Written language and annotation: Xie Shuzhen, the prime minister of Shangshu, is a talented person and unique in the literary world. Only when the timbre is sonorous and the temperament is steady and harmonious can Gao Hua be thought of as chasing the wind and cloud. Unexpectedly, my noble character, who is afraid of cold, suddenly got involved in a personnel dispute and died. Treasure like the ruler's wall was wronged, trapped in prison and died in the soil of the hills.
Note Official Department: refers to Xie Shu, who was the official department minister of Shangshu Province. Wenfeng: That is, the peak of words. Peak, a frontier. Stone: refers to musical instruments, such as Zhongqing. Harmony: Harmony. Thinking: Just thinking. Fengyun: described as superb. Ling Shuang quality: refers to Xie Mao's quality of not being afraid of * * *. Personnel: refers to metabolism and life and death phenomena. Ruler wall: the wall of a diameter ruler. Xie Shu is a rare talent.
Appreciate this poem, correctly evaluate Xie Mao's artistic achievements and status in the form of a poem, and express deep sympathy and sorrow for the untimely death of this literary genius. The poet Shen Yueya loves Xie Shu's five-character poem and often praises: "There has been no such poem for two hundred years." The first four sentences of this poem are the embodiment of this high evaluation. Shen Yue, a poet, thinks that Xie Shu is outstanding in talent and occupies a high position in the literary world. This is because the "tone" and "thinking" of his poems are different.
Poetry is lofty, chasing the wind and cloud, exquisite and elegant, and people can compare with each other; The sonorous tone of poetry is elegant and beautiful, comparable to the sound of music, and still pleasing to the eye. "Tone" here refers not only to the natural syllables of poetry, but also to the artificial melody of poetry, that is, melody, which was first pursued by Shen Yue, Xie Mao and others. Shen Yue, a poet, is obsessed with the beauty of melody in poetry. He wrote four tones and founded the theory of "four tones and eight diseases". Xie Shu, Wang Rong and others responded positively and applied Shen Yue's theory of temperament to poetry creation, creating a "timeless style" that was all the rage.