A verse from the Qing Dynasty Tianjin poet Zha Weiren's "Lianpo Poetry Talk": Calligraphy, painting, music, chess, poetry, and wine, everything was inseparable back then; now seven things have changed, including firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea.
The main idea of ??the poem: "Calligraphy, painting, music, chess, poetry, and wine" were originally elegant things. I enjoyed them in those days, so elegant and unrestrained. But now the good times are no longer good. Everything has been declared "subverted" and turned into "firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar" "Tea" is a popular thing.
"Calligraphy, painting, music, chess, poetry, and wine" refers to the height of spiritual elegance, while "firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea" refers to vulgarity, which refers to material life. The contrast and transformation of "elegance" and "vulgarity" in the poem describes the actual living conditions of all living beings in real life. The use of "firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea" to correspond to "calligraphy, painting, music, chess, poetry and wine" shows the author's ingenuity. And innovation, due to the repeated use of this proverb and poetic phrase that has been dulled, it is given a new brilliance in this poem, just like the end of the mountain and the end of the river, suddenly the willows are dark and the flowers are bright.
Extended information:
1. "Lianpo Poetry" was written by Cha Weiren and included in "Qing Poetry" compiled by Ding Fubao. It is very rich in content, describing poems about character and Qing Ci. Beautiful sentences, concise and concise, elegant and accurate, it is indeed the best in Qing Dynasty's "Shihua". In the form of essays, it describes a large number of literary activities of Tianjin poets and upper-class celebrities, and has important cultural and historical value.
2. Zha Weiren (1695~1749), a poet of the Qing Dynasty, was given the nickname Xingu, also known as Lianpo, also known as Lianpo layman. Zha Weiren bought many books, gold, stones, tripods and Yi in Shuixizhuang, Zha's garden villa, and recruited famous domestic literati and scholars. During this period, a large number of poems, articles, calligraphy and paintings were produced, bringing Tianjin's ancient literature and art into its heyday with Shuixizhuang as the center.
3. Cha Weiren’s official career was bumpy. In the 50th year of Kangxi (1711), he ranked first in the provincial examination. Zhao Shenlou, the examiner, was criticized and was convicted and imprisoned. He was released eight years later. His mentality was therefore Changes have taken place: bit by bit, many trivial matters in life will gradually emerge instead of romance, and we must start to learn to take care of the food and drink of the whole family, so I created this poem.
4. "Firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea" has been mentioned in the Yuan Dynasty drama "Poems of the Master": If you want to be the master, you will not be the master, and the master will be in chaos. Seven things to do to open the door early: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.