It is a sharp weapon for jingwen jiaozhi, but also a word game with the help of Yaji, which has been loved by historical celebrities such as Lin Zexu, Shen Baozhen, Chen Baochen, etc. It is an important creation of Fuzhou literati in the field of poetry - poetry bell. The poetry bell was born and flourished in Fuzhou, and Fuzhou was also known as the "poetry bell country". In December 2011, Fuzhou Shizhong was included in the fourth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage items in Fujian Province. Today, under the inheritance and promotion of many elderly poetry lovers, this shining and unique pearl in the treasure house of China's poetry is shining again.
The old poet wore Hanfu for the poetry and poetry meeting
Unique folded branches poems
Recently, the Chongyang Poetry Bell Poetry Conference, jointly sponsored by the West Lake Community of Gulou District of Fuzhou City and the Sanshan Poetry Society, was held in Wanzaitang. At the poetry meeting, more than 10 old poets dressed in Hanfu sat together, they burned incense and timed, created and sang poems with "national community" as broken brocade inlays, and praised the party's ethnic policy.
The poem bell is also known as the folded branch poem, which is like folding a branch from the seven laws of poetry. It requires strictness, in accordance with the poetic rhythm of flatness and duality, the poems created are equivalent to the jaw or neck joints of the seven-law poem, and the language is condensed and rich in connotation, reflecting the essence of classical poetry. The poetry bell is limited to one incense gongfu into one or more links, and the incense rings the bell, so it is called "poetry bell". Fuzhou Sanshan Poetry Society is the base for the inheritance of poetry bells. Under the torch of Guo Daojian, the inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Shizhong and the former president of the Poetry Society, and the successive presidents and members, the Sanshan Poetry Society actively promotes and publicizes the poetry bell in Fujian and even the whole country, and organizes many influential poetry bell activities, so that this traditional culture is well known to more and more people.
Guo Daojian has been committed to the study of classical poetry recitation and creation for decades. He introduced that compared with other poetic genres, the poetry clock has its own characteristics, "limiting the eye and time, which is the characteristic of the poetry clock, usually limiting one hour to three poems." In the traditional poetry bell activities of the Three Mountains Poetry Society, there is a bronze crane with its head held high that is particularly eye-catching, only to see it holding a branch in its mouth and wrapping it around the branch with a thin red rope. One end of the rope is tied to a stick of sandalwood in an incense burner, and white smoke floats in the tea room; at the other end of the rope is a copper coin tied with a disc underneath. When the poem was first composed, the incense was burned on the spot, and when the incense was burned to the place where the thread was tied, the line broke and the money fell, and the copper plate that undertook the copper coin sounded like a bell, that is, the file was handed over. Guo Daojian said that this is a time-limited way in ancient times, generally setting incense for an hour and creating triptych verses.
Bronze Crane "Poetry Bell"
A century of glorious history
This literary creation method with special value that combines artistry, application and entertainment appeared in the Bamin region around the time of Jiaqing and Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. Guo Daojian believes that this is related to the fact that Fujian private school education at that time attached importance to couplet teaching, and often took the ancient poems in teaching, retaining the dual phrases to rewrite the original poems into another couplet, which is the origin of the most important embedded character grid of the poetry bell, so the poetry bell is also called "changing the poem". On the other hand, the Fuzhou literati at that time liked to make seven-word poetry and wine orders at cocktail parties, and later with the gradual improvement of the rules, the poetry bell was also produced.
Many Qing Dynasty notes, miscellaneous records and other books have pointed out that poetry bells, especially the inlaid grid folded branches, are counted as "the most worked by the Fujian people", and the number of good deeds is the largest, which has a considerable influence on the poetry of the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the many poetry bell societies were also mainly Min people, such as the larger poetry bell societies had the "Yinqiu Poetry Society", which was founded by fuzhou people during the Daoguang years. During the Guangxu period, Famous artists such as Chen Baochen, Yan Fu, and Zhang Yuanqi from Fuzhou also organized the "Lantern Society" of the Lian yin poetry bell in the capital. Poetry bell societies abound throughout Fujian.
Inheritance is on the way
The poetry clock once had its glorious moments, but it is quite strange to today's young people. In order to inherit this wonderful flower, the old poets of the Three Mountains Poetry Society did their best. Guo Daojian is over 90 years old, and the current president Li Linzhou continues to relay. Li Linzhou, who was full of silver hair but clear-headed, said: "With the inherent characteristics of Fujian culture, the poetry bell broke into the vast and profound Chinese literary garden and became a wonderful flower of Chinese rhyme, it should not be obscured, we have the responsibility to know it, introduce it, and carry it forward." In 2019, Li Linzhou participated in the revision of China's first standardized poetry bell regulation, the "General Rules of Poetry Bells", maintaining the status of "Minpai" poetry bells and giving voice to Fujian poets throughout the country. In 2020, the "General Rules of Poetry Bells (Trial)" was released, which made all poetry bell lovers excited.
In the past, the Three Mountains Poetry Society could only gather together at a fixed time and place to recite poems against each other. Nowadays, riding on the east wind of the Internet, more and more overseas poetry lovers are also involved and feel the charm of poetry clocks together. Chen Guo, director of the Sanshan Poetry Society and head of the WeChat group of fuzhou members of the Fujian Poetry Society, introduced that the poetry bell society used the WeChat group to carry out the "Chinese Poetry Bell Daily One Question" activity, and created nearly 500 poems each time; it also organized the Cizong to comment on the "General Principles of the Poetry Bell", which has accumulated more than 300 issues, and the poetry bell creation level of bards in various places has been greatly improved. At the same time, the members of the poetry bell society carry out a collection activity once a month, organize various competitions, and improve the level of poetry bell creation and the integration of words and social life. Nowadays, the Poetry Bell Society not only organizes activities such as "One Question per Day" and "Monthly Saiya Collection", but also creates a monthly prize competition, and expands the Go-themed National Poetry Bell Competition, exploring a new way to integrate poetry bell culture and Go culture. The strange flower born in the land of Bamin has once again gone to a broader world.
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Source: Fujian Old YearLy
Author: Wang Lan