-Yuan Haowen's "On Thirty Poems" Series 6
Interpretation of vernacular:
Speaking from the heart and painting from the heart are not always correct, nor can you always see all the qualities of a person from his articles. For example, Pan Yue in the Western Jin Dynasty, although he wrote an article indifferent to fame and fortune, behaved obsequiously when he met powerful people and looked down on Jia Mi.
Extended data
This quatrain criticizes and satirizes the duality of Pan Yue's life and poetry by commenting on Pan Yue, a poet of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty. Yuan Haowen, starting from describing poetry, despises poetry to write lies and insincere works.
Pan Yue's works depict himself as an inferior, selfless and noble person. He was once famous for a while and was told through the ages. In fact, he is a shameless villain, eager for quick success and instant benefit, following the trend for profit, and flattering the powerful.
Therefore, Yuan Haowen thinks that Yang Xiong's "painting the heart with the heart" is unreliable and will be "distorted", that is, insincerity and inconsistency between words and deeds. To know a person, we should not only look at his words, but also look at whether his words and deeds are consistent and whether his heart is consistent.
The so-called "speaking from the heart" and "writing people's words" cannot be absolute, because people's thoughts and feelings are complex, full of contradictions, developing and changing, and sometimes they have illusions. In this way, we must be good at analyzing complex contradictions and identifying illusions in order to get a correct understanding.
Yuan Haowen was a famous poet and literary critic in Jin Dynasty. Yuan Haowen's poetry theory advocates nature and truth, opposes piling up and carving, attaches importance to originality, and carries forward the fine tradition of poetry since Jian 'an. He is a poetry critic with original ideas.
Yuan Haowen's Thirty Poems on Poetry is a group of famous poems that systematically expounded the theory of poetry in the form of quatrains after Du Fu. He commented on many famous writers and schools from Han Wei to the Song Dynasty, and expressed his literary views, which had an important influence on later generations.
References:
On Thirty Poems _ Baidu Encyclopedia