Directly impacts on our world is the world of nature, but also far-reaching. Literary creation, the many splendours of the natural world, to writing endless vitality and imagination, and wonderful poems, notes are the most powerful.
During the Tang dynasty, is the most prosperous golden age poetry emerged to Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, represented by a large number of great poet of brighter than the milky way. Tang also as a giant Kaleidoscope, cover and refers to the content in question is extremely complex and broad. Throughout history, many scholars studying Tang poetry, however, from a scientific point of view of Tang poetry, are rare. Natural history interpretation of the Tang dynasty, this book, based on the positions of modern science, from the Botany, zoology, astronomy, geology, and geography dimension, trying to uncover the hidden interior of the Tang dynasty "cultural code".
Natural history is an esoteric subject humans deal with nature, refers to the natural areas of macro-level observation and classification. Science in the modern sense, generally refers to a natural or specialized knowledge in technical areas. For ordinary people, systems and depth of modern science, with a threshold of knowledge and barriers. And natural history, by contrast, is closely related to people's life, natural history as the modern science of "liberal education" or "general education".
Author of natural history interpretation of Tang Miao Hu, 1961 graduated from Nanjing University of Agriculture of plant protection, though he engaged in plant protection work at the grassroots level for a long time may have a preference for classical literature. Miao Hu spent more than a decade of time carefully, based on modern scientific knowledge, the use of a wealth of knowledge, coupled with a wealth of illustrations, poems covered in trees, plants, insects, fish, birds and animals, astronomy, geography, meteorology and hydrology, the scientific analysis, corrected the past comments and errors in understanding, empowerment Millennium poetry a new modern look. In the book, a collection of over more than 120 500, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty poem, poems appeared in a creative interpretation of the science-related issues.
Tang is the magnificent Palace of art, in this Hall, contains a rich treasure of knowledge. During the Tang dynasty to contemporary society, science is not developed, but poets on the observation of nature, and without as much as the people. More than 1000 years, the natural eco-environment of China experienced a great change, some of the plants, animals, have disappeared in the depths of history and poetry to the language requirements of highly condensed, which many involved in the Tang dynasty to the flora, fauna and natural phenomena, as no solution of the problem. From a scientific point of view, reveal some of the secret, which recognize the charm of Tang dynasty, no doubt greatly. Miao Hu bold "crabs", these academic spirit is really admirable. Of course, he is not versatile, and generalist, not all poems by scientific interpretation expressed in the book is just his personal opinion, this opinion right or wrong, people's own judgement.
Reading this book, I can't help but think the Taiwan botanical Professor Jia-jiunn's book the plant margin: Chinese classical literature in the plant world (commercial press 2015 version) in this book, his perspective is the relationship between Chinese classical literature and plants. Because the work involves too many classical literary works, that when plant science in the analysis of literature, not generalities. And interpretation of the natural history of the Tang dynasty is not the same, the main object is the Tang dynasty, and "sword" is controversial in the scientific field of famous poems. From scientific patterns and culture two ways, this book is on the professional aspect of the research one step further.
Miao Hu industry engaged in plant protection, Tang dynasty is for him to explore the hidden world of the plants, bringing the inherent convenience. It has been confirmed, he believed that in the Tang dynasty newly found about 22 species of plants (including groups). For example, many poets of the Tang dynasty wrote, "Maple" and after, come to the conclusion that in the book: Maple may refer to several species of plants. Poet Lee hundred drug in way shuhuai in the wrote to of "River Shang Maple", Gu Kuang in xiaogushan in the wrote to "ancient temple maple forest River side" of "Maple", and du sent Han recalled on the poems "green Maple Leaf Chinese Restaurant red days rain cream" in the of "Maple", are is refers to gold wisp of hamamelidaceae of tall Qiao Mufeng incense tree, this leaves color green, by cream variable red, tree liquid fragrance. In the Tang dynasty, often a symbol of Chi members of the opposition.
Plants mentioned in the Tang dynasty, Miao Hu comparative analysis at a professional level. For example, kapok, cotton tree, beishu, frequently in the Tang dynasty, and a lot of people found it tangled, misunderstood. Wang Wei's poem sent Li zizhou, married "if girls are asked in tribute the fibre they weave" silk cotton tree in a sentence is? Some say Ceiba, some say tree cotton, others say the silk cotton tree-tree, etc, in short, are used to trees flowers woven into the cloth. In his view, no trees flower in the world can be used for weaving and spinning. Miao Hu mentioned that the silk cotton tree is described as belonging to the Mallow family of cotton today, namely, Sea Island cotton (formerly known as Ceiba), the plant, cultivated in Sichuan and began in the Tang dynasty. But Zhang sent in the poems of Shu "kapok Brocade Jiangxi" sentence says "Ceiba", is another plant, which modern Botany bombax Ceiba. It is a tall tree, flowering, leaf after flowers red, large and showy, full tree safflower fuel, spectacular. Domestic film cotton with white short and straight hair, pillow fillings can be done, but not weaving and spinning. This tree also known as panzhihua, panzhihua in southwestern Sichuan place names.
This tree in addition to the beast in the animal research, studied the fish involved in the Tang dynasty. The ancients believed that fish is Jackie Chan one of the animals, giant fish such as sturgeon River, also known as ichthyosaurs in ancient times. From Zhang Ruoxu spring river flower moon night to Ao Hu verses such as the Gorge can be seen, during the Tang dynasty, which is the Yangtze River of "ownership", making waves in a river, swim thousands of miles, into rivers and the sea. The ancients believed that the fish can become long, can become strange, in Sandy row, a poem by Du Fu, is portrayed as a giant fish into an Lushan's eccentric demon Dragons; but in the view of hit songs and the concept of fishing, comparing them to the warlords and other evil. Can be found from the Tang dynasty, when Chinese sturgeons in the Yangtze River can be seen everywhere, thanks to the many, and damages. However, accompanied by the deterioration of the ecosystem of the Yangtze River, the fish quickly dropped, that today, the Chinese sturgeon become rare aquatic animals in the Yangtze River.
Reading natural history interpretation of Tang, not only can feel the charm of Tang, also felt during that period in our nation's history property is so rich, how magnificent mountains and rivers. Generally speaking, poetry is the expression of emotions of the poet, but emotional expression depends on specific plants, insects, fish, mountains and rivers, and various natural phenomena. In this book, from astronomy, geography, meteorology, geology and other aspects of Tang explains. Rotation of seasons, but the years of time, in the long history of China, directly impacts on our world is the world of nature, but also far-reaching. Literary creation, the many splendours of the natural world, to writing endless vitality and imagination, and wonderful Tang, happens to be the most powerful notes.
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