Tang poetry and Song poetry are known as the two pearls in the history of Chinese literature. In the Tang Dynasty, the famous poets were Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Bo, Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, Meng Haoran, etc. In the Song Dynasty, the famous poets were Su Shi, Liu Yong, Xin Qiji, Li Qingzhao, etc. These people are very famous, and their works are also well-known, and anyone can recite a few songs.
But there are also some poets who are not as famous as them, writing works Equally stunning. For example, the person who wrote “the first poem of the Tang Dynasty” was neither Li Bai nor Du Fu, but Zhang Ruoxu, whose masterpiece “Chunjiang Flower Moonlight Night”; another example, Li Yu, a little-known poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote the An ancient poem “Two Lovesickness”.
The reason why it is called a strange poem is that this poem can be read along or backwards, but the meaning it expresses will change. ”, while men usually read backwards, women must read backwards. This poem is a seven-law, read down, it is a “wives poem”, the whole content is as follows:
I am afraid to drink a glass of wine in the empty pot, and it is difficult to write harmonious rhymes.
The road hinders people from leaving for a long time, and the news is sent back without any geese.
The lonely night guard is lonely, the husband remembers his wife and his father remembers his children.
When reading along, the meaning of this poem is It is said that a husband misses his wife, and he misses his mother even with his son by his side. He stared at the distant landscape with a pair of dry eyes. The wine in the jug was gone, and he didn’t dare to get up to refill, for fear that the more he drank, the more depressed his heart became; I don’t know how to write it.
The feelings expressed throughout the article are very sincere, making people seem to be able to see a man as a husband, in the long night, accompanied by a lonely lamp, full of thoughts of his wife. But this is not the most outstanding part of the whole poem. As I said before, it can be read along the way or backwards. By changing the order of each word, it becomes “The Poem of Sifu”:
The son remembers the father, the wife remembers the husband, the loneliness is long and the night light is lonely.
Late return to the geese, no news, long separation, people block the way.
Poems and rhymes are difficult to write, and a glass of wine is afraid of an empty pot.
A few close friends have come and gone, and the water is separated from the mountains and the eyes are dry.
Reading it backwards, the meaning becomes that the wife misses her husband, because the husband can’t come back, and he didn’t send any letters. pace. Although the poem has been recited, he can’t write it for a long time, and he doesn’t dare to drink a glass of wine, looking through the autumn water, and waiting until his eyes are dry.
In fact, there are many palindrome poems in history , For example, Su Shi and Su Xiaomei of the Song Dynasty have all written this genre. Palindrome poems are divided into five types: general palindrome, single-sentence palindrome, double-sentence palindrome, this palindrome, and ring-reply palindrome. We can read Su Xiaomei’s “double-sentence palindrome” poem:
The lotus-pickers are in Luyangjin, and they are new in Luyangjin.
A new song to gargle jade, the song to gargle the jade and the lotus-pickers.
It can be seen that the so-called “double sentence palindrome” is Refers to the whole poem, the next sentence is the reading back of the previous sentence; in comparison, Li Yu’s poem, which combines “thinking about husband” and “thinking about wife” into one, becomes “Two Lovesickness”, but it is the most difficult. The “full palindrome”, the whole poem is read in sequence from the last word to the first word, becoming another new poem.
Li Yu is not very famous in history, We never learned the poems he wrote when we were in school, but judging from this “Love Love”, Li Yu’s heart should be very delicate, and only truly affectionate people can write such affectionate poems. Maybe Li Yu also experienced a beautiful love before his death, but he had to separate, so let’s understand.