Zhang Dai Nationality: China Nationality: birthplace of Han nationality: Shaoxing, Zhejiang Date of birth: 1597 Date of death: 1679 Belief: Main achievements of Confucianism: representative works of prose: Three Immortals, A Boat Night, A Dream on the West Lake, etc.
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Prose writers in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Gaozu Tianfu, the official went to Yunnan to inspect the agreement, and Gansu went to Taifuqing. Great-grandfather Bian, the top scholar in five years (157 1), entered imperial academy, and Zhan Zhifu left Yude. Grandfather Zhang Rulin, a scholar in the 23rd year of Wanli (1595), went to Guangxi to attend the Senate. Father Zhang, born in the vice list, is Lu Fan's long history. Zhang Dai's background is also a scholarly family background. My ancestors were all scholars, proficient in history, Confucian classics, neo-Confucianism, literature, primary school and geography. It was praised by my uncle as "the river is flooding today". Fu Tian and Bianyuan's father and son have edited Shaoxing Fu Zhi, Huiji Zhi and Yinshan Zhi. "When these three records come together, they are called Tan Qian and his son." (Family Biography) (If Zhang Dai's poems and comments published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House 199 1 are quoted and corrected by Xia Xianchun, only the title of the article is noted. Grandfather Lin Ru said, "Teenagers are good at ancient studies and read widely." (ditto) Never let go. Thirty years later, he wrote Yunshan, but later he gave up writing because it was similar to Yongle Dadian (Mengshan, Tao An).
Zhang III's collection of books, Dai "collected books for forty years, with no less than 30,000 volumes." (Tao An Meng Yi III's Collection of Books) After three years of Shunzhi (1645), he evaded soldiers and went into the mountains with only a few books. Survivors were occupied by Qing soldiers, and the sun cracked smoke; He also used books as armor shields to make arrows. After 40 years of accumulation, it is completely clear.
Zhang Dai was born into a literary family. Generations of grandparents and grandchildren are good at writing and writing works. Tianfu is rich in manuscripts of the Ming Dynasty, while the original manuscripts of Bu 'erzhai are available. Lin Ruyou has Collected Works of Interpretation of the Yuan Dynasty, and Fang Yao's "Singing Good Songs and Poems" (Family Biography) has been paying attention to this way since Zhang. Fang Yao's "teaching little tricks and advocating drama" (Family Biography) reached Zhang Dai's generation. "The master appreciates preparing lessons, delays the teacher's class, and there are thousands of children. When that boy comes to his house, he is called' crossing the sword gate'. How dare he rush? " He studied piano with a teacher and learned more than 30 songs. He called it "practice is still alive, and it has come out with astringency." (Same as Shaoxing Qinpai) and "Jiesi Society, meeting on January 3rd." (Tongsi Society) Zhang Dai, the Chinese side, "can draw and speak", is "on an equal footing" with Shen Zhou, Dong Qichang and Li. Good antiques, rich collection, exquisite appreciation, "heritage? , hey, famous paintings, French brocade, thousands. " (Attached Biography) Zhang Dai, who is deeply impressed, is indeed an expert on the inscriptions of various cultural relics and antiques and the identification of many porcelain kiln bronzes.
