The poets of the past wrote poems for the sake of emotion; they wrote poems and poems for the sake of literature and created emotions. How to understand this? In the rise of elegance, ambition and anger, and chanting about emotions and satirizing them, this is a text written for emotion; the disciples of the disciples, whose heart is not gloomy, just walk around and boast, and chant to attract the world, this is a text And create feelings. Therefore, for lovers, we write portraits for invitations, but for writers, we write pictures that are lustful and boring. The later authors adopted indiscriminately and neglected the truth, abandoned elegance, and stayed close to their masters in poetry and poetry. Therefore, the control of body and emotion became increasingly sparse, and the prose-by-text became more and more prosperous. Therefore, there is a deep ambition in Xuan Mian, but a general chant in Gao soil. My mind is busy with several things, but I only talk about people outside. The true ruler cannot exist, but he is the opposite. The husband's peaches and plums become a trail without words, which means they have real existence; the man's orchids are not fragrant, which means he has no emotion. The husband regards the insignificance of the grass and trees as a matter of fact, and waits for the reality according to the situation; the situation is like an article, and the ambition is based on it.
In the past, the authors of the Book of Songs wrote poems to express their emotions; later Ci-Fu writers wrote poems to deliberately create emotions for the sake of creation. How do you know they are like this? Because the "Book of Songs" was produced because the poets had accumulated resentment and injustice in their hearts, so they sang it to satirize those in power. This is to create literary and artistic works to express their emotions. Later generations of Ci Fu writers and their ilk had no emotional stagnation in their hearts, but they freely used exaggerated literary techniques to gain fame and reputation. This was to create emotions for the sake of creation. Therefore, works written for the purpose of expressing emotions should have concise and true language; works written for the purpose of composing emotions should have complicated words and be vague and distorted. However, later authors used exaggerated language, ignored true feelings, abandoned the tradition of the ancient Book of Songs, and followed the shortcomings of modern poetry. As a result, works expressing true feelings became increasingly rare, while chapters that one-sidedly pursued gorgeous words became more and more common. Therefore, some people are keen on high-ranking officials and generous salaries, but they vaguely sing about the secluded life in the countryside; they are always concerned about busy and mediocre government affairs, but they vaguely describe the tastes beyond the dust. There is no real feeling at all, what I wrote is exactly the opposite of what I thought. Peaches and plums never boast. People will naturally step on paths under the trees because there are fruits on the branches. It is said that the orchids planted by men cannot emit fragrance because they do not have delicate emotions. Things as small as plants and trees still rely on emotions and fruits, not to mention articles, which are based on expressing emotions and aspirations. The works he writes are completely contrary to his own aspirations. Is such a work worthy of imitation? Therefore, the purpose of using literary talent in consecutive words is to express thoughts; if the literary grace is superficial and the words are hypocritical, then the ideological content will be obscured and become more blurred.