The elegance of the word forest is not cut

"Lexicon Don't Cut", edited by Lu Jiaming, Zhonghua Bookstore, 2019

In today's increasingly specialized discipline classification, although people of insight call for general education, and it has been implemented diligently, it is still at a relatively low level, and when it comes to the research stage, it is still an increasingly narrow specialization. This specialization also leads to the tendency of everything to become technical, such as the study of literature, especially classical literature, for a specific small problem, which can be easily quoted with the help of modern search technology, even if it helps to explain or argue for this small problem, but what is the meaning of the argument? What does this have to do with writers and works? In particular, what does it have to do with ordinary readers other than professional scholars, including college students in the basic stage? Literary studies cannot return to writers, they cannot return to works, and the same is true for art studies; the convergence of literature and art, which was originally an excellent tradition of Chinese culture, is now more and more separated. This is not only a matter of cultural education and academic research, but also fully reflected in publications. If we want to find a book on the market that can bring together literature and art, elegant and popular, it is inherent in ancient classics and rare in the works of today's people. The new sight of Lu Jiaming's "Lexicon Don't Cut" is eye-catching, refreshing, exaggerated and almost breathtaking. Because I roughly know that Lu Jiaming is a publisher, a calligrapher, and has a very high artistic creativity and appreciation, but I do not know that he also has profound achievements in ancient poetry. No wonder he was able to combine all his arts in one furnace and make it such a good composition. In addition to the admiration of the beat, I can't help but want to write some words to discuss several aspects of this book with the main "other tailoring" characteristics of "gathering all the arts in one furnace", which I believe can be beneficial to the reader.

Words, mainly originated from the sake of youhuan, can be sung according to the score. Therefore, words are first and foremost an art. Whether it is art appreciation or artistic creation, it needs training, and creation and appreciation are mutually reinforcing. The primary "don't cut" feature of this "Lexical Forest" is to start from the artistic characteristics of the word, select the album according to the word plate, and creatively select a classic of the word plate, with it as a special interpretation. For example, "Remembering Qin'e" will choose Li Bai's "Remnants of the West Wind, Han Jia Lingque"; "Remembering Jiangnan", then choose Bai Juyi's "The sunrise river flowers are red and the fire is better, and the spring river is as green as blue"; "more leaky", then choose Wen Tingjun's "a leaf, a sound, the empty step drops to the Ming"... At once, the reader grasped the physical characteristics of the word plate. Under this characteristic, the author will make a selection. The anthology is also ingenious: first select a work that I think is the most classic work under the word plate, titled "Chinese Rhyme", followed by "Ancient and Modern Commentary" and "History of the Lyricist Heart", supplemented by "Narration" and "Title", interpreting both the work and the criticism, not only to prove the essence of the choice, but also to give the reader a hint of understanding. Of course, the author's intention is not limited to this, so he selects another "reference" work to compare and interpret it so that the reader can understand it more.

We know that the works under each kind of word card will have style variations with the historical development of words. In this regard, the editors have compiled according to the two major types of "low chanting/hao singing", which is very reasonable. Wang Guowei said: "Words are the body, and they should be repaired." Li Qingzhao also aimed at the Song people's use of poetry as a word, and the euphemism was about to be bold, proposing the word "don't be a family". The word along the "original heart" of the sake youhuan developed into a deep and sincere elegance all the way, and a change into a poem as a word capitalization of the heart is also a way, rough and rough into "low chant / hao sing" of course, as a popularization of this layer is actually enough. However, this kind of differentiated editing is not only very helpful for the improvement of appreciation ability and level, but also for the creative experience. Accordingly, the author also hints at the change of tone in the creative training session of the final "leaning on the sound and the spectrum" of each chapter. For example, the first "Reminiscence of Qin'e" title explanation: "Forty-six words, three pieces of rhyme before and after, the sentences are short and dense, the rhyme feet are mainly short and powerful into the sound, and the syllables are urgent and sad, which is suitable for expressing miserable feelings." There are also those who have changed to flat rhymes. "If you compare the rhyme to the poet's words, Yi Hao sings, and the flat rhyme can be chanted.

