Why did the Tang poem "Night Mooring on Maple Bridge" trigger a millennium of controversy because of the sentence "The moon is setting and the crows are crying and the sky is filled with frost"?

Original article title: "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge" in Tang poetry and Song Dynasty, why did the sentence "The moon sets, crows cry, and the sky is filled with frost, arouse thousands of objections"

Last time, someone and everyone Talking about these "lone writers" in ancient times, one of them will be the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji. If it weren't for the song "Mooring at Maple Bridge at Night" that has been passed down for thousands of years, I think the name Zhang Ji would have been forgotten by history.

It is no exaggeration to say that when everyone hears the poem "Mooring at Night on Maple Bridge" for the first time, they will be moved by its beauty that is so beautiful that it is so beautiful that it is so sad that it is difficult to fall asleep. .

Poets of the Tang Dynasty

But what you may not know is that along with the eternal lines of this song, there are also objections and questions that have lasted for thousands of years. For example, Ouyang Xiu, a writer in the Song Dynasty, pointed out: In order to seek good sentences, writers ignore facts and logic. The sentence "The midnight bell rings to the tourist boat" in Zhang Ji's poem is typical. Although it sounds very poetic, it is But there are temples that ring bells late at night.

After Ouyang Xiu’s question was raised, it triggered a long period of discussion. Finally, some people found the bell ringing late at night in historical documents. Direct evidence.

Poets of the Tang Dynasty

Since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, temples in Kunming have had the custom of ringing bells late at night, which is called the "night bell." Although Ouyang Xiu's problem was solved, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and many later generations of literati also criticized the song Maple Bridge Night Mooring, and the focus was concentrated on the first line of the poem: The moon sets and the crow cries. The sky is covered with frost.

What are the problems with this poem? This song praises the Tang poetry and Song lyrics "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge" that has been passed down for thousands of years. Why has it caused thousands of objections because of the sentence "The moon sets, crows cry and the sky is filled with frost?" There are three key levels. The first is the narration of this poem_ There are some disagreements. The moon is setting, crows are singing, and the sky is full of frost. Generally, they think it is written at night, because the last line of the poem says "The bell rings at midnight, that is, late at night."

It is clearly explained in "Appreciation of Tang Poems" that this is an autumn night, and because there is frost, the season for frost is in autumn.

Night Mooring in Maple Bridge

But the problem is that there are generally three situations when the moon sets. In the first and middle days of the lunar calendar, the moon sets in the first half of the night; It sets in the second half of the night, and in the middle to late afternoon, the moon seems to not set until morning.

According to common sense, vultures usually only chirp in the morning or evening. Therefore, some people infer that the time depicted in this poem should be a sky that is shining brightly. Autumn morning.

This question also brings up another problem. When the moon sets and the sky is full of frost and crows, is this crow a vulture?

Poets of the Tang Dynasty

Some people say that what Zhang Ji heard was not the cry of crows at all, but just crows. Crows usually go out for activities after ten o'clock in the evening and begin to sing. Therefore, if what Zhang Ji heard was the chirping of a crow, then what he did was indeed late at night.

But some people said that there is a kind of black chicken in Kunming area, and what Zhang Ji heard was the crow of this kind of black-bone chicken, so this time, of course, is about to dawn. Morning.

Of course some people think that Wutiao refers to Wutiao Mountain, which is undoubtedly wrong. Wutiao Mountain is famous because of the poem "Mooring at Night at Fengqiao". Before Zhang Ji, Wutiao Mountain was not called Wutiao Mountain.

Night Mooring at Maple Bridge

The last problem is the description of "frost in the sky. As we all know, frost will not fly all over the sky like snowflakes, for example The poet Li Bai wrote: "It is suspected to be frost on the ground, so it is a matter of common sense that the moon is setting, the crows are crying, and the sky is full of frost."

But your mother feels that the description of the frost-covered sky is very realistic. If you are in the outdoors during the frost season, you will indeed have the feeling that the world is completely white. Of course, this is also a relative feeling. The exaggerated artistic technique is the same as Li Bai's "Flying Down Three Thousand Feet".

In fact, whether it is the sound of bells in the middle of the night or the crows of the moon at sunset, poetry itself should be an art of language with abstract concepts. Zhang Ji's Maple Bridge Night Mooring is full of movement and stillness. , there is light and darkness, there is an interface and there is sound. It is precisely such a poetic and picturesque aesthetic taste that allows this poem to be praised by people for thousands of years. In this case, why bother worrying about whether it is late at night or early in the morning, and why worry about whether it is the night or the night. What is it?

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