Meng Haoran's Xun Mei in the snow

Meng Haoran's Xun Mei in the snow

During the first year of Tang Dynasty, a middle-aged man could be seen walking around the riverside beach from Lumen Mountain in Xiangyang to Dawangzhou. Once he crossed the river, he didn't wait for guests, sometimes he looked up at the mountains and sometimes he looked down at the sand surface of the river, all year round.

Even in the days of heavy snow, he does, and the more it snows, the more he keeps walking on the white "snow blanket" covered with goose feathers and snow, as if looking for something.

People coming and going to the ferry asked the snowwalker curiously, "Haoran Gong, it's so cold. You are walking around the sandbar alone, looking for something, aren't you?" Meng Haoran looked up and replied cheerfully, "I am here in Xun Mei".

folks, look at the footprints he stepped on in the snow. It really looks like "plum blossoms" scattered on Dawangzhou. Therefore, someone sent Meng Haoran such a doggerel: "In the cold weather, snowflakes float, and heavy snow falls like goose feathers. "Haoran spared no pains, and Xun Mei enjoyed walking in the snow.

What plum is Meng Haoran looking for on the sandbar?

It is said that Meng Haoran and Wang Wei, a landscape poet, formed poetry friends and kept close correspondence in his early years.

One year, Wang Wei came to Xiangyang from Chang 'an, which made Meng Haoran overjoyed. He quickly welcomed Wang Wei and invited Xiangyang celebrities to write poems and essays to help him get drunk.

Meng Haoran, as the host, first wrote two poems: "A thousand petals of plum blossom are proud of frost and snow, and bamboo shoots are three feet in the rain." Think it's a good sentence.

Then Wang Wei raised his glass and said, "the woods have stored the rain, and slow comes the smoke, steamed quinoa, cooked millet and stored it in the east.

"The people sitting there were awed by this, and unanimously praised Wang Wei's superb poetic skills. Everyone asked him for advice, but Wang Wei couldn't shirk it, so he had to say," Thousands of words are at his disposal. The spirit of poetry is around. "

Meng Haoran looked ashamed after hearing this, but he was also inspired. Therefore, I am determined to observe the natural beauty of the changing landscape throughout the year, so as to fill the shortcomings of my own creation.

After years of hard observation, I have written many good pastoral poems. At the age of forty-six, when he visited the capital, it coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival. Scholars in Chang 'an invited him to compose poems for a meeting. He won the applause of the sitting poets with the phrase "weiyun is a light river man, and raindrops are sparse."

Meng Haoran, whose name is Haoran, was born in Xiangyang, Xiangzhou (now Xiangfan, Hubei) in the Tang Dynasty.

because he has never been an official, he is also called Monsanto. One of the representative writers of the pastoral poetry school in Tang Dynasty.

The main activity was in the Kaiyuan period, born in the first year of Yongchang of Wu Zetian (689) and died in the 28th year of Kaiyuan of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (74).

Meng Haoran lived in Jiannan Garden near Xianshan Mountain in the south of Xiangyang for most of his life.

He was born in a small manor family, and his father may not have been an official, but he was educated by orthodox Confucianism since childhood.

Meng Haoran has a chivalrous heart. When he was young, he traveled all over the world. Since childhood, I like to read the deeds of the ancients and practice them. People everywhere solve problems, so they make friends from all walks of life, chivalrous people. Meng Haoran and Pang Degong and Pi Rixiu of the later Han Dynasty lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain in Xiangfan City.

Xiangyang is located in the inlet of the Hanjiang River, crossing the Hanshui River by boat and reaching Lumen Mountain in the southeast, where he lives in seclusion. Fertile fields and fertile soil have nurtured poets; Famous mountains are better than water, which edifies the poet's aesthetic taste. Meng Haoran's life experience was plain and simple, and he spent most of his life in seclusion in Xiangyang.

old Tang books. Wenyuan legend has it that he: "Hidden in the Lumen Mountain, he adapts himself to poetry. At the age of forty, when you came to visit the capital, you should return to Xiangyang if you were not the first scholar. Jingzhou, Zhang Jiuling Town, is engaged in and sings with it. Die before you reach it.

He likes reading and wants to show his ambition. Unfortunately, he has never had an appropriate opportunity. He is quite frustrated because of his knowledge and skills. In disappointment, he traveled all over the south of the Yangtze River and finally returned to his hometown and lived in seclusion in the nearby Lumen Mountain.

Meng Haoran was a poet who was unwilling to live in seclusion, but died in seclusion.

