In 2017, a 16-year-old Shanghai girl named Wu Yishu appeared in the "Chinese Poetry Conference" who was only 16 years old but 1 meter 82 tall. At the end of the first session, Associate Professor Mengman gave a high evaluation: she stood there calmly and relaxed, and the poetry came out, which is the so-called "belly with poetry and bookishness". In this round, Wu Yishu answered all 9 questions correctly, defeating 308 people in the 100-person regiment.
However, in the "Flying Flower Order" link for the qualification of the attack, an accident occurred. This time, the "Flying Flower Order" stipulated that the poems should be chanted in the word "Moon", and Wu Yishu's opponent was Dr. Chen Geng of Peking University, and the two did not distinguish between the seven or eight rounds of the decisive battle. Once again, it was Wu Yishu's turn, and when she recited a poem, the host Dong Qing reminded: You have repeated.
The audience present did not dare to come out of the atmosphere, and time seemed to stand still. Interestingly, Wu Yishu had a light face. Then, a sentence from the "Book of Poetry" "July is in the wild, August is in the universe, September is in the household, October crickets under my bed" slowly came out of her mouth, the judges clapped the case, and the audience resounded with thunderous applause.
Wu Yishu
Dong Qing looked at Wu Yishu and sighed:
In your temperament, there are books you have read and the roads you have traveled.
At that time, 16-year-old Wu Yishu already had more than 2,000 poems in reserve, and what was even more surprising was the temperament that emanated from her body, and she became unfazed and calm at a young age. Two years later, Wu Yishu entered Tsinghua university with high scores. I have to sigh that poetry has a really big impact on people.
Ancient Chinese poetry, starting from the Poetry Classic, and finally the Yuanqu, after the Southern Song Dynasty, the poetry changed from elegant to vulgar, and the Yuanqu could not return to the pure and natural like Han le Fu. In the past three thousand years, there have been romantic Chu ci such as "Tianwen", as well as "Song of the Great Wind" and other lyrics that embody the grandeur of the unification era, as well as beautiful gentle schools such as "Slow Voice", and the charming yuan songs of "December Folk Songs: Farewell Feelings".
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Ancient Chinese poetry is as bright as the stars, too beautiful, but the vast sea of works can not be read at all. A long time ago, I was looking forward to a book that would not only include three thousand years of famous poems, but also mark the stories of each era and each poet, so that poetry and history can refer to each other. However, I know that the creation of such a brief history of poetry is quite difficult, and the requirements for the author's literary literacy and historical knowledge reserves in all aspects are also extremely high.
However, I did not expect that such a book was actually created by the female writer Ren Tanru, and the title of the book was "Three Thousand Years of Elegance: A Poem and a Word under the Heavens". I agree with Ren Tanru, who said:
The relationship between poetry and history is like a pair of twins who have been bound for a thousand years, and behind each poem or word, they express the strong thoughts and feelings of a person or a group of people on the encounters of the times and the history of their home country, and these poems have been circulated for thousands of years, crossing the long river of years, witnessing the spring and autumn, birth and old age, illness and death, dynastic change and the shift of stars.
Reading through the whole book, indulging in it, I can't help but sigh at Ren's detachment and calmness, she has a "perspective beyond history and above time". It reminds me of the impression wu Yishu left at the Chinese Poetry Conference, how similar their temperaments are!
Can you memorize poems to win the championship? It is too small to look at this 16-year-old girl, and being able to eat through the historical story behind each ancient poem is the key to Wu Yishu's victory, and she is also worthy of the title of "talented woman". Wu Yishu's fame confirms the inevitability of fate by chance. Those who love poetry, who also love life, will be treated well by life.
