1. His works are huge, and he can be called the number one scholar in poetry writing: he wrote 43,000 poems (some people say 39,340) in his life, which is much higher than the total number of poems of Lu You, the second most prolific poet in history (more than 9,000), and even exceeds the sum of all the poems in The Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty, and he is a well-deserved number one scholar in poetry writing.
According to the Brief Catalogue of Sikuquanshu, there are actually four sets of Qianlong Imperial Poems, the first set is 4 150, the second set is 8490, the third set is 1 1620, the fourth set is 9900, and the fourth set is 34 160 in total. This is only included in the collection, and some are not included in its royal poetry collection.
Second, is it really that bad to smear people? The number of works is huge, but what is the quality? Many people say that Gan Long's poems are poorly written-there are too many vernacular words, "function words" and "padding words", but I don't quite agree with this view.
Vernacular language and "function words pad words" are not the root causes of poor poetry. On the contrary, they play an incomparable role in regulating the rhythm of notional words. Everyone has read Du Fu's "Ah General, Descendant of Emperor Wu of Wei", which is to clear the door for ordinary people today. "And Li Bai's" Sad People in Ancient Times "is intermittent here." , even more function words. So, this is not the main reason.
The so-called poor is because most of the poems in the middle and late Qianlong period lacked polishing and carving. After all, poetry is a delicate art, and it is difficult to have fine works at your fingertips. After Qianlong ascended the throne, he didn't have so much energy and thought in poetry creation, but he couldn't give up poetry as a creative form. He just keeps a diary in the form of poetry, just like making headlines or Weibo now.
After all, if anyone keeps a lot of diaries in the form of poems every day or even every moment, the overall level of these works will not be high. Presumably he knows it very well, so his mind is no longer polishing the interest of poetry. "Why bother to write more poems and get less fun?" 」
Third, how to objectively evaluate Gan Long's poems? To evaluate Gan Long's poems objectively, you don't have to read all of them. You just need to read the complete works of Leshan Hall. There are about 1000 recorded poems, which basically represent his higher level, and there is no ghostwriting at all. For example, this song "New River":
The clear sky shines on the blue marsh and the ripples are shallow.
Post a little green money, water 89.
It's full of cups and plates, but I don't know.
I felt uncomfortable and was half covered by apples.
-Qianlong "New Lotus"
Pick a few more songs and feel it together:
Autumn wind blows from the northwest, and the courtyard is cool.
The jade spirit reflects the road, and it is cold.
The double star is in Hehan, which hurts the feeling of parting.
Whoever moves, the lover will go on an expedition.
I lay down and drew calmly.
Remnant dreams return to the pillow, and the bright moon is in the sky.
-Qianlong's "Antique"
At dusk, I went out of the east gate of the city and saw those people ploughing the fields.
The sun sets in the west.
When sweating and standing up, the wind will disperse Ye Ping.
Pointing directly at Japan, Bu Xicheng, Gou Dong Sai Qiu She.
Still worried about heavy taxes, urging is true.
Hard work at the end of the year makes farmers less profitable.
-Qianlong's "Antique"
Lanzhou is full of green spring waves, and the ten-mile hengtang is full of songs.
Huan crossed to the levee, and I stayed alone in the Wu boat.
The bow just saw Ye Youlang and immediately gave me gold.
Don't be annoyed when you go back to Jin Jun, and don't be Su Xiaoxiao in Qiantang.
-Qianlong "Gao Jiang Qu"
Therefore, many people who always cancel Qianlong's doggerel have never really read his poems. There are even some jokes that Qianlong is just "one piece, two pieces, three or four pieces", which is similar to Zhang Zongchang's "cannon fired at mother" and Hong Xiuquan's "only daughter-in-law's fault is not mine". That's really a rumor.
Fourth, the poem of mourning for his wife is touching. Although the emperor had 3,000 beautiful women in the harem, Gan Long was very devoted to the feelings of the filial piety queen. The depth of love and pain has an emotional depth that ordinary people can't reach. After the death of his first wife, his spirit was in a trance, his temperament changed greatly, and his happy marriage of 20 years suddenly lost. He understands the impermanence of life and happiness and has a deep sense of disillusionment with life.