Appreciate lotte and praise the old.

Tang dynasty? Liu Yuxi

People who don't care about the old have compassion when they are old.

The body is thin and the frequency is reduced, and the hair is thin and the crown is self-biased.

Waste books cherish the eyes, and most of them are cooked with years.

Classics are still familiar things, and people are like reading Sichuan.

It's lucky to think about it carefully, but it will succeed next time.

Don't say Sang Yu is late, because it is still full of clouds.

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This poem is a response poem written by Liu Yuxi to his good friend Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi expressed his sadness and helplessness in "Farewell to the Old". The poet, on the other hand, encourages his friends to cheer up actively by describing his aging, showing the heroic momentum and unremitting spirit of the poet.

In order to comfort his friend, the poet first described his old age. "Thin with frequency reduction, thin crown from bias. Because of the growth of age, the poet's body becomes thinner and thinner, and it is often necessary to shorten his belt. The white hair on his head has fallen off badly, and it is thinning day by day, even his hat is tilted to one side. Since my eyes became bad, I seldom read books because I had to be treated with acupuncture for many years. Bai Juyi, a good friend, is old and sick, and his life is very inconvenient, but so is the poet. Compared with the two, the poet's situation may be worse, which is of course sad. However, the poet is not blindly immersed in sadness, and perhaps there are benefits of old age. It is precisely because I am old that I have read countless things, but I am proficient in everything. Why is aging easy to make people negative? It may be a matter of mentality. " It's lucky when you think about it, but it's easy to get rid of it. "As long as you can accept it slowly, getting old is not so terrible." Don't say that Sang Yu is late, because the sky is still full of clouds. "These two sentences are familiar from ancient times to the present. Sang Yu ",the afterglow of sunset shines on the treetops of Sang Yu, refers to the afterglow of sunset and sunset glow. It means: Don't say that it is very late in Sang Yu on Sunday, and the sunset glow can still shine all over the sky! These two sentences use figurative artistic techniques to imply that people are getting old at dusk, but they convey an open-minded, optimistic and positive attitude towards life, which makes people have a strong voice and inspires people to forge ahead.

Extended reading: the content of Liu Yuxi's poems

Liu Yuxi's landscape poems have changed the narrow-minded and desolate style of Dali and Zhenyuan poets, and often write a kind of half-empty and half-solid open scene of beyond space's real distance, such as "the distant mountains under water are like snow, and the grass on the bridge is like smoke" ("The fables and plays of Nanzhuang and Niu Xianggong after drinking are presented with lotte"), "The weeds are lush, the gossamer is dazzling, and Luotian is dazzling". Another example is "Wang Dongting"; In this quiet and ethereal landscape, the poet's subjective feelings are integrated, which constitutes a quiet and peaceful atmosphere. However, although Liu Yuxi said that "if he can leave his desire, his heart will be empty", he actively participated in Yongzhen's innovation, in fact, he still had to realize his life ideal in society; His personality is also stubborn, influenced by Taoist thought, but his poems often show a high-spirited, cheerful spirit. For example, one of the two poems "Autumn Poetry" and "Climbing the Tower with Lotte" has a high-spirited power. Liu Yuxi's poetry is clear because of its implicit and deep connotation, open and generous realm and lofty and upward emotion. Liu Yuxi was demoted to the south many times, where folk songs prevailed. Therefore, Liu Yuxi often collects folk songs and learns their styles to create poems. For example, the poem "Egret Son" describes his lonely feelings figuratively, but uses a faint folk song style. There are also some works that are completely modeled after folk songs, such as ci, ci, line, tower ci, Langtaosha ci, Xibaoshan old time and so on. , simple and natural, fresh and lovely, emitting a folk-like rich flavor of life. The following two songs are particularly vivid: Xing No.2 and Ci No.2.

Extended reading: Liu Yuxi's style of works

Liu Yuxi and his poetic style are quite unique. He is resolute and heroic. During his years in exile, he felt heavy psychological depression and sang a lamentation for lonely ministers. But he never despaired, he has the soul of a fighter; He wrote several poems, such as Yuan He Ten Years Lang invited Beijing Opera as a gift to a gentleman who looks at flowers, revisiting Xuanduguan Jueju, White Snake, Chrysanthemum Mosquito Ballad, Flying a kite, Hua Tuo Lun, and so on, which repeatedly satirized and attacked his political enemies, causing repeated political repression and blows, but such repression and blows aroused his stronger anger. He said: "I am from Shandong, and I have felt a lot in my life" (Zhushanhui Zen Master).

Liu Yuxi lived in Jiaxing with his father in his early years, and often went to Xing Wu to visit Zen monks and poets in the south of the Yangtze River, Jiao Ran and Che Ling. According to his "Poems of Master Che", he "wrote two tiny inkstones, accompanied by chanting, and all were smooth". This early experience has a great influence on later poetry creation.

Liu Yuxi's poems, whether short or long, are mostly concise and bright, with handsome style, filled with the wisdom of a philosopher and the sincere feelings of a poet, full of artistic tension and heroic momentum. Such as "the north wind mourns the old horse, and the autumn frost moves the birds." ..... because of the sense of decline, Ann can arouse the heart "(the second part of" Learning Ruan Gong's Three Poems ")," Ma Si changed grass and fists, carving Qingyun sleep. Poems such as "Heaven and earth can be swept away, helping the monarch to be healthy" ("Beginning to smell the autumn wind") are written with high spirits and intense style, which has a power to rise and fall and prosper the people. As for his seven-character quatrains, they are also unique, such as: "Mo Dao's slanderers are as deep as waves, and Mo Yanke is as heavy as sand." Although the effort is hard, it still needs a lot of sand to nugget. "("Nine Poems of Langtaosha ",the eighth)" Plum blossoms play the strong flute in Saibei, and Guishushan poems Huainan. Please don't play the previous songs, listen to the new version of Yang Liuzhi. "Poetically, these two works are concise and easy to understand, but through one layer, we will experience a spirit of contempt for suffering, independence, meeting and surpassing suffering, a rushing vitality, an optimistic spirit of abandoning the past and facing the future, and a firm and noble personality connotation. Another example is his famous poem "Poetry of Autumn", which is an anti-traditional view of lamenting and praising autumn, giving autumn a power to guide life and showing the poet's infinite yearning for the realm of freedom. The chest is extremely high and the bone strength is very strong.