Six-character poems are a type of ancient Chinese poetry, and the entire poems are six-character sentences.
Compared with five-character poems and seven-character poems, we know very little about six-character poems. In fact, there are many excellent classic works of six-character poems.
Yin Niang shared ten six-character poems to experience the poetic and picturesque meaning of the poems.
“Road to Mountain”
Tang Generation: Gu Kuang
The sound of people crossing the spring in Banqiao, and the roosters crowing at noon on the mao eaves.
Don’t hate the dark smoke of roasted tea, but like the sun and sunshine.
Walking up the Banqiao, I only heard the ding-dong of the spring water under the bridge. After noon, the rooster crows in front of the thatched cottage. Don’t blame the green smoke coming out of the roasted tea. You should be glad that the sun-dried valley is on a sunny day.
Gu Kuang’s six-character quatrains are simple, light, and natural.
“Seven Pastoral Music Part Three”
Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei
Cailing crosses the head and the wind is fast, and the scepter is sloping in the west.
A fisherman by the altar of apricot trees, a family in Taohuayuan.
Cailing rafting experience the strong wind blowing on the ferry head, leaning on crutches to the west of the woods to watch the sunset. I am the fisherman by the altar of the apricot tree, that is, the family living in the peach blossom garden.
Huang Tingjian, a writer in Song Dynasty, believed that only through the six-character poems of Wang Wei, “the one who truly knows Mojian”, should refer to this kind of peaceful and calm mind.
“Spring Landscape”
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
The gate is opposite to the flowing water of the Crane Stream, and the clouds are connected to the immortal family of Yandang.
Whoever understands the serenity of secluded people, is used to looking at mountain birds and flowers.
The gate is facing the flowing water of Hexi River, and the floating clouds are connected to the houses on Yandang Mountain, like a fairy house. Who is used to seeing the birds and flowers on the mountain, who can understand the quiet meaning of this secluded person?
It’s not that I don’t understand, I’m just envious, okay?
The whole poem is about the scenery of spring, which expresses the artistic conception of being far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, feeling the mountains and rivers, and being lonely yet at ease.
“Mountain Journey”
Tang Dynasty: Du Mu
lives in the north of Baiyun Mountain and is lost in the east of Bishui Bridge.
Short hair in the twilight rain, long skirts falling in the autumn wind.
My family lives in the north of Baiyun Mountain and is in the east of Bishui Bridge. Her hair was still stained with the rain that fell in the evening, and her clothes were already covered with autumn wind.
Du Mu wrote two poems “Mountain Xing”, perhaps this one is not as famous as the other, but this poem has a long artistic conception, and it can be said to be the best among the few six-character poems.
“Searching for Zhang Yiren’s Mountain Residence”
Tang Generation: Liu Changqing
Dangerous rocks only lead to bird trails, and empty mountains are even more popular.
The peach garden is set in the depths, and the stream is floating and falling.
The tall rocks are passages that only birds can pass through. There are still people living in the empty mountains. Taoyuan must be deeper, you see the water in the deep stream, floating and falling flowers flowing out.
Sparsely populated, the creek floats with flowers, a good place to live.
“Kaiyuan Music”
Southern Tang Dynasty ·Li Yu
He has a lot of white hair on his mind, and his career is a green hill.
There is snow in the empty forest, and no one returns on the wild road.
My thoughts are in these few strands of white hair, and I have devoted my whole life to this green mountain. In the empty forest, only snow is waiting for me, on the road in the wild, there is no one, only I come back alone.
The whole poem sets off the mood with the painting environment, the technique is euphemistic but the sadness is strong, and the atmosphere is rendered to show the author’s lonely, lonely, rough and hopeless life experience, straightforward and clear, with a high artistic level .
“Jiangnan Santai Four Songs, The Third”
Tang Dynasty: Wang Jian
The color of the grass by the green grass lake, the sound of monkeys on the Flying Monkey Ridge.
Thousands of miles of Xiangjiang River arrive, and people walk in wind and rain.
The grass by the green grass lake is so lush, and the chirping of apes resounds on the Flying Monkey Ridge. Thousands of miles of Xiangjiang River, on the road of wind and rain, lonely guests sing.
The lonely guest is a poet who is unwilling to join forces with the powerful. This storm represents the precarious status quo of the Tang Dynasty. The poem truly reflects the loneliness and hesitation of the people with lofty ideals who had no way to serve the country and were powerless to return to the sky in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.
“Yanshan Night Moon”
Tang Dynasty: Zhu Fang
Moon was on Mount Wozhou, and people returned to the stream in Yanxian County.
Momo yellow flowers cover the water, and the egrets startle the boat from time to time.
When the moon rose over Mount Wozhou, someone was returning by the stream in Yanxian County. The continuous yellow flowers reflect the flowing water, and sometimes the boats startle the egrets on the river.
What a lucky thing to be able to enjoy this beautiful night view alone when walking at night.
The Master Xiaojiang Huailing
< p>Tang Dynasty: Huangfu Ran
In the early spring every year on the river, Jintou people walk every day.
I can still hear the sound of bells at dusk when I ask the distance of Shanyin.
Spring on the river comes early every year. The ferry is full of people every day. I wanted to ask how far it was to go down to Shanyin, but before I knew it, I heard the twilight bell from the temple.
Looking for people in the spring, all you see are beautiful spring scenery.
“Li Dong”
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
Frozen pen new poems are lazy to write, and the wine is warm in the cold furnace.
Drunk looking at Mohua Yuebai, I wonder if the village is full of snow.
On the day of the beginning of winter, the weather is cold, the ink pen is frozen, and I am just lazy to write new poems, and the wine on the stove is often warm. Looking at the ink-stained patterns on the inkstones under the moonlight, I thought in a trance that it was snow falling all over the mountain village.
If Li Bai is in such a mood, the cold winter will not feel cold anymore.
Illustrator: Feng Zikai