Who knows Bai Juyi's Climbing the Western Hills to See Shixia Lake?

Year: Tang Author: Bai Juyi School: Category:

Brother Ling sang a cantata and returned to the boat, and the south lake in the tree seemed to open.

Smoke rises and falls, and thin new moss grows on the stream.

Residents often have nothing to do when something happens, and the magistrate is alone when he is idle.

Remember Chang 'an's poems, so disappointed, alone.

Bai Juyi's teacher, Gu Kuang, lives in Dongshan Banzhu Garden in Haining. In August, 823, during the reign of Tang Changqing, Bai Juyi went to Haining as an apprentice, went to the western hills to see Shixia Lake and wrote poems. Because Bai Juyi was an assistant minister in Zhongshu Province (also known as Wei Zi Province in Tang Dynasty), Xishan Mountain was also known as Wei Zishan.

Gu Kuang was a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty more than 1200 years ago, a pioneer of the New Yuefu Movement, and occupied an important position in the history of ancient literature. He once wrote some new Yuefu that reflected social darkness and sympathized with people's sufferings. The first volume, Thirteen Instructions on Remedying Death by Ancient Things, imitates the four-character style of The Book of Songs, with the first two words as the title, indicating the theme, such as "The ancient, pity the farmers." "Alas, Fujian". There is a precedent for Bai Juyi to mark the purpose in the first chapter. Among them, the poem Yao reflects a barbaric custom of plundering and selling slaves prevailing in Fujian at that time, and focuses on describing the suffering of slaves, which is touching. At the same time, Gu Kuang makes good use of local dialects, and his poems are also diverse. In addition to ancient poems, such as the quatrain "Listening to the Corner and Thinking of Home" in the middle volume: "The yellow leaves in the old garden are covered with moss, and the corner of the city is sad after the dream. I don't see a heartbroken person tonight, and the shadow of the waning moon lingers." On a moonlit night, I miss a wanderer who lost his dream in a foreign land. Reading is like being there, which makes people cry. Another example is "Mountain Farmhouse": "Banqiao people cross the spring, and crows crow on the eaves at noon. The tea baked by Chen Mo is dark, but he likes to bask in the sun. " The style of writing is fresh and elegant, popular and natural, and a strong breath of life comes to my face.