Jianmen's Poem Records

  Thousands Shu's roads, with many wonderful things, not only leave to people hardships and dangers, but also leaves many sensations from literators from old days till now. In the history, there are many literators descripted Jian Men Shu's road, and some of them are very famours. In Jin dynasty, we have Zhang Zai's “Jian Ge's inscription”, Tang dynasty we have “Shu's road difficulties” from Li Bai, “Jian Men” from Du Fu, Song dynasty we have “Jian Men pass” and “ catch rain in Jian Men road” from Lu You, Ming dynasty we have “stay in Jian Men pass” from Lu Yong, Qing dynasty we have “Get into Jian Ge” and “catch snow in Jian Men pass” from Zhang Wentao etc.. all hose poets mostly were in their way to their new positions, or just stay there, or passed, the sight stirs up their's feelings, and wrote done to a poem or essay.

  The most famous should be Li Bai's long sigh had come down thousands years: ”Shu's road hard, harder than go to the heaven.”, his official career was very hard, 1 ST time to Chang An, came back with nothing in his hand; 2 ND time to Chang An, offended the dignitaries, then have to “ laughed to the sky and get out of the gate”, the laughs contains dreariness, “straight road to heaven, I can't find my way to go”, was almost in a tearful voice indeed. No matter he was asked for official, or come by emperor's order, the places are always far away from him. So he only can sigh. “Even Jin Cheng is full of happy, but still should go back home early.” He realized his life road would be full of frustrations like Shu's road, and then he starts to thought about leave. Jian Men Shu's road was full of his lose effection. Many poets like him, like Lu Tao's “So fool to make a living, came back to pass Jian pass when getting old”, Song Qi's “Who cares old people, to self-pity to come to the pass”, got the same sensation as Li Bai.
   About Li Bai's plaint, Lu You seems turn a deaf ear to, showed very peripateticism. “Dust mixed with wine's mark on the cloth, be overwhelmed with sorrow or joy to get tour. Is that the poet? Had ride the donkey pass the Jian Men in rain.”
   We should say, Lu You tried to take leisure way to enjoy Jian Men Shu's road, but only after few miles after the pass, his mood couldn't keep in balance by the lofty glory, history and reality. “Pity heros were contort the communications, still kept as usual in dangers situation,the
enemy were not hard to against, but gave the country to others.” Lu You was sigh with regret deeply, to touched his “against Jin” complex in his deep heart. Fall's rains like thread, the mountains kept silence. He also thought deeply:“Different by the influence, but the most important by the people.” Lu You recognized” people is the pass' leader and sole! Think about the now and past, Lu You still influenced by Li Bai, “The guest is old, only sigh for the past”, he still couldn't get out of the regret and despair.
   Zhang Zai in Jin dynasty had wrote “blossom by the mitzvah, otherwise can't keep even the pass hardships and dangers for enemy”, Du Fu has wrote”I would blame on people, to break the barrier, but afraid nothing to do, only sigh in the wink”, such like that, always like Lu You's, full of worried about the country and people, never care about his life road.
   Zeng Guo Fan in near history of China also passed Jian Men Shu's road, but he didn't worried about the country and people, but missing his home. “Work hard every day; think why I should be so hard? Tired horse under the moon is so sorriness, all mountains getting light again when morning cock called. Said back home every year, but always far away. Canyon's wind is very strong, can brings me back to home.” When Zeng Guo fan was in his young age, he used to got “take the cloud as usual, don't believe can't shovel the mountain to ground” hero complex, his wide affection is more higher than normal people indeed. In officialdom, Zeng was always succesfully, and less frustrations; In his body attainment, Zeng Guo Fan can called as a collector of ethic articles, his feelings and experience are not as usual. When he was in front of the pass he just felt the strong wind. Although he didn't feel any pessimism lose, but strong complex of missing homtown, when people felt lonely and hard, this feelings will come more intensity. Zeng Guo Fan still couldn't get out of this “pass” of the affection.
   When literature come to morden times. Guo Mo Ruo as a leader of moden literture wrote”Jian Men lost it's ruggedness, and now like a flat road”. Famours poets – Bai Hang, Yang Mu, Yu Guang Zhong used to wrote poem with their personalities, to express their thinking of mountains, scenery, history, people on
Shu's road.

Yang Mu had write on his poem “passengers on Jian Ge” had descripeted the sole of “Jian Men”:

  Heros are left long time ago,
  Only leave the graves,
  It's not only to make people feel sad,
  Heros are gazing at us,
  And we gazing to ourselve too,
  We trun back,
  At the place when history break the people,
  Straight back as glave,
  Wide the heart as gate.

Jianmen ' s Celebrity and Poem List (part)

Name
Dynasty
Relation with Jian Men
Famours poem
Huang Shang
Song
Borned in Jian Zhou
《Travel to Han Zhong》
Zhang Hangcheng
Song
Borned in Jianmen
《Jian Zhou east garden》
Zhao Bingran
Ming
Borned in Jian Zhou
Ming Yang Shen《Send gift to Zhao Bingran》
Li Rong
Qing

Borned in JianGe Xiasi

《Whole collection of 13 peaks book room》
ZhuGe Liang
3 Countries
Settled protection in Jianmen, to made Jianmen Pass famous.

