I don't know if you have read the book "The Ragged Crowd", if you have not read it, it is recommended that you read it in your leisure time, and you can find it on the Internet.
The book is about mass psychology, where groups of people come together and the most outstanding opinions are often not adopted. People will conform to the crowd, will tend to be gregarious, will let go of shame and integrate into the collective, and will become crazy.
Some of the views in the book are very suitable for Chinese society, and after reading it, they should have a deeper understanding of Chinese society and history.
Of course, don't get me wrong, this article is not about pushing a book. Still the old line, talking about poetry.
Today the poem is from the Qing Dynasty. As we all know, I am an avid fan of Tang poetry, and I usually have little contact with Song poetry, let alone the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
But today's song really feels the need to share it with everyone, from the Qing dynasty Zhao Yi.
On the five poems · the third
Zhao Yi Qing Dynasty
Only the eyes must be opened independently, and the art garden is full of female and yellow.
Dwarves watched the drama He zeng, all of them said short and long.
Zhao Yi was a famous scholar and poet of the Qing Dynasty, and his five poems can be said to be popular.
If you don't believe me, look at the second poem of "On Poetry", will you memorize it?
Li Du's poems have been passed down orally, and they are not fresh so far.
There are talented people in the jiangshan generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years.
Holding up the banner of "anti-Li Du," Yin Yin exhorted contemporary people to be keen on innovation and not to follow the ancient path. This sentence is a thorough view of the shortcomings of the times, and the commentary also has power, showing the responsibility of a generation of literati.
The one I'm going to take you today is the third of five poems.
Since it is a treatise on poetry, the content is of course also the format of an argumentative essay. Do you remember how to write an argumentative essay when you were in school?
The first thing is to start with a clear meaning, so that everyone understands what your point of view is. Zhao Yi's first sentence solves this problem:
"Only the eyes must be independent", if you want to have a unique insight, you must ultimately rely on your own literary accumulation and thinking.
Why this argument was made, it is explained in the next sentence. Nowadays, this literary forum is very chaotic, the level of people inside is different, the good and bad are uneven; the views expressed are even more muddy and sandy, the fish and dragons are mixed, of course, there are serious thinking and insights, but more is the cloud of people, hanging a leak of fame and reputation.
This kind of chaos is actually a layer of screening, a kind of test. As the tide recedes, insight will shine again.
I feel that China and even the world are experiencing "chaos" in another sense, the Internet era is coming too fast, the progress of science and technology is changing rapidly, and no one can say what the world will become in another 10 years and 20 years.
At this time, it is even more necessary to have a unique vision, adhere to the original intention, and insist on doing what they think is right. Don't listen to the gibberish of the people at the art garden.
A few decades ago, people still said that traditional culture was useless, and now it is not back, everywhere to promote the cultural center of the 21st century in the East, in China. The Internet has also set off a wave of tradition, classics, sinology, and poetry everywhere.
Let's look at the second sentence, after expressing the views and positions, the following is an example to prove. Zhao Yi probably did not want to get involved in specific disputes here, and replaced the example with a clever metaphor.
"When dwarves watch dramas, they are short and long."
This metaphor can be said to be really exhaustive, with only two sentences: "Wonderful, wonderful." ”
Grounded, but also exquisite, reasoning vivid.
Watching drama was a part of daily life in ancient times, and the countryside even invited drama teams to set up stages until modern times. The stage was set up, and people sat densely underneath, stretching their necks to watch the play.
Tall people naturally don't care, sitting and standing can see anyway, short people can be difficult to do, try their best not to watch a good show.
After watching the play, the audience exchanged their experience of watching the play on the way home with great interest, and the originally quiet path was very lively.
The short man saw it, and he also wanted to make a scene, but he was busy squeezing the position all night, and the drama did not see the heart, so what to do? First listen to what others say, from the Zhang family, wrap up and say to the Li family; from the Li family to hear a few new words, and then add them to the Wang family, just go with the flow.
At this point, Zhao Yi's meaning is already obvious, and the dwarf in the second sentence refers to those who are "artistic garden" in the first sentence. They probably didn't have any academic achievements themselves, nor did they make any effort to study what they commented on, but they just echoed and said it casually.
Do you like the role of "dwarf" in life? I think it certainly won't.
What we appreciate most is always a truly thoughtful, assertive view, not a deliberately different point of view.
Nowadays, the information explosion and the tide of information on the Internet are pouring in, and it is even more necessary to distinguish who is a real talent and who is a dwarf.
【Further reading】
Attached are several other poems on the poem.
Eyes full of vitality and transformation, the natural workers are fighting for the new day.
Foreknowledge the new meaning of five hundred years, and then feel old in the millennium.
When I was young, I learned the language and suffered a round way, and I only half of the work was not complete.
To the old age, it is not easy to take, three points of personnel and seven points of heaven.
Poetry explains the poor I am empty, I want to because the poetry has not yet worked.
The bearfish laughs at himself and is greedy, both working and poetry and afraid of poverty.