The antelope hangs on the horn, and there is no trace to be found.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shizhen, an ally in the literary world, put forward the concept of "verve" in the field of poetry, thinking that the best poem is to write verve. What exactly is verve? Simply put, it is actually the realm of antelope hanging horns.

Wang Shizhen gave two examples to illustrate what kind of poetry is a model of antelope. The first one is Li Bai's "Thinking about Sleeping at Night on Niuzhushan Mountain", and the second one is Meng Haoran's "Looking at Lushan Mountain in Xunyang".

The verve of writing is difficult to be quoted, and it is difficult to point directly at people's hearts. It's hard to impress people in an instant. It requires you to calm down and slowly experience, slowly imagine the poet's context, and slowly feel the taste of nothing. You are like a wild animal chasing an antelope, at a loss under a tree.

In his later years, Wang Shizhen's understanding of antelope hanging horns deepened, saying that this truth can not only describe the highest realm of poetry, but also be the highest truth for a gentleman to be a man.

He likes plain poetry and plain life more and more, but it is plain and extraordinary. Plain must contain extraordinary things, and extraordinary things can not be seen through at a glance. They must be vague and obscure. When you try to see clearly, you can't see. When you stop looking at it, it lingers in your heart.