Meng Haoran's life, wandering in the contradiction between seeking an official and retiring, ended his desire to seek an official until he hit a nail.

at the age of 4, when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was in power, he wanted to make a difference, so he went to Chang 'an to look for opportunities, took the Jinshi exam, and wanted to get a part-time job and show his political ambitions.

according to Meng Haoran's collection, around the 13th year of Kaiyuan, he personally went to Luoyang, the eastern capital, perhaps to take the exam, or to write a letter to offer a gift, just for seeking an official position.

His poems were highly praised, and his fame spread all over the capital for a while, and he became poetry friends with Wang Wei, Li Bai and Wang Changling. Make friends with Zhang Jiuling. Unfortunately, there are many obstacles in the official career, and it has never been valued by the court.

Han Chaozong admired him so much that he invited him to a banquet and recommended him to the imperial court. However, in front of Xuanzong, he expressed many dissatisfaction with Xuanzong with poems, which angered Xuanzong and made him lose the opportunity to be an official in the court.

After about two years' experience, Meng Haoran's desire to seek an official position was not realized, which was a great blow. So he returned to Lumen Mountain full of frustration and swam around the mountains and rivers. Meng Haoran roamed wuyue for three years, and traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers along the coast of Jiangdong. In addition, he has also traveled to many scenic spots in Jianghuai, Xianggui and Bashu, and his time is also concentrated in middle age, mostly for enjoying the secluded scenery and at the same time pinning his worries about his frustrated career.

Although I had one or two chances after that, unfortunately, I failed to display my talents. In the 25th year of Kaiyuan (737), Zhang Jiuling demoted Jingzhou to secretariat, and Meng Haoran was invited to enter the tent of meeting, and soon resigned and returned to his hometown.

Although he lived in seclusion in the forest, he still exchanged views with dignitaries such as Zhang Jiuling at that time, and sang with poets Wang Wei, Li Bai and Wang Changling.

In the 28th year of Kaiyuan (74 AD), the poet Wang Changling visited Xiangyang. At that time, Meng Haoran had toxic gangrene on his back, and the doctor told him not to eat fish and shrimp, but because he was happy and the rash had almost recovered, old friends got together, drank and chatted, and had a romantic feast. Meng Haoran forgot the taboo and ate fresh fish and shrimp, and the disease recurred. It is said that it was because of "eating fresh food and moving" that he finally died and died in the south garden of Yecheng at the age of 52.

Meng Haoran's poems broke away from the narrow realm of "responding to the system and praising things" in the early Tang Dynasty, and expressed his personal embrace more, bringing fresh breath to Kaiyuan poetry circle.

Meng Haoran was an early poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. At that time, he was famous for his poems, and his character and poetic style won the admiration and admiration of the people.

Li Bai's a message to meng haoran says, "master, I hail you from my heart, and your fame arisen to the skies. ..... high mountain, how I long to reach you, it' s just a slap in the face. " This can be seen here.

Du Fu praised him for "the poems and sentences in the Qing Dynasty can be passed down". It can be seen that he was famous at that time.

Less than ten years after his death, his poetry anthology was revised twice and sent to the Secret House for preservation.

most of Meng Haoran's poems are short stories in five words. Frustrated with fame, he wandered in wuyue and then returned to his hometown to live in seclusion, so most of his poems are about the scenery in roaming and the pastoral life in seclusion. Although it is not without cynicism, it is more of a poet's self-expression.

He is as famous as Wang Wei, and is also called "Wang Meng". Although his poems are not as broad as Wang's, they have unique artistic attainments, and they are the pioneers of the pastoral landscape poetry school in Tang Dynasty after Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao.

Meng's poems are simple, light and simple, with a cordial and real feeling, a strong flavor of life, and full of wonderful and complacent interest.

such as "Autumn Boasts to Send Zhang Wu", "Passing the Old Man's Village" and "Chunxiao", they are light and tasteful, integrated, elegant and artistic.

Meng's poems are based on being broad-minded and broad-minded, but there is a sense of grandeur and ease in his poems, such as the couplet of a message from lake dongting to premier zhang, and a mist from the Yun and Meng valleys and has beleaguered the city of Yueyang, which is vigorous and looks down on everything. But this kind of poetry is rare in Meng's poems. Therefore, it is also said that the content of Meng's poems is thin, and it is inevitable to be embarrassed by the length.

In the fourth year of Tianbao (745), Wang Shiyuan of Yicheng collected 218 poems of Meng Haoran, and his books were lost.

Meng Haoran's Collection, which is now popular, contains 263 poems, 45 more than Wang Ben's, among which there are other people's works.

Meng Haoran's biography is also included in the new and old Tang Shu.