How to choose the anthology of Tang poetry

It is difficult to write poems, but not to choose them. Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been dozens of selected books, but few can be handed down from generation to generation. The reason, as Ji Xiaolan said: "Looking for poems in the Tang Dynasty, like looking for materials in Shan Ye, can complement each other. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the school of poetry has changed repeatedly, and so have those who talk about Tang poetry, each holding prejudice and failing to agree with the middle voice. " In other words, candidates are narrow-minded, opinionated and not comprehensive enough. The author believes that the so-called comprehensiveness should include five aspects: First, it is necessary to fully express the times, and there must be poems in the early Tang Dynasty, the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the middle Tang Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty. The second is to fully reflect the author's face. An author's poetic style is multifaceted. For example, Li Shangyin is famous for his beauty, but there are also magnificent works like Han Bei. Third, it is necessary to fully embody famous artists, articles and sentences. Some authors are not famous, but they also have masterpieces handed down from generation to generation. The fourth is to reflect the requirements of different readers, that is, to appreciate elegance and vulgarity. Fifth, comments should fully reflect the advantages and disadvantages and doubts of the author and the poem. It is not easy to meet this requirement. There are four kinds of books with poor access, which are briefly commented as follows. Three hundred Tang Poems is comprehensive, but its compilation and selection are conservative. Sun Zhu (a scholar who retired from Hengtang) has been a scholar for sixteen years. The principle of self-ordered poetry selection is to replace the well-known poems of thousands of families and select the most well-known works as family letters, thus truly achieving the goal of "a well-known family has a series". * * * Choose 77 schools and write 302 poems. Mainly in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there were 150 songs, especially Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei, and 98 songs were selected, reaching 1/3 of the whole book. Followed by Meng Haoran of the pastoral school, Cen Can, Gao Shi and Wang San of the frontier school (Wang Changling, William Wang and Wang Zhihuan). In the middle Tang Dynasty, represented by Wei and Liu Changqing, their poems amounted to more than 65,438+00. Although Bai Juyi only chose six poems, he also has long poems, such as Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa Xing, which are also famous for their importance. In the late Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin, Du Mu and Wen were the main bodies. I have also taken care of Wang Wan's famous works such as "A Stop at the foot of the North Fort Mountain". Generally represents the general situation of Tang poetry. The biggest drawback of this book is that it is in the era of Gan Long Wang Wenmi's weaving, so we can't help but be cautious in selecting people. Therefore, although Du Li was chosen more than others, Du Fu's Three Officials and Three Farewells, Li Bai's Fifty-nine Ancient Poems, Bai Juyi's Qin Zhongyin, Pi Rixiu's Zheng Yuefu and other satirical works of current affairs were not chosen, let alone chosen. In addition, influenced by Shen Deqian, he took righteousness as his religion, so he didn't choose the cold poems of Li He. Zhang's "Moonlit Night on a Spring River", which is fresh and fluent, was also not selected. It was praised by Wen Yiduo as the masterpiece of "the decline of the six generations of poetry" and missed the readers.