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"Global People" Wang Liqun: Circle-breaking scholars break the circle again
On March 15, 2022, the 2022 Chinese Poetry Conference came to an end. At the time of the award, the commentator Wang Liqun concluded with two poems: "The title of the gold list is Mo Shangxin, and this year is still last spring." In the new part of this conference, he cooperated with the contestants to break through the barriers and easily helped the contestants solve the problems. Since joining the Chinese Poetry Conference in 2016, Wang Liqun has served as a guest commentator for many times, and his familiarity with Chinese poetry has left a deep impression on the audience.
In addition to explaining poetry, Wang Liqun appeared on the "Hundred Family Pulpit" to explain the "History of History" as early as 2006, and has been well known to the public since then. Under the gentle image, his bold interpretation of historical figures has allowed him to successfully "break the circle". Wang Liqun told the Global People reporter: "I didn't mean to publish a bold interpretation, I just read the text carefully. Read it carefully, and you will understand it. ”
Wang Liqun, who just celebrated his 77th birthday, was in good spirits and upright, and insisted on walking and writing after getting up every day. Nowadays, in the face of the new media era, he quickly learns and adapts with a positive and inclusive mentality, and has millions of fans on Douyin and Kuaishou. Not long ago, he published his opening speech of the tenth "departure" of the "2022 Chinese Poetry Conference" on his personal Sina Weibo. The opening words read: "After the passing has become a body, the beautiful is ahead, and the departing people are on the road." People on the road are destined to become a landscape. As soon as this microblog was published, it received more than 100,000 views, and many netizens were deeply moved. In this regard, Wang Liqun lamented: "Nowadays, information fragmentation is not terrible, and the dissemination of television platforms and new media platforms complement each other and have the best of both worlds." ”
Wang Liqun interpreted the poems at the first quarter of the 2016 Chinese Poetry Conference
At the 2022 Chinese Poetry Conference, Wang Liqun quoted poems at the beginning of the fifth "Daoxiang"
The perfect encounter with poetry
The 2022 Chinese Poetry Conference opens up ancient and modern dialogues from the perspectives of "Jiangshan", "Meet", "Daoxiang" and "Departure". Wang Liqun quoted "Happy to See the Thousand Heavy Waves of Rice" at the beginning of the fifth "Daoxiang" to mourn Yuan Longping, and the audience lamented the strong vitality and empathy of the poems.
Speaking of his original intention to join the "Chinese Poetry Conference", Wang Liqun recalled: "I was originally a literature major, so being able to participate in the "Chinese Poetry Conference" is also a return to the old line, and it is a re-encounter with poetry. In 2016, Wang Liqun has become a star speaker of "Hundred Forums", and the program team of CCTV Science and Education Channel invited him to join the "Chinese Poetry Conference". Wang Liqun did not miss this "encounter". On the stage, after his comments, the wall of time between the ancients and the present suddenly disappeared, and many viewers were the old audience of "Hundred Pulpits", and now they are immersed in this poetry feast, "perfect encounter with poetry".
Over the past few years, Wang Liqun has found that many non-literary and historical professionals also like to gain spiritual strength from poetry in life in their exchanges with the contestants. In 2017, at the second season of the "Chinese Poetry Conference", Bai Ruyun from rural Hebei Province experienced all kinds of difficulties, in order to subsidize the family, he was terminally ill and worked outside, all the way, "only because of poetry with me", when she said at the poetry conference: "Thousands of hardships and hardships are still strong, Ren'er's east, west, south and north winds", Wang Liqun was deeply moved: "Life will encounter many more difficult challenges than the poetry conference." Bai Ruyun is the hidden champion of the conference. ”
"Wang Liqun's Wonderful Ancient Poems"
In 2018, at the third season of the "Chinese Poetry Conference", Wang Liqun commented on "Crossing the Zero Ding Yang" made after the national hero Wen Tianxiang was captured at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. Regarding "hard work met a sutra, gango fell around the stars" and "feared the beachhead said trepidation, zero Ding Yangli sighed zero Ding", he interpreted: "Wen Tianxiang will also have regrets and fears as an ordinary person after being captured, looking back on his life, thinking that all his hardships and troubles are due to reading the scriptures, and if he is a jinshi, he will not have anything to do. But his words turned sharply, "When passing through Zero Ding Yang, Wen Tianxiang realized that leaving a name in Qingshi was the pursuit of life, turned around and was righteous, and finally did not regret it." At the 2022 Chinese Poetry Conference, Wang Liqun quoted poems at the beginning of the fifth "Daoxiang". Wang Liqun interpreted the poems at the first quarter of the 2016 Chinese Poetry Conference.
