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The aesthetic logic of the ancients benefited from the accumulation of traditional culture.
The taste and aesthetics of the ancients are somewhat different from those of modern people, and even for the poems that have been passed down to future generations, their respective evaluation methods will be different.
Now is the era of the big explosion of information, we can contact too many things, so today's people have different aesthetics of the same thing.
The aesthetics of the ancients, because of the great influence of the "Book of Poetry" and "Chu Ci", will be much more unified.
People of different eras may not be able to compare the beauty of poetry, but the level of a person's talent is relatively obvious.
The Chinese nation has a long history, and there have been countless talented people, who are either sharp in their thinking, or extremely talented, or well-read books, or understand the world;
These outstanding predecessors have left us with a lot of valuable spiritual wealth.
And to say which person in history has the highest talent, there may not be a completely unified answer, but there is a person, his talent, in ancient times, was the most praised by people.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a very famous great poet named Xie Lingyun.
This person can be said to be the founding ancestor of the Shanshui Pastoral School, who is not only highly talented, but also extremely conceited.
Xie Lingyun, who was arrogant and arrogant, once said a paragraph, which probably meant that the talents of all the people in the world at that time were only different from their own.
Being able to say such a thing shows how conceited he is, but even a person who is so conceited has to add a sentence at the end - but Cao Zijian's talent is eight times mine.
Xie Lingyun believed that the talents of all the people in the world at that time were only one-eighth of Cao Zhi's. And this incident is the origin of the idiom "only high eight buckets".
Zhong Rong, a literary critic of the Southern Dynasty, said in his book "Poetry":
Cao Zhi's achievements in the articles are equivalent to the ideological achievements of Confucius and Zhou Gong, and the literati of later generations can only face the sun like candles compared with him.
Wang Shizhen, a poetry theorist of the Qing Dynasty, said that in terms of talent, there have only been three people who can be called "immortal talents" - Cao Zhi, Li Bai and Su Shi.
Li Bai himself said: "Cao Zhi is the hero of Jian'an, but he can only hold on." The world is rich and handsome, suddenly tending to the wind, white is insensitive, and stealing high theories. ”
We know that Li Bai is a very arrogant person, and if he did not really think so, he would never pretend to be humble because Cao Zhi was a predecessor.
For today's people, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi, Tao Yuanming, Li Qingzhao and others are naturally more familiar;
But in the eyes of the ancients, it seems that Cao Zijian, who wrote "light clouds cover the moon, flowing wind and snow", is even better.
And the ancients, in the evaluation of poetry, in addition to paying attention to their talents, also pay attention to their qualities.
The criterion of this "quality" lies in whether a poem has the pure and innocent beauty of the Book of Poetry and the Chu Ci.
During the Song Dynasty, traditional Chinese culture developed to the peak of history, and people had more stringent aesthetic standards for various things in life.
This pursuit of pure beauty has also spawned many works of art that are closer to this aesthetic, such as the porcelain of the Song Dynasty, commonly used "ice cracks", and people use the texture produced by glaze cracks as natural patterns.
For example, the Ru kiln, which is one color throughout, does not use dyes to outline the pattern, and does not add any other modifications. For example, the Song dynasty that prevailed in the world also circulated through the ages.
At that time, the most talented lyricist was of course Su Dongpo, but the person who was recognized as the highest "word product" was two other people, one was the Northern Song Dynasty Zhou Bangyan, the character Meicheng. One is the Southern Song Dynasty Zhang Kui, the character Baishi.
However, in the Song Dynasty, the poem with the highest "word quality" is not written by these two people, but from a person who has not left a name in history.
The Qing Dynasty poet Chen Tingzhuo's "Words and Sayings of the White Rain" said:
"'Nine Pieces of Machine' is purely derived from "Xiao Ya" and "Leaving the Troubles", and the words are the best, even if they are beautiful and white stones, they can't do it."
Chen Tingzhuo believes that only this song "Nine Zhangji" completely inherits the pure meaning of the "Book of Poetry" and "Chu Ci", and even says that this word is "a thousand-year-old word" and "a wonderful ancient music house".
And whether the poetry was pure enough and innocent was sometimes more important to the people of that time than whether the poetry was talented enough. This is also the difference between the aesthetics of today's people and the ancients.
Ancient people, naturally like us, will feel the softness and elegance of "Yang Liu Bank, Xiao Feng Remnant Moon", and can understand that "the great river goes east, and the waves exhaust the characters of the ancient winds." "The passion is heroic.
But they may prefer to "pay lightly and not bear it deeply, smile back, and return to the flowers, only to be known by the flowers." "the innocence;
It is also more able to understand that "there are more double butterflies between the flowers, stopping for a while, idle in the window shadow, watching alone for a long time." "Aesthetic purity.
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