Portrait of Xie Lingyun
Xie Lingyun is a famous poet in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and a descendant of Xie Xuan, a famous Eastern Jin Dynasty poet. When he was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he inherited the title of Patriarch. Later, he held many important positions. After Liu Songjin, Xie Lingyun also suffered. First his title was cut, and then he was killed by Song Wendi at that time. He is only 49 years old. Although Xie Lingyun died early, his style of being indifferent to fame and wealth and indulging in mountains and rivers still had a great influence on later generations.
Xie Lingyun was born noble. He was a famous aristocratic family at that time. He grew up in a Taoist temple in Qiantang when he was young. It is estimated that this also had a certain impact on Xie Lingyun's later calm mentality. He read widely in his early years and was able to write poems in his early years. At the age of eighteen, he attacked the palace. At the age of twenty, he officially became an official and held many official positions. However, Xie Lingyun's mind is not in the official position. In order to facilitate sightseeing, he also specially designed a detachable clogs, which can remove the front teeth when going up the mountain and the back teeth when going down the mountain, making it convenient to go up and down the mountain.
Later, Emperor Song Wudi replaced the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Xie Lingyun was even less interested in power. The court urged him to be an official several times before he was willing to go. However, after taking office, he still didn't get into the business, thinking about traveling all day. If that's the case, maybe it's ok, but when the court wanted to arrest him, he dared to resist arrest, and even later plotted to let people save themselves in exile, so Song Wendi couldn't bear it anymore and killed him.
Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao.
The birth of landscape poems has made important contributions to the development of China's poems, providing new themes and new poetic styles. Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao are two important figures in the development of landscape poetry. Here I will briefly introduce their relationship with their poetic style.
Famous poet Xie Lingyun
First of all, in terms of relationship, the two are indeed relatives. Xie Lingyun is the grandson of Xie Xuan, a famous Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Xie Tiao is the descendant of Xie An's brother. By blood, Xie Lingyun is Xie Tiao's uncle. Xie Lingyun is one of the founders of landscape poetry, which has a great influence on later generations. Xie Tiao inherited and developed Xie Lingyun's style, and created a new style on this basis, which made great contributions to landscape poetry, so he was called "big and small thanks" by later generations.
Judging from their poetic styles, both of them are good at writing landscape poems, their language styles are fresh and refined, and they can portray the scenery incisively and vividly with superb language skills, so their styles are somewhat similar, but after all, they are not alone and have certain differences in style. For Xie Lingyun, the attitude of landscape is very important in his poems. He tried his best to describe the details of the scenery and spared no effort to describe it. Because of this strong description, in Xie Lingyun's poems, the content and I are separated. First, the scenery he describes is that the author observes them through them.
Xie Tiao is different. His landscape poems pay more attention to the blending of scenes. He described his feelings through the description of the scenery, and at the same time got rid of the influence of Hyunri in Wei and Jin Dynasties, lacking many obscure places, which made him more fresh, lively and simple.
Xie Lingyun's famous sentence
Xie Lingyun created a lot of works in his life. Although there are not many excellent poems, there are also many famous sayings. His unique style was very rare at that time. His refined words brought unique fresh interest to the poetry world where metaphysics prevailed at that time. Next, I-I will show you some classic quotes by Xie Lingyun.
Famous poet Xie Lingyun
Xie Lingyun's most famous poem in his life is "Spring grass in the long pond, willow flowers singing birds" in Climbing the pond upstairs. These two poems have been praised by countless people. At first glance, these two sentences are very common, with nothing unique, simple words and ordinary scenes, but if you look at them together in the whole poem, you can see the unique charm of these two sentences. According to poetry, Xie Lingyun was recovering from a serious illness at that time. Compared with the prosperous scenery, this relatively simple spring vitality can impress Xie Lingyun more. At that time, the poetic style was still famous for its flowery words. In that environment, such fresh sentences naturally stand out and are loved by readers.
"The moon shines on the snow, and the north wind is strong and sad." The moon was supposed to be soft and quiet, but the following sentence changed the context of this poem. In cold weather, the cold moonlight shines on the heavy snow, giving people a high and gloomy feeling. This is the visual experience, and then the auditory experience. The wind is roaring, and the word "strength" shows the fierceness and cry of the wind.
Characteristics of Xie Lingyun's Landscape Poems
As we all know. Xie Lingyun is an important poet in the history of China. Before him, landscape appeared as an ornament of poetry, and he was the first person to create on a large scale with landscape as the theme. He used exquisite and delicate words to integrate the beauty of nature into his poems, which is an important pioneer of China's landscape poems. Here is a brief analysis of the characteristics of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems.
The scenery of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems
First of all, the Wei and Jin Dynasties were the times when metaphysics flourished, and the creation of landscape poems was also carried out in the way of metaphysics. Landscape is a prop used by poets to appreciate the interest of metaphysics, and Xie Lingyun himself has good attainments in the field of Buddhism in Laozi and Zhuangzi, so the word Buddhism and Taoism often appears in his poems. Therefore, it can be said that Xie Lingyun's landscape poems did not jump out of the shackles of the times in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and were still deeply branded with metaphysics. But it is worthy of recognition that there are few abrupt metaphysical words in his landscape poems. Basically, Hyunri is well integrated with the scenery, so it is not vague at all.
From the artistic features, Xie Lingyun is beautiful, and the simple scene presents a beautiful artistic conception through his description. Some of these artistic conceptions are exquisite and refined, some are profound and beautiful, and so on, which makes readers immersive. Later generations often mentioned when praising his landscape poems: "If clear water produces hibiscus, it is naturally lovely." It can be seen that the most important artistic feature of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems is fresh and natural, without flowery words and artificial sentences. After careful tasting, they appear more pure and natural.
Looking at many of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems, although due to the limitations of the times at that time, some of them may appear to be neglected in tailoring and inadequate in preparation, paying too much attention to the blending of Hyunri, and some of them are obscure, but their flaws are not concealed. Many of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems still occupy a place in the history of China's poetry with their beautiful and refined style.