Zhang Dai lived in the late Ming Dynasty. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs were in power, courtiers were in power, spies were rampant, party struggles were fierce, and internal and external troubles intensified. Kind and loyal, or exiled, or punished. At the same time, an anti-Neo-Confucianism and anti-Confucianism trend appeared in the ideological circle. Wang Xue's leftists, represented by Wang Gen and Li Zhi, openly flaunted greed as human nature, opposed the affectation of Neo-Confucianism, and advocated innocence and frankness. This is undoubtedly a rebellion against traditional ethics, and a challenge to Zhu Cheng's neo-Confucianism, which "upholds justice and extinguishes human desires". exist
Driven by this trend of thought, while being dissatisfied with the society, scholars have pursued individual liberation: indulging in debauchery, indulging in landscapes and pursuing maximum material and spiritual satisfaction. On the one hand, it flaunts elegance, leisure and refinement. In romantic scenery, landscape gardens, pavilions, flowers, birds, fish, insects, Four Treasures of the Study, calligraphy and painting, tea ceremony, antiques, acrobatics and games, we deliberately create pleasing and carefree artistic interests, and gain the interest of life and artistic poetry while enjoying and lingering. On the other hand, under the banner of rebelling against ethics and ethics, he indulged in debauchery and extravagance, burning incense and succeeding to the throne, not ashamed, but proud. "Human feelings are fast with debauchery, and the world style is high with luxury." (Zhang Han's Dream at the Song Window, Volume 7) If the former mainly shows their avoidance of the world, then the latter mainly expresses their arrogance and cynicism. In the friendship between Zhang's grandparents and grandchildren, there are many such literati and celebrities. Such as Xu Wei, Huang Ruheng, Chen Jiru, Tao Wangling, Wang Siren, Chen and Qi Biaojia. It is this family background, this social trend of thought and humanistic atmosphere that has created Zhang Dai's dandy habits and celebrity demeanor, and determined the main contents of his Tao Anmeng, West Lake Dream and Tianku Anthology.
Celebrity demeanor
Zhang Dai claims to be a playboy and loves wealth. Good family, beautiful maid, good prostitute, good clothes, good food, good horse, good lamp, good fireworks, good pear garden, good propaganda, good antiques, good flowers and birds. (From "Be Your Own Epitaph") It can be said that the luxury and enjoyment habits of dude children and the decadence of celebrities and literati in the late Ming Dynasty have both. Zhang has many contacts and a subset of history. He should know everything. Astronomy and geography, I'm not involved. Although I am not famous, I am very interested in writing. I have been writing all my life, and I am old and enduring. In addition to the 15 kinds listed in his epitaph, there are Wang Lang's poems, The Immortal Picture of Yue Sanzan in Yu Ming, The Story of the Stone Chamber, Guaihua, The Collection of Gourmets, Tao An's Elbow Queen, Tea History, Taoyuan Calendar, Li Shuyan, Lu Lang Lu, and Lu Lang Lu. Among them, the book "Night Flight" is almost the same as an encyclopedia, covering 20 categories and more than 4,000 entries. Zhang Dai's extensive knowledge, rich writings and hard work can be seen here.
Look at you, him and Wan, a common plaything, and the turf of celebrities playing the world is also divided here.
Zhang Dai was furious at his high talent and high life, and put his cynicism in the landscape: Shaoxing was as big as a silkworm basket when it was ruled by officials. All the mountains are aboveboard and magnificent. They still surpass the Eight Mountains, but they are still Huang Zhuo. Outside the county, there are thousands of valleys and rocks, inaccessible, famous mountains and scenic spots, abandoned roadsides, and buried by villagers. (From Huang Zhuoshan) I think of the rare things in the world, and those who are buried for mediocrity cannot be remembered. I especially hate that this mountain was born in a city and located in a crowded place, only separated by a wall, so that the world can't know its face, but it will make a typo on a few hard stones. He Shan's misfortune, as for this. (From Emei Mountain)
In these two paragraphs, one said that many famous places of interest were buried, and the other said that they were easily buried. In repeated comments and sighs, he vented his unexpected regrets and disdain for the secular, which won the essence of Liu Zongyuan's Eight Chapters of Yongzhou. But Zongzi is different from Zongyuan after all: "Mountain fruit has spirit, how can it be trapped for a long time?" I am an alpine planner. If I want to get rid of the fence, I must fly "(from Emei Mountain) He is more confident and humorous than Zong Yuan.
