What do you mean, you can't see when you enter the pool, but you feel someone coming when you hear the song?
These two sentences are from Wang Changling's two lotus picking songs:
These two poems were probably seen after Wang Changling was demoted to Long Biao. Longbiao, now Huaihua, Hunan, was then called the land of wuyue. It is far from Beijing, but the folk customs are simple and the characteristics of ethnic minorities are obvious. Wang Changling, as a master of the Four Wonders, was filled with enthusiasm when he saw a young girl picking lotus flowers and playing in the water, so he got this two-line quatrain.
However, from the metrical standard, although these two songs are composed of metrical sentences, they are both "curved", that is, the level of the third sentence and the second sentence is not "sticky". This does not affect the quality of poetry, just pay attention to the distinction when dividing. It can't be called the "Seven Wonders", but it can only be regarded as a genre in the ancient style. After all, the topic chosen by the master himself is "Two Lotus Picks".
The content of the poem is not complicated, it is all folk songs. In this way, it is very similar to Liu Yuxi's later developed "Zhi Zhu Ci". However, "Zhi Zhu Ci" is a top-level arrangement from bottom to top, while Wang Changling's two poems are purely his own creation, and there are still differences in origin between them.
The first song is a lotus picking activity.
Lotus picking girls are all beautiful and moving, such as the national color of wuyue and the concubines of the King of Chu. They struggled to row the lotus boat and their clothes were wet by the lake. Lotus welcomed them into the estuary when they came, and the bright moon sent them back to the river after picking them.
There is a saying in the Interpretation of Tang Poems: "Lotus-picking plays are popular in the Three Kingdoms, so they are held simultaneously." Wu Ji, Yue Yan and Chu Fei used it together to write that the girl picking lotus is beautiful, beautiful. Everyone in the world is amazing. Fighting for the lotus boat shows that the girls are playing, which is also the "lotus picking play" It doesn't matter if the water gets wet because of the fight. Vivid scenes, girls' cheerful and competitive, lively and cheerful personality are all revealed.
The second detailed picture of lotus picking
This song is more famous than the first one.
The green Luo skirt of the girl who picked the lotus seems to be the same color as the lotus leaf in the field. The girl's face is hidden in the blooming lotus, which reflects each other. They disappeared into the lotus pond in an instant and didn't realize that someone was coming until they heard songs everywhere.
"The lotus leaf skirt is cut in one color", the first sentence says that the lotus leaf is the same color as the girl skirt, and the word "cut" is used, which feels not only the same color, but also the same cloth. "Lotus blooms on both sides of the face", the second sentence is to write that lotus blooms next to the girl's face, and people are more charming than flowers and cover each other.
"When you enter the pool, you can't see it." The third sentence further deepens and supplements the chaotic scene of flowers and plants and people coming and going. When the girl entered the lotus pond, she could never find it again. This shows that the size of the lotus pond and the abundance of lotus flowers are a "chaotic" word, and the lotus leaves are swaying in groups, which is similar to the girl's figure and dazzling. "I didn't know someone was coming until I heard the girl singing," which added interest to the poem from the sound.
On the whole, Wang Changling's two poems don't have much meaning, but they are exquisitely crafted in creating a lotus picking scene and describing the girl's body. Through progressive sentences, they gradually restore a vivid and beautiful picture of a girl picking lotus to readers.
The pure and uplifting poetic style and gradually refined words are the formation of Wang Changling's personal characteristics and the beginning of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.