if you really like it, you won't care whether it is useful or not.
if you are worried about its uselessness, it means that you haven't really liked it.
not only ancient poems, but also all spiritual products are the same.
is it useful to like singing? If you can become a professional singer, it's certainly useful, but what's the use if you just like to hum?
is it useful to like calligraphy? If you can become everyone, it is certainly useful to sell a word at a price, but what's the use if you just have nothing to do and write by yourself?
is it useful to like playing the piano? If you can put on a performance, it's certainly useful, but what's the use of just playing at home and killing time?
someone will definitely come out to refute it. I sang songs to vent my feelings, I practiced calligraphy to recuperate my temperament, and I played the piano to improve my temperament. How can you say it's useless?
But in secular thinking, these feelings, temperament and temperament are "useless".
They can't bring visible and tangible benefits in real life, so they are easily judged as useless by real people.
and ancient poetry, just like singing, calligraphy, playing the piano, is the same way of emotional divergence. If you become everyone, you can give lectures and take variety shows in exchange for fame and benefits, which is of course secular use. However, the demand in this area is too small, and it is as rare as other top writers in literary and artistic creation.
Poetry is a verse with its own musical rhythm, which has opened a technical distance from ordinary literature. In particular, ancient poetry, because of the gap between classical Chinese, has produced a mysterious aesthetic feeling. In other words, compared with other themes of modern literature, the "uselessness" of modern poetry and classical Chinese poetry are even more useless because of their historicity, that is, the extinct museum.
it's useless, and there are many rules and regulations, so of course it's not taken seriously.
but as the saying goes, "nothing wants nothing", how can we know that we really like something?
Only when it is completely useless to me, I still like it, want to learn it, follow its rules and creative methods, deeply understand and develop its artistic conception, and persistently do what I can for its survival.
this is the true love of ancient poetry.
I like not only its writing Gu Zhuo, but also its ethereal artistic conception, its heavy history, but all of it, and its cultural consciousness in all aspects.
We can go deep into it, gain and grow, or absorb nutrition from the works of our predecessors within our favorite cultural framework, achieve the cultural characteristics of our own works, and continue to update, change and spread this cultural tradition.
From a realistic perspective, understanding literary and artistic creation on the spiritual level of human beings, except for erotic novels that stimulate the senses, other themes, genres, artistic conception and meanings are "useless".
China's ancient poems, because of the popularization of compulsory education and the convenience of China's separation of literature, history and philosophy, have always been adhered to their love, although they are of no use to the world, interests and the future.
But for poets who grew up in traditional culture, liking ancient poetry is to find their own spiritual home.
useless use is great use.
it's a heavy responsibility, so you don't have to bear it.
a long way to go, but no regrets.