If it is true for Han Yu
Respect and deep love,
Yes to Wang Wei and Bai Juyi
Clear discernment and insight,
For the late Tang Dynasty small "Li Du" is
Joy and promotion,
Untitled poems to Li Shangyin
It is especially loved...
Recently, Mao Dun Literature Award-winning writer Zhang Wei's new cultural essay "Five Poets of the Tang Dynasty" was grandly launched 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 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 of ancient poets in modern time and space.
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, become themselves of all the efforts.
In this book, every poet is resurrected, and they come to the reader with great vitality, once again showing the unique thoughts and artistic insights of the writer Zhang Wei, as well as the light reflected by the wonderful language.
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.
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. ”
How did Wang Wei 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.
Literature and art is the sum of the writer's life feelings, as a novelist who has achieved great achievements in contemporary literary creation, Zhang Wei has a deep achievement in classical literature, which can be seen from the previously published "BanLan Zhi" (Su Dongpo Seven Lectures), which embodies Zhang Wei's unique aesthetic pursuit and shows his process of understanding life with small into big.
Five Poets of the Tang Dynasty
By Zhang Wei
People's Literature Publishing House
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
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Correspondent: Li Ran
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