Random talk on introduction
Now I envy a living condition of the ancients, especially the literati in the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the unfair electoral system has spawned a number of aristocratic families and full-time literati. Most of them come from these gates and have been educated in the best conditions since childhood. They only need to do one thing well in their life, that is, improve their literary level and learn all kinds of literary knowledge and skills.
Modern people, how many people can have such conditions, spend a lifetime of energy, calm down and do only one thing well? People with such conditions, people who really settled down in society, later became masters in a certain field.
There is a saying, in this noisy era, do something quiet.
However, not everyone can do quiet things. In ancient times, the threshold was that you should be born into a big family, with food and clothing. In modern times, the threshold is similar.
Teacher Dai Jianye once analyzed an important reason for the formation of the weather in the prosperous Tang Dynasty in class, that is, the literati of that era had no scruples and no worries.
Don't worry, this is the premise for you to do a quiet thing. However, in this society, compared with more than a thousand years ago, people have more and more worries.
The most typical worry is that young people get married and buy a house. Can't afford to buy a house is actually a problem that has only appeared in recent decades. Looking back at history, have people ever worried about their houses?
Now, the reality of soaring housing prices collides with China people's tradition of attaching importance to home and home, which gives young people an almost unsolvable problem: they can't afford it. Moreover, such a burden should not fall on young people who have just left society (refer to ancient times and abroad), but with the rapid development of society, there will always be such disharmony.
Qi Lin Shijing
The reason why the literati in the Song Dynasty had no worries was that the Song Dynasty had special preferential treatment for the literati, and the tradition of valuing martial arts over literature provided more official positions for civil servants. Moreover, the court is used to wooing literati with materials, and the treatment is particularly generous. As an official, there is no need to worry about money at all.
Another reason is that the truth people believed in at that time was not monetarism, but Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism. So I'm not particularly sad about money. I'm more interested in the perfection of personality and political development.
In this way, I naturally have no scruples in my heart, and I can study poetry and books and do what I like. Now think about it, how enviable the pure life of literati at that time was.
Unfortunately, the social environment has changed, and everything can't go back.
Today, I want to appreciate a poem which, in my opinion, can represent the living conditions at that time. The author is Yang Wanli, a famous minister in the Song Dynasty.
Classic original text
Read this poem
Song Dynasty: Yang Wanli
On the boat, I only make up poems. I read Tang poems and read the Mid-levels.
I didn't eat before.
Point by point analysis
The content is very simple. He should have done it casually on the boat.
On this ship, it's really boring. The only thing is reading poetry.
After reading the Tang poems, I went on to read Wang Anshi's poems, and even forgot to eat in the morning.
It's not that I'm used to skipping meals in the morning. It's really a poem written halfway up the mountain. It can be used as breakfast.
I think most people have had a similar experience of studying on a boat here. When taking the high-speed train, plane or train, they always find some books, magazines, newspapers and even brochures to read, which is almost the only way to kill travel time besides sleeping. However, more than a decade ago, with the popularity of mobile phones, people spent a lot more time, but fewer people read books.
Of course, there was no mobile phone in ancient times, so Yang Wanli naturally wanted to read his favorite poems. Almost all Song people like and study Tang poetry. Even if they later created a poetic style, they always studied the works of everyone in the Tang Dynasty.
Needless to say, Wang Anshi was a famous writer of his time decades earlier than Yang Wanli. And in the same era background, reading Wang Anshi's poems should have a deeper feeling.
The last word 14 in the poem is simply a vernacular translation and a real case of the idiom "forget to eat and sleep". How lovely the "old lady" in the poem is. First of all, I seriously correct you. I don't skip meals in the morning. Don't misunderstand me. Then I smiled and said, it's really fascinating to read Wang Anshi's poems.
I don't know if you have ever been fascinated by reading a person's poem.