These two poems are from Ma Dai's Crossing the Wild Country, which means: Sometimes children are told to collect medicine on the cliff, and sometimes calves are led to the stream to drink water.
Name: Crossing the Picnic
Time: Late Tang Dynasty
Author: Ma Dai
Genre: Five-character Rhyme
Content:
Savage leisurely planted trees in front of the old savage.
Stay in the white clouds and catch fish and firewood by the sea.
Hu Ercai picked yam, released calves and drank streams and springs.
Self-talk about health, no worries about old age.
Appreciation: Passing the old man's room in the forest, there is a big tree he planted in front of the door. He lives in a quiet place on the mountain and fishes by the blue sea. Sometimes children will be asked to go to the cliff to collect medicine, and sometimes calves will be led to the stream to drink water. Old people attach great importance to keeping in good health, so there is no need to worry about getting old. The poet described the colorful pastoral life of the elderly with simple and natural brushwork and relaxed and happy mood.
Ma Dai (799-869) was born in Quyang, Dingzhou (now Donghai County, Jiangsu Province) in the Tang Dynasty. A famous poet in late Tang Dynasty. Hui Chang has been a scholar for four years. In the early years of Xuanzong, Taiyuan Li took over as secretary and was demoted to Long Yangwei by Yizheng. At the end of Xian Tong, Zong Yi served as the curtain of Datong Army and eventually became Dr. imperial academy. One volume of poetry, two volumes today. Gong Shi's poems belong to literature, which are concise and elegant, full of thought and charm, and have no deviant habits in the late Tang Dynasty. Especially good at five laws, get five words and three words. He is good at expressing traveling thoughts and frustrated feelings, which is profound, graceful and natural. For example, watch the sunset, miss the Chu River, send people to visit Shu, and spend the autumn on the dam. , has been widely read. Frontier poems, Guanshan songs, etc. Passionate, it is a better frontier poem in the late Tang Dynasty. Yuefu poem "Sighing for Women" is sad and the most ironic. Some frontier works, such as "Looking Alone on the Dragon", "General Frontier" and "Riding the Condor Heroes", are also vigorous and powerful. Sighing for a Woman in the Five Dynasties can describe a woman's sad mood. There are also excellent works in seven-character quatrains. Poetry is mostly a gift, entertainment or writing travel notes, mountains and rivers, and rarely reflects social reality. He recorded 172 poems in Complete Tang Poems, which were compiled into two volumes. Life stories can be found in Chronicle of Tang Poetry and Biography of Talents in Tang Dynasty.