In 2019, in the competition of the fourth season, Wang Liqun interpreted Li Shangyin's "Last night the stars last night wind, painting the west bank of the building Guitang East", he said: "Take the current words, it is Li Shangyin and a beautiful woman in the dinner party to confirm that the eyes are right", which caused the host Dong Qing and the audience to laugh and applaud. Then, he turned sharply, "But if you continue to write like this, Li Shangyin is not Li Shangyin, he must write a trace of regret to the reader in this perfect encounter, which is actually a perfect encounter and a helpless turn."
"Meeting" is joy, and "turning around" is the true meaning of life. In Wang Liqun's view, this is the afterglow of Chinese poetry for thousands of years.
After a thousand years, ancient and modern sympathy
"Read the stories in the poems, read the stories behind the poems, read the life recorded by the poems, read the hidden life of the poems, read the culture recorded in the poems, thus touching the hearts of the ancients and feeling the heartbeat of the ancients..." Wang Liqun interpreted the wonders of the poems, which lies in dissolving the gap between thousands of years, ancient and modern sympathy.
In ancient poetry, there are the same anxieties and helplessness as the ancients and the present. "Among the poets of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei is one of my favorite poets. At the poetry conference, I gave Wang Wei a modern title— a Buddhist male god. In "Wang Liqun's Miaopin Ancient Poems", he used 3 chapters to taste Wang Wei's poems from 3 periods of old, middle and young, writing that Wang Wei's early years were full of vigor and vigor, "looking back at the archery carving, a thousand miles of twilight clouds." Writing about Wang Wei's middle-aged setbacks, passing through Xiangyang, writing that "the rivers flow outside the heavens and the earth, the mountains are in the middle", Wang Liqun commented: "The Han River, what is left for Wang Wei is the surprise of the moment, and it is the intoxication of a lifetime. "Only when people encounter setbacks can they sink their hearts to pay attention to the beauty of the world."
After experiencing the Anshi Rebellion, Wang Wei's career was completely hopeless. Wang Liqun wrote about Wang Wei in his later years, "Shi Buddha" met Zhongnan Mountain. "His poems detonated the Zhongnan Mountain, and his 'walking to the water's poor place, sitting and watching the clouds rise', seemed to be the stroke of God, writing the Zhongnan Mountain into a fairyland."
Wang Liqun said: "Contemporary people will encounter similar helplessness in their career life or love, so in the first two years, there was a 'Buddhist system', and now there is an Internet term such as 'lying flat'. He explained: "In his later years, Wang Wei thought that walking to the end of the water, this is the best arrangement. Look at the sky, look at the earth. Clouds gather and scatter, not surprised or happy, a mountain, a water, a courtyard, a life and a life. This sentence poked the hearts of many viewers.
In 2007, the speakers of "Hundred Pulpits" took a group photo, and the fifth from the left in the second row was Wang Liqun
Wang Liqun is not the only one who loves Wang Wei, and he mentions Liu Yong's self-deprecation in his upcoming book "The Poetry of the Ten Poets of Song", "filling in the words Liu Sanchang according to the will". Liu Yong, who is so famous, did not even leave a name in the "History of Song", which shows that his life and career are not satisfactory. "Liu Yong was very unhappy when he was examining the examination, and Song Renzong advised him to 'fill in the words.'" In his later years, he changed his name to Liu Yong, hoping not to affect admission because of the original name "three changes". Wang Liqun said: "Now people must also learn to laugh at themselves, learn to let go, and learn to be themselves. ”
"Pick a lamp in a drunken way to see Wu Hook", "a lifetime of smoke and rain to let you live a peaceful life", "ancient and modern emotions, in the same vein", Wang Liqun said, "The reason why the audience can understand the emotions of the ancients now is inseparable from the Chinese's love for poetry from ancient times to the present." Chinese because of poetry, life sublimates into art. And the most amazing thing is that these arts are thousands of years apart, and they can still make us cry or be relieved today, and it can be said that poetry preserves the emotions of Chinese from ancient times to the present. ”
Read out the meaning hidden between the lines
Poetry is the trajectory of the poet's life, and "History" is the main line of Wang Liqun's life.
