2. The high mood of Chen Ziang's poetry.
3. The relationship between Chen Ziang's poetic concept and the style of Tang poetry.
As a budding poet in Wuhou era, he belongs to a new civilian scholar with the same social, political and cultural background as Shen and Song. However, when the poets in the pavilion are obsessed with reciting things and seeking new changes in the rhythm of poetry, Chen Ziang's poetry creation shows obvious retro tendency, and advocates restoring the elegant tradition of ancient poetry, rather than expressing his ambitions. This makes his poetry present a completely different mental outlook from the pavilion style popular in North Korea at that time.
Returning to simplicity and truth is the starting point of Chen Ziang's poetic style, which is embodied in his 38 poems Love. These poems were not written in one place at a time, but were basically written after the poet became an official, and many of them were directly related to the author's political activities and had a strong political tendency. For example, during the Wuhou period, cruel officials were reused to open the door for informers. Among courtiers, there are often people who are killed because of careless words, and even people are afraid of themselves. Chen Ziang warned in the Book of Punishment and the Book of Punishment that killing innocent people would lead to disaster. The fourth part of his "Feeling": "For Wei Jiang, Jia died. Thin flesh and blood, others are loyal? " Is to denounce this phenomenon. "Feelings" Part 12: "Yo, Nanshan Deer, trapped by the media." This is an allegorical way to express the anger and anxiety of cruel officials unjustly imprisoned in Luo Zhi to lure deer. Of course, he created his works from the standpoint of loyalty and righteousness, which Du Fu called "loyalty and righteousness will last forever".
Chen Ziang is a poet with strong political color. He restored the tradition of elegance and beauty with his feelings, which made his poetry creation have a strong ideological and practical role, which was his income. The loss lies in this way of thinking, which is easy to repeat ancient poems, express feelings through comparison, simply attach abstract thinking to perceptual images, and lack the artistic appeal of reasoning with poetry.
In the poem "Feeling Encounter", some express the author's feelings and aspirations, and turn his life ambition to save the world into a generous and sad sentiment, which has a strong emotional momentum. For example, Article 35 of Experience:
I am your son, and I really love talents all my life. I think it's time to serve my country and draw my sword and fight Artemisia. Dingling in Xichi was blocked, and Taiwan Province was in the north. Seeing thousands of miles in mountain climbing, homesickness is long. Who said he didn't forget the disaster and turned to dust?
This poem was written by the poet during his first expedition to the north with the army. He went to the battlefield in person and felt deeply inside. This way of sending and receiving broke through the traditional limitation of the beauty of ancient poetry, and the direct Jian 'an poets were full of enthusiasm. Although there are traces of the influence of Ruan Ji's poem "Yong Huai" in the form of expression, there is no unreasonable repression in sending and receiving, but it contains strong feelings and shows the spirit of being unwilling to be mediocre and positive. The high-spirited sentiment, which began with the "Four Masters", is even stronger in Chen Ziang's works of this kind, with a strong and fierce chivalrous spirit.
In order to realize the ideal of making contributions, Chen Ziang joined the army again. In the first year of Shen Gong (697), he followed Wu Youyi, the king of Jian 'an County, in the northern expedition to Qidan and went to Yuyang for the second time. He was silent because the suggestion was not adopted. Because he boarded the Jibei Tower, he felt the past when the monarch and the minister met, and wrote a group of poems entitled "Qiu Ji visited the past and gave a gift to Lu Jushi to hide", lamenting that times have changed, the immortal achievements of the ancients have become a thing of the past, and the past encounters are hard to see in this world, and there is a kind of grief and indignation with unfulfilled ambitions. When writing this group of poems, he wrote the eternal farewell song on the Youzhou rostrum:
The predecessors saw the ancients, where are the descendants behind me? . Only the boundless universe, boundless, can't stop the tears full of sadness.
In the elegy of infinite heaven and earth and limited life, it echoes arrogance and forms strong emotional ups and downs. As far as traveling around the world is concerned, it is as long as its heroic performance; But my life is limited, and once my ambition fails, I can only leave resentment, so I shed tears. This kind of sadness of one person contains the great loneliness of being the first in the atmosphere, revealing the heroic spirit of the hero's useless place, stroking the sword and looking around at the vast and generous elegy.
Bold chivalry is a unique style of Chen Ziang's poetry creation, and it is also a new content that can reflect the spiritual outlook of a literati in an era when he advocates elegance and prosperity. It is called the character of Tang poetry. Advocating the prosperity of literary style played a positive role in promoting the transformation of poetic style at that time. Chen Ziang realized this earlier in his creation and made a very clear theoretical exposition. He said in "Oriental Zuo's Bamboo Making Preface":
This kind of article has been harmful for 500 years. Han Wei's character, Jin Song Mo Chuan, but literature can be collected. When servants are free, they look at each other's poems, which are colorful and complicated, but they are never happy to send them, sighing through the ages. Thinking of the ancients, I am often afraid that I will be shaken, and I will be uneasy if I don't do it. Yesterday, I found three places, and I saw Ode to a Lonely Tung, with a full back and a frustrated tone. It was brilliant and golden. Then decorate your vision with your heart and play the melancholy down. I didn't think of a good sound. Watching it again can make Jian 'an writers smile at each other.
In this preface, for the first time, Chen Ziang associated the style of Han and Wei with elegance and prosperity, and objected that the works were not elegant and prosperous. In this way, the purpose of returning to nature is not only to compare beauty and excitement, but to trace the tragic and generous spirit of Jian 'an, to entrust the ideal of saving the world and the spirit of life, and to draw a clear line with Qi Liang's poetic style of one-sided pursuit of algae. Secondly, he put forward the ideal of poetic beauty, which is "vigorous and vigorous, full of sound and emotion, bright and heroic, and practical", and demanded that vigorous emotions should be combined with the beauty of temperament and lyrics to create healthy and magnificent literature.
Chen Ziang's poetry creation and theoretical proposition influenced the Tang Dynasty. His pursuit of style and ideal of poetic beauty are of great significance to the reform of Tang poetry. This was confirmed by the further development of literature in the Tang Dynasty, and became the prelude to the upcoming poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.