Author: Pan
The spread of Chinese poetry has received great attention from General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has expounded the profound connotation and significance of cultural self-confidence many times.
In 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping said during a visit to Beijing Normal University that he strongly disagrees with removing ancient classic poems and proses from textbooks, and emphasized that these classics should be embedded in students' minds and become the genes of the Chinese culture.
General Secretary Xi Jinping himself is even more practical, citing a large number of ancient poems and modern poems on various major occasions-many of which can be called "the brush of the gods."
On March 4 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping was visiting the papers that participated in the second session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee.
The important speeches made by members of the Chinese art and social sciences circles once again set clear requirements for cultural and artistic undertakings in the new era.
Chinese poetry is one of the important carriers of Chinese civilization.
The so-called Tao is the spirit, the state, the principle, and the law.
In the traditional society, from the large to the national system and policy, the small to the scholar, farmer, commerce, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the avenues in the ancient sages' books and the trails in the life of the secular officials and people are integrated and complement each other, forming a towering tree with deep and leafy roots.
Such as business, tea, medicine, kendo.
These are all clearly reflected in the poems.
Chinese poetry has not only the philosophical way of the origin of all things, but also the humanistic way of humanity; there are both the way of Confucius and Mencius of the master of heaven and earth, and the way of Yangming, which is the unity of knowledge and action; and the way of Zen. , There is also the Neo-Confucianism of "the source of living water".
The word "Tao" connects the country and the family, mind and reason, up and down, advancement and retreat, embodies calmness and tolerance, embodies the essence of Chinese philosophy, and enables us to pass on from generation to generation. Interrupted.
Chinese poetry is closely related to the political education of the country.
More than two thousand years ago, "The Book of Songs" evaluated politics in three genres: style, elegance and ode.
"Wind" means communicating up and down, "elegance" means discussing gains and losses, and "praising" means promoting virtues, which are highly related to national politics.
There were poetry collectors in the Zhou Dynasty and Yuefu in the Han Dynasty. Both included poems into the overall structure of the political education system, reflecting the perfect combination of national politics and elegant poetry.
Chinese poetry is a special bond of social integration and interaction.
The Chinese believe in "faithful and honest family for a long time, poems and books forever", and integrate large and small families and families with "gentle and sincere" poetry teaching.
In the ancient times when productivity was not yet developed, from cities to the countryside, literati and elegant people used poetry to meet friends, sing and reward, spread the culture that was easily monopolized by the elite to the entire rural society, and realized social integration and interaction with culture rather than benefits. , Has promoted the formation of a humanistic society.
Chinese poetry is a spiritual home for people to settle down.
Although the ancients emphasized the political and social nature of poems, they did not deny that the roots of poems lie in human nature and affection.
Love, friendship, and family and country feelings are fully expressed through the true, affectionate and most affectionate poetry.
Chinese culture emphasizes the ethics of responsibility, especially in the history of history. It talks about the responsibility of the family, the country and the world, and it doesn't say much about personal feelings.
But poetry is not.
It has both the grandeur of the country and the world, and the subtlety of personal feelings.
It can be said that the personal spiritual world embodied in poems is the other half of the family and the world.
Without this half, the other half is not complete.
From the perspective of the united front, Chinese poetry is closely related to the Chinese cultural community.
Let me give you a few small historical examples.
Yelu Chucai was a political designer in the Yuan Dynasty.
He was first a prince of Khitan, and a high-ranking official in the Jin Dynasty, and later used by the Meng Yuan and Yuan Dynasties.
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When he traveled to Xinjiang with Genghis Khan, the poem he wrote was: "I think the homeland is good today, the sound of partridges in the deep courtyard of Lihua." As an immediate conqueror, the "homeland" in his heart is the "Lihua" of the Han Dynasty. "Shen Yuan" expresses the nostalgia of a typical Central Plains scholar.
The Central Plains here does not only refer to the Han people or Han culture, but the aesthetic realm and spiritual sentiment that all brother nations experience together.
These sentiments naturally contain the attitude of individuals to peace, the attitude of regime, and the attitude of advancing and retreating, nourished by Chinese civilization.
This unanimity of spiritual sentiment is the foundation for shaping cultural identity.
Later, Yelv Chucai persuaded Genghis Khan to use the Confucian system to govern the country, and then introduced Qiu Chuji to exhort Genghis Khan to stop slaughtering the city. Perhaps it was this spiritual and cultural identity.
Of course, we will not exaggerate the role of poetry, because only aesthetic sentiment cannot shape the national community, but more far-reaching institutional arrangements.
But if there is no spiritual harmony, it will be much more difficult to establish a system.
Poetry creates emotion, and it is the fusion of emotion that laid the foundation for the establishment of a rational system.
Going further, many of the famous poems we chant today were written by poets from ethnic minorities.
For example, Qu Yuan's famous Yuanqu sentence "Laugh when you are sad, laugh at you. Why don't you let it go? Canglang defiles you, you defile Canglang" comes from the famous Yuanquist Guan Yunshi.
Guan Yunshi is not a Han scholar, but a Uyghur noble (Gaochang Uighur), but his writing of Qu Yuan is better than that of Han Chinese.
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The nostalgic nostalgia of Jinling, which Chairman Mao read repeatedly in his later years, "blind the sun, the flags, the clouds and the haunts, the bones are like snow. A river north and south, how many heroes have been killed... before the singing and dancing, in the bustling mirror, secretly changing the green hair. Sad forever, Qin Huai "A Bright Moon", whose author is Satura, a native of Yuan Dynasty, was born in an Islamic family that has passed down scriptures from generation to generation.
Chinese poetry can prove that people of different ethnicities and different religions can understand and love the same realm, and can integrate and create the same culture.
