Huang Xiaodan is a professor of ancient culture at Jiangnan University, and Mr. Ye Jiaying is full of affection for poetry and life.
As a Chinese teacher in senior high school, especially in senior three, I deal with poetry almost every day, but I seldom settle down to appreciate the taste and perceive the poet's life with my own life. More often, I dismember poetry into fragments of meaning and exchange impetuous and utilitarian interpretation for myself and students.
I have also seen some poetry appreciation, but I only saw the poet, not the appreciator himself. In fact, when we read poetry, we are not deciphering the poet's world, but enlightening, comforting or settling ourselves.
People have loneliness, boredom, pain, birth and death, and everyone has their own coping style. Every philosopher and religious scientist can create a logically self-consistent and self-sufficient world in which people can find peace of mind.
Few people can find a path from ancient poetry, perhaps because the threshold of poetry is too high. People need to calm down, slow down and brush away the noise in order to appreciate the richness and beauty of this world.
The author is explaining life rather than poetry. Follow Huang Xiaodan, step by step into poetry, into the pastoral of the soul, to discover the pure beauty of art and enjoy the poetic happiness of life.