This is a poem that we could blurt out when we were children. Later, because it was too familiar, we had a feeling of unfamiliarity. This strangeness may be because we only learned the first half of the poem when we were children. Halfway through, it’s a little uncomfortable. But every time I see this poem, I can think of a group of friends clapping their hands and singing this poem when I was a child.
”Grass/Fu De Ancient Grass Farewell”
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
Leaving Li Liyuan to grow grass, one year old and one flourishing.
The wildfire can’t burn out, and the spring breeze blows again.
Fangfang invades the ancient road, and Qingcui connects the barren city.
Send Wang Sun again, full of other feelings.
the first four lines of the poem , to express the vigorous vitality of spring grass. “Li Li” is the appearance of lush grass. “One year old one withered prosperity” is the natural growth mechanism of writing grass. As an annual plant, grass grows and withers in spring and autumn. Let’s look at the author’s words—-“withering prosperity”; the poet does not write “prosperity and withering”, but from the withering of autumn grass to the breeding of spring grass. In this way, its foothold is in the glory, in the spring grass, and in the vitality. It seems that this sentence alone is not enough to describe the vitality of spring grass. “The wildfire can’t burn out, and the spring breeze blows again.” Emphasizes the power of destruction. The grass is tenaciously reborn under the spring breeze. This is a reborn life, and he is answering the abuse of fire with boundless greenness, speaking of his strength.
“Fragrant Invasion Ancient Road” , Qingcui takes over the deserted city” wrote the spring grass which gave Guyuan a new life. The fragrance of the ancient plains fills the air, the green grass is bathed in sunlight, and the spring grass is growing and spreading to a larger and larger area. The ancient cause of silence has restored its youthful vitality!
In such a spring full of vigor and vitality, the poet closed the spring grass and farewell. We can actually read three layers of meanings: firstly, when the spring returns to the earth, the fragrant grass is splendid, and the farewell has a poetic meaning; “Qiqi”, the grandson of the grandson who has long traveled and never returned because of the fragrant grass.
On the occasion of farewell, I wonder if pedestrians will be able to return in time when the spring grass is green in the coming year? Third, the most direct connection. As Li Yu’s “Qing Ping Le” in the late Tang Dynasty said: “Resentment is like spring grass, and it goes further and survives.” Farewell is like spring grass, every green leaf overflows with melancholy, as long as there is spring grass, it is full of li’s arms. It expresses the many and endless sorrows of parting.
The poems are of lofty intentions and will The farewell theme imparts a youthful vibe. This poem was written in the third year of Zhenyuan (787), when the author was sixteen years old. Perhaps it was his age that prevented him from seeing too much sadness and sadness in the farewell. The poet Bai Juyi chose spring grass and parting, expressing the resentment just like spring grass. But what haunts the hearts of the appreciators is the vigor and vitality of the “spring breeze blowing again”.
“Farewell to the Ancient Grassland” belongs to the common “Fu decent” poems in the Tang Dynasty. “Fu decency” refers to a poem composed according to a given title and sentence, with a given rhyme, usually in row rhythm. Poem titles are in the format of “Fu De XX”. Decent fu began in the Liang Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and became a fashion in the Tang Dynasty, becoming a way for literati to write poems during gatherings and banquets. It later became a test post poem written in the imperial examinations. An example of the proper use of fu can also be seen in farewell poems. “Fu De Gu Yuan Cao Farewell” is a five-character rhythm poem. The first four lines sing the grass, and the last four lines write farewell. It is a very neat Fu De body rhythm poem.
According to Chen Zhensun’s Chronicle of Bai Wengong in Song Dynasty and Wang Liming’s Chronicle of Baixiangshan in Qing Dynasty , and Zhu Jincheng’s “Bai Juyi Jijian School” published in 1988 records that the poem “Farewell to the Ancient Grassland” was written in the third year of Zhenyuan (AD 787). The “Old Tang Book: The Biography of Bai Juyi” records that the creation of this poem was no more than “fifteen or sixteen years old”. Regarding the process of this poem’s publication, different historical documents have recorded the legendary story of Bai Juyi’s appreciation of the poet Gu Kuang by virtue of this poem.
“Old Tang Book” records: Bai Juyi ten When he was five or six years old, he wrote a “sleeve essay” and visited Gu Kuang, who was a writer at the time. In the Tang Dynasty Zhang Gu’s “Youxian Advocate” records that Bai Juyi first arrived in Chang’an to respond, but when he first arrived, his reputation was not obvious, and he visited the poet Gu Kuang with his poems. When Gu Kuang saw Bai Juyi’s name, he said to him: “The price of rice is more expensive, and it is not easy to live.”
However, when Gu Kuang saw the poem “Farewell to the Ancient Grassland” on the front of the volume, he couldn’t help but admire: “If you have a word, it will be easy.” (To be able to write such a poem, in It is also easy to live in Chang’an). After that, Gu Kuang began to spread his reputation for Bai Juyi in front of others.Ann became famous.