Millet separation complex
Different from previous essayists, Zhang Dai in know life experienced a cold world: the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the country was overthrown, people's livelihood was destroyed, and the family was ruined. He admits that he "can't learn righteousness" ("Being an Epitaph") and "loyal ministers are evil and afraid of pain." (self-titled portrait) can only "avoid living in the mountains, there are few left, broken beds and broken pianos, too few books, only one side missing, and clothes and vegetables are often broken." (Epitaph for myself) I had to bear this shit myself in my frail old age: "I worked in Chu Jiu, and I had a rest for two hundred years" and "I hated myself when I was a teenager. Chu Jiu doesn't know anything. I am sixty-seven years old this year, because I miss my dog's teeth. It's not my job to be a waste in the world. " (Swallowing Rice) "I've been trapped by manure recently." "No servant, solid dung." "If you don't help, you will retreat." ("Dung Dung") The contrast between this life and previous life is no less than a world apart. So he "woke up drunk, and the nightmare began to wake up" (Inscription of Butterfly Temple), and then recalled his dreams and wrote down "Two Dreams" and "Hold Buddha and repent one by one." (Ego Epitaph) He once wrote his own poems, and every time he wanted to draw a conclusion, because the Book of Chambers was not finished, and he was still looking at the world. (ditto) Under extremely difficult material conditions and extremely painful and contradictory mental state, it took 27 years (including the second decade of the Ming Dynasty) to change five to nine, and it was written into a 220-volume Stone Chamber, a magnificent biography of the Ming Dynasty. Later, it was written into Postscript to supplement the historical events of Chongzhen and Nanming in Ming Dynasty. As Mao Qiling said in the Qing Dynasty's "A History of Sending Zhang for Tibet": "Mr. Jiang will be generous and bright, and he will never be an official, but he would rather be poor and rich, making this editor prosperous and prosperous. This inherent ancestor of the Ming dynasty was a minister, and his spirit was great. Those who have been protected several times are also relying on it. "
Regarding the writing of Tao An Meng Yi, the author said in Dream Yi Xu:
Because I miss Yu's life, I am prosperous and beautiful, and my eyes are empty. For fifty years, this has been a dream. Today, when millet is ripe and the car arrives at the ant nest, how to digest it? Yao Si's past, memory is a book. Cram for Buddha's feet and repent one by one. Different ages, different chronologies; Regardless of the category, don't aim too high. Occasionally, if you choose one, you can swim the old road. If you meet an old friend and a city person, you can't talk about your dreams in front of an idiot. I had a big dream today, and I am still dreaming. It is difficult to change one's mind because of sighing for literati. In Handan, the dream was shattered, the bell rang, and Lu Sheng left a legacy. He also wanted to copy and expand the two kings and spread them to future generations. He was famous in history, strong as a relic, and violently robbed the fire, but he still burned it. The author wakes up from a dream, but remembers the dream. Is it really evil? Is the dream evil? The truth becomes a dream, and the dream looks real, which is the author's mentality; Regret evil as evil? Regret and happiness, happiness and actual sadness are the author's mood. This extremely complicated and contradictory mood and complex feelings are most concentrated and profound in the epitaph he gave himself. Among them, there are boasters, such as writing several books in his life and recalling what Chen Jiru tried to screen when he was 6 years old; Blow your own horn and regret your own, as good as those listed when you were young; There are people who are confused, such as the listed "seven unsolvable"; People who wake up from a dream: "Hard life is a dream", "Looking back 20 years ago, it seems like a lifetime ago". The author's dreamy memories, taking Zhongshan, where Zhu Ming made a fortune, as an example, lamented that "Jade of Xiaoling, 282 years old, is clear this year and can't swallow a bowl of wheat rice." In order to create your own life, after waking up, find Wang Lang? Blessed land ("Meng Tao wangyi Lang? Blessed land "), bronze camels have countless thorns. Therefore, compared with Meng's dream of Tokyo and Wu's dream of Liang, Wu is "at the end of time, experienced vicissitudes of life, and has no sense of life", just like this. "("Tao An Meng Yi Postscript ") The difference is that Zhang Dai adopts