First, he is good at lyric, sometimes sad and sincere.
1. Blend feelings into the scene.
The main artistic feature of Nineteen Ancient Poems is that it is good at lyricism and has thrilling beauty. Its lyric method is often to use things to compare, to integrate feelings into the scene, and to closely combine the two to achieve a harmonious state. For example, The Distant Altair (No.10) describes the lonely sky and bright autumn colors, and the Altair and the Weaver Girl can't get together because of the water separation. Among them, love shows the pain of men and women leaving lovesickness. Another example is Grass by the Green River (II), which is composed of grass by the river and green willows in the garden, and entrusted the "slut" with her long-lost husband's thoughts and boredom. Another example is "Heading for the East Gate" (XIII), which uses the bleak scenery of Luoyang North Mangshan cemetery to set off a sad and lifeless atmosphere, which is more suitable for expressing the poet's decadent feelings of disappointment with reality. These are putting the characters in a specific environment and atmosphere, and setting off their emotions with a specific landscape.
Feelings are abstract, so it is not easy to describe parting, not hate, not sorrow, not resentment, etc. Stacking a series of adjectives won't cause readers to scream, but Nineteen Ancient Poems expresses abstract feelings with concrete things. For example, "the sky is far away, and the clothes are slow." "Sijun is old, and the years are late." ("Re-travel") "Who wants to give up Jiang Furong and Lanze Fangcao? Thinking far away. " ("Wading for Lotus") "Who should I sue if a person runs away from home? Leading back to the room, tears stained the clothes! " The moon has how bright? It shows the sadness after a long separation from the emaciation of the body ("clothes are slowing down") and the aging of the face ("years are getting late") to the actual actions ("picking hibiscus", "leading", "leaning", "weeping", "leaving home", "entering the house" and "dyeing clothes with tears"). Another example is: "Looking back, the east wind shakes a hundred herbs. How can I get old quickly when I encounter something for no reason? " ("Go back to the car and talk") What you see sets off your inner sadness.
2. Borrowing things to send feelings is euphemistic.
Nineteen Ancient Poems is also good at describing the author's inner activities through certain life plots, and penetrating lyricism through narration, making the image of the protagonist in the poem more vivid and prominent. Nineteen Ancient Poems pays attention to the lyricism of Li Sao, and at the same time
"'Ancient Poetry' is a combination of narrative and lyricism, which means euphemistic and poetic, and obviously presents an aesthetic style with low response." [4]
Ancient poetry fully embodies the simple and beautiful lyric character of China's ancient poetry. For example, "There are Tall Buildings in the Northwest" writes that the literati are frustrated. It didn't write abstractly about how depressed and frustrated he was, but wrote, "How sad his voice is when there are string songs on the floor!" " Who can compose this song? No one is Qi Liang's wife. Merchants in the Qing Dynasty drifted with the wind in the Middle Song Dynasty. Sighing again and again, generosity is more than sadness. "Through the description of the specific event of listening to songs in high buildings, I inadvertently show my sympathy for the singer;" I don't care about the singer's suffering, but it hurts my confidant. "It can be seen that the hero is a great confidant for people who have never met. It also shows his untimely loneliness; Finally, I hope to become a double swan and fly high with her, which shows how the protagonist struggles and doesn't care about anyone. Another example is "Clouds Dusk in the Woods" (the sixteenth time), which describes a woman's sad mood when she misses her lover and wakes up from her dream. It was a bitter winter night, and the heroine in the poem missed her husband and couldn't sleep. She thought that the weather was cold and the wanderer had no clothes to keep out the cold, so she thought of sending brocade, which was so far away. After thinking about it, she suddenly missed her former lover and drove to pick her up. She was in the seventh heaven of rapture. From then on, she went home hand in hand and looked cute. How happy this is! Unexpectedly, my lover "came soon and didn't care much", but left mercilessly. I was very upset, and it turned out to be a dream. She can't wait to fly to her lover. Lead the distance as if the lover is not far away. At this time, the hostess had a dream, and she seemed to wake up, not wake up. She only felt the cool breeze blowing on her face and her ears were full of cockroaches. A stream of tears came straight out and wet Shuang Ye. At this point, the image of a lonely and boring homesick woman is just like the eyes. There are many ways to write lyrical narrative in this way, such as Meng Donghan and Guests from afar.
As a symbol of China's classical poetry from folk to literati's conscious creation, Nineteen Ancient Poems has made extraordinary achievements in lyric art.
Second, make good use of Bixing, which is implicit and charming.
"Bixing" is the traditional expression of China's ancient poems. In the Song Dynasty, Zhu regarded Bixing as an expression to explain its basic characteristics. He thinks: "If we compare, we should compare this thing with another thing"; If you are excited, you should say something else first to arouse the words you are reciting. Generally speaking, "Bi" is a metaphor, a vivid metaphor for people or things, which makes its characteristics more concrete, vivid and prominent. "Xing" means rising, that is, using other things as the starting point of poetry to arouse the content to be praised. In terms of artistic techniques, Nineteen Ancient Poems is the inheritance and development of the usual "Bixing" technique in The Book of Songs and Songs of the South. It uses contrast and contrast, with little pen and ink, far-reaching and appropriate artistic conception.