I still remember when I was in college, I vowed that the greatest pursuit of life was aestheticism. The beauty of nature, humanity and science is breathtaking. Considering this, studying in thousands of books and taking Wan Li Road are the only choices.
The beauty of nature is approachable, and more beauty needs to be explored, such as classical music, museum paintings, mathematical physics, such as China's classical poems.
Mr Ye Jiaying loves poetry. He loves to go to Canadian schools for leave, but he wants to go back to China to continue teaching and pass on the beauty of ancient poetry. And her great love deeply touched me through her words. Comparing this book to a poem is a good poem.
Another surprise is that I found chanting. It turns out that the ancients read poems by chanting, every tone of Chinese has meaning, and every poet is a composer! I found some hymns online, such as this sword, which is really beautiful. After several cycles, when I went out to take the subway, my ears were still ringing.
Because we are emotional animals.
The change and transfer of things inspired our hearts, so we had feelings, so we left poems. The ancients mourned more than died. It is really terrible for a person to live numb without love. The popular word now is fun. Being an interesting person is a person with a fresh heart and a good appreciation of the beauty of life.
Read poetry, let your insensitive heart touch fresh feelings, and don't die in the reinforced concrete forest. There is a feeling of touching the world, and life has become more and more profound. Your heart may not be so sensitive, so look at how others feel the grandeur of life. Slowly, our hearts will return to their original keenness and liveliness.
Ye Jiaying Cloud:
This question is equivalent to, what is the most important feature in poetry?
The power of being moved.
That is to say, the composition from primary school should have true feelings.
Where does emotion come from?
This thing is not only a natural thing, but also a variety of things in the world, such as being demoted, valued, loving being a father, meeting old friends and so on. Will cause inner shock. In addition, even the imaginary things, listening to a story and watching a movie, are moving, so the emotions move in the middle, but the form is in the words, the emotions are trapped in the heart, and the words are poetry.
After having feelings, how to express them? Don't you often encounter "have something to say"? Summarizing the ways of writing poems in ancient times, there are roughly four tones, which actually correspond to the relationship between things and feelings. That is, the heart is blessed. Say what you see and describe the world in your eyes. Actually, you already have feelings. This is the power of observation. Comparison comes from the heart and things, and there is an emotion in the heart. If you don't say it directly, put it mildly, such as comparison. The so-called similes and metaphors are all better than. Xing, from things to heart. Start describing a scene, and then feelings will naturally arise.
Therefore, the key to poetry is not the exquisiteness of words, but the ruthlessness and tasteless. Playing with words can't arouse people's * * *, and it will soon spread.
A good poet can write his inner feelings with the most appropriate words. If this poem not only expresses its own feelings properly, but also touches the readers, then it is a good poem. If you can't move the reader, it is a failed poem.
The reader's contact has two layers:
One is direct contact, one-on-one Moved by the author's feelings. No matter how many years have passed, I still feel the poet's heart at that time. This is the power of words.
Second, move readers to fill in the blanks. Ancient poetry is like Chinese painting, with a lot of blank space. Blank, so there is imagination and association. There is no way to go because of the winding water flow in the mountains, and a mountain village suddenly appears in the willow-green flower bay. Why is it good? Different readers can have different explanations, corresponding to different readers' hearts.
A big difference between China poets and western poets is that great poets in China often spend their whole lives writing poems, while I write my own heart by hand. Poetry conforms to their temperament and emotions. Therefore, to appreciate the beauty of their poems to the greatest extent, we must understand the era in which poets lived and the background of poetry creation. For example, Du Fu, the greatest poet, can't appreciate its exquisiteness without reading more than 100 songs.
In addition, to appreciate the beauty of poetry, there is a very important but almost lost method: chanting.
People who can recite basic good poems and bad poems will know by reciting them. The tone rhythm of Chinese can only be truly reflected by chanting. The ancients wrote and read poems by reciting, not reciting. The four tones of Chinese itself are music notation, but it is a pity that chanting is almost lost, and there is no important tradition of appreciating the beauty of Chinese. I listened to the online recitation of The Book of Songs the other day. It was beautiful!
The so-called familiar with 300 Tang poems, can sing without writing poems. The chanting here is chanting.
So, Teacher Ye even told us how to learn to write poetry. In short, recite more poems, memorize them, and then write poems slowly.