Also talk about the poet Zhang Jian

Author: Shen Zhenyuan Xu Xiaoshi

Zhang Jian

People know that Zhang Jian is a modern industrialist and educator in China, but in fact he is still a poet.

Zhang Jian was endowed with intelligence, five years old, literate, able to memorize the "Thousand Character Text"; at the age of eleven, after reading the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Prodigy Poems", "Wine Poems", "Jianluo", "Thousand Family Poems", "Filial Piety", "University", "Zhongyong", "Analects", "Mencius", and began to study the "Book of Poetry"; one day when he was twelve, a samurai passed by on horseback in front of the door, and Mr. Song Pengshan held up the "man riding in front of the white horse gate" and said, Zhang Xiao replied: "I stepped on the Jin'ao Sea." "Mr. Zhang Xiao replied casually, but his intention was lofty, his momentum was grand, his work was correct, his image was clear, and he could be described as brilliant, surprising the teacher and making his father secretly happy." So in the "room outside the house" for Zhang Jian's study, because there are five willow trees outside, Zhang Jian called it "imitation pottery book house", intended to worship the great poet Tao Qian. At the age of thirteen, he learned to do five words and seven words of poetry, and every weekend, Teacher Song always took him home, and on Sundays he took him to the Xiting Poetry Society to "compose poems in different topics", which made the teenager Zhang Xiao have a strong interest in poetry and laid the foundation for him to become a poet. "The Moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival Song Mansion" is his work in his youth, the poem said: "The clouds and the sea rise in the first month, the clear light is vast, the hundred years are short candles, and the single night is a tall building." Geng Geng Danxiao Road, winding bishu autumn. Forget more and more leaky, the river Flows West. Reading at night in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhang Xiao suddenly saw a full moon jumping out of the sea of clouds, clear and radiant, and could not help but write this five laws, borrowing the scenery to express the vision of "Danxiao Road" (the road of the Imperial Examination) and the spirit of "a hundred years as a short candle" to learn.

Zhang Gong claimed to be "a sexual poet and a miscellaneous reading of poetry", and reading the poems of the ancients "will be repeatedly satirized, so that the peeping of its meaning is there, and the interesting place is stopped", so that it is profound, the Shangzong style is turbulent, the Wei and Jin dynasties are in the middle, directly attacking the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the strength of the families is better than one furnace, and it has become a modern master. He is skillful and has reached the realm of "unintentional inadsubordination, nothing can be said". Writing poetry became a part of his life, he was busy with affairs, "without much wind and rain", poetry was overflowing, and "poetry hunting clubs wrote poetry". Accompanied by poetry all his life, he went to the old "daily lesson and one poem", leaving behind more than 1,400 inscription poems. This is a rich and precious cultural heritage, and the modern scholar Shao Jingren said: "Zhang Jianjia Wuzhuangyuan, poetry, calligraphy outstanding everyone." "We naturally deserve to be called poets.

Under the influence of the trend of rational thought, the intellectuals of the late Qing Dynasty attached great importance to the responsibility of instrumental knowledge, especially the application of the world, and became the common pursuit of their literary and artistic creation. A distinctive feature of Zhang Xiao's poetry is that it reflects his value pursuit of "practical application through the ages" and has an epic character.

Speak in poetry. He said: "Man has a constant saying of 'poetry and poetry'. Poetry is said to be a poem, and if there is nothing, the poem is almost extinguished. This is the transcendence of traditional poetic theory, taking "things" as the source of inspiration for the poet's creation, rejoicing from events, acting according to things, expressing nostalgia through things, enlightening by facts, and standing poetry on the basis of truth. This is the premise of the epic.

The quality of the text is the same. He said: "The quality of literature is the same, the rationality is consistent, there is no difference between yin and yang, and the virtual reality is connected." The "text" here refers to the art form of the poem; the "quality" is the substance, referring to the ideological content of the poem. They are two aspects of a poem, interdependent and indispensable; only the quality of the text complements each other and achieves the unity of content and form. And to seek the superiority of "quality" is in truth and goodness; to find the color of "literature" should be in the beauty. If truth, goodness and beauty are unified in a poem, this is the best state of "literary quality". Zhang Xiao's "Thirty Rhymes and Sequences of Mourning Shuangfeng Couplet Sentences" cooperated with Zhu Manjun and Fan Tongshi successfully portrayed the image of a lower-class woman who was insulted, damaged and dared to resist- Shuangfeng, exposing the dark social reality at that time, with profound ideological content and high aesthetic value.

Poetic history corroborates each other. Mr. Zhang Xiao attaches great importance to the value of "history", and his poems either borrow poems to save history, or record history with poems, or corroborate each other with poetry history. Guangxu's February 29th year (1903) "Ming Yang Dragon Friend Qin Huai Xuehou Rafting Map" is an example of poetic history mutual evidence.

"Boating Map after the Snow in Qinhuai" is a work of rich historical value. The author Is Yang Wencong, Zi Longyou, Ming Wanli, anti-Qing general, calligrapher and painter. On the picture there is a poem by Cheng Jiaxuan (号松元), and there is also the late Ming dynasty military and literary scholar Mao Yuanyi (zi zhisheng) "seal head". More importantly, the afterword to the "Qinhuai overflow" on the twenty-fifth day of the 25th month of the 47th year of the Wanli calendar broke the taboo of natural disasters in the ten thousand history books. Covering up the disaster and ignoring people's livelihood are major issues related to the rise and fall of the country. Looking back at reality, the imperial court official Wen Tian Wu was not doing his job properly, did not report disasters, and the people did not have a good life, and was walking along the old road of the dead Ming. "Recently, I have heard that the E's soldiers have harassed the people, and none of them have dared to speak up." The poet therefore wrote this poem in the "Collection of Hundred Senses":

Earthquake landslides and rivers were exhausted, and temples burned and the tombs were destroyed.

Emperor Shenzong has seen it frequently for eight years, and strange things have overflowed in winter.

Hazel has become a red rock road, and the string pipe is aware of Qingxi Kuma.

In the picture of infinite rise and fall, flowers send sorrow towards the wind and snow.

The poet borrows pictures to play, describing the horror of natural disasters, talking about the dangers of man-made disasters, and the tail link is the finishing touch. In the absence of the historian's pen, he recorded the historical event of the Ming and Qing dynasties with the technique of "mutual verification of poetry and history", expressing the feelings of worrying about the country and the people, and showing Zhang Shi's elegant and unworldly epic character.

Zhao Yi said it well, "The country is unfortunate that the poet is fortunate and endowed with vicissitudes." Zhang Xiao lived in the turbulent and unfortunate era of the Qing Dynasty and the People's Republic of China, and his poetry vividly recorded the magnificent political trends and colorful life pictures of this era, and at the same time, the current situation also created this brilliant poet.