The saying "not thin to the present people love the ancients", this sentence needs to be flexibly understood, there are also present in the ancients, and it is not necessary to take all the Fa and present people, such as from the two Han dynasties to the Wei and Jin, until Chen and Sui, then the Han Wei Jin Song is ancient, and the Qi Liang Chen Sui is the present. The poems of the entire Tang Dynasty, the early Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty are ancient, and the middle and late Tang Dynasties are present. Those who study ancient poetry rely on the ancient to learn it, and those who learn near-body poetry rely on the ancient and modern to learn it. From now on, in the end, there is no one who cannot take the Fa, but occasionally there are places where the Fa can be taken, and it is still from the ancient and the present.
Learning the ancients to write poetry is the most difficult, you need to use my temperament to learn, secretly compete with the ancients, the content of the competition lies in the gods and qi, simply imitating the content and form of the ancients is not commendable. Straightforward but can be euphemistic and tortuous, shallow but intentional and profound, this is the secret of writing articles. There are great powers to play, places that can be discussed, but it is necessary to use a simple and bland tone, concise and clean sentences, even if posterity has written thousands of poems, there is no one who can surpass, this is the true purpose of the three hundred poems, and the poets of the two Han Dynasties and the Wei Dynasty occasionally have this kind of poetry.
Du Fu Shaoling was originally a divine horse in the stables of the Heavenly Court among the poets of the Tang Dynasty, and he loved to write poems about horses in his life, none of which was bad, nor was there a true portrayal of his own life.
The seven ancient poems of the Han and Wei dynasties are harmonious and smooth, and when Bao Zhaoyuan began to make high-pitched voices and loud beats, he also took a unique path here. The four masters of the early Tang Dynasty still inherited and followed the original method, and when Li Bai Dufu had the talent and pride, he created a set of methods of writing poetry, but he also often took the method from Bao Zhao, and with this point a variant was produced. In addition to Li Du and li du, there are also poets such as Gao Shi, Cen Shan, and Wang Wei who are also famous, but Wang Wei has many weak and low poems, which are often criticized by posterity. I think Wang Wei's poems still have the style of the early Tang Dynasty, and are closer to the archaic style in tone and rhyme.
When I was a child, I loved to write direct verses, but later I knew that this would not work, so I thought about it and changed it later. The difference between poetry and speech is that the poem should be brewed and then written down, and it is not as straightforward as speaking. So even though the language is very clean and direct, it's also very interesting and charming, even if almost everyone recites it, but I finally think it's not right.
Holding your breath, holding a pen, and writing poetry endlessly, this is naturally very talented, and it is not bad, but it is far from ancient poetry. People read Li Taibai's poems and say they are Li poems. Read Du Shaoling's poem and say that it is Du Shi. I don't know that Li Du's second poem is still not born by himself, but the ancients are good at learning more ancient poets, there is no trace, carefully explore this, the characteristics and boundaries of each poetic body are also very clear.
Some people say that Ruan's Yonghuai poems originate from Erya, and some people say that they originate from "Leaving Sorrows", which is just similar to the charm of the two. In this regard, we can appreciate the mystery of the ancient poetry of our predecessors.
Wang Anshi collected Du Fu's poems and distinguished them from falsehood, which can be said to be a very discerning person. But for Li Bai's poetry, but this is "very low insight", why can he appreciate Du Shi, but not Li Shi?