"Ten thousand purples and thousands of reds are always spring" is from the southern Song Dynasty science master Zhu Xi's small poem "Spring Day":
Katsuri looking for the Surabaya waterfront, the boundless scenery is new for a while.
Waiting for idleness to recognize the east wind, thousands of purples and thousands of reds are always spring.
The Northern Song Dynasty science was founded, and the style of preaching became increasingly popular, gradually invading the poetry world and forming a new poetic school, with the main purpose of reasoning, which we call the "lixue poetry school".
Zhu Xi is a master of science and is naturally the bearer of science poetry. Under the guidance of the science of life and the world, theoreticians do not observe and comment on everything in the world all the time, infiltrate their own academic views, and educate others.
This kind of poetry, we also call it "philosophical poetry".
This "Spring Day" is a certain spring, Zhu Xi has a feeling for the scenery in front of him, wants to write a poem to express it, but he feels that with his own academic theory, he must not play with things to lose his mind, and must melt the thinking of major events into the work, so combined with the current spring color, use his imagination to make a fiction and express his personal ideals.
This is a song that rhymes with the seven essences of the "Eleven Truths" part of the Flat Water Rhyme, and the ping rhyme is correct and the discipline is rigorous.
"Sheng Ri Xun Fang Surabaya Waterfront", the reason for writing the poem in the first sentence, explains the time of day (Sheng Ri), the place (Surabaya Coast), and the event (Xun Fang), but in fact, from the first sentence onwards, it is fictional. "Surabaya Waterfront", on the edge of Surabaya. Surabaya was in Shandong, in the realm of the Jin Dynasty at that time, and Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty could not have swum there in the spring.
Therefore, the time and event are real, and the place (Surabaya Waterfront) is false.
Why did Zhu Xi write this?
Of course, it is to reflect the main idea of his thoughts that are different from ordinary people.
He was a theoretician, and Rigaku was a new study of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, so he was a great Confucian. And who is the Confucian Most Holy? Confucius. Confucius once lectured and taught his disciples on the strings and songs between Su and Si, so the "Surabaya Waterfront" here actually refers to Confucius Gate.
The so-called "search for fangs" refers to the way of seeking saints.
I pursued the way of learning, and tried to test and study near the Confucius Gate.
"Boundless light is new for a while". This sentence does not pay attention to detail as the usual poems about spring scenes, but abstracts and maximizes from a large sense of space - the spring color of this Surabaya shore is boundless and renewed.
In fact, it still refers to the way of learning. The space shown in the "Boundless Light" is extremely vast, revealing the original meaning of the poet's pursuit of the Sacred Path.
Occasionally peeking into the doorway of the university, I always feel that there is no end to learning, and everywhere is new.
"Wait for idleness to know the east wind noodles", "wait for idleness", usually, casually. The metaphor of "East Wind" is indoctrination, and the metaphor of spring color can be seen everywhere, and it also implies that Confucianism is a classic everywhere.
Entering the Confucius Gate, you can learn the treasures of theoretical thought everywhere, accept the guidance of the saints, and sublimate your own pattern.
"Thousands of purples and thousands of reds are always spring". Thousands of purples and thousands of reds, everywhere is the scenery of spring, figuratively the richness of Confucius.
Therefore, although Zhu Xi's work has left us with the words "ten thousand purples and thousands of reds", in fact, in the description of spring scenery, it is nothing and cannot withstand scrutiny.
Except for the four words "Ten Thousand Purples and Thousand Reds", he could not feel the breath of spring from the truth at all--because when he wrote the spring scene, he was talking about the pursuit of Confucius learning, about the way of understanding the science of science, and from the beginning it was placed in a place where he had not arrived, in order to show his determination to pursue the study of the saints.
Virtual composition, used to put it as a reason, is a common feature of Song poetry. For example, Su Shi's "Horizontal view into the mountain side into a peak", Wang Anshi's "Smelling the chicken singing and seeing the sunrise", etc., are all clearly telling the reader that this scenery is imaginary, in fact, to tell you the truth of "only being in this mountain" and "being at the highest level".
This is the Song Dynasty poets who could not surpass the Tang poetry allegorical scene and scene fusion, combined with the further speculative ability created by the science of science, as well as the literary aesthetics of elegant and popular appreciation, developed a unique method of writing poetry with fiction and reasoning, which constituted the underlying characteristics of all poetry genres since the Northern Song Dynasty.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi, the characteristics of his works are particularly obvious, such as "living water for the source", etc., which are the big zhang of the science poetry, which is the instinct of the theoreticians and poets.
Therefore, this poem is called "Spring Day", which seems to be a spring scene of thousands of purples and thousands of reds, but in fact, Zhu Xi compares the way of the saints to the spring wind that induces the occurrence of the machine and ignites all things.
This is actually a philosophical poem that is allegorical and interesting in the image.
Philosophical poetry does not show traces of reasoning, which is Zhu Xi's cleverness and the common writing method of later Generations of Confucians, but it is also one of the reasons why poetry has gradually become preachy and boring, and has lost its emotional enthusiasm.
Or rather, this is actually one of the reasons for the decline of poetry.