Talent should be difficult to praise a few men, but today, whoever is outstanding comes from Du Fu's "Play is six quatrains" in the Tang Dynasty.
Du Fu in Tang Dynasty: The play is six quatrains.
Yu Xin's articles were more mature in his later years, and his pen was superb and vigorous, like a tide, with ease. People today laugh at him and blame his works. If Yu Xin is still alive, I'm afraid he will really regard you as an afterlife.
"Lu" and "Lu" are the highest achievements of their creation under the conditions of that time. After the life of your generation has all turned to dust, nothing will hurt the torrent flowing to the endless river.
You old literati, in the long river of history, are insignificant, so you can only be extinct, but the four outstanding figures, such as rivers, will be immortal. The ridges of Long Hu Wen are all controlled by the monarch. You can see Er Cao through the calendar.
Your talent should be hard to surpass these people. Who can surpass it now? Or look at the emerald orchid, the whale in the blue ocean.
You should learn to love the ancients, but you can't despise people like Yu Xin and Si Jie, and ask them to be consistent in love and words. If you want to catch up with Qu Yuan and Song Yu in your heart, you must have the spirit and ability to keep pace with them, otherwise, they will follow in the footsteps of the lost source and frivolous in the Qi and Liang Dynasties.
There is no doubt that those frivolous people should inherit the excellent tradition of predecessors and learn from each other and should not be separated. Distinguish the poems in the book that are not well-formed, cut them out, learn the traditional elegance of the Book of Songs, and learn that the wise move forward, and the more teachers there are, this is your real teacher.
Creation background: The Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties were the transitional stages of China literature from plain to brilliant. During this period, Li Ci and melody developed rapidly, and the poet made great achievements in the exploration of poetic forms and language skills.
This created conditions for the overall prosperity of Tang poetry. On the other hand, there was a bad tendency in the literature of the Six Dynasties to emphasize form over content, especially after the appearance of the court of Qi and Liang Dynasties, the poetic style became more decadent and powerless.
Therefore, the acceptance and criticism of the Six Dynasties literature by the poets in the Tang Dynasty is an extremely arduous and complicated subject. When Qi and Liang Yusheng were still ruling the early Tang poetry, they first put forward the idea of restoring ancient ways, followed by Li Bai, creating a new situation in Tang poetry.
The trend of "serving the people of China but keeping their feet on the ground" has been reversed, but some "descendants" and "Ercao" who have no opinions and take their ears as their eyes have gone to the other extreme. They seek for sound and shadow, but they want to completely deny the literature of the Six Dynasties and point the attack at Yu Xin and the four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty.
Yu Xin summed up the literary achievements in the Six Dynasties, especially his poems with neat sentence patterns and harmonious rhythm, as well as lyric poems written in poetic language, which played a direct leading role in regular poems, Yuefu songs and parallel prose in the Tang Dynasty. In the eyes of the Tang people, he is the most representative writer among the poets close to the Tang Dynasty, so it is easy to take him as the focus of attention.
As far as the four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty are concerned, although they are not satisfied with the "official style" based on "strange charm", their main contribution is the inheritance and development of the artistic skills of the Six Dynasties and the establishment and consolidation of the modern poetry system.
This has also become an excuse for those who are "good at the ancient times and close to the ancient times" to say that they are "not as coquettish as the Han and Wei Dynasties". How to evaluate Yu Xin and the four outstanding poets was the focus of debate in the poetry circle at that time. Therefore, in the second year of Shang Yuan in Tang Suzong (76 1), Du Fu wrote "Play as Six Jueju" and expressed his views.