After reading "Three Thousand Years of Elegance: A Poem and a Word under the Heavens", I have these feelings to share with you:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="92" >, the context is clear</h1>
The book is divided into nine chapters, each of which has an explanation:
1. Book of Poetry - 26 ancient poems unlock the ancient past of 3,000 years ago;
2. Chu Ci - drink a sentence to leave the riot, drunk I to serve the country in the Spring and Autumn;
3. Han Le Fu - listen, the chant of the nameless;
4. Six Dynasties Poems - Life is less than a hundred, He Huai chitose worries;
5. Tang poems - 32 peak Tang poems, reliving the 289 years of the Tang Dynasty;
6. Five pronouns - the prosperity and chaos of 19 people;
7. Yuanqu - there is no hero in heaven and earth;
8. Southern Song Dynasty words - these generous long songs, farewell to the last 152 years of the dynasty;
9. The Northern Song Dynasty - the so-called wind flow, that is, the 137 years of these 36 people.
According to the order of each dynasty, the author first explains the historical background of this period, represents the stories of the characters and their works, and then comments on them, and reads the whole book in one breath, and the history of Chinese poetry for three thousand years is clearly visible and vivid in the mind like a movie.
Qin Yingliang commented: "Three Thousand Years of Elegance: A Poem and a Word under the Heavens" is a minimalist history of poetry, with the historical timeline as the scripture, the fate of the individual as the dimension, and the grass gray snake line, marking the highlight moment of each poet standing at the top of the tide in each era.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="90" > second, the content is concise, the selection of poems is unique, and the readability is strong</h1>
Since the beginning of the "Book of Poetry", Chinese poetry is as vast as smoke and as many as stars, but Ren Tanru only takes the essence of poetry that can represent the humanistic history of this period, each poem has a background and provenance, and each character is only attached to one poem.
For example, the poetry of the Six Dynasties, people who have read history know that the Six Dynasties have changed and strife, and the background is like this, and most of the literati poetry is relatively dull. Nineteen ancient poems are the most representative, but in addition, there are also three fathers and sons of the Cao family, the seven sons of Jian'an, the seven sages of the bamboo forest, the Langyue Wang clan, Tao Yuanming and other dazzling stars, all written? That's impossible.
Ren Tanru cherished ink like gold, of which the Cao family only used two poems by Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, "Yan Song Xing" and "Wu Huo", both poems expressed the depression in their hearts. Jian'an Qizi only writes the first ranked Ruan Yuan, who is good at doing green and white eyes (Ruan Yuan does not often speak, but often uses his eyes as props, and uses "white eyes" and "green eyes" to see people. Treat people you hate with white eyes; treat people you like with blue eyes. ）
Poetry represents both the individual and the epitome of the times. Ren Tanru's vision is very sharp, and each poem selected is representative. The content is extremely concise, a few words will explain the ins and outs, reading is not tired at all, the characters and stories are rich and interesting, and the readability is strong.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="75" > three, you can really learn a lot of interesting knowledge</h1>
While reading poetry, we also learned about history and character miscellaneous.
For example, from the allusion of Luoyang Paper Gui, the poet Zuo Si was drawn out, focusing on the characteristics of Zuo Si, "talented and ugly", and then used an interesting story "Zuo Si imitated Pan An to throw rotten eggs on the street" to support it, the ugly Zuo Si Dad did not hurt his mother and did not love, was ridiculed, and could only rely on talent to brush the sense of existence, "Yong Shi" and "Three Capitals" are too famous. However, due to the limitations of the "Nine Products In the Right System", Han Men ZuoSi could not be a high official.
The Spring and Autumn period was also very chaotic, but after reading the whole book, I actually remembered the story of the beautiful woman of the State of Qi and the beginning and end of the three poems.
The wife of Duke Wei Zhuang was China's first female poet Zhuang Jiang (Princess of Qi), who not only wrote the "Yan Yan", "Final Wind", "Green Dress", "Bai Zhou", and "Sun and Moon" in the Book of Poetry, but also a goddess with white skin and beautiful skin, but no love in her life, nor did she have children of her own. I can only write "Bai Zhou", "My heart is a stone, and I can't turn it." My heart is a stone, not rolled up also. Such poems to relieve depression.