the style of essays, and it is only" samadhi involved in the bureau ". The memory of dreams is very rich, and the recorded customs are all over Huiji, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Yanzhou, Tai 'an and other places. The seasons are Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Customs include fireworks, temple fairs, grave sweeping, moon viewing, boat racing, campus hunting and martial arts. Along with food, flowers, tea ceremony and antique utensils, there are all kinds of beautiful things. "Strange stories are fascinating, for example, on a dark road." (Jin Zhongchun's Memories of Tao Anmeng) The thoughts and feelings expressed in the dream are very complicated, and some people recall the nostalgia, such as Zhang Shengci, Wu Fang and Buerzhai; There are ridicules, such as the bookstore, Zhang Donggu good wine, and the West Lake in July and a half; There are praises, such as Pu Zhongqian's sculpture, Yao Jianshu's painting and Liu Jingting's storytelling. There are also revelations, such as Tao An's "Dream of Memory", which describes the deputy ambassador as "extravagant and extravagant, twenty years older than the West Lake." The luxury and indulgence of officials in the late Ming Dynasty can be seen. Luxury is like this, and Ming is safe. For example, Tao An's Dream of an Iceberg describes that when the play was staged, there were thousands of audiences. When the Wei Party played "Kill, Force to Die", the audience was furious and silent. When Yan Pei Wei killed Tiki, the owl screamed and jumped up, and the house collapsed. "It reflects the disgust and anger of the people and public opinion on Yan Shu's administration." Tao An's Dream of Twenty-four Bridges was written with two bright lamps. Those prostitutes who "wait for guests at night" either sing small words like "broken jade" or tease themselves and pretend to be lively. However, I was speechless with laughter and gradually became sad. Midnight vernal equinox has to go, it's like a ghost. Seeing the pimp, I don't know whether I am hungry or embarrassed. "Reveals the bitterness under the cover of prosperity and the bitterness under the cover of forced laughter. In a word, "I made up a dialect to recite and laugh at trivial things." But a little dyeing will turn it into words. Readers are like mountains and rivers, like customs, like watching the beauty of the palace. I almost feel the same way as "Picking Wei" and "Mai Xiu", and I am a humorous person when I come out? "Most of Zhang Dai's sketches can be seen this way. For example, in Yao's Epitaph, Yao Libei, a public servant who killed 130 Japanese pirates at the expense of himself and saved the whole town from disaster, praised his achievements in the wind festival: "What contribution has a person made to live tens of millions of people? "If you die, you can't save your life, but you have to be the hometown of Mulberry." How do you know that the purpose of the author's monument is not to praise the heroes who fought against Japan and Qing Dynasty? The patriotism contained therein is obvious. In Preface to Shen, he praised his friend Shen Suxian's "perseverance, which can't be scraped, can't be grinded by real knives and axes, and can't be taken away by the three armies." After the country changed, the first floor was lonely and the ground could not stand up. My loyalty is not diminished in Wenshan, and I don't feel sorry for firewood market. "He believes that" loyal ministers and righteous men are more common in the time of national destruction. "If you knock on a stone and then fire, it will go out in an instant." "If you don't put it away quickly, the fire will go out." ("Yue Xu") So he chose Yue He Yu's "Yue San Xian Tu" as the preface to praise it. In order to keep loyalty and righteousness in people's minds, he compiled Biographies of Ancient and Modern Rightists, Using History and Officials to Collect Money by Hand (preface to Biographies of Ancient and Modern Righteousness), and I found hundreds of martyrs in ten years, which is almost my own statement. (Qi Biao's "Introduction to Righteousness") can be described as well-intentioned.
Dream of the West Lake is a landscape sketch by Zhang Dai. Wang's West Lake Dream Preface said: Zhang has been involved in the West Lake for more than 40 years, and there is the end of water everywhere. People who live in the West Lake don't know the allusions in the West Lake, but Tao An knows them in detail. The scenery in the lake is indeed in the West Lake one day, but it is not pottery. Tao An Road is unique. Today is the change of mountains and rivers, the change of mountains and rivers. No wonder they are scared and just looking for it in their dreams.
