those poets mentioned above, and he is too prominent.He was a well-known virtuous minister at that time, known as "Mr. Qujiang". His character and official reputation were excellent, and he enjoyed a high reputation at that time.But I still wrote down Zhang Jiuling knowingly, because one of his poems is so good: "A bright moon rises on the sea, and we share this moment at the end of the world": a bright moon rises from the boundless sea; the friend I miss, who is far away from the ends of the world ( It can be extended to all the people in the world who miss each other), looking at the same bright moon at this moment.The title of this poem is "Watching the Moon and Huaiyuan". In this sentence, both "Watching the Moon" and "Huaiyuan" appear, "Scenery is the language of love", the moon is born on the sea, and the moon is full of love. The sea is intertwined with deep and sincere feelings, and the sky, the earth, and people are integrated into one, unimpeded, separated, and boundless.In fact, there is no need for reputations such as virtuous prime minister and Qu Jianggong. With this sentence alone, Zhang Jiuling should be famous forever.