China News Service, March 22, according to the China News newspaper, "Li Shangyin is so delicate, beautiful and lingering, and Du Mu is so handsome and handsome, how can a bitter old man like Du Fu compare with them?" Pan Xiangli, vice chairman of the Writers Association and vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Democratic Progressive Committee, talked about her journey of "turning to a fan" of Du Fu, saying that she did not know how good Du Fu was when she was young, and her "Du Fan" father revealed that "there will be a day when Du Fu will turn you into a fan. Packed up" expression.
Finally one day, her father's prediction came true, and Du Fu "ambushed in middle age", giving her a knowing blow.
"Poetry is the religion of the Chinese people." Chinese poetry was born from labor and reached its peak under the pondering of scholars and officials. With the unique rhythm and beauty of Chinese, it carries emotions and culture that have lasted for thousands of years.
Today, apart from those immortal Tang and Song poems, what are people who love poetry reading?
Writer Pan Xiangli.
(Reported by "China News"/Photo courtesy of People's Literature Publishing House)
When I was young, I didn't know Shi Sheng Hao, I never thought "Du Fu is waiting for me in middle age"
Zhu Yongxin, Li Jingze, Bi Feiyu, Pan Kaixiong, Ouyang Jianghe, Peng Min and other cultural celebrities discussed poetry together at the launch of the new book "Classical Spring Water: Twelve Lectures on Pan Xiangli's Ancient Poems" held in Beijing on March 12.
"The sadness of separation is getting farther and farther away, and the distance is like spring water." Pan Xiangli believes that the charm of ancient poetry is like the spring water in Ouyang Xiu's poems.
Therefore, her latest collection of essays is titled "Spring Water", and from the perspective of a modern writer, she "reads the famous poets of the Tang and Song Dynasties as her own friends and relatives".
Spring water is flowing, and so is the perception of poetry.
The preface to the new book "Du Fu's Ambush in Middle Ages Waiting for Me" is an article in another collection of ancient poems and essays "Meibian News" published by Pan Xiangli 4 years ago. As a professor of the Chinese Department of Fudan University), as a "Tie Fan of Du Fu", I didn't realize that Du Poetry was good when I was young. Suddenly I felt the huge impact of "Place the charcoal in the intestines, turn the sea and turn the river", "At that moment, I felt that I understood Du Fu, my father, and the Chinese who loved Du Fu and Tang poetry from generation to generation."
Bi Feiyu, an old friend of Pan Xiangli, a well-known novelist and vice-chairman of the China Writers Association, said that in the book, the literati's sorrow, the beauty of women, and the various images that support Chinese cultural psychology in ancient poems such as fallen leaves, remnants of flowers, and water are listed in a pedigree. The archaeology of poetic aesthetics.
Zhu Yongxin, a well-known scholar and vice chairman of the Democratic Progressive Central Committee, said that ancient poetry is to a large extent a mirror image of intellectuals in the process of growing up, and plays a very important role in the spiritual growth of Chinese people.
And Pan Xiangli's "Human Cihua" talks about poetry and people, making it easier for ordinary people to get close to poetry and poets.
Dare to say that everyone has a failure to "pull the poet back to the world from the sky"
Pan Xiangli mentioned Lu You's deep affection in the book, "When I write about Tang Wan, it is profound, poignant, and delicious. While making people sigh about the pain and sadness of their feelings, they see that life has such a possibility. : Living up to the one you love, but always being faithful to love itself".
Peng Min, director of the editorial department of "Poetry" magazine, was deeply impressed by this text.
"Everyone is familiar with the love story of Lu You and Tang Wan, but very few books will tell you that Lu You and Tang Wan married another wife after their divorce, and he never wrote a song for his second wife in his life (Love) ) poems. He wrote so many poems for his ex-wife, and he still misses it when he is seventy or eighty years old, but he has never written a single poem to the people in front of him. At this time, the magic of the pen came—Teacher Pan said, this fully explains Marriage is very close to reality and far from the heart."