Before him, Tian Rucheng had written "A Tour of the West Lake" and "Continued Records". Zhang Dai's Seeking Dreams is often used in Tianzhi. "Zhang was originally made up, but after the war in Hangzhou, he remembered the old patrol. Take North Road, West Road, South Road, Middle Road and Exterior as five doors to record its victory. The beginning of each scene is a small preface. Here are some ancient and modern poems. Dai's self-help is also attached to it. His style is completely imitated by Dong Liu's "A Brief View of the Imperial Capital", and his poems are all of the Gong 'an School and Jingling School. "This passage in the catalogue of Sikuquanshu does not point out Zhang Dai's Seeking Dreams, but there are many ways to adopt and imitate it in Tianzhi. It is not difficult to see by comparing the two books. Of course, there are many differences between Dream Search and Tianzhi. Zhang Dai said that his grandfather had a villa in the West Lake, and he himself had studied at Lee's Villa. In his twenty-eight years away from the West Lake, the West Lake never forgot his dream. Later, I went to Wu Jia West Lake (1654) and Dingyou (1657). In the West Lake after the war, "there is only rubble left in the lake village." "Where there used to be weak willows and peach blossoms and karaoke bars and dance pavilions flooded, no one would stay." The author thinks, "I'm here for the West Lake. Seeing this today, I am safe without protecting the West Lake in my dream. " So, "I wrote seventy-two" Seeking Dreams "and left it to be the shadow of the West Lake in the afterlife." (Introduction to West Lake Dream) Seeking Dreams is the author's nostalgia for the West Lake, which expresses the pain of home and country: Li wrote The Legend of Luoyang Famous Garden, which means that the rise and fall of Luoyang will be predicted by the rise and fall of famous gardens; With the rise and fall of Luoyang, we can predict the rise and fall of the world. Honest people, words also. Yu Yu was involved in the Sino-Japanese War. It's sad that the Forbidden City is far away from millet and barbed bronze camels. After several trips to the stream, Mulberry will come back in tears at night. (Liuzhou Pavilion) Among all the author's essays, this is the strongest and most vivid one in which he expresses the pain and sorrow of national subjugation. It is the keynote of his two dreams, and it is also the biggest difference between his dream search and Tian Zhi.
Sketch taste
Zhang Dai's prose is taken from Two Dreams and Selected Works. The style of selection is biography, recording, preface, postscript, book, inscription and praise. The content is mainly about transmitting people, discussing poems, reading articles and commenting on history, which embodies the principles and ideas of Zhang Dai's poetry creation and reflects his aesthetic ideal and pursuit.
Zhang Dai's theory of descendants is that "people are not addicted and can't make friends with them, so they are ruthless." People are flawless, so they can't communicate, so they have no true qi. "("Dream together, stop addiction ") This is similar to what Yuan Hongdao said:" If the world has quirks and it is not easy for life, it is a celebrity. "("and Pan Jingsheng book ") exactly the same. Addicted and flawed, affectionate and full of true spirit, distinctive personality, proud of the world, this is the outstanding performance of celebrities in the late Ming Dynasty who are wild and uninhibited and play with things. Frankly speaking, all his good things are hobbies and shortcomings, and the people he preaches are also full of hobbies and shortcomings. In the biography of five strangers, the author wrote:
Yu Jia's obsession with Ruiyang is money, Zhang's obsession with wine, Zi Yuan's obsession with gas, his obsession with civil engineering, and Bai Ning's obsession with book history. One of them is affectionate, the small one is flawed, and the big one is addicted. Five people have no intention of spreading it. If this is the negative addiction of five people, it will cover those who have to spread it.
