He believes that the highest realm of poetry is "poetry is absolutely tasteless". Zhai Cheng's Poems mainly discusses "poetic flavor" from two aspects: language form and ideological content.
(A) language form, pay attention to syntax
Syntax refers to the combination rules between lyrics and sentences. Yang Wanli not only creates poems with flexible syntactic forms, but also pays more attention to syntax in his poetry creation. In his view, syntax is the cornerstone of poetry methods, especially the syntax of Jiangxi poetry school. Chengzhai's poetry talks recorded his experience of learning syntax.
1. Poetry with concise syntax, but rich connotation and profound meaning.
Yang Wanli cited specific examples and repeatedly explained that it is necessary to compress rich meanings with the least language. To achieve "poetry is absolutely delicious and has eternal taste", it is necessary to express ideological content as much as possible in a limited poem.
2. I think poetry should be strange and have amazing sentences, which requires poetry to be imaginative and poetic.
The first is poetic strangeness. Unfamiliar and deformed ordinary things with strange imagination, such as boldly imagining "the East China Sea in the sleeve" and "Nu Wa refining stones to make up the sky, making the autumn rain rock-breaking." Secondly, the way of word mismatch produces peculiar effects, and the readers' imagination is stimulated by the uncertain meaning connection between words, thus participating in the creation of artistic conception.
3. Pay attention to the mastery of idioms and allusions.
There are two ways to reverse the verdict in Cheng Zhai Shi Hua: one can be called "anti-story method", which refers to the use of reverse or negative language potential to transform a new ideological realm for stories or characters with ancient books; The other can be called "anti-verse method", which refers to turning over or denying the poems of predecessors or others to show new ideas. For example, Su Shi added the word "why" before Du Fu's poem "Suddenly recalling the past and the autumn well collapsed", which is more significant than Du Fu's poem. As for the method of reversing the verdict, the author gives many examples in the poem. For example, the rule 12, the author said, "I am ashamed to blow off my hat with short hair, and smiling at others is the crown." It is the most wonderful way to combine the ups and downs of one thing. Meng Jia took off his hat as romance, Shaoling took off his hat as romance, and turned over the ancient case-solving. The author thinks that the method of reversing the verdict can make poetry more graceful and beautiful, and it is a skill that should be mastered in learning poetry.
(2) Ideological, emphasizing poetry teaching.
Yang Wanli takes Confucian ideal personality as the criterion and has a high sense of social responsibility and mission. Therefore, he fully inherited some Confucian ideas about the essence of poetry, and at the same time noticed the inherent aesthetic characteristics of poetry. He believes that poetry is a tool to correct bad things and should play the role of a thorn. Therefore, the interest other than interest advocated by him is not only a matter of skill style, but also belongs to the category of poetic value. In fact, this reflects the gentle and honest poetry teaching of Confucianism.
Yang Wanli's admiration for the late Tang Dynasty really praised the poetry of implicit brushwork, with profound artistic conception, gentleness and gentleness. In order to play an educational role, poets must have a lofty sense of social responsibility and mission, and must have the backbone to extricate themselves from the secular world, and they must not go with the flow. Yang Wanli strongly advocates that writers should be open to the world, not afraid of vulgarity, and dare to speak out, thinking that this is the right way of poetry.
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