"The comprehensiveness of Tang poetry encompasses all the emotions of the entire era, contains the rich life of the entire era, and becomes an encyclopedia of the Tang Dynasty."
- "Ma Weidu Tells Tang Poetry Thoroughly"
Many people should remember that in 2020, there is a famous meme of "Ma Ye hairstyle collision Monchichi".
The reason is that on the fifth day of the first lunar month of that year, Mr. Ma wrote a book with his hair in the Guanfu Museum, eliminated all idle and miscellaneous matters, did not write an oath and did not cut his hair, and finally finished writing after 112 days of hard work (and then carefully revised for more than a year), so there was a cute "Munchchi" hairstyle.
Two years have passed, and the Tang poetry part of this Tang poem, "Ma Weidu Tells Tang Poetry Thoroughly", has now come out, and those days of writing for 10 to 16 hours a day, writing like mountains of paper, using countless empty refills, and writing "hair is white", have finally appeared on the paper.
On the day when "Zhi Hu Ye" has become a thing of the past, why should we read Tang poems and Song poems?
In the general preface, Mr. Ma said:
Tang poems and Song poems provide the best literary nutrition for the Chinese nation, so that our ancient nation is vivid, healthy, harmonious, and then colorful. It is impossible to imagine what China would look like without Tang and Song poems, and it is even more impossible to imagine how dry the literature nourished by Tang and Song poems would be.
It can be seen that Tang poetry and Song Ci are a key to understanding the long-standing Chinese culture, and also a passage to the spiritual secret realm of the Chinese people.
"This set of books integrates the background of the era in which Tang and Song poems were produced, the life of poets and poets, and literary technical analysis, in a trinity. Let the reader learn more about Tang poetry and Song poetry with half the effort. This way of reading, forgive me for being lonely and unheard of, I have never seen the same kind. So after two years of hard work, the new work was presented to the reader. ”
—— The general preface of "Ma Weidu Tells Through Tang Poems"
Mr. Ma's narration of Tang poems is quite like talking about "One Thousand and One Nights":
In chronological order, a total of sixty-eight well-known poets are selected from the early Tang, Shengtang, Middle And Late Tang Dynasties, and each chapter is the exclusive chapter of a poet: starting from the era in which he is living: personal encounters, life anecdotes, and temperament ideals, with representative poems interspersed with perfect examples, and then analyzed sentence by sentence.
After reading a chapter, not only do you have an understanding of its poems, but also go deeper into the poets, and even a period of Tang history, after reading through the book, you will have feelings about Tang poems and even the entire Tang poems.
In order to let readers further understand the poetry and rhyme, the "Reading Tang Poems" in this department uses 306 famous paintings interspersed with them to make a "scene show".
Tang poetry is classified in many categories: narrative poetry, lyric poetry, philosophical poetry, Yongwu poetry, Yong epic poem, Yonghuai poem, Biansai poem, Bondage poem, pastoral poem, landscape poem, farewell poem, grievance poem, allegorical poem, Fu poem, Lefu poem, etc. - each kind of poem has its own temperament and circumstances, and this book does not make a deliberate classification, but follows the trend of the circle, all-round and multi-angle, and its solutions are naturally spread out with the poet's life and the background of the times, so that the reader can easily accept it.
The sensual scenes, in addition to the delicate and in-depth text, rely on the visual scene to bring in, the famous paintings in this book are all handed down to the world, which can be relied upon to help readers think about wandering and better understand the whole poem.
What can be called a blessing is that this batch of "Ma Weidu Read Through Tang Poems" is the signed version of Mr. Ma's "Poetry and Speech Zhi" Oh ~ its formula is as follows▼
Do you know? The first poem "Wing Goose" that many people memorized from childhood was written when Luo Binwang was seven years old, so the childlike fun is endless; Li Bai's biography actually contains the statement that li Yuan,5th grandson of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and the grandson of li Jiancheng; Li Yi and Huo Xiaoyu, a famous prostitute in Chang'an, had a love tragedy, and this experience may have provided an emotional background for him to write "Jiangnan Qu"...
These stories hidden in the fate of the poet make their poetry no longer a rootless water, so you have to know what it is, and know what it is.
And this is the interest of this "Ma Weidu Read Through Tang Poems".
In the last paragraph of the afterword, Mr. Ma said:
"May the reader read this book with half the effort, and may literature nourish you and let you have a beautiful life."
The reason for this is that you have to read it while reading it!