How to evaluate Ma Yifu's poems?

Ma Yifu (1883 ~ 1967), a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was an important thinker, poet and calligrapher in modern China. He was the first person in China to introduce Marx's Das Kapital, one of the early representatives of modern neo-Confucianism, a lyricist of the school song of Zhejiang University, and a former professor of Zhejiang University.

He has profound attainments in ancient philosophy, literature and Buddhism, and is also good at calligraphy. Everyone says that he is a forgotten master. Indeed, people should pay attention to his achievements in philosophy, calligraphy and poetry.

Mr Ma Yifu has made great achievements in poetry. Ma Yifu wrote more than 3,000 poems in his life, which is impressive. However, large quantity does not mean poor quality. Because of his philosophical cultivation and profound foundation in Neo-Confucianism, there are also many mystery poems in his poems. If you read his poems carefully, you will realize the philosophy and enlightenment. Many thoughts in his poems are the combination of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. For example, in the poem "Lushan talks in a dream", "the comfort of the past is in the past, and the comfort of the present is in the present.

Having no place to live in the past and present, and continuing to be self-centered, reflects Mr. Ma's meditation. The existence of matter is closely related to time, and it can be divided into past things, present things and future things according to its combination. Nature in the past is the past, and now is the present. The present and the past will not stay, whether they exist or not, mainly depends on people's hearts. This is the Buddhist ideology.

Another example is the poem about existence in Miscellaneous Feelings: What is the meaning of human existence, so that the heart is like a thing. Who knows what exists? Centrifuges are not canals. Let people return to their original heart and feel the existence.

At the same time, his poems are full of affection. He believes that "poetry is based on emotion", and as a poet, he should be naive and interesting. For example, these words in "Mountain House Selling Summer" say, "Have you ever forgotten to drink? You never got rid of the wind. Human feelings are like water, and heaven is like a bow. " There is also "the tired birds in the forest are singing and there is silence."

The oriole listens to all kinds of tongues, and there are even faint crows, which makes people feel like they are in a summer night. "The stars are a little oblique at dawn, and the cold days in the clouds are like yarn in a cage. The words "no one sees the old tree in the empty courtyard, and the spring breeze blooms alone" spread a deep loneliness.