Chinese culture has never been the creation of the Han people, but the creation of all ethnic groups.
Everyone creates, inherits together, communicates harmoniously, and empathizes without hindrance to achieve true cultural integration.
What is particularly valuable is that this cultural fusion was not produced through political pressure when the Han dynasty was strong, but was consciously and actively selected when the Han dynasty fell and fell into the Central Plains.
In history, this choice has occurred many times, and finally formed today's Chinese National Community and Chinese Cultural Community.
Nowadays, with the rapid development of the Internet and the diversification of society, various ideological and viewpoints have become popular.
Chinese writers should be keenly aware that the more diverse and differentiated the appearance of the times, the more the theme of the times will point to shaping and cohesive cultural communities.
What to use to condense?
General Secretary Xi Jinping said, “The splendid and splendid Chinese traditional culture accumulates the deepest spiritual pursuits of the Chinese nation, contains the most fundamental spiritual genes of the Chinese nation, and represents the unique spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation. It is the continuous development of the Chinese nation. The rich nourishment of growth. "The fundamental motivation for the revival of poetry is precisely to respond to the deepest needs of this era.
History has proven that Chinese culture has strong vitality across ethnic, religious and political differences.
The "jing" of Chinese culture conveys faith, "history" conveys experience, and "poem" conveys feelings.
In history, many people with different opinions and even disagreements, as long as they have common feelings, can always understand each other, and even cherish each other, because they have the same humanistic spirit and agree with the common civilization background.
The philosophical wisdom, emotional art, and temperament contained in the poems belong to the background of this civilization.
As long as you agree with this background, no matter how far you go or how far you are apart, you will eventually meet and return.
The new era calls for writers to use artistic forms to lay out the background of Chinese civilization.
In various interest groups with divergent ideas, in the Chinese youth at home and abroad, in the various ethnic groups who share a civilization with us, we awaken everyone's common historical memory.
The new era urgently needs a "cultural renaissance".
The revival of poetry can serve as a precursor.
If you want national rejuvenation, you can first rejuvenate Chinese culture; if you want to rejuvenate Chinese culture, you can first rejuvenate Chinese literature; if you want to rejuvenate Chinese literature, you can first rejuvenate Chinese poetry.
First, we must figure out what kind of "poetry" is for revival?
Poetry, especially poetry that inherits the Chinese classical spirit, is one of the best carriers for inheriting Chinese culture.
The so-called "classical" is not to stick to classical forms such as metric, but to carry the classical spirit.
There can be metric or no metric, as long as it has a classical "poetic flavor", it is poetry.
What is the classical poetry?
It is not only the folklore of eating dumplings and dancing dragons and lions, but not purely chanting, but to embody the historical spirit of Chinese culture, especially the historical spirit that can answer current practical questions.
For example, the issue of pluralism and unity, the issue of individuals and the country, the issue of East and the West, the issue of moderation and extremes, the issue of openness and integration.
The broad and profound Chinese civilization has its own answers to these two seemingly contradictory sides.
To spread Chinese culture, writers must first read history.
Most of the famous poets in the past have a profound foundation in history and philosophy and rich social and political practice.
The reason why their works can hit people's hearts after thousands of years is because the confusion they wrote still exists today.
Only with such a historical spirit and reality can the poems of today and the future have more real authorship and real influence on readers, can fully integrate with the great cause of current national rejuvenation, and take on the important task of the pioneer of cultural rejuvenation.
Second, the creation of poetry must adhere to the people-centered approach.
In the creation of poetry, "for whom to create and for whom" is a fundamental question.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the people are the source of creation, and only by rooting in the people can creation have an inexhaustible and inexhaustible source.
In the new era, how to make poetry closer to the masses, truly portray the lives of the masses and reflect the aspirations of the masses?
How to find effective forms and ways for poetry to reach the masses?
How to help the people improve their classical humanistic literacy?
To put it simply, this is a question of linking up and down, and it is also a question of mutual appreciation between the refined and the popular.
On the one hand, how to make profound poems accessible to the common people in an easy-to-understand manner, so that everyone is familiar with it; on the other hand, how to make the people under the economic globalization and information network, especially young people, be able to actively pursue, learn, and respect classical poetry Profound should be the common responsibility of each of our poets.
Third, the creation of poems should boost the country’s soft power.
Throughout a history of the world, the prosperity of big countries and the rejuvenation of nations are by no means economic power representing everything, and must rely on the strong support of cultural soft power.
Chinese poets have always had the real heroism of poems and wine as their companions, swordsmanship, and the great care of the family, the world, the society and the people, and the courageous responsibility of repairing the peace and turning the tide.
At a time when China is big but not strong, at a time when Chinese youth still need to strengthen their family and country responsibilities, and at a time when Chinese society needs to cultivate humanistic feelings, China must tell the world that the Chinese nation is strong but not hegemonic, and weak but not weak. As China’s cultural genes for peace are divided, China needs to activate and improve its cultural heritage, including poetry and poetry.
Chemical literacy and spiritual temperament.
Chinese poets should first be cultural leaders, and secondly they should be moral role models, that is, lead the fashion with "Mingde".
Of course, there are still many issues in poetry and literature that need to be discussed urgently.
How to connect the old poems like new poems?
For example, how do Chinese poetry and Western poetry learn from each other?
and many more.
These are left to the experts to continue the discussion.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
The 70-year struggle is itself an epic of struggle.
To interpret this majestic epic well, it is necessary to clarify the cultural self-confidence in the "four self-confidence" from the root, which is a major subject of cultural inheritance and innovation.
With more confidence, we will gather the power of poetry to "cast the soul of Bacon" for the country and the nation, and "gather energy" for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!