| Located in ancient huanghuji,The Yellow Crane Tower controls two rivers and three places,and stands in nine provinces.It stares and witnesses the rise and fall of the dynasties and historical surge of nearly 1800 years in its isolated and magnificent manner.During the Tang and Song Dynasties,nearly 120 literatus created 167 poems about the Yellow Crane Tower.From the perspective of time,the Yellow Crane Tower poetry started in the Southern Dynasty and reached its peak in Tang and Song Dynasties.Tang poetry represented by Cui Hao’s Yellow Crane Tower effected later generations,and the number of Yellow Crane Tower poetry in Ming and Qing Dynasties was unprecedented and considerable.Judging from the creator’s situation,it can be said that the stars are bright and the achievements are unparalleled.Li Bai,Cui Hao,Wang Wei,Meng Haoran and other poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty boarded here to bid farewell.Liu Yuxi,Bai Juyi,Du Mu,Lu Ying and other famous poets feasted and chanted here.Fan Chengda,Lu You,Yue Fei,Chen Fu and others patted the railings of the Yellow Crane Tower.In terms of poetic style,there are rich literary forms such as song lay,five laws,five-syllable quatrain,seven laws,seven-syllable quatrain and lyrics.From the subject matter,describing the beautiful scenery of the Yellow Crane Tower,the scenery of Chu and expressing sadness and hatred are the most common contents of Yellow Crane Tower poetry;Remembering the past and mourning,immortal legends have also become the conversation’s content after people eating;The Confucian heart of official advancement constitutes the most colorful stroke in the picture scroll of Yellow Crane Tower poetry.Specifically,a total of 26 poets from Tang to Tang and Five Dynasties created 45 poems on the Yellow Crane Tower.Cui Hao,Li Bai and other poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty spared no effort to eulogize the Yellow Crane Tower,which played a decisive role in exerting the value of the Yellow Crane Tower poetry.Therefore,the Yellow Crane Tower poetry in Tang Dynasty formed a pattern of double peaks confronting each other and surrounded by mountains.A total of more than 90 poets in Song Dynasty created 122 Yellow Crane Tower poems,which far exceeded those in Tang Dynasty in terms of number and volume of poems,but they generally inherited and expanded the Yellow Crane Tower poems in Tang Dynasty.Among the poems of the Yellow Crane Tower in Tang and Song Dynasties,which mainly focus on the towering of the Yellow Crane Tower,the magnificence of Yingwuzhou and the vastness of Hanyang,Cui Hao and Li Bai’s poems of the Yellow Crane Tower have gradually become classical,which not only carry forward the tradition of expressing sorrow in the poems of the Yellow Crane Tower since the Northern and Southern Dynasties,but also open up the farewell meaning of the poems of the Yellow Crane Tower.The images of Hanyang,Yingwuzhou,moon and flute were also accepted by poets in Tang and Song Dynasties.Cui Hao and Li Bai,with their exemplary value of Yellow Crane Tower poetry,became the characters of Yellow Crane Tower poetry in Song Dynasty.Images have been repeatedly chanted and become a major feature of Yellow Crane Tower poetry images.The Yellow Crane Tower poetry in Tang and Song Dynasties has a large number of creations,high artistic level and wide subject matter,which fully shows the prosperity and vitality of the Yellow Crane Tower poetry in Tang and Song Dynasties.There are three reasons for its prosperity: 1、Crane tower itself is located in China "Tianyuan" position that have a huge traffic accessibility.2、Confucianism,Taoism and Shi Jia all entered the discourse system of The Crane Tower,which adds a huge cultural "weight" to the Crane Tower.3、The poets Cui Hao and Li Hai brought a permanent topic to the poems of The Crane Tower.No matter from the perspective of literary history or literary landscape,the poems of the Yellow Crane Tower in Tang and Song Dynasties show their infinite attraction and great influence beyond the times,irradiating later generations. |
