Poetry as the Chinese nation's outstanding traditional culture, a masterpiece, many of which are popular, household names, naturally produced many "star" poets, such as Li Bai Dufu, its poetry or magnificent, or carved, are catchy, so that they are respectively to the "immortal" and "holy" name. The name of "immortal" and "holy" stood firmly on the altar of ancient poetry.
But undeniably, it is also because of their works at that time on the people's appreciation, recognition and pursuit, most of them have been carefully preserved, leaving the descendants to taste one by one of the exquisite and wonderful, but also more and more is the author of his own fame. In other words, the number of poets' works preserved and circulated, in fact, can be used as one of the reasons for the poet's fame.
But in China, there is another poet, of whom we can now read only two poems, who has nevertheless managed to spread his name through the ages and gained many fans.
What kind of lazy poet is this? Even the almighty Baidu encyclopedia, about his introduction is only "life and death, font size are unknown". With this sentence alone, it is enough to make us feel the mystery of this "laziest" poet, and his deeds can only be glimpsed from other people's biographies - "The Old Book of the Tang Dynasty - Biography of He Zhizhang". He is Zhang Ruoxu, who, along with the famous Tang poets He Zhizhang, Zhang Xu and Bao Rong, was known as the "Four Scholars of Wuzhong" because of his outstanding talent and literary talent.
About Zhang Ruoxu, I believe that everyone will not feel unfamiliar, and can even be said to be quite familiar with. Zhang Ruoxu is famous for his poem "Moonlit Night on the Spring River", which is a beautiful, clear poem. The poem is full of philosophical interest and true feelings, depicting the misty moonlight on the riverbank on a spring night, with the declining sun in the west, which washed away the heavy make-up and colorful flora of the Gong style poems, and is clear and pleasant to the eyes, and many of its famous lines are familiar to the ear.
However, when it comes to the author of this masterpiece, we can only look back at the long history in bewilderment, pore over the gravel and turn over the historical materials, and find only a few 32 words about him. Twenty-six of these words came from the Qing Dynasty Kangxi years by imperial edict edited the "All Tang Poetry", there are six words, is mentioned in the "Old Tang Book" Zhang Ruoxu once served as "Yanzhou Bingcao."
In fact, there are only a few words about Zhang Ruoxu in the historical records, and his only two surviving poems were almost lost in the vastness of history, and it is difficult for people to see them today. Although Zhang Ruoxu was a poet of the early Tang Dynasty, few of his works were circulated in the public during the Tang Dynasty, perhaps because the poetry scene in the Tang Dynasty was so blooming that Zhang Ruoxu's talent was overlooked.
According to many modern experts, there is no written record of Zhang Ruoxu or Zhang Ruoxu's poems in the more than ten Tang poems and Tang miscellanies and novels that exist in the world today. From the Tang Dynasty until the Yuan Dynasty, his poems were seldom emphasized by the world, and few people regarded his works as masterpieces. According to historians, it was not until the Song Dynasty that Zhang Ruoxu's poem "Moonlit Night on the Spring River" was included in the forty-seventh volume of the Lefu Poetry Collection, which was compiled by Guo Maoqian and categorized poems according to their tunes, thus preserving this outstanding work, which had been dormant for a long time.
Despite being buried for almost a thousand years, however, by the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were still many important readings of Tang poetry, such as Xu Zeng's The Imperial Poetry of the Whole of the Tang Dynasty, and Guan Shiming's Notes on Tang Poetry in the Snowy Mountain Room, all of which included Zhang Ruoxu's work, and some of which included commentaries on the poems.
In the whole process of writing "The Moonlit Night of Spring River Flowers," the poet's own mind and thoughts are used as a paintbrush to draw a vivid and beautiful picture of a starry night with a clear moon, a silvery glow around the river, and a thin blanket of smoke on the riverbank, and slowly unfolds in front of the eyes of the world in an airy, clear and pure manner, so that people cannot help but be moved by the poem and feel as if they were in the midst of it.
Nowadays, there are still a lot of people in the society who are very fond of Zhang Ruoxu's verses, and the contemporary literary scholars also have a very high evaluation of Zhang Ruoxu. "It is a lucid and simple, yet full of delight and longing, view of life and of the world made, which makes the whole poem overflowing with a strong youthful flavor." This assessment was given by two famous contemporary scholars, Zhang Peiheng and Luo Yuming, on Zhang Ruoxu's poetry.
How to interpret this assessment of Zhang Ruoxu by the scholars? If you read it carefully, you will find that the comment contains praise for "Moonlit Night of Spring River Flowers", which combines pictorial and poetic feelings and insights into the wonders of the universe and the philosophy of life, as well as praise for the poetic environment created by the poem, which is exquisitely clear and exquisite. Therefore, even after a thousand years of time and vicissitudes, people can still feel the unique artistic value and emotional world of Zhang Ruoxu's A Moonlit Night on the Spring River, as well as the enlightening philosophical rationale of the poem.
Conclusion:
From the popularity of Zhang Ruoxu and his poems in the modern society as well as the high appraisal of him by scholars, we can once again feel Zhang Ruoxu's amazing talent. So it's not hard to see how Zhang Ruoxu, China's "laziest" poet, who left only two works behind, could become famous with them. Modern life is in a hurry, in the leisure time for life is tired of running, may also want to read more of these masterpieces, such as the "Spring River, Moonlit Night," which has been passed down for thousands of years of masterpieces, as if it is a touch of clear and beautiful color, in the middle of the pomp and circumstance, for people to bring the seemingly bland, but also the amazing experience of a different kind of novelty.