The Aesthetic Implication of Twenty-four Poems

Although scholars of past dynasties have interpreted the contents of Twenty-four Poems from the perspective of overall poetic style, individual appreciation, and specific artistic creation structure, language and techniques, they have reached a very in-depth level, but they have not fundamentally pointed out the core essence of the book. The position of this work in the history of China literature mainly lies in that it distinguishes different types of poetic artistic conception, and more importantly, it reveals the aesthetic essence of poetic artistic conception. With the thinking mode of "comparing things with images and witnessing the existence of Tao", Si Kongtu unified three psychological activities: the philosopher's understanding of life body, the poet's understanding of poetry and the critic's understanding of the provincial capital of poetry, transcending the experience world into reality and reaching the realm of harmony between man and nature.

Si Kongtu's poetic theory mainly emphasizes "thinking and environment", "image outside the image", "scenery outside the scene", "meaning outside the rhyme" and "meaning outside the taste".

The so-called "combination of thought and environment" is the unity of subject and object, rationality and sensibility, and the fusion of inspiration and image in the poet's aesthetic process. The so-called "image outside the image" and "scenery outside the scene" are artistic conceptions that transcend concrete and tangible descriptions and are suggestive and imaginative. The so-called "meaning outside the rhyme" and "meaning outside the taste" are the elegance and charm directly presented by poetry, which is another meaning and more meaning than taste. He is the direct embodiment of this aesthetic ideal. Each capital of Twenty-four Poems is exquisite and profound, full of images, speculation and philosophy. It is a holographic image with or without mutual existence, contrast between reality and reality, harmony between subject and object and poetic harmony. The possibilities it opens up are extremely rich, including "image outside the image", "meaning outside the rhyme" and "meaning outside the taste".

Mr. Sun Shaokang once made a wonderful explanation in the article "On Poems of Si Kongtu", and selected a few articles to taste.

Transcendental conception:?

The spirits of ghosts and gods are just bandits' machines. Such as white clouds, breeze, return. If you travel far away, you will have to face it. A little Taoist spirit will go against custom after all. The mountains are high and the trees are high, and the moss is bright. The more I think about it, the thinner it sounds.

Judging from the cosmology and outlook on life of Laozi and Zhuangzi, Taoism and vulgarity are opposites. Taoism refers to their ideal surreal philosophical realm, while vulgarity is the real life society. Thought is detached from reality and worldly dirt, so that it can return to pure space with the breeze and white clouds. Between mountains and trees, between moss and bright light, people outside the concept live in the same place and recite clear poems, which is wonderful.

"Bold and unconstrained": keep bandits forbidden and swallow wild. It is easy to get mad when you return to gas from the Tao. The sky is stormy and the seamounts are gray. The real strength is full, and everything is around. Call three Chen before, and then lead the phoenix. Xiao ce is six ao, and Zhuo zu fusang.

This boldness is not the boldness of human heroes, but the true expression of "heaven and earth coexist with me, and everything is one with me", and the universe is dead or alive "deformed man" and "real person". This bold spirit comes from the way of nature, and it is the expression of "full of vitality". This bold person is like a fairy in the ancient shooting mountain. "He doesn't eat grains, sucks the wind and drinks dew, rides the clouds and descends dragons, and travels around the world."

With such exquisite and concise words, Twenty-four Poems constructs a magnificent poetic universe and shows a widely praised artistic time and space. It is a theory about poetry, especially poetry, and it is a philosophical and artistic work with high attention all week.