The Beauty of Western Poetry

As the earliest collection of poems in China, The Book of Songs can be said to be the source of classical literature in China. Mr. Lin Xingzhai once said in the book Exploration of Artistic Charm: "Almost all the basic emotional activities of human beings are expressed in some form in the Book of Songs, which provides a model for poets of all ages to express various emotions."

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Reading the Book of Songs with a "root-seeking" heart, it is not difficult to find that many lyric paradigms it has set for later generations are displayed in front of us like stars.

First, the type of "pregnant with people under the moon" From reading Li Bai's "Thinking about a Quiet Night" as a child, we know that the moon is a common image in ancient Chinese literary works, representing thoughts and pinning feelings. Later, I read Zhang's "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" and said, "Who saw the moon at first sight by the river, and when did the river shine on people at the beginning of the year?" It also makes us feel that the moon hanging high in the sky has such a close relationship with human feelings.

However, have you ever wondered who looked at the moon with such amorous feelings for the first time, and under the caress of the soft moonlight, missed the people in my heart? Who was the first to give warm poetry to the cold planet? Who brings those things that are far away from us into our lives and close to our hearts?

Reading the Book of Songs with the mentality of "tracing the source", it seems that we can find the answer from an article in Martin.

Be pregnant under the moon

Chen Chu is a poem about missing your lover in the first month. Fang Yurun's "Book of Songs" originally said: "From the meaning of imaginary people, the beauty of the first month is vividly expressed." The artistic conception of the poem is vague, and the poet begins to miss his lover when he sees the bright moon.

The moon hangs alone in the boundless night sky, shining on the earth and covering everything, giving people a feeling of vastness and emptiness. The moonlight lit up the beauty in the poet's heart. The leisurely pace, slim figure and soft waist all affect the poet's heart and attract readers. That woman may be close at hand, but in the dim moonlight, she looks so far away, so blurred, so dreamy.

At the same time, the mood of this poem is melancholy. Through the direct expression of his feelings, he shows the poet's worries and troubles, full of thoughtful but invisible regrets. We say that every poem should have its own artistic conception and artistic conception. The artistic conception created by the poem Moon Out is vague and melancholy. Once this tone was laid, it set an example for the works of chanting the full moon in later generations.

Literary works describing people pregnant under the moon in past dynasties can be said to be a backlog, such as "the bright moon shines on my bed" in Nineteen Ancient Poems;

Zhang Jiuling's "Looking at the Moon and Thinking Far": "The bright moon is full at sea, and the horizon is * * * at this time";

Li Bai's farewell to Juba: "If you see the horizon and miss your old friend, you can see the bright moon on the Huanxi stone";

Du Fu's dream is too white: "I wake up, and the moonlight is on the rafters, looking at the color hesitantly";

Chang Jian's "Hiding in Wang Changling": I'm still soft and relaxed, and I'll be my childlike friend.

In modern poetry, people express their feelings by moonlight. No matter how they change their angles and languages, these poems always show vague artistic conception and melancholy mood. Poetry from ancient times to the present seems to be covered by moonlight, which makes readers more moved and produces * * * songs. Just like the moon itself, it has existed since ancient times, but the situation is always new.

2. Feng Wei Bo Xi is a poem in which a woman misses her husband who took part in an army expedition. There is a cloud in the poem: "From the east of Bo, my head is like a cornice. Without ointment, who is suitable for use! "

Yu Guanying translated in his Book of Songs: "Since my brother went to the East, my hair has been disheveled. Where is the lack of sesame oil, who should I beautify? "

As the saying goes, "women like themselves." Now, those who like themselves go to the front to fight, and they can't meet for a long time. A woman who has loved beauty for a long time has no intention of dressing up. She can't and won't let go of the lovesickness that breaks her heart, so she can only live with it.

The word "Who is in the right place" vividly expresses the hero's feeling that he is unwilling to do anything because of missing, and even forgets women's favorite dressing and dressing in the daily boudoir, with many complaints and emotions, which sets a classic artistic model for the poem of in my heart forever.

Who is suitable?

