Du Fu wrote this song "Drama is the second of six quatrains" in order to call names. I only remember the last two sentences of this poem. At that time, I still felt that this poem had a high spirit to read, but I didn't know that it was only written by Du Fu. It seems that people with an average level of education like me really can't understand the feelings of great poets.
Writing this poem starts with the retro trend in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, some people thought that the articles in the Tang Dynasty were too grandiose, all of which were gaudy but had no substantive content, and most of them were moaning in vain. However, they highly admire the literature before the Tang Dynasty, and feel that they should imitate the ancients to write parallel prose, instead of writing these flashy ancient poems, which makes people feel that you are humble and shallow. But these people also have a shortcoming, that is, they just want to let literature go back to the past without considering reality.
Then Du Fu also thinks it's good that you want to go back to the ancients, but you can't force it. Retro is your business, but you can't force everyone to do it. So Du Fu began to argue with them. Du Fu said, "He and Yang Jiong, Lu and Luo were already the representatives of the highest level in the literary world at that time, and they were four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty. You people also say that other people's articles are frivolous. When you die, the lights will go out, but the articles of the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty will surely last forever. "
Du Fu, as a scholar, naturally won't use vulgar language to talk about others like an aunt in the vegetable market. Naturally, he should also show his literary accomplishment while swearing, which is not only more convincing, but perhaps this article can be handed down. From the perspective of modern people, literary innovation is an inevitable trend, and the precious Tang poems left by the prosperous Tang Dynasty are of great value and significance. Blind archaizing will only lead to the stagnation of literature.