Appreciation and Translation of Zhao Yi's Poems

On Five Poems

Zhao Yi in Qing Dynasty

Full of energy, the workers strive for new things every day.

Promote 500 years of new ideas and a thousand years of feeling.

The poems of Li Bai and Du Fu have been read by thousands of people, and it is nothing new to read them now.

There are many talented people all over the country, and their poems and popularity will last for hundreds of years.

Only one eye must be independent, and there are many art parks.

When dwarves go to the theater, they always chat with others.

I learned to speak English when I was young, but I didn't learn enough.

It takes three minutes and seven days to study before you get old.

I can't freely understand the poor through poetry, because I don't think poetry has been created yet.

Bear fish laugh at themselves and are greedy. He wants to work hard, but he is afraid of poverty.

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one

Both nature and human society are constantly developing, and new things and new ideas emerge one after another.

Even if you can advance the 500-year-old new work, 1000 will still make you feel outdated.

Secondly,

The works of Li Bai and Du Fu are praised by thousands of people, but they are nothing new to read.

Generations of talented people have emerged in our country, and their poetry and popularity will be spread for hundreds of years.

third

There are different opinions in art gardens, including good and bad, right and wrong, different shades, and sometimes the views on the same issue are varied. What is needed at this time is a unique vision, with its own perspective and viewpoint.

If your knowledge level is low, it's like a dwarf watching a play. You can't see anything, you don't have a clear idea about the quality of the play, you just agree.

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Du Li: Li Bai and Du Fu.

Talented people come forth in large numbers: the country produces talented people from generation to generation.

Coquettish: refers to the "national style" in The Book of Songs and Qu Yuan's Li Sao. Later, the poem that controlled poetry writing was called "Sao". This refers to the lofty status and far-reaching influence of "gifted scholars" who have made achievements in literature.

One-eyed: original opinion and outstanding eyesight.

Art garden: art world, art field.

Orpiment: Celosia cristata, yellow and red, can be used as pigment. The ancients used yellow paper to write, and if they made mistakes, they erased them with orpiment before writing. Later, I used the metaphor of nonsense.

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Secondly,

The first and second sentences point out that even great poets like Li Bai and Du Fu have historical limitations in their poems.

The third and fourth sentences call for innovative consciousness, hoping that poetry writing should have the spirit of the times and personality characteristics, be bold and innovative, and oppose conformism.

The world often uses this poem to praise talented people, or to show that a new generation replaces the old, or to show that the rise of a new generation is like rolling the Yangtze River, which is unstoppable.

This reflects the author's view that the most important thing in poetry creation is innovation. He believes that poetry develops with the times, and poets also demand new changes when creating. Not only are the works of the ancients the best, but every era has its own style of poets. Write that future generations inherit predecessors. Although the language of this poem is straightforward, it has profound implications. "Jiangshan has talented people and has been leading the way for a hundred years." One sentence tells the theme and center of literary creation with the changes of the times.

Zhao Yi's poems advocate innovation and oppose mechanical mode. He reviewed the achievements of poets Li Bai and Du Fu. From the perspective of historical development, each era has its leading figures, and it is not necessary to follow the ancients. Poetry should also keep pace with the times.

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This is a poem in which the author expresses his artistic thoughts. It is pointed out that literary criticism should advocate original opinions, rather than conformity.

The author hit the nail on the head: to comment on the quality of poetry, we should have our own opinions and opinions, not like some people in the literary garden. Marxist philosophy holds that in order to have a unique vision and deeply understand and grasp the essence of things, we must first possess a large number of perceptual materials in practice; Instead, we should be good at the processing of perceptual materials, "removing the rough and selecting the fine, removing the false and retaining the true, from the outside to the inside", and realize the leap and development from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge.

The first two issues appeared in various art gardens, with different opinions. What is needed at this time is a unique vision and your own perspective and viewpoint. Of course, this is not easy. You need a deep education and experience to become a "master".

The last two sentences are an image metaphor, which means a short man watching a play. When the dwarf was watching the play, his eyes were blocked by the person in front. Where can he see the scene on the stage? When the play is over, everyone can say it together and only echo others. This is like our own view of "art garden". If our academic ability is shallow and we can't "have only one eye", we can only "talk with people". The author is firmly opposed to this parrot-like behavior.

This poem inherits the tradition of discussing poetry by poetic genre, with outstanding opinions and smooth reasoning. The whole poem seems to come out easily, but it has extremely incisive and profound theoretical connotation. Li Bai and Du Fu were called poetic immortals and were revered in the Tang Dynasty. For example, Han Yu was only three years old when he died as an official. Later, I became familiar with Du Li's poems and wrote a poem, including "Du Li's article is here, shining brightly" and "I was born in the back, looking far away", which can be said to be admirable. Later generations, especially the Ming and Qing dynasties, worshipped Du Li as never before, and it is generally believed that poetry has declined since the Tang Dynasty, and each generation is not as good as the next. Some people even put forward that poetry has gone from bad to worse since the Book of Songs and there has been no poetry since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which occupies a dominant position in the poetry theory of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

At first, the poets represented by Du Li outlined this common phenomenon, and pointed out that their poems are brilliant and passed down from generation to generation, and their lofty status and popularity have been told by every family. Then he suddenly turned to writing, sharply pointing out other disadvantages brought by this situation: familiarity and fluency not only make people feel that there is nothing new in content and form, but also vaguely imply that this phenomenon has hindered the innovation of later poets to some extent, and its profound insights, spicy brushwork and thoughtful thinking are thought-provoking. The first two sentences are not enough to belittle Du Li, but only to pave the way for the following, that is, to turn to the expression of the theme.