Which emperor wrote the best poems?

There have been hundreds of emperors in Chinese history, many of whom were arty, and a few kings did have real talents and learning. Anyone who can write poetry would not want it to be passed down through the ages. However, there are not many who can really reach the palace of literature.

Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was the first emperor to write poetry. His work was only a wind song, but it could be remembered for generations and was admired by future kings. Liu Bang was actually a scoundrel in the market. However, when he returned to his hometown after winning a hundred battles, he remembered that the world was at the beginning and the country was not stable, so he expressed his eagerness for talents with the sentence "A strong man is here to guard the four directions." Some people don't understand Liu Bang's background and think how could a person who didn't read write such heroic poems? In fact, Xiang Yu, who did not read, could also compose poems. When the Han Dynasty was conquering the territory, he recited the famous line of "Strengthening the mountains, the world is overwhelming, but the times are unfavorable, and the virtues will not fade away." This fully reflects that it was a combination of civil and military forces. , the glorious era of turbulence.

In the history of Chinese literature, the status of Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi is relatively conspicuous. Cao Pi is the son of Cao Cao. He usurped the Han Dynasty to establish himself and persecuted Cao Zhi. He has a bad political reputation, but his literary achievements cannot be underestimated. Cao Pi's "The Song of Yan" is the earliest complete seven-character poem extant in the history of Chinese literature. It has made an outstanding contribution to the formation of seven-character poems. There are only two seven-character poems in "The Song of Yan", the first of which is "The autumn wind makes the weather bleak." "Cool" is his representative work:

The autumn wind is bleak and the weather is cool, the grass and trees are shaking and the dew turns to frost, and the swallows say goodbye and return to the south as the geese fly south. I miss you so much when you are traveling, and I miss you so much when you return to your hometown. Why do you want to send me to another place? The humble concubine stays alone in the empty room. She worries about you and misses you, but dare not forget her. She sheds tears on her clothes. The sound of the piano's strings brings forth the Qing Dynasty, but the short songs and slight chants cannot be long. The bright moon shines brightly on my bed, and the stars are drifting west into the night. The Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl look at each other from a distance, how can you live alone in the river!

The poet places the missing woman in the background of the autumn night to describe, and expresses her lingering and pathos lovesickness delicately and euphemistically, with simple language It is clear, vivid and touching, and can well express the general style of Cao Pi's poetry.

The end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty was another bold and unrestrained era. The representatives of this period, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, both wrote poems. Yangdi's poem is like a spring river with flowers on a moonlit night:

The river is flat and motionless at dusk, but the spring flowers are in full bloom. The flowing waves will bring the moon away, and the tide will bring the stars.

Taizong's poem is like early summer:

Once spring and summer change, the birds and flowers move overnight. The yin and yang are dark and light, the leaves are light and dark, and the mist is heavy and light at dawn and dusk.

The orioles are still ringing in the hall, and the horizontal silk threads are netting the sky. Pei Gaolan's shadow is connected, and the ribbon is connected with fine grass patterns.

The green scales are frightened on the side, and the black swallows are dancing in front of the eaves. Why should there be mountain springs again in Fenyang?

Yang Guang’s Li Shimin’s poems are of fair talent and lack of confidence. The reason why their poems can survive is entirely due to the poet’s special political identity. If they are compared from a purely literary perspective, they His works are probably not even considered "low quality" among the Tang poetry that has illuminated the world for centuries.

When it comes to writing poetry, we cannot fail to mention Li Yu, the late lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty. This unlucky king who has been teased by history has reached the pinnacle of his contemporaries in literature. Li Yu is good at calligraphy, painting, melodies, and has certain attainments in poetry and prose. He is especially accomplished in poetry. His poppies, Langtaosha, Wuyewei, Xiangjianhuan, etc. are all masterpieces that have been passed down through the ages. Among them, In particular, poppy poppies' "When will the spring flowers and autumn moon come" are the most famous, and they are still sung to this day. The style of Hou Zhu's early lyrics is gorgeous and soft, yet still retains the "flower room" style. After the fall of the country, during his life of house arrest where he "washed his face with tears day and night", he wept his blood with one swan song after another, making the king of the country the "Emperor" in the world of poetry through the ages. The sentence begins with the vicissitudes of life." These later poems, with their desolate, sad and profound artistic conception, have laid the foundation for Su Xin's so-called "bold and unrestrained" school, and they have become the great masters in the history of Ci. The horizons are widened and the emotion is deep. "As for the clarity of his sentences and the harmony of his phonology, it is unprecedented. Li Yu's poems are also very distinctive. After being captured, he once crossed the Zhongjiang River and looked at Shicheng and cried, which was deeply touching:

My old hometown in the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River has been a dream for thirty years. Wuyuan Palace is now in a state of neglect, and Guangling Terrace Hall is desolate. The cloud cage is far away and there are thousands of pieces of sadness, and the rain is hitting the boat with thousands of tears.

The four brothers and their three hundred people cannot afford to sit around and think about it.

The experience of Song Huizong Zhao Ji was very similar to that of Li Yu, and he was also good at writing lyrics. He once wrote, "I dare not say it clearly in front of others.

Such vivid sentences as "I can't bear to look up and see the old moon" describe the feeling of lovesickness, and Yanshan Pavilion expresses the pain of the country's subjugation:...

With so much hatred and resentment, how could these two swallows ever speak to each other? . The sky is far away, and there are thousands of rivers and mountains. How can I not think about it? There is no evidence except in dreams.

The man who claims to be a civilized and martial artist. Emperor Qianlong also loved to write poems, and he was very diligent. He left tens of thousands of poems in his life. It was a pity that this most blessed emperor had poor skills. Some of them were like limericks, and some were like prose with rhymes. For example, "Spring water blooms in the lake in March, and the breeze does not move the glass flat", and "Enjoying today and reminiscing about past years" are not as good as today's ordinary intellectuals who love to read ancient poems. But in the eyes of courtiers. , no matter how rubbish the emperor's poems are, they are still "high-quality rubbish". Who dares to gossip? Therefore, the emperor's poetry collections still produced one after another. Emperor Qianlong made a lot of cultural jokes. For example, he When he wrote the inscription for Lingyin Temple, he made the prefix "Yun" on the top of the word "Ling" bigger than the bottom part, so the officials changed their minds and renamed it "Yunlin Zen Temple"; Qianlong also regarded "Xushuguan" as a It became "Xushuguan" and "Xichuan" was regarded as "Sichuan". The courtiers silently changed the name of the place and it has been used to this day.

"Poems, songs, music and chess." Qianlong, who knew everything about calligraphy and painting, wrote tens of thousands of poems, but none of them was well-known to future generations. However, Liu Bang, the "market emperor" who did not read, could become famous throughout the ages with an improvised work. History seems to tell people that love with love "Literary sinner", Emperor Hongli, who was particularly interested in literary prison, not only delayed the times, but also vilified himself.