Jingxi
Tang Dynasty · Du Xunhe
People in Jingxi are cautious about the dangerous rocks, and never hear of anyone overturning them all the year round.
But it is a place where there are no rocks in the level water, and it is often said that there is sinking.
Appreciation
As follows
The poem is written with twists and turns and the analysis is thorough. The short twenty-eight words contain profound philosophy of life and exquisite dialectics of life. When Jiang Kui, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, summed up the experience of his predecessors in poetry creation, he used four sublime to illustrate excellent works:
“(1) Obstacles and practicality are called rationale sublime;
(2) ) When things happen unexpectedly, it is said that the intention is wonderful;
(3) To write something subtle, like seeing the bottom of a deep pool, it is said that the thought is wonderful; when it is neither strange nor strange, when the literary talent is peeled off, and one knows how wonderful it is but does not know why it is wonderful, it is called natural Gao Miao."
Du Xunhe's poem "Jingxi" is a masterpiece of Li Gao Miao. On the surface, the logic of the poem seems incomprehensible. Because when boating on the water, it seems unreasonable to not tip over when encountering danger, but to overturn when the current is flat. However, if we look at the essence through phenomena, we will find that the essence of greatness is hidden in this unreasonable phenomenon. Because the boat is driven by people, the load and sinking of the boat does not depend on the smoothness of the road, but on the condition of the people. When the stream is dangerous and the rocks are dangerous, everyone is alert, and they will be as safe as Mount Tai; when there are no rocks in the level flow, it is easy to slack off, and the boat will often capsize and people will die. This is the brilliance of Du Xunhe's poetic analysis of "Jingxi".