Looking at Su Dongpo's poems, there are so many things that ordinary people think are vulgar that they are written in his poems with great interest. What is commendable is that these poems are vulgar, elegant and vulgar, and * * *. After thousands of years of elutriation, the simplicity and rich flavor of life in the countryside are coming to us.
Similarly, vulgar things are also written in poetry. Su Dongpo's poems have penetrated the mountains of time and have been passed down to this day, which makes people relish. However, some contemporary poets' so-called "poems" died before Guangming, which has been widely questioned and criticized. Why?
"Avoiding vulgarity" has been repeatedly emphasized by poets of past dynasties. Yan Yu's Poems on Canglang in the Southern Song Dynasty: "To learn poetry, we should first eliminate five customs: one is vulgar style, the other is vulgar meaning, the third is vulgar sentence, the fourth is vulgar character and the fifth is vulgar rhyme".
Li Dongyang's foothills poems in the Ming Dynasty: "Scholars' poems are not refined, so they are called headscarves;" Monk poetry is not refined, which is called stuffing; Singing boudoir is too flashy, that's called powder gas. It would be nice to get rid of these three gases. "
Poets of past dynasties racked their brains to avoid vulgarity, but Su Shi did not blindly avoid vulgarity, but advocated "taking vulgarity as elegance", "changing vulgarity into elegance" and "appealing to both elegance and vulgarity".
Song Zhubian wrote in "Poems in Fengyuetang": "Those who can enter poetry have it, and those who can't, but Dongpo didn't choose at all, so he used it, such as street talk. Once he comes down, he looks like a fairy turning rubble into gold, which has its own beauty. "
Su Dongpo himself said: "When you speak street dialect, you can enter poetry, but you should turn your ears."
"Once a slope hand, like a fairy stone for gold, has its own beauty"; It makes people's ears melt. This is the genius of Su Dongpo.
Take a bath, for example. This is a very common thing. Have any great writers ever written poems about bathing? What Su Dongpo wrote is very "tasteful" and can be called "melting ears". "If you have a dream, self-purification can purify you": self-purification can purify you, and I am sweating. Send messages to people to take a bath and play physical games. But washing, but washing, is everything in the world.
Only self-purification can make you clean. This unusual theme, however, shows the philosophical Buddhist thought, and Su Dongpo's courage and optimism are vividly on the paper.
To put it bluntly, writing is like cooking, and the theme is like ingredients, ingredients or novelty, which the world has never seen or heard of; Or rare and unusual, can not be met, or fresh "organic", crisp and moist, often without too advanced and cumbersome methods, it is easy for diners to "take orally", as the saying goes, "high-end ingredients often only need the simplest cooking method."
On the contrary, if ordinary ingredients such as Chinese cabbage and white radish are to make a unique and amazing taste, it will test the chef's profound skill.
The "boiled cabbage" at the state banquet was originally created by Huang, a famous chef of Sichuan cuisine, when he was in the imperial dining hall of the Qing Palace. Later, it was carried forward by Luo, a master of Sichuan cuisine, and became a classic dish at the state banquet.
The ingredients of boiled cabbage are very common. Cooked cabbage is clear and watery at first glance, plain and unremarkable. In fact, there are many beauties: the soup is mellow, elegant and crystal clear; Vegetables are light green in color and gorgeous in shape. The sight is clear and vivid, the smell is elegant and fragrant, and the food is soft and refreshing.
Su Dongpo is a top master who is good at cooking cabbage. He tried a lot of food and began to improve some wild and unusual ingredients for import. "Dongpo Meat" and "Dongpo Elbow" are his masterpieces that dare to try and innovate.
Su Dongpo also dared to explore and try in art, and finally created a pronoun style, reaching the realm of "nothing to say". He "didn't choose the theme at all, but used it from the beginning." He can not only pick vulgar folk sayings at will, but also pick classics at will, leaving no trace in the process of renovation. This is of course related to extensive and profound knowledge and strong absorption and transformation ability.
On the other hand, ordinary things, even vulgar things and ugly things, are not absolutely impossible to enter poetry. The key is how to get into poetry and whether it can "turn people's ears". If it is not "pleasing to the ear" but "annoying", it is better to write less and not write such poems.