Others, such as Qi Zhixiang, "like painting and calligraphy, cuju, drums and cymbals, ghost play and pear garden." ("Tao An Meng Ji Qi Zhi Xiang Pi") Wang Siren made a joke, so that "Shangguan administration, accepting treacherous court officials and writing poems are ridiculous." (Biography of Mr. Wang Xie 'an) Lu Yungu is a neat freak: "I hate wine, people picking flowers, and especially people spitting on dirty ground." I dare not ask for it when I smell the noise of phlegm. I want to learn from Ni Yu and kill the phoenix tree. " (Biography of Lu Yungu) It is precisely because he can grasp the master's quirks and flaws and focus on portraying them, so the characters in his works are vivid and lifelike.
Zhang Dai's descendants wrote history and tried to be true. He said to himself, "pen and ink are solitary and different, showing their spirit." Although it is a fire in Xianyang in March, it cannot be burned. " ("Postscript Notes on Zhang Zisheng's Third Trial") "I don't like writing tomb-robbing prose in my life. If there is an author, I will be cool. " Therefore, it is not satisfactory, and repeated thinking has failed. "("Zhou Epitaph ")" Qin Tong is quiet and not self-reliant, so I wrote it to describe it, and I saw it myself. If you dare to describe it, it is a small shape. " ("With Li Yanweng") He thinks that "there was a Ming Dynasty, but the national history was lost, the family history was lost, and unofficial history was lost" ("Preface to Chambers"), in short, it is distorted. And he wrote his own history, "everything must be realistic and the words must be rigorous", "a little unfinished, not a book." (ditto) The author takes portrait as his aesthetic pursuit of historical biography, and strives to "get a word, then the whole biography is vivid; If you get something, the whole history will be fresh in your mind. Su Zizhan looked at herself in the light and saw her cheek shadow, which made people just turn a blind eye and don't make eyebrows. Everyone laughs at it and knows it as Dongpo. Gai Chuanshen is in Adur. " Under the guidance of such aesthetic pursuit and creative principles, Zhang Dai created many vivid characters in Wang Lang's Collected Works and Memories of Dreams, including officials and scholars, excellent craftsmen, doctors and monks, prostitutes and women of all colors. , constitute all social people. Whether it is a biography or a diary, once the author describes it, the characters will be vivid and ready to move. For example, in Yangzhou Thin Horse, concubine Yu is like a thin horse: it is dawn, and she is urged to go out. The matchmaker comes first, take him away first. The rest follow, the others follow. Go to the thin horse's house and sit quietly for tea. The maid helped the thin horse out, said "Miss, pay homage" and bowed down. Said, "Girl, go up. "Go ahead. Say, "Girl, turn around. "Turn around and stand up. Say, "Miss, let me borrow your hand. "Do your best, your hand will come out, your arm will come out, and your skin will come out. Say and look at "xianggong", miss. "Suddenly, I stole my eyes and looked out." How old is this girl? "Say how old you are. Say: "Girl, go again." Pull her skirt with your hands, toes pointing out. However, there is a way to look at your toes: whoever goes out with the skirt first will be big; If the skirt is tied high, people will not come out, and those whose toes come out first will be small. Say, "Please come back, girl. "A person in, a person out, there must be five or six people, as salty.
The author used simple sketches and skillfully used the instructions of the matchmaker to repeat the movements of the thin horse, so that the puppet show directed by the aunt could be vividly interpreted. It objectively and profoundly reveals the tragic fate of these girls who are almost the same as animals (thin horses), indicating the author's aversion to this bad habit. The author is also good at carefully selecting details, rendering atmosphere and vividly depicting characters. For example, in Liu Jingting's storytelling, Liu Jingting said that Song Wu of Jingyanggang killed the tiger: its description was slightly unscathed, but it was found clean and not nagging. It sounds like a giant bell. When it comes to the tibia joint, he swore and shouted, threatening to collapse the house. When Song Wu went to the store to sell wine, there was no one in the store, and there was a roar when the ground broke. The empty jar in the shop is empty, and there is a sound in the jar. The colors in leisure are so detailed.
