Chapter 65 Yuan Zhen's Pagoda Poem

Tea. Fragrant leaves, buds. Mu Shike, Ai Seng's family. Carved white jade and woven red yarn. Cho fried yellow pistil color, bowl turned Quchen flowers. The queen of the night invites to accompany the bright moon, and the queen of the morning orders to meet the morning glow. Wash all the ancient and modern people are tireless, will know how to boast after being drunk. This strange poem was written by Yuan Zhen, a writer in the Tang Dynasty.Yuan Zhen (779-831), also known as Weizhi, was not named Weiming.Luoyang people. He lost his father at the age of 8, and he was poor and humble. At the age of 15, he was admitted to the "Mingjing", and at the age of 25, he became the secretary of the provincial school.In the fourth year of Yuanhe (809), he was the supervisory censor.He was demoted for offending eunuchs and dignitaries, and has been promoted and demoted since then.

In Yuan Zhen's creation, he achieved the greatest achievement in poetry.As famous as Bai Juyi, also known as Yuanbai, and both advocates of the New Yuefu Movement.He admired Du's poems very much. His poetics can be changed from Du to Du, and he presents gorgeous and beautiful in plain, bright and bright, with strong colors, twists and turns in narrative, vivid and moving details, and full of interest in analogy. In terms of poetic form, Yuan Zhen is the founder of "second rhyme pays each other". "Rewarding Hanlin Bai Xueshi <One Hundred Rhymes of Daishu>" and "Rewarding Letian <One Hundred Rhymes of Poems Traveling to the Southeast>" both reuse the original rhymes of Bai poems in turn, with the same rhyme but different meanings.This practice of "paying each other for the second rhyme" had a great influence at the time, but it was also prone to abuse.

Yuan Zhen also has some achievements in prose and legend.He was the first to use ancient prose to make edicts, and his poems are beautiful and imitated by others.Its legend (also known as "Hui Zhen Ji") describes the tragic love story between Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying.The opera writers of later generations created many operas based on their story characters, such as Dong Xieyuan's "Zhu Gongdiao of the West Chamber" in the Jin Dynasty and Wang Shifu in the Yuan Dynasty.