These two sentences are from Du Mu's "Jiang Nanchun Jueju":
Jiangnan, the sound of green and red flowers, the waterside village in the foothills.
More than 480 ancient temples were left in the Southern Dynasties, and countless pagodas were shrouded in wind and rain. ?
This is a seven-line poem, starting from the beginning and ending with the rhyme "One East". In the third sentence, the words "hundred, eight, and ten" in the 480 Temple in the Southern Dynasties are all entering tones, so the word "ping, ping" is "ping, ping", which is out of date and seriously illegal. In the fourth sentence, "There are several towers in the misty rain", the relationship between levels is "level and level", and the fifth word uses the word "smoke", which saves the contradiction of the previous sentence.
This is a typical sentence that is difficult to save, not a law.
This poem was written by Du Mu on his way from Jiangning, Xuanzhou, to Yangzhou to meet Niu Sengru. In other words, this is a landscape poem.
"Birds are singing in the vast south of the Yangtze River, green grass and red flowers set each other off, and wine flags are fluttering everywhere in the foothills of waterside villages. There are more than 480 ancient temples left over from the Southern Dynasties, and there are countless pavilions. "
What a beautiful scenery.
Du Mu, on the other hand, is a person who wrote that "a strong woman in business does not know how to hate her country, but she still sings backyard flowers across the river". It can be said that they have never let go of their concern for the country and the people. When Tang Wenzong was in Korea, Buddhism flourished during the reign of Emperor Tiandi. Later, he welcomed the Buddha's bones and demoted Han Yu, who wrote to exhort him. Throughout the country, Buddhism is in full swing, and a large amount of land is used to build temples. A large number of monks do not work, pay taxes and occupy social resources. However, in military politics, the princes were separated, the central dynasty was unable to crusade, and the building was in danger.
Why did Du Mu turn his pen and mention the Southern Dynasties that had been extinct for hundreds of years? Xiao Yan, Emperor of Nanliang, devoted himself to Buddhism and built four or five hundred temples to show his piety. As a result, the "post-Beijing rebellion" broke out and he was trapped in the palace and starved to death. Therefore, Du Mu expressed his concern about Tang Taizong's mistakes in Buddhism and Taoism.
I don't know whether it has reached the level of resignation, but this view of Du Mu has been paid more and more attention. Until the death of Wenzong, Tang Wuzong launched "Harmony and Destroying the Buddha" and rebelled against the buffer region, which brought hope to the Tang Dynasty.
The whole poem begins with the scenery, flows naturally and ends with the scenery, and there is no obvious rhetorical structure (metaphor, progression, thimble, etc.) to highlight the connotation. If you must ask what rhetorical devices are used, you can only say that rhetorical questions and irony are used to satirize the present, which is an allegory and irony.
A friend said that the "480 Hall of Southern Dynasties" used exaggerated rhetoric. In fact, if you think about it carefully, it may not be so.
If you really want to exaggerate, why not write "507 Temple in Southern Dynasties" or "503 Temple"? In this case, the number is even larger, and there is no law of leveling, so there is no need to save so much trouble-the only explanation is that there was indeed a saying of "480 Temple" at that time, and Du Mu directly quoted this saying, so it is not necessarily exaggerated here.
Rhetoric refers to the method of language expression. In fact, concise, dual, parallel, rhyming and rhythmic poetry itself is a rhetorical writing method.