Such a description can really be described as "coloring in leisure" and "getting into it unscathed". The characters in his works are numerous and varied, all of them are lifelike and lifelike. For example, Yu Ruoshui is lofty, willing to be poor, and stubborn to avoid the world; The goodness of Qin's life, taking pleasure in the joy of others; Shen's chivalrous intestines are noble and pure; Betty Wong was born lonely; Zhang's Bian is irritable, and they are all ready to come out. Therefore, Chen Jiru called it an "orderly figure" and won the soul of Longmen. Canon, accompanied by Linchuan lonely rhyme, green pen bottom. Praise is strange, wind Ting Yun, dragon snake tiger leopard, realized under the wrist. "("An Introduction to Ancient and Modern Righteousness and Lies ") Zhang Dai wrote history for the article, and used the word" cheap "very heavily. He asked the author "not to be stingy with elimination, not to be arrogant." "Eagle-eyed timid. If you have a discerning eye, you are smart to pick it up; If the hand is hot, it is easy to cut; If you are careful, you are good at separation; If you are brave, you can stay. " (Preface to Shu Lian) advocates not only "taking the small from the big", but also "unifying the big with the small". "(ditto) from his sketches can see Wan Li at close range. The so-called "a grain of millet hides the world, and half a liter cooks mountains and rivers." For example, the author of Wang Hu Ting Xue repeatedly used several "one" words and creatively chose several quantifiers to express smallness, such as "mark", "dot", "mustard" and "valley", which not only made the choice of words novel, but also used tiny words to set off the greatness of heaven and earth. The full text is less than 200 words, but it can write the ethereal scenery of lakes and mountains and convey the charm of Chinese calligraphy and snow makeup. Another example is West Lake in July and a half. In less than 700 words, Zhang Dai focuses on the secular beings in the moonlight and lakes, as well as all kinds of people who look at the moon. By comparing with each other, they depicted different places, ways and scenes of enjoying the moon, revealed their different motives of enjoying the moon, and satirized the rich and the rich who were vulgar but insisted on being arty. The author also successfully used several groups of comparisons: usually avoiding the moon like hatred, comparing with the queue at dusk, eager for the moon to be a "good name"; The noise before the second watch reflects the deeper elegance and tranquility after midnight; With everyone's instantaneous prosperity, we left in a hurry, setting off our high prosperity and strong intention. There are points of beauty and ugliness, and elegance and vulgarity are self-evident. The scenes and characters drawn can be extremely clumsy and vivid. No wonder Qi Biaojia praised his "beauty of stippling". Where is the key? If Yuzi wants to say one or two hundred words, Zongzi can count the crosses and have fun. When it comes to poverty, the pen is like a thousand words. " This kind of biography, narrative and history won the short story Samadha.
Zhang Dai is rich in products and obsessed with landscape gardens. This is just a way for celebrities in the late Ming Dynasty to flaunt lofty ideals and avoid vulgarity. Regardless of landscape or garden, Zhang Dai advocates quietness, remoteness, naturalness and simplicity. This aesthetic interest and pursuit are reflected in his sketches. He thinks that "West Lake is really a beautiful place in the south of the Yangtze River. People who enter it, their eyes are tired of beauty, and their ears are tired of singing. If you want to find deep streams and deep valleys, you can avoid the world, such as gathering water in Taoyuan, and Xixi is the heaviest. " Because of the "deer and deer dust" at the beginning, it is not called to hide, but "there is still a grudge." (West Lake Dream Xixi) He praised Yun Zhi Pavilion as "a simple pavilion". I built this pavilion, without adding rafters or tiles outside, without doors or sills inside. This is intentional. "("Tao Anmeng Yi Yunzhi Pavilion ") What he appreciates is that there are" ancient trees on the cliff, higher than the forest surface "and" branches and valleys swirl, and the stone thumb edges are separated from the water. The pavilion is not awkward, not awkward; There is no building, no platform, and the meaning is endless. " Later, Uncle Martial Arts returned to Guangling, a belly garden pavilion, and tried it here. Taiwan, pavilion, corridor, plank road. On the side of the building, it is also a hall and pavilion, surrounded by plum blossoms. " Zhang Dai disagreed with these self-defeating practices, thinking that "it will hurt the situation, really hurt and crowd out, with the intention of being an enemy of the local ridge." ("Tao Anmeng left Hua Xian Ge") In "Tao An Meng Fanyi Changbai", he thinks that "the land must have a history, and the name must be ancient, which is the master's knowledge. But peach is a stream, plum is an island, and bamboo is a forest. You can call yourself home without relying on others. " A pavilion, a mountain and a valley, layout and naming should not only reflect the master's elegant knowledge, but also reflect his artistic personality and interest. This is the aesthetic interest pursued by Zhang Dai's landscape sketches and the standard of his poetry sketches.
