In this book, Mr. Wang uses comparative methods to explain the characteristics of poetry from different angles, such as Chinese and Western poetry, poetry and song and dance, emotion and environment, internal and external. This runs through the essence of Taoist Laozi's thought, "Everything in the world is born, and nothing is born". It adheres to a simple and dialectical method to understand poetry, rather than studying poetry in isolation, and enriches the study of poetry by comparing, discovering characteristics and exploring connections.
The contrast between thoughts and feelings is inevitable. In poetry, every word is based on emotion, "sing a word, break a few stems". Poets try to refine words in their poetry creation and seek the most appropriate words for their unique feelings. Du Fu writes metrical poems and ponders carefully, but seeks "every sentence has a law of a text, and every sentence has a law of a sentence". The most direct way for us to appreciate poetry is language, and the implied meaning of words is unreasonable, let alone the interest of poetry.
Perhaps influenced by the appreciation of poetry on weekdays, people will have such an understanding of language, thought and emotion: language is the exterior of emotion, and emotion is the core of language; Language is the form and emotion is the essence. Therefore, the extended understanding is that there is emotion before language, and the relationship between them is judged by order.
Mr. Zhu Guangqian opened the fog for us with the reality of life. In the past, students in private schools recited books and often swayed from side to side. If they stop suddenly, they can't recite any more. Mr. Lu Xun also had a similar description in "From Baicaoyuan to San Tan Yin Yue", which I met many times when checking students' reciting poems. Mr. Lu went on to explain: "Thought not only uses the brain, but all organs are moving. Originally, the characteristic of biology is that some parts are closely related to the whole, and some actions will be affected by the whole. As the saying goes, "It's really interesting and reasonable to think about it carefully." In order to fully explain, Mr. Wang also analyzed from the physiological point of view, "When the instinctive tendency is moved, the flow of nerves spreads to various organs, causing various physiological changes and psychological repercussions, so there is emotion. There are crying and laughing, frowning and blushing on the face. Those scattered on the limbs are trembling, dancing, excitement and depression. And those scattered on the lips and teeth are all language. ..... The physiological changes such as language, laughter and trembling dance are parallel and consistent. Language is just one of many physiological changes when emotions are aroused. "As a result, the view that there is a sequential relationship between emotion and language cannot be established. However, the internal and external relationship between emotion and language still exists. As "Preface to Mao's Poems" said, "A poet, who has ambition, has ambition in his heart and speaks with poetry. Emotion moves in the middle and is formed in words. "Tracing back to the origin of poetry, language is not the only form of poetry. The original form is just "dancing". At that time, the foil language had no independent and complete meaning, or just a few sighs. It was not until later that poetry was separated from music and dance, which gradually produced rich language expressions.
In this case, in poetry, language and writing are not exactly the same. Poetry grew up by word of mouth, and it was not until the court poets were ordered to collect folk songs that they wrote it into words and formed words.
This reminds me of "writing in the countryside" mentioned by Mr Fei Xiaotong in Native China, and it is unfair to judge villagers as fools by literacy. First, literacy cannot represent all cultures. Second, the villagers live in a familiar environment. Face to face (word of mouth) is a more convenient and direct way of emotional expression and information exchange. Why bother to seek further? Similarly, the words in poetry can't fully represent the language, but can only record poetry. Written record is the end of poetry, not an extension! Just because you can recite poems doesn't mean you know.
In fact, refining Chinese characters is to know all the potential power and taste feelings in the language image.