Wang Liqun was born in Lu'an, Anhui Province in 1945, and later spent his childhood in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and moved to Henan with his parents at the age of 8. In 1965, because of the poor family composition, he could not continue his studies, so he had to go to a factory and run a primary school to teach Chinese. There were few teachers in the school, he hung an accordion on his chest, and worked part-time as a music teacher for 4 years. During the Cultural Revolution, the primary school library was smashed, many books were thrown in the courtyard, and he saw the "History" lying in broken glass, secretly picked it up, hid it and read it. I didn't expect this reading to be more than half a century.
Reading and reading, the foundation of literature and history unconsciously became thicker and thicker, and when he resumed his examination and research in 1978, he easily passed. "This is the first favor that The Chronicle of History did me." Entering the College of Literature of Henan University, "I received graduate education, and the most basic homework was to read the text carefully", and the "History of History" is still the classic he read over and over again. A set of "Historical Records" was overturned, and Wang Liqun was promoted from lecturer to professor and doctoral supervisor. "The second favor that "Shi Ji" helped me was on December 24, 2006, "He still remembers the events of that day vividly," CCTV's "Hundred Tribunes" came to Henan University to select the main speaker, and I picked a passage from "Shi Ji". Just over 10 days later, the "Hundred Tribunes" informed me to go to Beijing to give a trial lecture. I spoke very fluently, and after I finished speaking, the choreographer asked me to go upstairs to talk to me, and asked me what I wanted to talk about in the future, and I said: Just talk about the "History of History." I was 61 years old, and that's 10 years. For 10 years, he has painted historical figures through peruse of texts.
In 2008, Wang Liqun signed for readers
A scholar goes out of the campus and to the public, gaining popularity while also facing controversy from time to time. In 2007, Wang Liqun published a controversial argument in the "Hundred Family Forum": Sima Xiangru designed to deceive Zhuo Wenjun, which is "a love myth that has deceived the world for more than two thousand years". At that time, some media wrote: "For a time, scolding was everywhere. Zhuo Wenjun's hometown of Qionglai City, the "Wenjun Cultural Research Association" also urgently sought out materials to refute Wang Liqun's views.
Looking back on this matter, Wang Liqun said: "At that time, the phone call from a reporter from Chengdu blew up my landline. Because chengdu has two "saints", the poetry saint Du Fu and the love saint Sima are similar. As soon as my interpretation came out, i erased a 'holy' at once. In fact, I did not want to belittle Sima Xiangru, but just carefully read the "Records of History" and "Book of Han" and read the meaning hidden between the lines. ”
When Sima Xiang was running out of food and clothing, the county commander Wang Ji invited him to Linqiong County. Sima Xiang became a seller and bought a luxury car and went. "Lin qiong ordered Miao to be respectful, and the past and the day were like each other", and Wang Ji went to the hotel every day to "worship" Sima Xiangru. Wang Liqun "read it several times and felt that this was not normal."
The exchange between the two attracted the attention of the local high-level social circles in Linqiong County. Zhuo Wenjun's father is one of the top two local "big entrepreneurs", and he asks who lives in this hotel? I learned that it was a young man from Chengdu, who was handsome, well-lived, and well dressed. Therefore, Zhuo Wenjun's father planned to organize a dinner party and invite all the upper circles in Linqiong County. "This explains the abnormality of the above", Sima Xiangru went to the banquet "for the sake of last resort" at the invitation of Wang Ji, so that he could be seen by Zhuo Wenjun. "So this 'for' is 'pseudo' also."
This is the story of the next "Qin Pick Wenjun". Sima Xiang has two major skills: people are particularly handsome and play the piano very well. But there is a problem with stuttering, can not open their mouths, destroy the image of handsome men. Therefore, at the dinner table, Wang Ji gave the piano to Sima Xiangru and asked him to play a song. Zhuo Wenjun had just divorced and returned to his mother's house. Looking at Sima Xiangru through the screen, he was immediately fascinated by him.
Through the exposition of classics, Wang Liqun found that many famous masters before the Song Dynasty called Sima Xiangru "stealing wives and stealing money". But on the other hand, Wang Liqun also recognized that "Sima Xiangru was the founder of the Great Endowment of the Han Dynasty, and his literary achievements were remarkable, and he also made a significant contribution to the development of Southwest Yi."
Historia
Book of Han
Wang Liqun read the "History of Xiang Yu Benji", "Pei GongJun Hegemony" and "Xiang Yu's Great Anger" "At that time, Xiang Yu had 400,000 soldiers, and at the New Fenghong Gate, Pei Gong soldiers were 100,000, in The Hegemony." In just a few words, he saw Xiang Yu's impatience, but also found the childish innocence of his personality, "Xiang Yu should not be angry, but should laugh, he lacks the height of the overall situation, he should no longer regard Liu Bang as an ally, and this is the best time to eliminate Liu Bang in one fell swoop." Throughout the "Xiang Yu Benji", it hides Sima Qian's regret for Xiang Yu; a "Historical Record" is "a lyric poem dedicated by Sima Qian to the heroes of the past".