Zhang Daipin's poetic art takes ice and snow as metaphor and advocates anger and true qi. He said: "Gavin's ice and snow are in the bones, in God." "Poetry, the blood, limbs waste. If you don't bathe in ice and snow, your poems will be poor. " (preface to a volume of ice and snow) "Playing the piano and flute, singing and acting, drawing and writing, and writing poems are all used to get angry. If you are angry, you will be clear; People who lose this anger will eventually become scum. " He commented on poetry and advocated emptiness. It is believed that the spirit of ice and snow is "inexhaustible and deeper than poetry." There are only this number of poems in the world, which are in the hands of experts, so they are ethereal; When an ordinary person falls, it will stink. "(preface to a volume of ice and snow)" Therefore, poetry is ethereal and wonderful. " However, the ethereal spirit he advocates is not "the one who insists on being empty", but the root of "taking reality as ethereal": "the one who is solid in the world is the father of ethereal spirit. Therefore, if the wood is strong, the flame will penetrate; If it is solid, it will be very loud. " Therefore, he also advocates truth and closeness: "Eating dragon meat means that the taste of eating pork is not true;" "The appearance of ghosts and gods means that dogs and horses are similar in shape." This aesthetic pursuit is embodied in his creative practice, which makes his essays "have an ethereal and crystal-clear spirit, looking for his pen and ink, but nothing." (Qi Zhijia's West Lake Dream) This is a realm that is both secular and elegant, real and ethereal.
Zhang Dai believes that the creation of poetry, calligraphy and painting cannot be intentional, nor can it be done deliberately, and it is forced to be good: "Painting with poetry cannot be good; Picturesque poetry is poetry, and poetry will be poor. " "From this point of view, the painting of poetry is not solid, but the mountains and valleys in the chest are not out of reach." ("With Bao") People who want to be good in the world may not be good; The ancient wonderful books and paintings were all inadvertently put pen to paper and suddenly obtained. For example, the Lanting Collection and Yan's Competing for Seats are both drafts. Although it was copied again and again, it still failed to reach the original version. "("Five Postscripts Tease buddhist nun ") Instead, it should be" When the melon is ripe, it will follow. " (Inscription on Butterfly Temple) On the other hand, he criticized his brother Zhang's Selected Poems of Ming Dynasty for "no fixed mind, no fixed eyes and no fixed comments." It goes without saying that "abandoning Zhong You and pushing Wang Li away" (With Yi Rudi) has its own characteristics. His creation can form his own style on the basis of extensive study and reference from others. He thought: "The ancients remembered landscape hand, too much above Li Daoyuan, followed by Liu, and most recently Yuan Zhonglang." ("Two Chapters of Lushan Mountain") He can learn from the strengths of kings, so his landscape sketch says, "The pen is simple, and his travel notes include Li Daoyuan's Boao and Liu Tongren's spicy life, Yuan Zhonglang's Li Xi and Wang Jizhong's humor." (Qi Zhijia's Dream of the West Lake) Of course, as mentioned above, Zhang Dai's landscape sketches and Liu Zongyuan's grievances are all things that Qi Baishi never said.