There are four or five smoke villages,
There are six or seven pavilions,
Eighty or ninety flowers.
I read this poem when I was very young, and now many versions of primary school Chinese textbooks choose it as the first reading material for first-grade children. Why? After a careful look, I did see some doorways.
First, it's simple. Just 20 words and a few strokes have outlined a vivid picture for readers. Poetry is to leave readers room for imagination, so the words used in poetry are too simple and not concise enough. Take this poem for example, the word "walk" in the poem has movement and movement; A word "Li" has a distance, a "smoke village" and "four or five houses" have the vitality of the village and the appearance of a small village, and a balcony and flowers have the elegance and tranquility of a small village, which even reminds people of the scene of ladies shaking their fans and scholars holding books and chanting. Therefore, we say that the simple mystery is to leave readers a room for conjecture and a world of reverie. In addition, the "home" and "flower" at the end of the second sentence and the fourth sentence of the poem are both "A" rhymes, so they are catchy all the way.
The second is fun. According to textual research, this poem was written by Shao Yong, a philosopher in the Northern Song Dynasty. The reason why this poem is funny is that it uses numbers flexibly. So, in a sense, this poem is funny in numbers. You see, a short poem of 20 words, with 10 numbers used in turn, is not blunt at all. It can be said that this poem is not only a good text for children to learn the numbers from one to ten, to be familiar with their arrangement order and to practice writing the basic strokes of Chinese characters. At the same time, it can be proved that as long as numbers are used well, it will add its special charm to literary works.
The third is that it has artistic conception. Where does the artistic conception come from? The most important point is that this poem uses the rhetorical device of "Jin Lie". The so-called "Li Jin" is a rhetorical device that arranges several nouns or noun phrases into a sentence. Mr. Tan Yongxiang said in "The Origin of Rhetoric": "There is a strange sentence pattern in classical poetry works, which consists of nouns or noun-centered naming structures. There is no adjective predicate in it, but it can describe scenery and express emotions; There is no verb predicate, but you can tell stories. This language phenomenon ... we call it' Jin Lie'. " Look! exist
In the poem, "there are four or five smoke villages, six or seven pavilions and eighty or ninety flowers in a row of twenty or thirty miles", "smoke villages", "people", "pavilions" and "flowers" not only form an independent landscape, but also form an idyllic landscape, creating an elegant and beautiful artistic conception and expressing the author's love and praise for nature. Having said that, I have a further understanding of the original intention and reasons why the editors of primary school Chinese textbooks in Jiangsu Education Publishing House put this poem in special literacy textbooks and string literacy. There is an important point in the famous System Theory: "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts". In other words, when this poem enters the word string literacy system, its function will be much better than its original function.