Cui Hao was born in Kaifeng, Bianzhou (AD 74? -754) Tang Xuanzong was a scholar in the 11th year of Kaiyuan (AD 723). He is quick-witted and good at writing poems, and he is a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The Biography of Old Tang Books and Wenyuan compares him with Wang Changling, Gao Shi and Meng Haoran, but his official career is ups and downs, and he will never succeed. There are not many accounts of him in history, and there are few legends and stories about him in his hometown of Bianzhou. The old biography of Tang Shu Cui Hao is very brief, and even his literary achievements are not mentioned. What are these for? It is worth thinking about.

First, the poem "Yellow Crane Tower" made Cui Hao

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The Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang is one of the four famous buildings in China. There are many poems about the Yellow Crane Tower in past dynasties, but one of Cui Hao's seven rhythms is the best. Please see how he wrote it:

where long ago a yellow crane bore a sage to heaven, nothing is left now but the Yellow Crane Terrace. The yellow crane never came back, for thousands of years to see the long white clouds.

every tree in Hanyang becomes clear in the water, and Parrot Island is a nest of sweet grasses. But I look toward home, and twilight grows dark There was a mist hanging over the river, bringing deep melancholy to the people.

This poem is written with an open artistic conception, great boldness of vision, picturesque scenery and sincere feelings. And simple and vivid, just like spoken language, can not but be breathtaking. This poem is not only Cui Hao's famous and handed down from generation to generation, but also laid the foundation for his poetic title. This conclusion is by no means a person, and it is not that I insist on putting gold on Kaifeng people's faces. "Three hundred Tang Poems" is an anthology of Tang poems by later generations, so Cui Hao's poem is listed as the first of the seven-rhythm poems. It can be seen that this poem is highly valued. The Yuan Dynasty Xin Wenfang's Biography of Tang Caizi recorded that Li Bai boarded the Yellow Crane Tower to compose poems, but when he saw Cui Hao's work, he closed his hand and said, "There is no way in front of him, and Cui Hao wrote poems on it." Some people say that this is not necessarily true, either because it is attached by later generations. But I don't think it's all false. I have two poems about the Yellow Crane Tower written by Li Bai. One is "Yellow Crane Tower a farewell to meng haoran on his way to yangzhou": "An old friend resigned from the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March. The lonely sail is far from the sky. Only see the Yangtze River flowing in the sky. " The other song is "Listening to the Flute on the Yellow Crane Tower with Shi Lang Zhongqin": "One is to move guests to Changsha, but I can't see home in Chang 'an in the west. Yu Di blows in the Yellow Crane Tower, and plum blossoms fall in Jiangcheng in May. " Although they are all related to the Yellow Crane Tower, they are all entrusted with other purposes, and they are not completely depicting the scenery. At the same time, the first four sentences of his "Nautilus Island" "The parrot crosses the Wujiang River in the east, and the name of the parrot is passed on on the Jiangshangzhou. The parrot flies west to Longshan Mountain, and the tree of Fangzhou, He Qingqing, is similar to Cui's poem method. The same is true of his on climbing in nanjing to the terrace of phoenixes poems, all of which have obvious traces of imitating Cui Shi's style. Therefore, it is not Li Bai's words to admit that Cui's poems are excellent, such as "there is no way to see the scenery in front of him, and Cui Hao's poems are above it". Cang Lang Shi Hua (Yan Yu) said: "Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower should be the first of the seven-character poems of the Tang Dynasty." Although there are controversies, such as Hu Yinglin calling Du Fu's Ascending the Height the highest of the seven laws in ancient and modern times, it is indeed a pertinent word representing everyone's opinions. In this way, Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower is even more famous.