Summary of Preface to Zu Guo Song

At the invitation of Zhang Shengli and Wang Yongfu, the authors, colleagues and friends of Ode to Zu Guo: Strange Poetry and Thick Ink Painting China, I am very happy to preface Ode to Zu Guo: Strange Poetry and Thick Ink Painting China. I know something about this book. It was in the summer of 2008, at an activity of China National Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute, Li Sheng and Yongfu said to me: We should jointly publish a collection of poems and calligraphy, create Yongfu's poems on place names, and recreate Li Sheng with official script, so that "one book can be used for two purposes". Recently, I read some manuscripts. To my surprise, it is not "one book has two functions", but "three functions"-place name poems, calligraphy and maps. I like this arrangement very much, so I prefer to preface this book.

In the form of metrical poems, the place names above prefecture-level cities in China are written as poems, all of which are written-don't say it, I haven't even thought about it. Mr. Yongfu dared to think and do, overcoming the difficulty of "speaking rhyme with the same sound" He just wrote historical and legal place names into metrical poems and finished the project by himself. It should be said that it is not easy, and it is not simple!

Read 35 poems in Ode to the Ancestor: Strange Poem and Thick Ink Painting of China, and use many names. Antithesis and rhyme are generally good; Ingenious conception, and sometimes good sentences; The logic is smooth, and you can understand it at a glance. A poem with only 56 words contains the names of all prefecture-level cities in a province, which is not only easy to remember, but also has its artistic value: the words are exquisite and poetic, and a poem is a painting, which condenses the mountains and rivers, human history and times features all over the country, giving people a beautiful enjoyment. It has its cultural value: the materials used are the most authentic "China elements", depicting the vast territory of China, showing the unique charm of Chinese characters and deepening people's love for Chinese civilization.