Read works of Wen Tianxiang at 诗海 | |||
[Wen Tianxiang and Song Dynasty poet]
The rise of the Mongols, after repeated wars, eventually destroyed the Southern Song regime.
That a large number of changes to the hearts of poets be strongly shaken. Nation worry, life experience and the history of grief
Rise and fall of emotion, they are woven into a poem Song of Sorrow. Which Wen Tianxiang, Wang Yuan amount of poetry in particular.
Wen Tianxiang (1236-1283) Word Song Rui, alias Wenshan, Luling (now Ji'an) people. 2-year-old Chinese Scholars
First, the official to make the right prime minister and senator. Lin'an advancing Mongol armies, he was ambassador to the negotiations, to be unreasonably withheld. Off after
Insurance southern escape, organized volunteers to try to restore lost, and once again defeated and captured, jail until the most (now Beijing), imprisoned for four years. Do
Khan has repeatedly threatened tube lure, he always unyielding, and finally killed. The "Collected Works of Wenshan."
Wen Tianxiang relatively mediocre early poems, learn some skills in the School of Jiangxi, often fiddle with allusions, stacking vocabulary, writing
Sing and even donated some entertainment fortune teller, Dan Shi, Taoist, Yong physiognomy, divination, fortune-telling poems. But when he engaged in the fight against Yuan
Competition, and the vicissitudes after the great changes of poetry, not only to enrich the contents become rich, become so deep emotion, language
Words would be more calm and Refining. His work "in trouble, the rooms have been recorded in verse" ("Guide to record the order"), is to
"To come, Reading, sad to Chi Yan" (ibid.), but also to make "history is still good after the end for a test game" ("Du set
Poetic Realism "). This kind of poetry to history and poetry, Ming-chi attitude, and the School of Jiangxi follow mainly from the language skills of the Du Fu
Is very different. In fact, this is more close to Du vigorous desolate, Contemplative style. However, the situation
Different, Wen Tianxiang's poem written in a more explicit anxious, more desperate layer of grief.
In the late poems of Wen Tianxiang, repeatedly expressed his deep worry the nation from peril, such as "mountains and rivers through the ages in,
Castle temporary non-"(" Nam Army ")," Lost Moon Water should be okay, Song Jiang, a new long dash "(" Cang natural Pavilion "),
"CASTLE own cheek when Zhu, mountains and rivers in tears Long Wave" ("CASTLE") and so on. Meanwhile, Wen Tianxiang has twice been forced to
Way northbound left after seeing all the tragedy of war, as he wrote a lot of this documentary work, such as "numerous
Dead people, dead to the front Dysprosium "(" Huai Army ")," fireworks no one, the long green weeds "(" Fat Huai ")
"Smoke less cross the pedestrian trail, on falling Deserted Guiku Mourning" ("king of Yue Taiwan"), these poems powerful indictment of the Mongolian armed forces
Atrocities, embodied the suffering of the people and poets of the blood and tears.
Wen Tianxiang business engaged in the process of recovery is clear that the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty in this harsh reality of irreversible
A; even he does not oppose their loved ones official career Yuan, and think that this has taken the morally ①. But
He still insists on his own life choices, to know the "not to succeed" attitude of the completion of its historical responsibility
Rather die than unwilling to bend down. Today, this spirit seems to still be understood as a kind of noble qualities of human performance.
Wen Tianxiang's poetry in, repeatedly revealing force can bend, can not be obscene wealth of the awe-inspiring integrity, such as the famous "Elegy"
A series of historical figures praise the deeds of this "righteousness" of the grand style of broad, that they have to use this "righteousness" to resist
The invasion of all kinds of evil in prison, maintaining personal integrity. And "had been good foreign" and "Jinling relay" b poem, even to its end
Tragic personal life experience combined with the tragic national crisis with deep lyrical art of moving people:
① if he donated younger brother Wen Bi (Bi Shi-Yuan Song from the sky) of the "smell quarter million to" Poetry, "Three Ren life and death of all interested" means
Different options of the brothers, but also its "Prison Letter" also said it was "Koretada but filial piety, the row-chi."
From a hard hit by economic, arms sparse around the star. A broken wind Piaoxu, life experience, drifting rain Ping. Panic beach
That fear, Lingding ocean of sighs been good. Everyone must die a loyal heart according to annals. ("Had been good foreign")
Hop Imperial Villa switch grass Xi Hui, Gu Yun Ho by wandering complex. Shan Yuan same scenery, city walls half the people no longer. Montreal reed catkins
And my old, old house beside the swallows who fly? Do it from now on South Road, turn into blood go cuckoo sings. ("Jinling Relay")
These two poems, intertwined with pathos, Painful, excited, mixed feelings of despair and many others, have shown it to poetry
Poet poet of emotional authenticity and noble personality, a good chapter in the history of Chinese Poetry.
(History of Chinese Literature, Pei Luo Yu, youth sweep school)
Translated by Google