The fifth volume of Dong Zhongshu's Spring and Autumn Stories, the essence. "Da Shi" means accurate annotation or explanation. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it became a common practice to take the Book of Songs out of context, that is, everyone took what he needed and owned it "out of context" and said "I" in the old saying. Therefore, the meaning of quoted poems varies from person to person.
In art appreciation, because the meaning of a poem is often not revealed, and the psychological and emotional state of the appreciator is different, the same poem is often interpreted differently by different appreciators. Therefore, "poetry fails to express its meaning" is extended to aesthetic differences in later generations.
Extended data
1, the ambiguity of poetry theme
As the representative work of Li Shangyin, Jinse is particularly striking because of its most difficult theme ambiguity. Some people think it is a love poem for a servant girl named "Jinse" in Linghu Chu family, others say it is a mourning poem for the late wife Wang, and others think it is an event poem.
In addition, some people even refer to it as a political encounter that alludes to their unhappy life, and so on. In fact, as the western proverb says, "There is 1000 Hamlet for every 1000 readers", or the ancients also said that "there is no poem to express".
2. The openness of poetic language structure promotes the formation of misreading.
For a poem, the particularity and openness of language structure make the constructed image multifaceted, which itself has a "potential meaning system" or "information capacity". Vertically, with the passage of history, people in different times will have different feelings about the same work, and changes in aesthetic taste will also lead to differences in artistic evaluation.
Horizontally speaking, once a poem is published, it must face all readers. When they face readers of different classes, different cultural backgrounds, different aesthetic angles and different aesthetic tastes, they show the utmost restraint and flexibility.
3. The concentration of poems leads to different interpretations.
Language refinement is one of the important features of poetry, and the main form of expression is sentence condensation. In ancient poetry, there are some common methods, such as missing topics, using allusions, frequent analogies, etc., which will lead to the result of "meaning without words"
4. The polysemy of classical Chinese words leads to the diversification of understanding.
Some words in ancient poetry have many meanings, but in people's appreciation, there will be several results: one is "correct reading" and the other is "misreading", including "right and wrong" and "anti-wrong". The phenomenon of "correct reading" is gratifying, while the phenomenon of "misreading" should be treated differently, which can neither be blindly denied nor fully affirmed.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Poetry without Expression
References:
China Writers Network-Wang Chunlin: The Fate and Spiritual World of Intellectuals during the Great Historical Turning Point