Secondly, in the author's opinion, what is more unique in the whole book is the selection of ancient and modern calligraphy and paintings and the works of famous seal engravers. Some of these works are made according to the meaning of the words, and they are easy to choose, but it is not easy to find the corresponding works. And there are many works with the same title, how to choose carefully, but also cost consideration. And those works that are not based on words, how to choose, is more important to see the author's skill. For example, under the "wind into the pine" word plate, the work of the leader is the famous passage of Wu Wenying of the Southern Song Dynasty (wasps frequently fluttering on the swing rope, there is a time, slim hand incense condensation); the accompanying picture is the Qing Ren Min Zhen's "Fan Lady Picture", which depicts a charming woman in the summer garden, the stars are half-open, leaning on an ancient tree, as if resting, and like lovesickness. Wouldn't it be a perfect match for such a match! In terms of calligraphy, since the author is a well-known calligrapher, it is easy to choose the works of ancient poets or ask the present people to write straight words, but it is more ingenious to choose the relevant codexes of some celebrities. For example, "Nanlou Ling", selected the Qing Dynasty Xia Suntong's "Autumn Huai CiYun", with the Xia Zhi Hou Xue, of course, is also the later generation of the word Zong Long Yusheng's codex, the words are beautiful, can be called a perfect match!

In addition, the "Words and Forests Anecdotes" that are obliquely out of the side are also uniquely beautiful. For example, in the "Ziyi Lin Yishi" of "Ru Meng Ling", li Qingzhao wrote that when his husband Zhao Mingcheng was traveling far away, his thoughts were difficult to help, so he composed a poem "Drunken Flower Yin" in Chongyang, and there was a sentence "Mo Dao does not extinguish the soul, the curtain rolls in the west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers", which made Zhao Mingcheng greatly moved, and he actually had the heart to win, and even more than fifty songs, mixed with them, asked people to evaluate, and finally could not pass. From this, coupled with another song such as "Green Fat Red Skinny" and "New To Be Thin, Not Dry And Sick Wine, Not Sad Autumn" in "Remembering blowing flutes on the Phoenix Stage", Li Qingzhao also got a "Li San Skinny" elegant number; and then with Miao Yu quoted in "The History of the People's Hearts" in "The History of the People's Hearts", Li Qingzhao said that Li Qingzhao had "the inheritance of the two lines of parents, the spirit is beautiful, and transcends the constant current", which can't help but make people feel excited and admired. Fu association today's people pursue weight loss and thin beauty, if Li Qingzhao is generally affectionate, thin for love? The fact that the authors wrote so gracefully also greatly enhanced the readability and even passability of the book.

Finally, it should be pointed out that looking at this book, in addition to the various gains of ordinary readers in reading words and appreciating pictures and learning words, and professional readers can also have the reference and reference role of word history and lexical history, even for book editing and publishing, it is of no significance to think that it is not meaningful. The works of ancient and modern word selection can be described as sweaty and cattle, but there are few people who can gather words, books, paintings, and prints. In 2020, Mr. Luo Tao's "Moving Flowers into the Mirror: Twenty-Four Pin Poems, Calligraphy and Painting Printing and Interpretation" was published, and the reading circles cheered and praised, praising it like a rave, believing that it was a rare work that could become a classic. In fact, Mr. Lu Jiaming's two large volumes of "Cilin BeiJie" are also a good composition of Huitong's various arts, which is comparable to Mr. Luo Tao's great works, and Lu Zuo's publication is still a little earlier, but he has not obtained the corresponding sound and light, which cannot help but make people sigh, so they wrote this small article as a recommendation, I believe that readers will understand what the author said is true.

Zhou Songfang