Recently, Mao Dun Literature Award-winning writer Zhang Wei's new cultural essay "Five Poets of the Tang Dynasty" was launched by the People's Literature Publishing House. The book condenses the crystallization of Zhang Wei's immersion in ancient poetics for more than 20 years, selects five important poets of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei, Han Yu, Bai Juyi, Du Mu and Li Shangyin, and from the perspectives of history, philosophy, poetics, aesthetics, literary history and writing, penetrates into the different spiritual and artistic worlds of poets, opens up ancient and modern times, and completes the care for ancient poets in modern time and space.
In the book, Zhang Wei analyzes the wonderful lives of the five poets in the form of essays, each poet, each chapter is so real and rich, full of vitality, the reader can see the five poets' pursuit of inner faith and the full efforts of themselves.
In Zhang Wei's view, human nature determines poetry. Poets' sense of morality, values, identities, and positions form the basis of their creation. Poetry is the carrier of the artistic pursuit of the ancients, but also a way of life to seek self-consistency, Wang Wei, Han Yu, Bai Juyi, Du Mu, Li Shangyin, the five poets of different poetic styles, reflect their different life pursuits and spiritual character.
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The poet writes poetry, the change of style, is a story of constantly convincing himself and settling himself. The nostalgia and frustration in the poems of the five poets are the reflection of their real life from enterprising to frustrated, from doubt to conviction. Zhang Wei believes: "In addition to leaving a record of time and history, leaving a trace of life, the writer must have disclosed himself, and there are various interpretibility in between. ”
Why did the poet Buddha Wang Wei change from studying Confucianism for half a lifetime to Buddhism, and between entering the world and coming out of the world, how did he cope with the inner difficulties and write his own poems? From a lowly cloth to a courtier, how did Han Yu go from the edge to the center, from weak to strong, make his own voice, and find his responder? Is Bai Juyi's life really as indifferent and superior as he said, "contentment and peace", and how should the poet act in the sinister world? Why is his poetry not as melancholy and frustrated as du fu he admires, but full of spirit and frankness? The amorous Li Shangyin wrote a lot of poems about love, but was his life really as beautiful and affectionate as his poetry? Poetry should not only meet the life encounters of the five poets, but also present their value orientation.
Literature and art is the sum of the writer's life feelings, Zhang Wei's achievements in classical literature are quite profound, as can be seen from the previously published "Ban Huan Zhi" (Su Dongpo Seven Lectures), these works reflect Zhang Wei's unique aesthetic pursuit, showing his process of understanding life with small to large.
Nandu reporter Zhu Rongting