Who is the greatest poet, Li Bai or Du Fu?
People in the era of Shi Shuo Xin Yu can write speculative poems, which is beyond the reach of poets in the Tang Dynasty. Tang poetry is intuitive, with pictures in it, and the image is greater than the thought. Although it looks good, it lacks speculation. When the ideological strength is weak, supported by big talk and momentum, this is how the Song people criticized Li Bai. Song poetry is eloquent and has its own moral traces of governors, but it fails to have the natural taste of "wandering too mysterious" Only the poets in the era of Shi Shuo Xin Yu, starting from the aesthetics of Laozi and Zhuangzi, wrote poems with metaphysical flavor. Laozi is a great poet. When we regard him as homesick, we always forget that his way of thinking is poetry, and he uses poetry to express his thoughts. If you want to order the poet's mountains and rivers, the first one should be Lao Tzu. Laozi is a thoughtful poem with five thousand words. The second place is The Art of War by Sun Tzu, who also writes poems. The third person is Qu Yuan, who consciously writes poems, starting with Qu Yuan and counting him first. According to the principle of "doing nothing without doing anything", we put him behind Laozi and grandson, because the poems of Laozi and grandson are all poems of inaction. Zhuangzi's temperament is poetry, but his way of thinking is prose, probably for the sake of contention. When a hundred schools of thought contend, prose is more suitable than poetry, and poetry flows in his prose. Later generations love to read Zhuangzi, not only because of what he said, but also because of Wang Yang's wanton poetic beauty. The poetic thinking of metaphysics began with Ji Kang and Ruan Ji. Wei Jin people can put their thoughts into poetry, benefiting from a natural sense of free will and humor. Ji Kang's "wandering heart is too mysterious" is self-evident. In Ruan Ji's poems of cherishing the heart, even "feeling Mozi and cherishing this Yang Zhu" is included in the poems, not to mention "too moral." Such sentences are all inherited by pre-Qin philosophers, and it is too difficult to enter poetry. When I got to Tao Yuanming, it melted away. For example, salt is soluble in water, and they can't touch the edges and corners of speculation. Thought and poetry are unified in the field of beauty.