I think we all know that the ancient literati were influenced by Confucianism, for the career has a deep obsession, but the ancient imperial examination system is very cruel, some time even if you learn to be rich, talent, but may not be able to show revenge. There are a lot of people from the youth of young people began to participate in the examination, however, until the wind and frost stained white temples but still nothing, and a lifetime of time are delayed in this thing, even the home has become strange.
Wei Zhuang, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty, is such a person, but he is fortunate and unfortunate, fortunate that he passed the imperial examination, and later sat in the former prime minister of Shu, unfortunate that he was enrolled in the time when the time was nearly sixty years old. However, his attainments in the literary world is quite high, and Wen Tingyun, is the representative of the flower school lyricist. His work with Wen Tingyun played a very far-reaching influence on the words of later generations, but in fact he was not only good at writing words, but also equally marvelous at writing poems, such as the one I'm sharing with you today.
Sleeping on a cold stove, half-consumed wine, the guest of the countryside dream two distant.
No one will sharpen the sword for me, and I will cut off an inch of my sorrow.
When this poem was written, there is no trace of it, but if we speculate from the content of the poem, it should be before he was successful in the imperial examination, he was in a foreign country, because of missing his family, so he wrote this poem. There are many people say that this is the loneliest winter night in the whole Tang poetry, and it is also one of the most beautiful poems.
Wei Zhuang was born in the late Tang Dynasty, in a chaotic world, and his talent was never given a chance to flourish. When he wrote this poem, it was the cold winter months, he was living alone in a foreign land, thinking of his uncertain future, he could not help but feel a strong nostalgia for his hometown. Especially at that time, both transportation and communication were extremely backward, this kind of longing is even more intolerable.
The first two lines of this poem probably mean that the night was long, and he could not sleep alone, and he was so cold that even the stove in the house slowly went out, and there was only some leftover wine to drink. The poet in the opening of this poem, with a short number of us portrayed a very lonely scene, this cold winter night, even want to dream back to their hometown are difficult to realize, it is really sad.
In the last two lines of this poem, the poet is another way, the poem is strong and powerful. At this time is the chaotic world, he did not know when he can set foot on the road home, and thought of his current sideburns but still have nothing to do, even if he returned home, but also have no face to their relatives, perhaps home to him is just a dream. So he couldn't help but sigh to who can grind a heart sword for me, let me will be in the heart of the thoughts cut off.
I have to say, after reading this poem, if we don't know that the poet is Wei Zhuang, then it is really hard for us to connect it with the lyricist we remember. And in fact, although he became the prime minister, accomplished his dream, life has changed a lot, but his thoughts about his hometown has never changed. After all, no matter who no matter what kind of identity change, for the hometown of the kind of unique feelings really will not disappear for any reason, on the contrary will only get deeper and deeper.
Poetry has always been the most beautiful wonder in the history of our Chinese culture, from the Poetry Scriptures to Tang poetry, from Chu rhetoric to Song lyrics, the beautiful words, like the most beautiful music in the river of Chinese culture.
What are the benefits of reading poetry? Many people say that poetry is useless, read and can not make money and can not have a performance, but do not read poetry we do not know the history of China's Spring and Autumn; do not read poetry we can not appreciate the beauty of the Chinese language and writing; do not read poetry we will not be able to better feel the change of the seasons and the grass, trees, fish and insects; secondary school students do not read poetry, will not be able to write a high-scoring essay.
Let's start the journey of poetry, in which you can meet one poet after another, learn the essence of 5000 years of Chinese history, and harvest one interesting historical allusion after another.
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