The Poetic Art of The Thin Man in the Suburb
When the ancients commented on the poems of their predecessors, they often used a word to summarize the unique style of their poems, and this word will become the "label" of that poet from now on. For example, Meng Haoran's poems are summarized as "light" and Du Fu's poems are summarized as "depressed and frustrated".
Xin Qiji's Ci is summarized as "Zhuang Ci". These generalizations often define the main styles of predecessors' poems according to their own general impressions, and cannot fully reflect the artistic pursuit of specific poets. Because it is not comprehensive to summarize a person's poetic style with the original meaning of a word, this word needs readers to have a broad understanding with the help of sensory transplantation.
Su Shi did not explain "cold" and "thin" in "Lonely Island" at that time. Cold poems and thin poems are certainly puzzling. Su Shi wants to generalize the poetic style of Meng Jiao and Jia Dao by transplanting his feelings, but his specific feelings can only be appreciated by readers according to their specific works. Here, we might as well combine specific works to appreciate the poetic style of "Bojiao Island".
The artistic style of Meng Jiao and Jia Dao's poems is desolate, lonely and simple, which is summarized by Su Shi as "thin in the suburbs" (Su Shi's "Sacrifice to Liu Wen"). "Backcountry" is the * * feature of Meng Jiao and Jia Dao's poetry style, that is, desolation, loneliness and simplicity. If we want to make a distinction, the so-called cold refers to the gloomy and desolate style of Meng Jiao's poetry, and the so-called thin refers to the clear and steep style of Jia Dao's poetry.
In fact, Meng Jiao and Jia Dao are not only "thin in suburban island" in their poetic style, but also "thin in suburban island" in their poetic attitude and life experience.