Peng Min said with a smile that while ordinary poetry readers "compliment" the ancient poets in various ways, Pan Xiangli was very bold, "Teacher Pan actually said in the book that Du Fu wrote Zhuge Liang's poems, and the last two sentences, "Transferring from Han Dynasty, is difficult to recover. Zhi Jue, who is a military service worker, is not good at writing, and the whole poem is suddenly lowered in tone."
Peng Min believes that Pan Xiangli's "boldness" is the most valuable thing. She brought those poets back to the world, so that ordinary people can look at the poets, and found that "they are just ordinary people with very temperament and talents around us. ".
Only by giving up the perspective of looking up, can it be possible to experience the poet's life more deeply and appreciate the subtleties of their poems.
Peng Min called Pan Xiangli "bold" because he thought of the current online public opinion environment. "If you easily question or criticize some masters and authorities who 'seem' have already reached a conclusion, the Internet will call you a pig's head."
He has written a series of articles about ancient poets on the WeChat public account "Peng Min Xiansen", which will be published in the near future, tentatively titled "Zeng Xu First Class in the World".
One of them tells the story of Zhang Han, the protagonist of the allusion to "The Thoughts of Ulva Perch", who was not burdened by "the name behind him". What are you afraid of bad reviews?"
Who is reading poetry? Whose poetry do you read?
Lin Yutang expounded on poetry in "My Country and My People" published in 1935: "Poetry taught the Chinese a concept of life, penetrated deeply into society through proverbs and poems, and gave them a sense of compassion and compassion. Make them have infinite affection for nature and look at life with an artistic vision... In this sense, poetry should be called the religion of the Chinese people."
Does poetry still occupy the supreme position in the Chinese spiritual world today?
In the internet age, contemporary poets and poetry are facing harsh scrutiny.
In 2006, the poet Zhao Lihua's poems were spoofed into "pear flower style" and set off an online carnival; in 2021, some "indecent" poems by Jia Qianqian, the daughter of the well-known writer Jia Pingwa, aroused doubts.
"These questioned poets also have good works." Ge Lulu, who has been writing poetry since about 2005, believes that poetry has a multi-dimensional evaluation system, "I respect people who explore various possibilities in poetry and their works, and I also respect A poet who insists on personal aesthetics. If there is a poem that is not very good, it should be a poem that is too routine."
Zhang Yuanyuan, a doctoral student majoring in modern and contemporary literature at Minzu University of China, who studies contemporary poetry, has seen Jia Qianqian's other poems and believes that his poetry skills are not bad. the question of cultural power relations”.
Of course, there are also people who have benefited from the help of social media, such as the Hubei poet Yu Xiuhua, who was born with "Through Most of China to Sleep with You", and wrote "The lamp burns the night / burns a hole" when he was 7 years old. The stunning Shenzhen girl Jiang Erbi pace.
Ge Lulu said that there are actually quite a few outstanding poets now, and the level of activity in the circle of poets, big and small, is no different from the 1980s, the golden age of modern poetry, "just not as easy to get out of the circle as back then."
The work "out of the circle" needs an opportunity, and first of all, it must be "seen".
Zhang Yuanyuan’s husband, Zhang Zhengshuo, a doctoral student majoring in Russian language and literature at Capital Normal University, recently translated some poems by Russian-American writer Nabokov, “Everyone knows that he wrote Lolita, but his poems are underestimated. , and no one has translated his poems before.”
"Out of the circle" is also related to the reading threshold and other reasons.
Ni Yating, a postgraduate student in the Department of Literature at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, who writes poetry and studies poetry creation in colleges and universities, believes that people without literary accumulation "it is extremely difficult to enter poets such as Baudelaire and Transstrom", but "entering some simple contemporary poets". It's easy to branch text."
Zhang Zhengshuo published Nabokov's poetry translations on the WeChat public account "Beitu". There are no popular styles, but the "fans" group is stable.
Zhang Yuanyuan said that the information age will not let people who don't like poetry read poetry, but it can make it easier for friends to find each other.
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