Why is it said that the oil body is inherently popular?
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Over the years, there have been lovers of old style poetry playing ancient style poetry, a large number of related societies, associations and so on, and some people have made various efforts to revive the old body and create glory again, to some "rich cultural accumulation" places, you can also see the newly created old style poems that are half-accessible and typos, but they still cannot change the fate of gradually drifting away and rapidly declining.
In fact, the unchanged "frozen" old style poetry does not exist, and the occurrence, evolution and demise of each literary genre have sensed the times, integrated new winds, and carried the mission. In the mainstream culture of different dynasties, those poems and songs have been adjusted and changed accordingly, in general, "responding" to the needs of that era and becoming the shoes that fit in that era.
The old-style poems that we can see now, which have entered various poetry anthologies, are actually the unique labor of the anthology scholars of the past. Creation is labor, and selecting essays is also labor. Selectors put the articles they think are worth circulating into a tall anthology, repeatedly or focus on people's vision, and slowly become classics, become "popular news", become "far-reaching", become part of the spiritual life of Chinese.
The "old style" poetry and song in a broad sense should have been torn apart by the new cultural people who appeared in the new cultural movement such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu, and have not been able to recover so far. This is also the need of the times, what kind of culture the times need, what kind of culture will emerge, and culture cannot avoid reflecting the political and economic culture and ideology of that era. In the era when capitalist industrial and commercial civilization completely destroyed China's traditional agricultural civilization, the old style of poetry and song did not have a "sanwei bookhouse" that made them worry about food and clothing.
There is also a garden behind the Sanwei Bookstore, although small, but there you can also climb up the flower bed to fold wax plum blossoms and look for cicadas on the ground or on the osmanthus tree. The best job is to catch flies and feed the ants, quietly without sound. However, the fellow windows went to the garden too much, too long, but it was not enough, and the gentleman shouted in the study: "Where have all the people gone?" One by one, people walked back; they couldn't go back together. He has a ruler, but it is not commonly used, and there is also a rule of punishment for kneeling, but it is not commonly used, and the ordinary general always stares at it a few times and loudly says: "Read!" So everyone opened their throats and read for a while, and it was really loud. There are those who read "Ren is far more than I want Ren Si Ren to be the best", those who read "Laughing at the lack of human teeth and the dog's sinus are wide open", those who read "Don't use the Nine Hidden Dragons on the Top", and those who read "Don't Use the Dragon Under the Soil"... The gentleman himself also studied. Later, our voices went down and quieted down, and only he read aloud: "Tie Ruyi, commanding a gentleman, everyone is shocked when he sits; Jin Porro, upside down, a thousand cups are not drunk..."
Yes, the old style poetry was torn apart by the Hu Shi, which was a very pleasant thing at the time, because what was torn apart belonged to the "old literati",those so-called "elite literati", and the "elegant culture" of drinking and singing poetry and playing with prostitutes in their small circles had little to do with the millions of toiling masses. In the past, the right to culture and education was monopolized by the authorities and elites, and the right to write such poems and songs was also controlled by the officials and elites, and the common people had no way to create a set of cultural systems, folk culture, including stories, myths, songs, small plays, oil poems, proverbs and riddles... The layering of culture is very clear, and all strata of society play their own games and basically do not interfere with each other, unless the administrative forces from the official are inserted to the end, stirring up the beautiful mountains and rivers and the people of the South Mountain.
The rapid popularization of the Internet has created a new style in China, which has 650 million effective Internet users. The "cultural self-confidence" of the common people is impressive, splitting their heads and covering their faces. There are also a large number of "paragraphs" that are difficult to classify with traditional styles, almost re-dressing up the styles that human beings once had, and adding new creations to appear in people's vision. The traditional oil poems, Hidden Head poems, and embedded poems are actually considered to be appreciated by both elegant and customary, new and old. Helplessly, the ability of human beings to create genres is still limited, just like they can't pull up their hair and leave the earth, netizens can't create genres that no one has ever seen. Therefore, all they can and can do is to give new life to the old style of poetry. In these old-style poems, the innate people's and grassroots types, such as oil poetry, have obtained the right to priority development.
An interesting phenomenon is that many people who are destined to be only "grassroots" have a lingering scholar-doctor complex, and a preference for vassal style, how many years of hard work and cultivation, and can also play a few semi-intruct old-style poems. This is the backbone force that I said at the beginning to support the existence of the old style poetry. They also have a subconscious, that is, they feel that they can play with a handful of old-style poetry, as if they have become one of the elites, and even gain a sense of superiority over popular literature and art. Whose era is this? Grassroots. In the Internet age, the masses are amazing, they are no longer the villagers who have been defined and regulated by the ruling class, they are very willful, very conceited, have their own rules of survival, in fact, they have long mastered the adjudication of cultural products. Those literature and art that are divorced from the life of the times and the tastes of the public do not receive a few applause, which is very normal.
Hu Shi's "Discussion on the Improvement of Literature" of that year said:
I think that today's literary improvement must start with eight things. What are the eight things? One thing has to say. Second, do not imitate the ancients. Third, we must pay attention to grammar. Four, do not groan without illness. Five days, do not abuse clichés. Six days, no need to pawn. Seven days, do not talk about the battle. Eight days, do not avoid the colloquial words. ——Hu Shi, "Discussion on the Improvement of Literature"
This has been said for a hundred years, and most of the "masses" at that time have now evolved into "netizens". At that time, "mass literature and art" met the requirements of that era, and the current "netizen literature and art" was the mainstream form of the current era. Seven or eight years ago, the Chinese Writers Association began to take the initiative to open the door to online literature, some stereotyped network writers still refuse to enter the book, now, the era of Internet + has come, China is going to be a network power, I think the authentic old style poetry and song endowment can basically enter the museum, or as a very small number of people's bad hobbies exist freely on the line, do not be complacent because of this skill, look down on the new oil body. Because "hitting oil" is inherently popular and entertaining, it alludes to the essence of literature and art, and conforms to the people-centered concept of literature and art.
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