In fact, Mr. Qian Zhongshu involved in the study of the artistic paradigm of The Book of Songs in Sixty Poems by Mao. He said in "Bo Xi": "According to Xu Gan's" Thinking in the Room ":"If you are a gentleman, the mirror can't cure it ";

Or Du Fu's "Wedding Farewell":' Luo Yan stopped applying and washed away the red makeup.' That is, he believes that the above poems are a continuation of the paradigm of "who is comfortable". Today, it seems that countless literati have inherited and developed this feeling in later generations. The most famous is Cao Zhi's "Seven Wounded Poems": "Whoever pastes is tolerant, Byakki Smoker is dark."

In the Tang Dynasty, there was Du Fu's "Divorce": "Luo Yan doesn't give anything, red makeup washes on you". In the late Tang Dynasty, the literati wrote in Bodhisattva Man: "The eyebrows are too lazy to draw, and the makeup is too late to wash", and the sadness is beyond words.

However, in the Song Dynasty, this kind of emotion was most vividly expressed by Li Qingzhao's "Recalling Feng Tai to Blow the Flute": "The fragrance is cold and golden, the waves are red, the hair is loose, the treasure is full of dust, and the curtain is hooked." The incense burner is too lazy to point, too lazy to fold, too lazy to comb my hair, and doesn't even wipe the dust on the dressing box. These are the truest, most appropriate and most vivid portraiture of parting.

There is a saying in China's aesthetics that "modification is human", and Shakespeare once said: "Clothing can often express personality. Decoration is a coat covering the mind, and the behavior of posture and behavior is a set of light beams reflected on the coat through the mind. "

A person's appearance modification and attitude and behavior are the reflection of his psychological characteristics and ideological character. Therefore, grasping a person's makeup description can naturally show his mentality and personality, and receive the effect of seeing the whole leopard at a glance.

A woman's mind is the most detailed, changeable and elusive, and it is even more difficult to express it in words. Later writers naturally inherited such vivid expressions in the Book of Songs when they wanted to express their love for each other in my heart.

3. Jian Qin's novel On the Water Side has always been regarded as a rare masterpiece and a very famous one in The Book of Songs. Not only has it been translated into many foreign languages, but it has also been adapted into songs and widely sung. The reason is inseparable from the artistic conception characteristics of creation and the emotional characteristics of expression.

The poem begins with "White Dew is Frost", creating a slightly sad realm in the emptiness and loneliness. It not only writes the sad scenery in the late autumn morning beautifully, but also points out the time and place of the poem.

The next key sentence "The so-called Iraqi people are on the other side of the water" conveys that hopeless helplessness in a very simple but vivid way. The "Iraqi" in the poet's mind obviously seems to be visible, but from upstream to downstream, it is always out of reach, so there is a feeling of helplessness and emptiness in the poem.

The other side of the river

We all know in life that the harder we try to get something, the more we want it, and the things we desperately want but can't get will make us feel deeply helpless.

I like a sentence on the lips of western aestheticians very much: "When fate is suppressed and obstacles are blocked, people's psychological activities are blocked, so they miss the past before blocking more." This kind of mourning is more intense and aggressive. "

Because of the similarity of human nature, the intense and striking "homesickness" needs no more description by the poet. Simply using "On the Water Side" to explain that "fate is suppressed and cut off" will make readers feel great helplessness like poets.

In Nineteen Ancient Poems: "Flowers are blooming in the water, but there are no words in the veins" and "There are many differences, and the river is shallow", which well explains the poetic landscape constructed by "on the water side". "High light flashing; My thoughts are getting deeper and deeper. I lift the curtains, look up and sigh, and look at the moon, like a flower, rising from the clouds. Li Bai's "Sauvignon Blanc" further expands the feeling of "being on the water side".

In addition, Ouyang Xiu's "Walking on the Sand": "The height of the building is not close to the dangerous fence, and the spring mountains are everywhere, and pedestrians are even outside the spring mountains", which also expresses this realm. At the end of the overgrown Yuan Ye, there is a faint spring mountain, and the person I miss is beyond it. The mountain blocked the view of the boudoir, but her heart drifted away from her sweetheart and flew to the end of the world.

Poets also express the infatuation and sadness of boudoir people through that kind of "oppression and obstruction of fate"

There are many such lyric paradigms in The Book of Songs. It is a great pleasure to read the Book of Songs with an aesthetic vision and a "root-seeking" heart, and to appreciate the purest and most beautiful feelings in Poem 300.