Prisoner of Poetry: Meng Jiao's Essays
by Dai Jianye
About This Novel
Meng Jiao (751-814), courtesy name Dongye, was a great poet who pioneered the poetic style of the mid-Tang Dynasty. He was the leader of the "Han-Meng Poetry School" together with Han Yu. It is often called "Jiaodao" together with Jiadao, and there is a saying that "the island in the suburbs is thin". There are many famous lines in Meng Jiao's poems, such as "The spring breeze is proud of the horse's hooves, and you can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one night" and "Whoever speaks of the heart of an inch of grass can reap three spring rays." However, his poetry writing does not mainly rely on cleverness and wit. His unique artistic style is instantly recognizable. More than a thousand years have passed, and waves of poetry styles have washed away the faces of many poets, but they cannot wash away the voice and style of Meng Jiao. Han Yu once expressed his willingness to be Meng Jiao's "little follower": "I would like to be a cloud, and the east field will become a dragon, and I will chase the east field up and down in all directions."
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