In view of the modern fate of Yongjia School, modern Wenzhou intellectuals learned the ideological essence from Yongjia School literature and made creative transformation in the modern situation. As Chen said, "since the transaction, the atmosphere has changed a little. Shallow people talk about western learning, plagiarize and lose their cards, and turn to poetry and books, seeking to integrate Chinese and Western, and become the cover of a generation of Confucian scholars." My husband ruled China as a saint for 4,000 years, but he was shocked by the utilitarian view of foreign tyrants. Isn't the decline of Confucianism our fault? ("Introduction to Chen Zhelu and Lian Xiao's Service to the Country", page 5 1 1 Chen Fu Chen Ji), it can be said that "connecting the past and the present, applying what they have learned" is the ideological soul of Yongjia School in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Ye Shi believes that this is the return to the Confucian "Tao Standard System" (see Ye Shi and He Jun's "Tao Standard System"). Therefore, it can be said that the case of Yongjia school's modern fate shows some existing laws of Confucianism in various situations. The school of poetry in China in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty represents a tendency of poetry creation in the late Southern Song Dynasty. The Four Spirits of Yongjia refers to four poets who grew up in Yongjia (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang): Zhao Xu (word), Ji Xu (word Lingyuan), Zhao Shixiu (word Lingxiu) and Weng Juan (word Lingshu). Because they all come from the gate of Ye Shi of Yongjia school, and their words or numbers all have the word "spirit", they are called Yongjia Four Spirits. Of these four people, Zhao Xu and Weng Juan are cloth-clad, while Ji Xu and Zhao Shixiu have been junior officials. Their poetic style inherited the poetic style of the late Tang Dynasty, and they chose the path of the late Tang poets Jia Dao and Yao He, demanding to write wild, carefree and boring with fresh and engraved words. The poetic style is characterized by inheriting the traditions of landscape poets and pastoral poets, and being satisfied with the leisure life of arrogant pastoral and sentimental spring. In art, he can also deliberately seek work, avoid using allusions, and still paint in a simple way, ignoring the ancient style and emphasizing the modern style, especially the five laws. It even requires that the number of words in the whole poem should not exceed 40 words. To a great extent, it corrected the habit of Jiangxi poets to take learning as poetry. Their achievements were extremely limited, but they were widely reflected in the poetry circles at that time.
"Yongjia Four Spirits" is a unique school of poetry in the Southern Song Dynasty. For predecessors, it reformed Jiangxi Poetry School and got rid of its disadvantages. Yes, later, it started the Jianghu Poetry School, and then innovated and developed. The development of Song poetry is summarized as "four changes" in the preface to the Chronology of Song Poetry, and the third change is from "four masters" such as Lu You to "Yongjia Four Spirits". The poems of "Four Spirits" are not "chilling and lamenting", nor are they far away from social reality, but only reveal "narrow psychology". It should have a high position in the history of poetry in Song Dynasty. The evaluation of its cognitive value and aesthetic value, especially its active use of the world, needs to break through the long-standing thinking mode and increase the awareness of pluralism and tolerance.
When the "Four Spirits" appeared, the influence of Jiangxi Poetry School had gradually weakened. Subjectively, the "Four Spirits" also want to break the barriers of Jiangxi Poetry School, learn from Jia Yao and use less classics. , all have the intention of running counter to Jiangxi poetry school. Ye Shi believes that their poetic style is a return to Tang poetry. In fact, with the ability of "four spirits", it is essentially just because of dissatisfaction with Jiangxi's poetic style that it returned to the old road of advocating late Tang style in the early Song Dynasty, reflecting the typical Song tune. Yongjia Kunqu Opera is one of the ancient operas in China, which was formed on the basis of Yongjia Zaju, a southern opera, and absorbed the advantages of Kunshan dialect. It is a local opera popular in southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian, and a genre of Kunqu opera. Because it is produced in Yongjia County, it is called Yongjia Kunju Opera, or "Yong Kun" for short.
Yongjia Kunqu Opera originated from Southern Opera, which was also sung in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It is developed from Song Zaju, Geisha (a popular singing form in Song Dynasty), Song Ci and ballads. Its performance is simple and rough, the lines are bright and smooth, and the life is full of breath. Up to now, it still retains the charm of Southern Opera, which is a rare and precious heritage in the history of China traditional opera. The explanation of Kunqu Opera in Ci Hai and China Dictionary of Traditional Opera and Quyi is: "It is generally believed that Kunqu Opera is the earliest mature form of China opera." Yu Zhenfei, a famous Kunqu master, once commented: "It is better to live in Kunming than to live in Kunming." .