How to understand innovative poetry to have vitality?

China's poetry has a long history. Starting from The Book of Songs and Li Sao in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, after more than a thousand years of development, the poetry of the Tang Dynasty entered its heyday, and the metrical poetry became the most important carrier of the poetry of the Tang Dynasty and later generations. And formed a variety of styles, schools, famous works emerge one after another, and Tang poetry reached an insurmountable peak. After such a great achievement, it has also created an illusion for future generations, that is, reading poetry must read Tang poetry, which is difficult to compare with poetry after the Tang Dynasty. Literary philosophers represented by Li Mengyang and Li Panlong in the Ming Dynasty advocated retro, and advocated that "literature must be in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and poetry must flourish in the Tang Dynasty", which had far-reaching influence. This tendency still had a great influence in the early Qing Dynasty, so that some poets at that time tried their best to imitate the ancients in writing poems. The so-called "speaking for the ancients" is actually "attacking the simulation and affecting the rhythm. When people don't agree with each other, the wild fox is heresy (in Yuan Hongdao). There are fatal problems in this creative thinking: divorced from reality and bound by thought. Therefore, during the Qianlong period, Yuan Mei, Zhao Yi, Zhang Wentao and others launched a tit-for-tat debate on the argument that "poetry must flourish in the Tang Dynasty". Zhao Yi wrote a widely read poem:

Du Li's poems have been handed down, but they are not new today. Talented people come forth in large numbers, generation after generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years.

Zhao Yi (1727— 18 14), a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, was edited by the Hanlin Academy in Qianlong, a historian and poet. He is very knowledgeable and knowledgeable. His poems are profound in content, novel in viewpoint and sharp in writing. His works include Ou Bei Poetry and Painting. Zhao Yi's poems are very insightful. He told an indisputable truth that poetry is the product of the times and has the characteristics of the times. The poems of Li Bai and Du Fu have the characteristics of their times. However, the aesthetic consciousness, aesthetic feeling and aesthetic taste are necessarily different in different times. It goes without saying that the poems of a specific era have their own specific styles. After the heyday of Tang poetry passed, there were good poems and excellent poets in all previous dynasties. Zhao Yi believes that poets need not learn from the ancients, but should create good poems with their own characteristics. Zhao Yi further expounded this truth in another famous quatrain on poetry:

Poets strive for new angles and short positions, and the atmosphere is repeated. They have been in junior high school and evening self-study, still in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

This is a profound feeling after summing up the development of poetry and combining my own experience. Poetry is a history of constant innovation, overlapping ethos and advancing with the times in the process of development. The poetic style in the late Tang Dynasty is different from that in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the Song poetry is different from the Tang poetry. In other words, his own creative style is different in the early, middle and late stages. Isn't it true? Zhao Yi made many quatrains in poetry to clarify his point of view, and another sentence is also widely known:

Only one eye must rely on its own initiative, and there are many art gardens. Dwarves are gossiping with others when watching the drama.

This poem emphasizes that we should have our own unique views on problems, don't listen to those loose words, and don't blindly believe that "poetry will flourish in the Tang Dynasty". Poetry with independent opinions is a good poem.

Contemporary Liang Shaoren also holds the same view. He said: "Poetry is Tang Yin, and it is real. However, since the Tang Dynasty, it has been the same. What's the point? And songs are songs, and yuan is yuan. It is with its own characteristics that we can see the long history and endless changes of heaven and earth. " Yuan Mei also said: "Literary Han (referring to Han Yu), poetic Du Fu (referring to Du Fu), those who travel to Youshan will climb Mount Tai (referring to Mount Tai), and those who watch the water will watch the sea. However, those who visit the mountains and watch the water will be self-sufficient for life, and they will no longer know that there are wonders of Kuanglu (referring to Lushan Mountain), Wuyi, Xiaoxiang (referring to Dongting Lake) and Jinghu Lake, which are nothing more than Taishan woodcutter and seaman. "

Yuan Mei (17 16— 1798), a native of Qiantang, Zhejiang Province, was elected as an academician during the Qianlong period, and later lived in seclusion in Xiaocang Mountain Suiyuan, Nanjing. His works include Poems of Kokura Mountain Residence and Poems of Suiyuan. Yuan Mei is also a master of poetry and prose, enjoying the reputation of writing for decades. Yuan Mei advocated the theory of "spirit of nature" in his poetry creation, and opposed to limiting the study of poetry to one generation and one specialized school. He said: "Probably writing a book and saying it, I am most afraid of similarity and picking up people's wisdom." Poetry and composition are written by myself. People have different opinions, so it is. "He also has excellent quatrains:

Judging from the temperament of ancient people, it is not necessary to worship Mr. Cao Gang's left hand to hold a slave's right hand and pluck the lute for the first time.

Yuan Mei, for example, took Cao Gang's left hand as an example, and his right hand played the pipa wonderfully. To sum up, these quatrains and views on poetry are that poetry should be "innovative in conception and express meaning first" (Yuan Meiyu). Yuan Mei and others advocated and took the lead in creation, which made the poems in Qing Dynasty get rid of the shackles of Tang and Song Dynasties and set out their own creative path.