Is it to live in one place or to travel north and south?
Zhang Wei's in-depth analysis of the "Five Poets of the Tang Dynasty"
Literature and art are the sum total of the writer's life feelings.
As a novelist with outstanding achievements in contemporary literary creation, Zhang Wei, the award-winning writer of Mao Dun Literature Award, has deep attainments in the appreciation of classical literature.
He wrote Su Dongpo's "Ban Lan Zhi", which has many novel and unique features.
After that, five important poets of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei, Han Yu, Bai Juyi, Du Mu and Li Shangyin, were selected to continue the lecture.
The lecture manuscript was published by the People's Literature Publishing House as the book "Five Poets of the Tang Dynasty".
This is Zhang Wei's sixth essay on Chinese classical poetry, in which his views are full of originality, creativity and insight.
He cherishes and loves Han Yu deeply, clearly distinguishes and analyzes Wang Wei and Bai Juyi, appreciates and values Li Du, a young man in the late Tang Dynasty, and especially loves Li Shangyin's untitled poems.
These Tang Dynasty poets were vigorously "resurrected" in Zhang Wei's writings.
In Zhang Wei's view, human nature determines poetry.
The poet's moral sense, values, identity and position constitute the basis of their creation.
Poetry is the carrier of the artistic pursuit of the ancients, and it is also a way of life seeking self-consistency. The five poets, Wang Wei, Han Yu, Bai Juyi, Du Mu, and Li Shangyin, have different poetic styles, reflecting different life pursuits and spiritual qualities.
The poetry written by the poet, the change of style, is a story that constantly convinces and settles itself.
Except for Li Bai's "Walking to the South and the North", most artists prefer a place to live
These five poets are all famous and have been interpreted by famous scholars of all dynasties.
Nowadays, in order to interpret new ideas and creative ideas, it is actually a test of people's vision and skills.
Zhang Wei's analysis is very exciting. For example, when he analyzed Wang Wei, he especially explained a very interesting insight: Similar to Wang Wei's "Wangchuan Beyond the Industry", many writers and artists around the world have a common dream: longing for a peaceful residence.
And whether this dream is realized or not is very important for the creative achievements of his works of art.
Zhang Wei mentioned that artists can be roughly divided into two types: one is eager to settle down, and the other is wandering around.
Wang Wei belongs to the former.
In the place of "Wangchuan Bieye", not only the collection of poems "Wangchuan Ji" sung by Wang Wei and his close friend Pei Di was produced, but also of great significance to the poet's life and his poetry creation.
For Wang Wei, "Wangchuan" exists first as a material entity, and secondly as a breeding ground and projection place for spirit and art, which has great symbolic meaning.
It seems to be able to assert that without "Wangchuan", Wang Wei would have lost his good material conditions, and he would not have been able to form a basis for an objective description object, nor would he have been able to form a basis for the object of objective description, and would have lost some kind of poetic style that nurtured the poet's unique style. environment.
"It seems that all his experiences are preparing for Wangchuan, and the later road also starts from here. He wrote poetry because of Wangchuan, and the number of poems he has accomplished is the first; Wangchuan is also the longest time he lived in. Perhaps we can assert that without Wangchuan, there would be no Wang Wei's unique style of poetry, and without the formation, consolidation and development of his worldview." Zhang Wei said.
Zhang Wei analyzed that Li Bai belongs to the latter group. He roamed around the earth, tossing and turning, as if he never stopped in his life.
Du Fu seems to be somewhere in between the two. When he was young, he was "dissolute in Qi Zhaojian, and Qiu Ma was quite mad" ("Zhuang You"). Later, he went to Chengdu to build a thatched cottage, and also ran an orchard: "Compared to Zaruihong, he is brocade. It's better. Guzhou will go out of the gorge, and he will take a hoe to visit the garden." ("Giving Biewu Gorge to Brother Nanqing's Forty Mu of Xi'an Orchard") Generally speaking, most artists still prefer to have a safe place to live and manage a piece of work. Land and pastoral fields, but most suffer from no such conditions.
Not only artists, but everyone seems to be like this: a desire to live in peace.
Only when a person can live in peace can one have strength
The phenomenon mentioned by Zhang Wei is not only unique to Chinese literati, but a world-class phenomenon.
For example, Tolstoy's Jasnaya Manor, Faulkner's Tamarind Villa, etc., there are many similar ones.
After the failure of the French Revolution, Hugo built a four-story "High City Villa" on the British island of Guernsey while in exile, and added a watchtower as a workshop, which became the commanding height of the whole island. Overlooking the French coast.
The interior of the watchtower is decorated with a strange picture of petals drawn by him, and the dome and the four walls are made of glass.
Hugo wrote the novels "Les Miserables", "Labor at Sea", "The Laughing Man", and the literary criticism monograph "On Shakespeare" on this sunny and bright roof.
Dickens in the United Kingdom is regarded as a wanderer, but he also operated more than one base, and settled in the famous "Gates Hill" in his later years.
America's Mark Twain traveled the world, gave lectures, and still ran the cozy "Hartford House."
It was in this house that he lived in peace and left behind a large number of well-known works.
Jack London, an American writer who was a newsboy, dock worker, sailor, worker, and gold digger, used up all his savings to build a luxury villa "Wolf's Den", hoping to spend the rest of his life here, but unfortunately it was destroyed by a fire.
American writer Ernest Hemingway was a lifelong restless figure, hunting in Africa, fighting bulls in Spain, traveling the world, and experiencing two plane crashes.
During the First World War, he braved the hail of bullets as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. During World War II, he went to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent, and also visited Chongqing, China.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Hemingway not only converted his yacht into a patrol boat to scout German submarines in the Caribbean Sea, but also participated in the Allied liberation of Paris.
Hemingway's life seems to be a legend of wandering, but such a person has also established several creative bases: Key West in the United States and "Overlook Mountain Villa" in Cuba.
Most of the oil painters in the West are like this. For example, Picasso built a huge fortress in Cannes by the sea in southern France in his later years, nicknamed "The Minotaur's Lair".
On a hillside in the Seine Valley in France, there is the residence of the Impressionist master Monet in the second half of his life: the nearby river water is skillfully introduced to form a pond, which is divided into two parts: a water garden and a garden.
Monet completed his famous "Water Lilies" and "Japanese Bridge" series of paintings here.
Why is this happening?
Zhang Wei believes, "If a person can live in peace, the body can have a foothold, and the spirit can also have a point of strength, and creativity can be expected."
Cover reporter Zhang Jie