Li Shangyin has a nickname called "Otter Sacrifice Fish".
The first to call Yishan "otter sacrifice fish" is the Song Dynasty Wu Jiong, he said in the "Five General Chronicles": "Tang Li Shangyin for the text, read more book history, the scale of the collection of left and right, when it is called the otter sacrifice fish." ”
The point of the word is dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Liu Xian's interpretation of "Dictionaries" in "Wenxin Carving Dragon" said that it is "based on the facts and meanings, and the past is used to prove the present".
Compare the past with the present, prove the present with the past, and express nostalgia through the past.
The use of the dictionary should not only learn its meaning, but also be able to seek innovation in the past, but also be able to make it as oneself, without revealing traces, the so-called "salt in the water, drinking water is to know the taste of salt", it is a masterpiece.
The ability of a reader is nothing more than the mastery of classics, and the so-called mastery must be more, second, familiar, and third.
It's not rote memorization, it's about learning and applying.
Being able to "use the classics" and being good at "using the classics" happens to be a comprehensive manifestation of living and learning, so it is very hard to use the allusions in the ancient books skillfully and wonderfully.
Since the use of classics is a unique ability of readers, there is another word, called "elegant", which means that articles and words have classics, elegant but not vulgar; Describe people who are rich in learning and dignified.
To put it simply, a reader who doesn't know how to use the dictionary is indecent.
The dictionary itself is not necessary to write poetry, poetry and poetry, Tang poetry is famous, a big reason is that there are many genres of Tang poetry, poetry immortals, poetry saints, all have a particularly strong appeal.
But this also creates a problem – there is no threshold.
A cat and a dog can write, what kind of ability is it?
So Li Shangyin took another path, and he added a threshold to the poem: the use of dictionaries.
The otters eat the fish, nibbling one or two bites each, and the rest of the food is neatly stacked on the river beach.
Li Shangyin also struggled to write poems, and before writing poems, he had to set up a table of books, find a story here, and find a quotation there.
At first glance, I am writing poetry, and I look closely at playing with building blocks.
This approach can be described as a new way, which is tantamount to combining instrumental rationality and art.
Li Shangyin is talented and intelligent, and his poetry is not bad, and his practice has greatly improved his poetry.
But this approach also got off to a bad start.
Because according to this path, no matter what the topic, whether I feel it or not, I can make up a poem just by relying on various allusions.
This is an upgraded version of "piling up".
But the problem is that the essence of poetry is true feelings, which cannot be piled up.
It's like carving on, no matter how fine the workmanship is, no matter how advanced the equipment is, this thing still can't be turned into coffee-colored ice cream.
But it was this method that created a "Xikun style" in the early Song Dynasty, and a bunch of literati wrote this kind of poem every day, and I remember that there were three people who each wrote two seven-law "tears", seven rules, each with eight sentences, and six allusions.
Six-six-thirty-six, these are the thirty-six allusions to "tears".
Why did you write "Tears"?
Because Li Shangyin also wrote this way, and his old man also wrote a poem "Tears", which is also seven rules, eight sentences, and six allusions.
At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, of course, it made sense, the five dynasties were barbaric and vulgar, and the Sven swept the floor, and the rule of culture should naturally follow the ancients, respect the ancients, and it is necessary to respect the classics. No classics, not elegant, how can literati be called literati. Therefore, Xikun was flooded in the early Song Dynasty, and finally it was short-lived, which can be regarded as seeking benevolence. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, this set was carried out in order to inherit the context and continue the Taoism. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the barbarians entered the Central Plains, fishing and hunting changed to farming, the situation changed, and shamanism was not easy to use. Therefore, grab the context and the Taoism. If it's mine, I will inherit it, and if it's not mine, I will inherit it. Heaven is not afraid of the earth, but is afraid of hooligans to learn culture. Righteousness will not be, the form is always easy to do. Therefore, a Song poem was popular in the early Qing Dynasty.
Sexual spirit
This is the time for "Dream of Red Mansions".
Lin Daiyu is a typical sexual spirit, and judging from the book, Cao Xueqin herself prefers the style of sexual spirit.
Of course, when he deliberately borrowed Lin Daiyu to teach Xiangling to write poems, he said this sentence because Xiangling obviously had no foundation for studying classics, and he had not made such preparations.
With this scene, it's easy to say, and it's better to complain than to deliberately scold the street.
Therefore, following this beginning, he criticized Li Shangyin's poetry and criticized this model.
Lest readers don't know, there is a second half of this sentence, and she says that she especially likes to "leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of the rain".
This sentence is precisely not an allusion.
By the way, the original sentence is "dry lotus", I don't know why Cao Xueqin changed it, probably because of the recreation of the scene, so it is not restricted.
Writing here, I want to mention his grandfather Cao Yin, Cao Yin's most famous poem, called "Lotus":
A piece of autumn clouds and a little glow, very lotus leaves and five-point flowers.
You don't need to close the door to sleep by the lake, and the cool breeze fills the house every night.
Plain and fresh, as for the vernacular, Cao Xueqin admires this sentence to listen to the sound of rain, perhaps inadvertently thinking of this poem by her grandfather.