The Jin Dynasty also produced many influential poets, of which Wang Ruoxuan was one of them. His poems return to the main body of poetry, publicize personality, pursue emotional fullness, and the style flows flexibly, advocate poetry to seek truth, oppose strange poetic styles, and play an important role in the development of poetry in the Jin Dynasty and even in later generations. Today, we will appreciate Wang Ruoxuan's ten poems, experience the charm of his words and the poet's thoughts and feelings, and believe that you will fall in love with his poems.
According to records, in the early days of Wang Ruoxuan's life, he was diligent in his studies, and the poet was also his uncle Zhou Ang as a teacher, and Liu Zhong, an official and scholar of the Jin Dynasty, was another teacher of his. Later, Wang Ruoxuan entered the army as a jinshi and served as an official in the Jin Dynasty all his life, and historical records record that he was also ordered to go out of the history of Western Xia. Later, after the fall of the Jin Dynasty, he returned to the countryside, traveled east with his friend Taishan, sat on a large rock and died, at the age of seventy.
Bai Juyi is a poet highly respected by Wang Ruoxu, not only for the latter's poetry, but also for his character, because the characteristics and propositions of the two poetry coincide. Wang Ruoxu believes that good poetry does not need to be carved in words, so his poems have the characteristics of Bai Juyi's "shallow and easy", similar to Bai Juyi in style, forming the characteristics of natural interest, and bai Juyi's content is quoted many times in the poem.
Su Shi is also a poet highly respected by Wang Ruoxu, who is self-sufficient and self-sufficient, and naturally natural is the biggest feature of the poems written by Bai Juyi and Su Shi, and at this point, Su Shi's poems have a deeper realm. In Wang Ruoxuan's eyes, Su Shi's poetry is almost perfect, and in terms of poetic theory, Wang Ruoxuan and Su Shi have a great fit. In addition, he values Su Shi even more in the latter's enterprising spirit on the road of life, so Wang Ruoxuan's poems will also follow the steps of his predecessors, be positive and enterprising, and reflect unparalleled positive energy.
In addition to admiring the poetic creation views of the poets of his predecessors, Wang Ruoxuan also has his own unique views. He wrote poetry that was truth-seeking, using images that fit the poetic context rather than abuse. He opposed Shangqi's poetic tendencies, because this kind of poetry lacked real life, had a low artistic conception, and gave people a sense of absurdity, and could not form a poetic mood in which material and self blended. Therefore, he pursues poetry in the state of nature, which can activate the reader's heart and allow the poem to withstand the test of time and flow through the ages.
In Wang Ruoxuan's eyes, "truth" not only represents the real sense of life, but also represents the truth of temperament, although this concept is not his first creation, it can reflect the poet's aesthetic pursuit, but also can explain the poet's poetry creation position. In addition, the truth of temperament can make the poet from the bottom of his heart, can make the reader feel the true feeling, and the artistic appeal will naturally increase.
Although he admired the poetry and personality of Bai Juyi and Su Shi, he was extremely rejecting the creative concept of "poetry comes from the ancients". He believes that blindly learning the ancients is not innovative, is lifeless, he tends to follow the advantages of the ancients, combined with his own life experience and experience, to create his own poetry creation theory, in the concept and thought of continuous progress, is conducive to the inheritance of poetry, it can be seen that Wang Ruoxu has a strong psychology of progress.
In summary, Wang Ruoxu has his own ideas on poetry creation, he admires Bai Juyi and Su Shi, opposes the Jiangxi poetry school and Huang Tingjian, he believes that poetry must seek truth, poets must combine their own experience, absorb the advantages of their predecessors, and integrate with themselves to form their own creative concepts.
His poems are approachable, simple and easy to understand, and have the character and aesthetic pursuit of poets, so in the poetry of the Jin Dynasty, Wang Ruoxuan was an important poet. His poems are not only influential, but also play a role in promoting the concept of creation.
Today, we will enjoy the ten poems of the Jin Dynasty poet Wang Ruoxuan, experience the aesthetic pursuit and creative concept of the poet behind the text, and you will gain something by tasting it.