Love is stronger than gold, and the ancients value friendship

Some people say that compared to that, Du Fu is more affectionate. The reason is that only two or three poems left by Li Bai in memory of Du Fu, but there are many poems by Du Fu that remember Li Bai—although various anthologies have not been collected, there are already nearly 20 poems.

Mr. Guo Moruo talked about the emotional and friendship issues of the two people in "Li Bai and Du Fu", which is very interesting. When it comes to Li Du's relationship, some people hug Du Fu and think that it is very unbalanced: Du Fu misses Li Bai like that, but Li Bai always throws Du Fu behind, and their friendship is not an equal relationship. Mr. Guo Moruo rejected a similar view in the book, saying that Li Bai also had feelings for Du Fu, and there were many poems written about Du Fu, which may have been lost, such as being lost in the chaos of An Shi.

▲"Li Bai and Du Fu"

Whether it was really lost, Mr. Guo Moruo did not know, he just speculated, although it made people feel very reasonable. Du Fu's poems have not lost much, and that is also a character reason. People like Li Bai throw away, thick lines, write a lot of poems but do not pay attention to preservation, throw them casually, or write on the wall and leave, similar situations are very likely. However, if we talk about the writing instruments and preservation methods in those days, Li Bai and Du Fu were similar, both experienced the chaos of Anshi, both experienced turbulent times, and did not have the help of modern printing.

In the record, Li Bai's friend compiled a collection of poems for him that year and also wrote a preface. Du Fu rarely had such an opportunity at that time. Therefore, we only extrapolate according to the personalities of the two people, and think that Li Bai's poems must have lost more than Du Fu, but in fact, they will certainly not be so different. How many poems Li Bai wrote to Du Fu is not only untested, but also far from enough to measure the emotional concentration of two people.

The friendship between the two of them is worth pondering. Judging from Du Fu's poems, he missed a friend to such an extent that he could not forget: he often thought about what Li Bai was doing at this moment. You should know that they mainly swam in Shandong, the time is not long, and the chance to meet is not more than three times in total. Du Fu, however, kept remembering Li Bai's literature and people, as if he had always installed a Li Bai in his heart and written so many poems to dispel this thought. When there was news that Li Bai had died in exile, Du Fu was so miserable that he immediately wrote a poem; when news came that Li Bai had been persecuted like crazy, Du Fu also wrote a poem.

Not only Du Fu, but also ancient poets, but also some poets of Li Bai DuFu's contemporaries, there are so many texts describing friends gathering and separating. This always gives people the feeling that the ancient people are more affectionate than our contemporaries. They are so real and emotional to care about a friend, really simple. Contemporary people have rarely done this, and if they do not deliberately hide their emotions, they must have lost this ability. There may be two situations: two people together for a long time, it seems as if the friendship is very deep, but in fact the emotion is weak, after leaving, they miss very little or do not want to, or a little miss but do not want to show too much; and then the ability to remember love and friendship is different, modern people's ability to deepen this kind of human emotion, the ability to chew this emotion, has been greatly inferior to the ancients.

Perhaps this is a general trend of modern life: emotional indifference, indifference. Ancient people have many differences with us, the most shocking of which is the relationship between people, from ancient times to the present——— the concentration of emotions and the way of expression have changed. This may be a great misfortune in the evolution of human life. We see not only the relationship between Li Bai and Du Fu, but also other examples. The ancients valued friendship so much that they often missed it after separation. Those touching friendships were innumerable in the ancients. With the development of modern society, the development of various means of transportation and communication, the leap of technology, the pervasiveness and comprehensive coverage of the media, have hurt and changed the emotional state between people to a large extent. Perhaps human emotions really need to be cultivated and nurtured in quiet solitude, and in today's hustle and bustle, people's emotional attributes have indeed been hurt. Not only emotions, but also people's sense of morality, will also be irretrievably reduced in the process. Because the object is repeatedly brought closer through various channels, and the multitude of information is repeated, the human mind will be tired, and its moral impulse will be reduced accordingly.

For emotions, nostalgia, concern, and nostalgia for friendship, all of this still belongs to the category of morality and ethics. That is to say, with the process of modernization of society, people's sense of morality will irreversibly and universally decline. This judgment is very serious and very cold.

Just to take the poets as an example: in the 1980s, it was difficult to forget where some literary people held pen meetings, meet and break up. At that time, the traffic was far less developed than today, there was no high-speed train, the plane was almost not sitting, and it was really not easy for people from the north and south to meet each other. Some good friends will talk all night after meeting, and when they break up, they are still reluctant to give up, because they don't know that the year of the monkey can see each other again——— they are like the kind of situation that Li Bai Dufu once had, and they still think about each other after they are separated.

Later, everything changed, the traffic developed, the email was available, the mobile phone was there, the video was also there, and there was no intimate feeling after the good literary friends met. I was in the middle of the meeting, and when I was eating, I found that my friend was missing, and I asked where I went? Said it was early departure. When I left, I didn't even say hello, let alone say goodbye. This is supposed to be very abnormal, but now everyone is used to it, thinking that this kind of coldness is the most appropriate, and never feels that there is anything wrong. This may have been a big thing in the past, it was disrespectful——— how can a good friend leave without even saying hello and leaving without squeaking? Modern people have more explanations, and it seems to be very much like a truth: for the sake of Lisuo, in order not to delay time; everyone is very busy, simply too busy; friends, there is always a difference, anyway, goodbye is not difficult, so, simply, just leave.

If modern people are like Wang Lun again, striding on their legs at the water's edge while singing to send off their friends, it will only be regarded as a mental illness.

In fact, it is not that the ancients are sick, but that we modern people are really sick. In fact, time is priceless, friendship is priceless. How this pathology is caused needs our careful study. The evolution of the customs of the times is often difficult to investigate, it is both a personal reason and cannot be fully responsible for the individual. Every life changes with time and space, and it is difficult not to change. The development of modern science and technology has obviously affected people's sense of morality - friendship and emotion belong to the category of morality and ethics——— which is equivalent to judging that the moral quality of our modern people is generally inferior to that of the ancients. Indeed, we no longer have the strong moral indignation of the ancients.

In terms of poetry alone, for example, in another time, in another space, in another nation with a strong sense of morality, a person who writes bad words will pay a great price. However, at the moment, not only is it not necessarily, but it is also very likely to be greatly praised——— the closer to the low-level fun, the more the crowd is on the red fire; the more you pour the bad water in your stomach, the more it is praised as "grounded". It turns out that our "earth qi" is filled with such evil qi. We are so absurd that we often think of shamelessness as full of content, talent, and art itself.

Du Fu Li Bai was obsessed with friendship in that era, and the same was true for others. Du Fu could not forget Li Bai's appearance: talented, quick talking, Bibi painting, dancing swords for a while, drinking wine for a while, and exporting into chapters. Such a fairy wind Dao bone-like brother constituted a huge attraction and touch to Du Fu, which he could not forget for the rest of his life, so he wrote poems to remember and chant over and over again.

Mr. Guo Moruo is right, Li Bai is not necessarily indifferent to Du Fu, he left a little less poetry, perhaps the touch of acceptance is not particularly large——— the degree of nostalgia between the two people, there is a little asymmetry is almost certain. At the same time, this can also be seen as a personality problem: although Li Bai is 11 years older than Du Fu, we always feel as if Du Fu is the elder brother. In addition, Li Bai became famous earlier than Du Fu, and is considered a literary predecessor, and it is understandable that Du Fu did so with the difference in seniority and age of the two.

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