This interpretation not only follows historical facts but also makes people emotional, and once narrows the distance between classic ancient books and television audiences, Wang Liqun is gradually well known by television audiences and becomes one of the most familiar cultural scholars. Looking back on that year, it can be said that the academic "first generation broke the circle" era: in 2004, Yan Chongnian, a professor at Beijing Normal University, debuted in the "Hundred Family Forum", solved the "Mystery case of the Twelve Emperors of the Qing Dynasty", and said "Kangxi Emperor"; in 2005, Yi Zhongtian appeared on the stage, and since then, the Three Kingdoms of the Pre-Qin Dynasty have made the audience unbearable to change the stage; in 2006, the 61-year-old Wang Liqun joined, which opened the era of popularization of "History". The ancient classics that were originally boring to most people have flesh and blood and breath under their explanation. Some people say that this group of scholars is a late bloomer, and Wang Liqun believes that he is "not a great instrument, and the other is not a late success, but just a chance encounter with a lucky life." ”
In 2020, Wang Liqun was a guest on the CCTV program "My Art List"
In 2021, Wang Liqun explained "History" to teenagers
"Adaptive" after "Fit for People"
Global People: You've been reading The Chronicle of History for nearly 60 years, what is the biggest significance of this book?
Wang Liqun: "History" is a classic of literature and historiography that Chinese must not read. Among the twenty-four histories, "The Chronicle of History" is a classic, leaving us hundreds of idioms, leaving us with a large number of stories adapted into novels and dramas, leaving us with characters who can see through life, and let us know ourselves. For example, I once worked as a historical consultant for the TV series "The Legend of Chu Han", and the enmity between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu is enough for future generations to develop infinite associations.
Global People: I heard that your recently completed "Ten Poetry biographies of the Song Dynasty" was also inspired by the "History"?
Wang Liqun: The Biography of Sima Xiangru is the longest in the Chronicle of History, because it includes all the gifts written by Sima Xiangru and intersperses it with Sima Xiangru's life, showing his situation and state of mind at that time. I was inspired to write poetry as the trajectory of a poet's life.
"Global People": After so many years of lecturing "Hundred Pulpits", has the audience changed? As an evergreen pulpit tree, how do you adapt to change?
Wang Liqun: Change is certain. Some viewers start listening from elementary school and hearing about college, some audiences from middle-aged to old age, and at the same time there are new audiences joining in, and I continue to combine current events and popular phrases to explain, which should change from time to time. In recent years, it has registered Douyin, Kuaishou and Weibo. Now, although I am older, I will also make some videos on the Internet to popularize the knowledge of literature and history.
"Global People": Compared with 10 years ago, new media technology is more mature, and more and more scholars are joining the trend of online communication, some people think that similar programs are a bit flooded today, how do you think about this phenomenon?
Wang Liqun: The progress of communication technology is a good thing. Now there are many voices in opposition to the fragmentation of knowledge represented by short videos, I think there is no need to be too nervous, even in the past, the way we obtain knowledge was fragmented, now there are more choices, isn't it beautiful?
Global People: When you talk about historical figures, you talk about "self-adaptation" and "suitable person", can you specifically say what this means?
Wang Liqun: "Self-adaptation" and "suitable person" are both needed. First of all, "suitable people", for example, if you want to interview me, I want to thank "Global People" for finding me as an ordinary old scholar who will seriously answer your questions. On the other hand, "self-adaptation" is also needed, and if you blindly pursue "suitable people", you will lose yourself, so I also put forward my request to you before accepting your interview. This interview is a good explanation of the balance between "fit" and "adaptive". Tao Yuanming's "mistaken fall into the dust net, once gone for thirty years" is a sudden awakening to the past blind "suitable people", is the "self-adaptation" after experiencing "suitable people".
Global People: You have mentioned many times that "reading history and reading poetry can bring people great spiritual strength", this power is very important to you, right?
Wang Liqun: I have experienced a lot of ups and downs, and I have also gained a lot of feelings, the only constant is to hold the "History" and poems, read it for a lifetime, it can be said that the prosperity is complete and the truth is seen. Of course, this does not exclude me from reading other works, and there are many excellent works in the contemporary era, and I also like them very much.
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