Yu Pingbo, one of the pioneers of mainland vernacular writing and one of the founders of the "New Red School", and his great-grandfather Yu Fan at the end of the Qing Dynasty can be said to be known to everyone. Yu Fan is a late Qing Dynasty Hongru, literary attainment spirit, his poems have a sense of reality of worrying about the country and the people, but also reflect his life situation. Today, we will enjoy Yu Fan's ten poems together and experience the sense of the times behind the words.
Yu Fan's father was a lifter, and he followed his mother and brother to Hangzhou to study since childhood, and later entered the hanlin examination. According to records, Yu Fan was once appreciated by Zeng Guofan, and the former was also extremely grateful to the latter, but because the latter was too bookish and angry, he would not behave in the official world at all, and later returned to the field and made academic research and teaching.
In terms of scholarship, Yu Fan is known for his "tong", has a wide range of subjects, and his achievements have been impressive throughout the ages, and in deeper consideration, Yu Fan's works also have the inheritance of traditional scholarship. In terms of poetry, Yu Fan pays close attention to reality. Because he lived in the late Qing Dynasty, when the national life was bleak and the country was in a miserable situation, he had many poems about the invasion of foreign enemies, and it was these poems with a sense of the times that became the first-hand information of the history of the late Qing Dynasty.
Yu Fan's poems inherit Bai Juyi's creative concept, and the style is simple and fresh, and it presents Wang Wei's legacy, and the poems touch the scene and are close to Bai Juyi, especially the satirical poetry and Bai Juyi are in the same vein. Lyrical love poems tend to favor the true feelings of ordinary people, which is very similar to Yuan Ming. From the perspective of poetry theory, Yu Fan advocates eliminating the view of the portal, absorbing the strengths of each family, pursuing the realm of poetry, from going deep and shallow, opposing carving, emphasizing personal sorrow and the sense of distress of the times, and absorbing the intention of the Changzhou school from the standpoint of the Zhejiang school.
Poetry is a portrayal of the poet's life, and Yu Fan's poetry exudes maverick thoughts, a positive and optimistic attitude towards life and open-minded and indifferent personal feelings. His poems can show the true nature of his lyrical self, so they can make people see a maverick side. The positive attitude of life and the self-confidence of career prospects can let readers see his positive and optimistic attitude and self-confidence in life. It is worth mentioning that Yu Fan often compares life to a journey, looks down on life and death, and looks down on the sorrows and sorrows of the world, which can be reflected in his poems, and can also show his open-minded and indifferent feelings.
Judging from Yu Fan's surviving poems, "writing with a pen" is the biggest feature. His poems are free-flowing, not chaotic, approachable, and different periods of life reflect different emotions. The vast majority of his poems are records of historical facts and living conditions, closely related to his life experience. When he was young, he looked forward to the future, reflecting the pursuit of life full of ambition, and then because of the chaos of the situation, he wrote a large number of poems that sympathized with the people's feelings, and the poetic style tended to be deep and mournful, but also the lamentation and helplessness of his life
From the perspective of personality, you can also appreciate the other side of Yu Yu's poetry. Because he is a tall man and good at using the chrysanthemums and plum blossoms of loneliness, he often uses these two flowers as images to express emotions, and the feeling of coldness and arrogance is undoubtedly revealed. In addition, he loved books all his life, read tirelessly, and sank into the sea of books. Therefore, his ambition is to devote himself to writing books, to strive for excellence in scholarship, to preach for more than thirty years, to embody the inner pursuit in his poetry, and there is no sense of pretentiousness.
Generally speaking, the greatest achievement of Yu Fan's poetry art is to worry about the country and the people, and care about the lives of the people, and through the study of his poetry through time, it can be clearly seen that his life trajectory and life encounters. Therefore, Yu Fan's poems are a decades of "history", and you can see the situation of a dynasty stepping down from the altar.
The language is approachable, women and children understand, the use of dictionaries is rich, and care for the people and the country are the biggest features of Yu Fan's poetry. According to records, Yu Fan died on February 5, 1907, today is his 119th anniversary, let's enjoy his ten poems together, experience the sense of the times behind the poems and the poet's maverick personality.