With the improvement of people's material living standards, the growing spiritual needs, coupled with the good atmosphere of vigorously promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, the wave of poetry appreciation and creation is constantly surging, and many poetry lovers have created a new chapter of the times.
As a memoir spanning 32 years (1989 to 2021) and taking the form of a "poetry diary" and pure poetry as the main body, "The Poetry Diary" can be said to be a unique work.
This work contains four main themes. The first is urban exploration, showing the scenery, history and humanities, and spirit of Chinese cities, and praising the style of the times; the second is to record family and friendship and feel the love of the world; the third is to record life, telling the life of my generation and expressing life feelings; the fourth is to comment on current affairs, comment on humanistic current affairs, and express the feelings of home and country.
The author Zhang Jingxiang, pen name Zhang Yehe or Xianyun Yehe, self-proclaimed "Shihe", his ancestral home is Xiangxiang City, Hunan Province, born in Beijing, settled in Shanghai and Hangzhou. A lover of ancient poetry and literature, he began to write poetry at the age of 17. This work is in the form of a poetry diary, recording life experiences, mental processes, family and friendship, life trivia, workplace struggles, urban exploration, social observations, current affairs news, miscellaneous comments, etc. before the age of 17 to 50. The themes involve physical geography, historical figures, philosophy of science, education and sports, cultural beliefs and other aspects, and are sorted according to the chronological order of creation of the works, forming an autobiographical memoir.
"Diary of poetry of the Crane in the Clouds" not only has a large number of grammatical poetry words, but also blurts out the haiku qiyan poems, oil poems, solitaire poems, and modern poems that keep pace with the times, etc., which are appreciated by both elegant and customary, and integrate artistry and fun. At the same time, each pure grammatical poem indicates the type of near-body poetry and the grammatical contrast of song words, ensuring academic rigor, which is conducive to literary lovers applying grammatical rules to actively and effectively try the creation of grammatical poetry, and stimulating interest and desire for the creation of old-style poetry.
Any literary style needs to develop with the development of the times, and it needs to be inherited and innovated, and the "Diary of the Poetry of the Crane in the Idle Clouds" shows the contemporary new life in the form of old poetry, which not only inherits the essence of ancient Chinese poetry, but also close to the life of modern people. This work is natural and simple, meaningful, relaxed and interesting, and everyone can read and understand it in order to better inherit it.