Author: Cui Hao Tang Dynasty

The fairy of the past has flown away by the yellow crane, leaving only an empty Yellow Crane Tower.

The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years.

Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass.

But I looked home, and the twilight was getting thicker. The river is shrouded in mist, which brings people deep melancholy.

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This poem is full of scenery before writing, and lyrical after writing, which is natural. Even a generation of Li Bai, who is known as the "Poet Fairy", can't help admiring again and again, and thinks it is better to stop writing for a while. To this end, Li Bai also sighed with regret and said: "There is no good scenery in front of me, and Cui Hao wrote a poem on it!"

The Yellow Crane Tower is named after its Yellow Crane Mountain (also known as Snake Mountain) in Wuchang. Legend has it that in ancient times there was a fairy who crossed here by yellow crane (see Zhi); It is also said that Fei went to the immortal to drive a crane (see "Taiping Universe", quoted from "Tu Jing"). Poetry is to think about the origin of the name of a building, from legend to writing, and then grow out. What is the fairy crossing the crane? What is it now? If it is said to be "gone forever", there will be regrets that the years are gone and the ancients are gone; The fairy went to the empty building, leaving only the white clouds in the sky, which lasted for thousands of years and could show the boundless generosity of the world. The poet's strokes describe the feelings that people who boarded the Yellow Crane Tower at that time often felt, with boundless spirit and sincere feelings.

There used to be a saying that "writing is based on qi". The first four sentences of this poem seem to be spoken casually, spinning in one breath and going down the trend without hindrance. The word "Yellow Crane" appears repeatedly, but because of its momentum, readers "wave five strings to see Hong Fei" and read on in a hurry, which is a taboo in metrical poems. The poet seems to have forgotten that he wrote the seven laws of "floating before cutting", and every word has a fixed tone. Try it: the five or six words in the first couplet are the same as "Yellow Crane"; The third sentence is almost all snoring; The fourth sentence ends with a three-level tone such as "empty leisurely"; No matter any confrontation, it is based on the syntax of ancient poetry. Is this because the seven laws were not finalized at that time? No, there are already seven standardized laws, which were written by Cui Hao himself. Is it the poet who deliberately writes disharmonious laws? Not necessarily. He is different from Du Fu's later metrical poems in that he deliberately created his own tune. It seems that I still ignored it. As Lin Daiyu said when she taught people to write poems in A Dream of Red Mansions, "If there are strange sentences, even the truth is wrong." Here, Cui Hao practiced according to the principles of "focusing on intention" and "not hurting meaning with words", which is why he wrote such a rare poem in the Seven Laws. Shen Deqian commented on this poem, thinking that "the meaning is like the first, the implication is between the lines, and he writes with a vertical pen, so he is good at making great achievements through the ages" (Volume XIII of Tang Poetry), which means this.

In the first half of this poem, put things right, and in the second half, I wrote about what I saw and felt in the building, and wrote about the homesickness caused by the grass and trees overlooking Hanyang City and Nautilus Island from upstairs. This is put first and then collected. If you just let nature take its course, don't accept it, don't stick to the rules, and don't return to the meter, then it's not seven tones, but seven ancient ones. This poem seems to be divided into two parts, but in fact, the text is always focused from beginning to end, with only one breath in the middle. This seemingly continuous connection is also the most organized from the perspective of the beginning, inheritance, transformation and combination of rhythmic poetry. When discussing that the second couplet of legal poems should be attached to the first couplet, Yuan Yang wrote several poets and legalists: "This couplet should be broken (the first couplet), like a dragon ball, and should be firmly adhered to." This is the case in the first four sentences of this poem, which tells the legend of a fairy riding a crane. Couplets and puzzles embrace each other and are integrated. Yang Zai also said that the "turn" of the neck couplet: "Avoid the meaning of the former couplet, and change it, such as thunder breaking the mountain, the viewer is amazed." The metaphor of thunder is intended to show that there should be a sudden change in the first five or six sentences, which is unexpected. At the turning point of this poem, the style turns from right to right, and the realm is completely different from that of the former couplet, which just meets this requirement of the law. The sudden death of a native Syrian yellow crane gives people a feeling of unknowability. Suddenly it became a grass tree in Qingchuan, and I can vividly see the scene in front of Manchuria. This contrast can not only dye away the sadness of those who climb the building and overlook, but also make the literature change. It is also in line with the law of poetry to let poetry return to the invisible state at the beginning to cope with the "combination" in front, such as the tail of a leopard.

It is precisely because of its superb art and great success that this poem is regarded as the swan song of the Yellow Crane Tower, which is understandable.

Later, Li Bai went upstairs, also full of poetry. When he found Cui's poems in the building, he repeatedly shouted "wonderful, wonderful!" " According to legend, Li Bai wrote four "doggerel poems" to express his feelings: "Hit the Yellow Crane Tower with one punch, and kick over Parrot Island with one foot. There is a scene in front of him in which Cui Hao wrote a poem. " I stopped writing. Young Ding laughed at Li Bai: "The Yellow Crane Tower is still intact, but it can't be beaten." Li Bai also explained in a poem: "It's really a disaster. It was only because the yellow Crane Immortal cried to the Jade Emperor that the Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt, and the yellow Crane Immortal returned upstairs. " It's really serious. That's great. Later generations built a pavilion on the east side of the Yellow Crane Tower, named Li Bai's Writing Pavilion, to show his ambition. On the double eaves, it re-entered the Tao and became a place for Yan You. In fact, Li Bai's love for the Yellow Crane Tower is hard to find. He is passionate and even called it "one guest in Qingyun, three guests in Yellow Crane Tower". Mountains and rivers depend on humanities, and the name of Yellow Crane Tower is more prominent.