China is a country of poetry, and Tang poetry is the most brilliant flower in the traditional culture garden. In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the colorful weather and the collision of civilizations endowed the Tang poetry with vitality, which can be said to be Mount Everest in China. At the beginning of this book, Mr. Wang analyzes the reasons why the Tang Dynasty became the "flower season" of poetry from different aspects such as the evolution form of poetry, the content of literature and the background of the times. As early as more than two thousand years ago, our ancestors began to record their lives and express their thoughts and feelings with poems. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were many literary experiments. They are like the long winter before the flower season. Roots covered with ice and snow and buried deep in the soil are slowly absorbing nutrients to prepare for breaking ground. Therefore, the poetry creation in the early Tang Dynasty is like a natural process-social stability and economic prosperity in the past hundred years. The work style of the monarch in the Tang Dynasty is open-minded, and he strongly supports poetry creation. Poetry writing has become a way for literati to obtain official positions, which leads to the gathering of poets in the Tang Dynasty and the peak of poetry development.
Why did the Tang Dynasty move us? Why are Tang poems so charming? Perhaps, as Mr. Jiang Xun said, "The world described in Tang poetry is our least experienced world, so we should read poetry when we are most afraid to leave ..." Just like the interesting point mentioned in the book: the world outlook of the Tang Dynasty-by the Tang Dynasty, the pattern has become bigger. Poets are always talking with the moon, the sun and mountains and rivers. When the whole life consciousness is put into a huge space, they will feel proud and tragic, and they will have a sense of the universe. This is not difficult to see from a large number of frontier poems in Tang Dynasty. At the same time, there is a spirit of running away and wandering in Tang poetry, and many poets will show the characteristics of conceit and loneliness. Because they really explored themselves and faced their loneliness together with individuals, the Tang Dynasty was a rare period in the history of literature. Individuals have the opportunity to liberate themselves and are no longer regarded as group roles. The individual is a pure individual: Li Bai's "till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon, take a photo with me and talk about the three realms" and "All the five mountains are far away, and they will live together for life".
In Mr. Jiang Xun's mind, the world of Tang poetry can run away, be lonely and wander, which can help us to leave from the crowd. In fact, sometimes it is this special individualism and romanticism that touches people's hearts.
"Poetry is a process of forgetting. The cleaner you forget, the easier it is to come out and talk to you. " In the book, Mr. Wang talked about reciting "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" when he was a child, but he never knew what it meant, even though he copied it with a brush. When did you understand? Maybe one night in Kyoto, facing the maple leaf, I suddenly understood those sentences; Or I suddenly thought of one of them when I was traveling on the Silk Road. In fact, I didn't fully understand my husband's description at first, but in the summer after the college entrance examination, my personal experience resonated with my husband: once, on the way home with my aunt on a sunny afternoon, I suddenly looked up and saw a flower tree, and "I dreamed of falling flowers last night" immediately appeared in front of me; Another time, I went to the seaside to watch Nuwa Stone encounter a typhoon that suddenly broke into it. Strong winds are accompanied by showers. Clouds on the sea are thick and dark, and the air pressure is extremely low. I walked up the plank road. Somehow, my mind is full of Li He's sentence "Dark clouds are crushing the city", which even has a bit of tragic meaning ... "The poem I read will become a part of our life, and it will wait for you at some point." It turns out that poetry is not far from us at all. It should even be said that these poems are actually around us.
I remember reading an article about a deep mountain autumn night in junior high school, which made me interested in "Shi Fo" Wang Wei. When I first read Wang Wei's poems, what attracted me was the artistic conception full of aesthetic feeling and picture sense. Most people write landscape poems to see the mountains and water, but Wang Wei himself is also a part of the landscape. He is good at sketching the most authentic appearance of things. For example, When the color is green, there is no dusk haze, which is to enter the real inner world of the universe in a completely calm way and describe the original state of birds at dusk. Wang Wei's poems seem like a bright moon with clouds and a breeze passing through the bamboo forest.
In fact, for a long time, in my mind, Wang Wei was the image of "Shi Fo" who was far away from the secular world and was not contaminated with the world of mortals. But I forgot that although the Buddha statue or scenery was very important in Wang Wei's world, he was not just like this. The third lecture "Jiang Xun said Tang poetry" made me see a different "Shi Fo".
Wang Wei can be described as an all-rounder in art, leading the way in four fields: poetry, painting, calligraphy and music. Su Shi once commented: "There are paintings in poetry and poems in paintings." Wang Wei began to write poetry at the age of 15, and his early work Friends with Mica Barrier has shown his talent in painting. Famous works such as Song of a Girl in Luoyang, Thinking of Shandong Brothers in a Mountain Holiday, Youth Tetralogy, Tao Yuanxing and Li Lingyong are all his youth works. Whether it's "fighting alone for a thousand miles, he can catch a large group of people with his dagger." Or "I am familiar with not crying to court, and I still smell chivalrous when I die." We can all see the lofty sentiments expressed by this young poet, as well as the vigorous style and romantic atmosphere of his early poetry creation.
Wang Wei has experienced great prosperity. When he was young, he was also full of enthusiasm and enthusiasm for life; He also had the initial frontier fortress and experienced the real wilderness and desert; He is also a man with temperament. When he meets his bosom friend, he will "satisfy his heart and drink for you" ... Zhong Xing constantly praises Wang Wei with "deep affection" and calls his works "love poems"; Teacher Ou Li-chuan also described Wang Wei as "the deep water is still flowing", which means that the water is deep, so it is calm on the surface; In his book, Mr. Jiang Xun wrote a passage that silence is greater enthusiasm and fuller enthusiasm. Many people feel quiet because of the disillusionment of enthusiasm, but it may also be that enthusiasm has reached a fuller state.
Yes, Wang Wei's heart is like a deep pool. It is not open and intense, so ordinary people don't feel it so easily. Some people even think that Wang Wei is heartless. In fact, Wang Wei's realm has always been so precipitated, restrained and transformed, and it has accumulated deeper and deeper, and it is no longer noisy, and then it can be realized that the lingering feelings are endless. Therefore, when I read Bamboo House again, I seemed to see a great soldier stroking the guqin and depicting his rivers and lakes in the depths of the bamboo forest. It turns out that this person who seems to see through the world of mortals also has an immortal heroic dream.
Whether it is Wang Wei's "water stops me, sit and watch Yun Qi"; Or "a pot of wine from the flowers, I drink it alone." Li Bai's No One Walks with Me; Or maybe Bai Juyi's "I only sing disgusting, I hope the emperor knows" let us appreciate all kinds of life interests. Let's follow in Jiang Xun's footsteps and feel the unique charm of Tang poetry.