It is not only easy for contemporary people to make the mistake of cherishing the past but also easy for the ancients to follow suit. Words such as "Confucius" and "pre-training" can be seen everywhere in the old papers of ancient literati, and "quoting classics" seems to be an unbreakable behavior paradigm of hundreds of articles for thousands of years. This habit of excessively advocating learning from and imitating the ancients can easily lead to the ideological malpractice that today is not as good as the ancients in the minds of future generations. There were masters in the Republic of China, but are they really gone today? Most of the titles of masters are also given by contemporary people.
Art often needs to be precipitated by historical time and space, and it should not be premature to draw conclusions. Whether it is amazing when it is born, of course, there is. For example, Sima Xiangru's Fu Lin and Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Tengting are all attributed to the special occasions when the works are published. One is to praise the royal family directly, and the other is at a grand banquet where celebrities gather. Being famous is hard. However, works of art need to undergo the baptism of time and the precipitation of history. When Du Fu was alive, no one thought he was a poet. When Wang Xizhi was alive, his words could be changed into several big white geese; Qi Baishi is better, a painting is replaced by a car full of Chinese cabbage.
One is the lack of public attention. The times have developed and the world has become more exciting. Internet, music, movies, television, etc. There is too much spiritual food, poetry culture is relatively quiet and boring, and social groups generally pay little attention to it. Poetry really seems to be reduced to a "minority" category, and it is difficult to form an atmosphere that the public advocates or admires.
The second is the lack of leading figures. Hidden dragons are in the deep, but dragons are leaderless. In the field of modern poetry, although both new poetry and ancient poetry are poetic literature, due to different ideas, they have been separated by a deep gap, each occupying half of the fragmented country. Even those friends who write poems from ancient poems keep the habit of living in seclusion and entertaining themselves. More people have been taught to write poems, and more poems have been criticized than the original poems. In this case, it is not surprising that modern poetry is not respected.