From "Ancient Style: Ugly Women Set an Example", it is the thirty-fifth of "Fifty-nine Ancient Styles" written by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. ? This poem is a mockery of Li Bai's parroting and distorting the flashy poetic style during the Tianbao period after he left Sichuan.
The original text is as follows:
The ugly girl surprised her neighbors when she followed suit. Shouling lost step, laughing and killing Handan people.
A brilliant song, carving a worm, mourning innocence. It takes three years to make monkeys with spines.
Success is useless, clear and beautiful. Daya Wang Siwen, Zan has been dancing for a long time. An Deying won, and it was easy.
The translation is as follows:
The ugly woman in the east frowned as usual, and the people in the fourth department were shocked to see her strange appearance. A Shouling teenager went to Handan to learn to walk, but he lost his old steps, which made Handan people laugh and cry.
Although Fei Ranzi's songs can be grandstanding, they have been carved too much and lost their authenticity. In three years, although a field monkey can be carved on a thorn tip, it is vivid and touching, but it is futile and useless.
Elegant poems such as Wen Wang in Ode to the Book of Songs are rare now. If I can meet someone like Zou Zhongzhi again, I can also show my skill like a stonemason in China.
Extended data:
Li Bai's Poem is a poetic theory that expounds his poetic creation theory. Six allusions are used in the poem, such as "ugly girl is effective", "guarding the tomb and learning to walk", "carving insects and engraving", "spinning thorns and washing monkeys", "killing dragons" and "a skillful craftsman carries a catty".
The first four sentences of this poem satirize the artificial creation method with two allusions: the ugly girl in Handan and the toddler; The story of using thorns as monkeys criticizes the creative purpose of seeking official promotion and glory; The last four sentences call for poetry creation to return to the right path, and like-minded poets can appear.
The whole poem criticizes the phenomenon and ethos that only pays attention to the form and ignores the social responsibility of poetry, and criticizes the affectation of poetry creation methods driven by this ethos, resulting in gorgeous and extravagant works, which deviates from the elegance and vulgarity, and calls for poetry creation to return to the right path.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Antique, Ugly Women Imitate.