《go out for a battle report》

Zhang Zai
Xi Jing
<Jian Ge inscription>as his opus was the 1st article in the history
《Jian Ge inscription》
Li Bai
Tang
Left famous poem《Hard Roads In Shu》
《Hard Roads In Shu》《 Jiang Ge ode 》
Du Fu
Tang
Left classic poem collection related Jianmen Pass
《Jian Men》
Lu You
Song
Left wonderful poem to make Jianmen Pass more colorful.
《Poem of Jian Nan》、《Jianmen Pass》、
《Rain pass to Jianmen》
Fang Xiaoru
Ming
Left 《Shu's Road Easy》 fatastic article
《Shu's Road Easy》
Li Bi
Ming
Used to be the official in Jian Zhou, repaired road and advocate to grow cypress.
《 Pass JianXi bridge 》
Guo Mo Ruo
Moden
His poem had made Jianmen colorful
《Jian Men》

 

Jianmen’s famous poets article

Hard Roads In Shu

Li Bai

Oh, but it is high and very dangerous!
Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky.
...Until two rulers of this region
Pushed their way through in the misty ages,
Forty-eight thousand years had passed
With nobody arriving across the Qin border.
And the Great White Mountain, westward, still has only a bird's path
Up to the summit of Emei Peak --
Which was broken once by an earthquake and there were brave men lost,
Just finishing the stone rungs of their ladder toward heaven.
...High, as on a tall flag, six dragons drive the sun,
While the river, far below, lashes its twisted course.
Such height would be hard going for even a yellow crane,
So pity the poor monkeys who have only paws to use.
The Mountain of Green Clay is formed of many circles-
Each hundred steps, we have to turn nine turns among its mound --
Panting, we brush Orion and pass the Well Star,
Then, holding our chests with our hands and sinking to the ground with a groan,
We wonder if this westward trail will never have an end.
The formidable path ahead grows darker, darker still,
With nothing heard but the call of birds hemmed in by the ancient forest,
Male birds smoothly wheeling, following the females;
And there come to us the melancholy voices of the cuckoos
Out on the empty mountain, under the lonely moon....
Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky.
Even to hear of it turns the cheek pale,
With the highest crag barely a foot below heaven.
Dry pines hang, head down, from the face of the cliffs,
And a thousand plunging cataracts outroar one another
And send through ten thousand valleys a thunder of spinning stones.
With all this danger upon danger,
Why do people come here who live at a safe distance?
...Though Dagger-Tower Pass be firm and grim,
And while one man guards it
Ten thousand cannot force it,
What if he be not loyal,
But a wolf toward his fellows?
...There are ravenous tigers to fear in the day
And venomous reptiles in the night
With their teeth and their fangs ready
To cut people down like hemp.
Though the City of Silk be delectable, I would rather turn home quickly.
Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky....
But I still face westward with a dreary moan.

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Jianmen Pass

Lu You

Jianmen has its barrier, its north can control the hanqin.
Though its barrier, human can decide its rise and down.
Living in the hotel, it is almost raining. Seeing the willow, we know the spring.
The visitor is very old, though standing at the peak.

 

Jianmen

Du Fu

Only the nature makes it dangerous, jianmen make it strong. Connecting the mountain at the southwest, all the angels are northward. Two cliff constitute the city gate. one man standing the pass, no one can pass. The plain central land is prosperous and min'e mountain is cold. Before the early dynasty, all the people lives their own life. Shangrouyuan, the king, lose its way, till today, bawang rule all the life. Swallowing all the parts with no tolerance. we want to remove the peak like killing the people. But concerning this, with worry itself.


Memo for Jiange

Zhang Zai

  Liangshan mountain is standing with many stones, for its long ,it belong to jingheng, and in it short, it belong to minfan. To its south it connect the jinji, to its north, it reach the baoxie. Narrow to the pengxie, and higher than the songhua.
   Only the shu gate can be the town. It is said to be “jiange” standing at the side of thousand of meters. Until the land of the endless. The world is too dirty so jammed, if clear, it can be more smooth. Close to han and open to jin.
   Qin dynasty overcome the branches. Qi kingdom has 12 cities owing to tiansheng'e suggest. It is a narrow land but other than the earth. One man holding the spear and no one can be there, with no gang.
   Early in wuhou office, we are happy when seeing the central stream. The mountain and river rise with wu. Prosperous in its wisdom and dangerous to guard. Dongtingmeng gate has no same. Since the ancient time, it is all the god's idea. By the guard and no failure, it beat gongsun and take over the land by liu. The lessons takes again and warn all of us.

 

Pass JianXi Bridge

Li bi(ming dynasty)

Passing jianxi bridge at the morning ,
Riding the horse in fog
Talking with the locals about their experience
And asking the politics with the normal people


Stone Ox Road

Lu Yong (ming dynasty)

Shu king got the golden ox and people exploring the mountain.
When the way through, the country was overcome, it is not the treasures.


Passing  Jianmen In Rain

Lu You

cloth with wine spot, I am on the way.
No where is hurt my heart.
This is still the poet, riding into the jianmen in drizzling.



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