Duke Wei Zhuang had many concubines and gave birth to several sons, all of whom were unconscious, and Shu Zi Zhou was actually the first evil prince in the Spring and Autumn Period to usurp the throne. In "Drumming", "Life and death are broad, and Zi Cheng said." Holding the hand of the son, growing old with the son", in fact, people's helplessness and yearning for a stable life after the state came to power. Later, the wei subjects rose up in resistance, Zhou Hu was killed, and Wei Henggong's younger brother Gongzi Jin succeeded to the throne, and was known as Wei Xuangong. Later, Zhuang Jiang's niece Xuan Jiang married Xuan Gong (who was originally going to marry his son) and also gave birth to two sons, and then a ridiculous tragedy occurred between these three princes, Xuan Jiang later married Xuan Gong's son and gave birth to 5 children, 3 sons were monarchs, and 2 sons-in-law were also monarchs.
Xuanjiang's maternal family, Duke Huan of Qi, and her two daughters later helped Duke Wen of Wei (Xuanjiang's son) regain lost territory and regain his status, and the State of Wei continued for more than 400 years. The Wei people were grateful to Qi Huangong and Lady Xu Mu and composed a song: "Vote for me with a papaya, and repay it with Qiong Yao."
Written in this way, the character relationship is clear, and the historical scene is vivid and interesting. History, poetry, and characters are natural, and no matter how many knowledge points are easy to remember.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="42" >4, the content is rigorous, easy to understand, and the connection is smooth</h1>
Although "Three Thousand Years of Elegance: A Poem and a Word for a Day" is mainly poetry, many historical stories and humanistic allusions in the book cannot be made up blindly and must be based. Ren Tanru read a wide range of books, quoted scriptures, footnoted carefully, and at a glance, it was compiled with reference to the main history.
Compared with other themes, Chu Ci is actually not easy to understand. Because there are too many Chu dialects in The Chu Ci, and the Broad Sense of Chu Ci is "a southern song that exists at the same time as the northern cultural system and is mainly popular in Chu Land".
Chu Ci did not start from Qu Yuan, there is Chu Ci, there is Chu Ci. That was the long tone of the Chu folk.
"The Song of the Duwu Members" is the tragic experience of Wu Zixu's early years, simply reading poetry and not knowing what to do. It looks like this:
The sun and moon are already soaking. With the child period of the ripples of the reeds. The day is over and the heart is sad. The moon has been galloped why not cross it. Things will be rushed. Ashi nakato. Ashi nakato. Aren't you poor?
Very tongue-twisting isn't it? Because it's a fisherman's song. In the text, Ren Tanru confessed that Wu Zixu died because of his father's injustice, and fled to the reeds on the border of Chu and Wu in his early years, and his head turned white overnight. Here Wu Zixu met a kind fisherman.
There is no explanation of the meaning of the poem below the poem, but we can already read it, because there is a sense of picture, and the emotions come naturally.
"The soldier who crossed the river and escaped to the kingdom of Wu became the avenger Wu Zixu from then on." Ren Tanru used such a sentence to naturally introduce King Chu Zhao and Confucius, because the "Chu Ping Song", "Wind Song", and "Zi Zi Song" are all related to these two people. Wu Zixu succeeded in revenge, excavated the tomb of King Chu Ping, whipped the corpse for three hundred, and King Chu Zhao fled, and was later saved by the State of Qin.
"The disaster began with King Chu Ping, and probably the heavens could not bear to put too much suffering on the young King Chu Zhao." Moreover, King Chu Zhao was a monarch who knew great righteousness—this is what Confucius said. Speaking of which, Confucius and King Chu Zhao once had a delicate friendship. ”
The transition section is beautifully written, very storylike, and it takes us to the next chapter without violating it. This is something I have not seen in other books of the same type, and I think it must have taken a lot of time and energy for the author to go through various ancient books in order to connect different characters together and take the reader through 3,000 years to appreciate the magnificence of ancient poetry.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="109" > conclusion</h1>
I like Meng Chang's "Yulou Chun Summer Resort Maha Chi Shangzuo", which was composed by the king of the Shu Kingdom for his beloved Lady Huarui, let's taste it together.
The ice muscle jade bone is clear and the water temple wind comes to the dark incense. The curtain opens and the moon peeks alone, and the pillow is chaotic.
Qionghu was silent, and when he saw the stars crossing the river, he saw the han. When the west wind came, only feared that the flow of years would change secretly.
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