China Youth Daily Client News (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Jiang Xiaobin) Mao Dun Literature Award won Wei's new cultural essay "Five Poets of the Tang Dynasty", which was recently published by the People's Literature Publishing House. This book condenses the crystallization of Zhang Wei's immersion in ancient poetics for more than 20 years, selects 5 poets such as Wang Wei, Han Yu, Bai Juyi, Du Mu and Li Shangyin, and goes deep into the different spiritual and artistic worlds of poets from the perspectives of history, philosophy, poetics and aesthetics, and completes the care for ancient poets in modern time and space.
Why did "Poetic 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 his inner troubles 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. 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, and it is also a way of life that seeks self-consistency. The five poets in the book have different poetic styles, reflecting their different life pursuits and spiritual qualities.
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The transformation of the poet's style is a story of constantly convincing himself and settling himself. The nostalgia and frustration in the poems of the five poets are a reflection of their real life from enterprising to frustrated, from doubt to conviction. Zhang Wei said: "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 interpretables in between. ”
Source: China Youth Daily client