Wu Shuoxian, academician of science station |: Ancient poetry has given me a lot of inspiration for innovation

Text, photo/ Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Li Gang

"A lot of my innovative theories are actually inspired by ancient poetry." The "In-depth Interview of Wu Shuoxian's Poetry Theme Media" of the series of activities of "Poetic Flower City, Hearing Flowers Blooming" organized by the Information Office of Guangzhou Municipal People's Government was recently held in the Guangzhou Press Conference Hall. Wu Shuoxian, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Architecture of South China University of Technology, and director of the Institute of Building Technology Science, revealed his unique innovation code to the outside world in an interview with the Yangcheng Evening News reporter: get inspiration from poetry.

He was influenced by classical literature from an early age

"The yellow leaves are half dry, clinging to the plant." Although it violates the show on the branches, it lays the brocade road. Riding on campus, seeing the fallen leaves on the road, Wu Shuoxian felt inspired and wrote this "Yellow Leaves". For six years, he has maintained the creative power of one song a day, and has more than 2,000 works so far.

Associated with poetry, from his family.

Wu Shuoxian's father, Wu Qiushan, was a professor of classical literature at a university and served as a writer, poet, and calligrapher. Under the influence of the family atmosphere, Wu Shuoxian liked poetry from an early age, and from junior high school, he tried to create poetry.

For classical poetry, Wu Shuoxian believes that China is a country of poetry, and the tradition of poetry and song continues.

In the following growth, Wu Shuoxian responded to the call of the times and aspired to serve the country with science, and eventually became an architectural expert rather than a literary scholar.

However, Wu Shuoxian did not give up his poetry dream. He even introduced his understanding of poetry into scientific research.

He proposed the "fusion of three scenes" of scenic science

He told reporters that the human settlement environment science he is engaged in is an interdisciplinary discipline of science and technology and humanities, and some of the innovative theories he proposed are also inspired by poetry.

In the field of urban and rural planning, Wu Shuoxian put forward the philosophy of "big sound and sound, invisible elephant" as a guide to urban and rural planning, believing that cities should not only have architectural complexes and built-up areas, but also have sufficient white space between the two. This idea itself was inspired by the Tao Te Ching.

Recently, Wu Shuoxian has put forward the concept of landscape science, advocating a new discipline of landscape viewing, and advocating the "integration of three scenes" of "soundscape of sound, smell of incense and scenery", as a new concept to improve the quality of human settlements.

He believes that in the past, landscape gardens were mainly based on visual landscapes, ignoring hearing and smell, and also ignoring the sense of viewing of light sources and changes in light and shadow, and beautiful landscapes were integrated with three scenes.

This idea of his was also inspired by the Book of Verses. Wu Shuoxian once published an important paper in the Architectural Journal - "Acoustic Landscape in China", which revealed the important position of acoustic landscape in human civilization and the significance of human life through the systematic study of the acoustic landscape of various natural and human social activities described in the Book of Poetry.

"I found that 28 percent of the content in the Book of Verses is related to soundscapes. For example, in the phrase "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the River Continent", 'Guan Guan' is the cry of an osprey. Wu Shuoxian said.

Inspired by Su Shi

Propose to incorporate human activities into landscape elements

Wu Shuoxian also published articles on people's activities as landscape elements, and this concept also comes from ancient poetry - inspired by Su Shi's "Butterfly Love Flower Spring Scenery": "The flowers fade red and green apricots are small, and when the swallows fly, the green water people are around." The willows on the branches blow little, and there is no grass at the end of the world. Swing in the wall, walkers outside the wall, beautiful people in the wall laugh. Laughter fades away, but amorous is ruthlessly annoyed. ”

Wu Shuoxian said that Su Shi's famous poem not only describes the natural scenery, but also extends to the activities of people in the scenery, and finally expresses emotions, which are poetic and picturesque.

"In the past, the landscape elements in landscape architecture were limited to specific objective objects, but ignored the activities of people and people, which were all elements of the landscape." Wu Shuoxian told reporters.

Wu Shuoxian believes that whether it is architecture, urban and rural planning, landscape architecture, or specific to architectural acoustics, in the end, it is to serve people and be people-oriented. Therefore, when supervising graduate students, students will also emphasize that science and technology and humanistic care are equally important.

In terms of soundscape, Wu Shuoxian stressed the need to study the acoustic environment and care for people's hearing. In terms of lighting, he believes that the lighting project that overemphasizes the lighting intensity has entered a misunderstanding, which not only affects the physiological rhythm of people and nature, but also forms light pollution, so he believes that light should be created as a landscape, different communities, different environments have different requirements, and can not be a thousand cities.

In a super-large city like Guangzhou, Wu Shuoxian proposed that from the perspective of planning, it is necessary to take "big sound and sound, invisible elephant" as the philosophy of guiding planning, and cannot expand indefinitely, and cannot be everywhere a sea of concrete. There should be enough white space to improve the living environment.

Mutual communication between arts and sciences

Both emphasize association and creativity

For his own poetry creation, Wu Shuoxian said that he must be good at association in order to write good poetry, and the ability to associate is itself a very important aspect of creativity.

"The characteristics of liberal arts and sciences thinking are actually the same, poetry creation is very helpful to my thinking, ancient poems, especially sentences, language is highly condensed, from a mathematical point of view, it is to grasp the most essential things, which is actually the same as the thinking of poetry writing." Wu Shuoxian gave an example, "When we are engaged in scientific research, many of the superficial things we see are very rich and complex, but to find a law from it, to find a formula or a law, this is to grasp the essence." In addition, it also needs the ability to have an epiphany, and science and literary creation also need to have the ability to associate one and the other, and to establish connections between different things. So I don't think the liberal arts are particularly different in terms of thinking. ”

Regarding "poetry Guangzhou", Wu Shuoxian said that living in Guangzhou, poetry is everywhere, just like the beauty of spring in Guangzhou. And he writes a poem every day, which is the process of discovering the poetry of Guangzhou. He also believes that Guangzhou has always been the capital of poetry, and it is necessary to stimulate young people's sense of responsibility for inheriting poetry culture, and also to balance classical poetry and modern poetry education, and form an atmosphere of inheriting and creating poetry in the new era. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)

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