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Yan Yu ,字宜卿,also spelled Danqiu,Canglang 逋客,邵武莒溪(Nakou Yanjiafang) people. Yan Yu lived during the Southern Song Dynasty between Emperor Ningzong and Emperor Lizong (c. 1195-1264).
Yan Yu studied in the neighboring county of Guangming County in his early years, and was taught by Bao Hui (Bao Hui's father, Bao Yang, was once a disciple of Zhu Xi). Yan Yu was proud of his own talent all his life, but he was secretly in his career, and he had a bad lifelong encounter, and he lived in seclusion or traveled in the rivers and lakes for a long time. At that time, along with the same name as The same emperor Yan Ren and Yan Shan, they were known as the "Three Stricts"; the "Three Stricts" plus the "Six Stricts" such as "Three Strictnesses", Yan Yue, Yan Bizhen, Yan Bitai, Yan Qi, and Yan Ruofeng were called "Nine Stricts".
Yan Yucai Gao Badou had no intention of becoming a master, but he admired Xiao He, Cao Shan, Fan Duo, and Dou Bao, who relied on their actual talents and their own hard work to assist the Ming Lord and make some amazing achievements. Although he had a happy time in his life, he finally hated that he had done nothing in his life and could not achieve his wishes and was indignant, so the poems he wrote often expressed infinite depression and sorrow.
During the yunyou period, Yan Yu wrote a large number of poems, but due to the social turmoil, there were 146 poems, 2 words, and a volume of poetry criticism "Canglang Poetry".
Canglang Poetry is a theoretical commentary on poetry written by Yan Yu, written around the time of the Southern Song Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Shaoding Chunhua. It is a systematic and literary commentary, and the most complete, systematic, and comprehensive poetry and art commentary since the Han, Wei, and Tang dynasties, which has had a great influence on future generations. In 1244 (the fourth year of The Fourth Year of Emperor Chunyou of Song), the compilation of poems published in the Poet's Jade Crumbs was adopted in its entirety, and the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties also had a separate engraving.
The main content of "Canglang Poetry" is composed of five parts, namely: "Poetry Discernment", "Poetic Style", "Poetic Method", "Poetry Commentary", and "Poetry Examination". "Poetry discernment" is the central content of the book. The author clearly states his views on the understanding of poetry, believing that "the ultimate of poetry is one: to enter into God." Poetry and enchantment! That's it! The text takes the Han, Wei, Jin, and Sheng Tang poets as examples, indicating that the various talents of these periods are "the best and have the right eye" poems. The poet learner can only win these famous poems "brewing in the chest, for a long time nature." Although you can't learn it, you don't lose the right path. ”
In the "Poetry Discernment", it is further proposed that if poetry is to be able to "enter the mind", it is necessary to have "other talents, other fun." The author's point of view is that "fu poetry has different talents, non-guanshu also; books have different interests, non-guanli also." In other words, poetry must have special talents and special moods. This has nothing to do with reading more books and being sensible. Or it is "not involved in the road of reason, not to fall into words", but through the method of "mysterious enlightenment" or "Zen enlightenment", through the system of poetry, the greece of poetry, the weather of poetry, the interest of poetry, the syllables of poetry and other aspects of creating and constructing a "high, ancient, deep, far, long, majestic, ethereal, tragic or poignant ideological and emotional realm, and then expressed through words and scales, to achieve the artistic effect of "words have ends and meanings are infinite". This is the aesthetic idea of poetic art that Yan Yu pursues.
There are very few historical relics of Yan Yu's life, and all that can be examined now is the "Canglang Pavilion" and the former site of Yan Yu's former residence that remain in the local area. According to records, the "Canglang Pavilion" at the foot of Shaowu Xichun Mountain was renamed by Zhou Wei, the prefect of Shaowu in the early years of Qing Yongzheng, in honor of Yan Yu. Originally known as the "Octagonal Tower", this pavilion was built in the Ming Dynasty and was the bridgehead at the southern end of the "Ten Thousand Years Bridge" on the Futun Creek. In the fifth year of Qianlong (1740), the original cabinet was destroyed when the stone bridge was rebuilt. It was rebuilt in the fourteenth year of Qianlong (1749) and rebuilt in 1982. After 2000, the Shaowu Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government built "Yanyu Park" and "Yanyu Avenue" in the New Area of Chengnan.
Yan Yu's poetry criticism work "Canglang Poetry" is the most complete and systematic poetry criticism work since the Han, Wei, Jin and Sheng Tang Dynasties, and it has been recorded by the poetry circles of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and has a great influence on future generations. The "Ru Lin" volume of the "Shaowu County Chronicle" is described in detail: "During shaoding, Jianchang was barbaric and rebellious, committing crimes against Shao Wujun. The commander was afraid of thieves and blazed, and Xiao Ran in the well was indignant for the "Ji Chao Poem". Later, the Yuan people about the Song Dynasty destroyed jin, but they had already defeated the alliance, and they had built up troops for many years, and Jianghuai was destroyed. Yu lives in the grass and does not hesitate to do anything. He has written more than 100 poems and a volume of poems, which are included in the Yiren Li Nanshu. Xian Chun Chu Huang Gong Shao order and passed it on". The "Poetry Commentary" and "Poetry Examination" in "Poetry" comment on and examine the poems of predecessors, providing positive and negative evidence for future generations to study the poetry of predecessors. In particular, the ideological style of poetry creation advocated in "Poetry Discernment" and the theme of pursuing the aesthetic sense of poetry art are even more far-reaching.
As a poet and master of poetry criticism, local history books are recorded. In the "Ru Lin" volume of the "Shaowu County Chronicle", it is recorded: "Yu (Yan Yu) is a person with a strange spirit in pure warmth, a famous scholar in the rivers and lakes, a poet who is prosperous in the Tang Dynasty, who tastes poetry and comments, and examines various purposes, and his argument is slightly known: Poetry has different talents, not Guan Shu also; poetry has different interests, not Guan Li also, but it is not more reading, more poor reason, then it cannot be extremely extreme." The wise man thinks it's a famous saying. Yu is neither Shi Shi, but worries about the meaning of the country and the love of the people, which is seen in poetry. As a generation of celebrities, Yan Yu was included in the "Fujian Celebrity Dictionary" compiled and printed in 1995.