-read Shi Yang's "Listening to Yu Xuan Poetry"
Mr. Yang Yinlou in Liaocheng is my first academic teacher.
A few years ago, my teacher gave me a self-printed collection of poems, which was beautifully bound and beautifully written. It turns out that we only respect the teacher's professional knowledge, the art of lecturing, the beauty of writing on the blackboard and his indifference to people, so it was quite surprising at that time that a history professor had such elegant interest and talent, which really surprised us. I can't help but make my little disciples respect the teacher, by going up one flight of stairs.
The year of Gengzi is really not peaceful. The ancients called it eventful autumn, but that's all. So everyone isolates themselves and becomes a proper "otaku". I translated and annotated Confucius' Family Tales non-stop, and finally achieved results in the spring and sent them to the publishing house. I will be busy with other business and pay off the high debt. Of course, I am a little tired at this time, my interest is greatly reduced and my speed is slowed down. At this moment, Shi Yang said that he would compile the poems he had made in recent years into a book, which was called "Listening to Rain Xuan Poems" and ordered me to "preface". Hearing this, I was scared out in a cold sweat. Where did this cold sweat come from and why did it start? Look at the official and listen to me from the beginning.
The first is the reason of etiquette. At least I have the title of "Director of the Institute of Rites and Music Civilization". Outsiders think that I study rites and music, but in fact I have become popular all over the world. It is really disrespectful to give a teacher a written order as a disciple. It is the so-called "dare to think and do".
Secondly, the key reason lies in this "second"-this "second" is to let a teenager who doesn't know poetry preface the poem. As the saying goes, "driving ducks to the shelves" has tampered with the classic language of Mencius, meaning "if you don't do it, you will have it." This is by no means a modest word, but a sincere one.
I once had a blog called "No Feet". The reason why it is named after this is because Gu quoted Herry Liu, a poet of the Song Dynasty, as saying, "A scholar should put knowledge first, be a scholar all his life, and have no enough views." After reading it, he realized something. Although he took Confucianism as his career ambition all his life, he was also a man of temperament, just as Shi Tao said, "having sex with autumn mountains", and he didn't like worldly fetters. It was only because I entered the Confucius Institute of Qufu Normal University and read the Bible Biography of Sages that I suddenly realized that "I took pleasure in Zhuang Zen and converted to Confucius and Mencius". Although he has been in the academic circle for many years, he can be regarded as the beneficiary of "within the system", but although I dare not "really escape", it is difficult to restrain the impulse to "escape", and I can't help being "literate" and full of emotional appeal. I pretend to be an alcoholic and a bookworm and fantasize about myself. I can "escape" and "get rid of the" dry "state of filling out forms, publishing papers and reporting projects endlessly, just as the ancients said. Therefore, I overreached myself, sometimes posing as a "scholar", so I broke the jar and broke it, and simply declared my "self-exile" by "not eating enough". However, I am ashamed to say that I don't know anything about the necessary skills of literati, what poetry and songs, what piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. " Poetry to the North Window is just the work of a group of my WeChat friends. I have to watch it; "Spend a lot of money to pay Danqing", but dare not take a stand and can only passively "look up". As for "drinkers and tea drinkers", it's just self-promotion because of thick skin, which can't be true. There is only one "bookworm", which is still genuine. So, after a few years, in order to avoid embarrassment, the "big flag" of "not enough to eat" did not dare to pull, and the blog of "drinkers and tea drinkers" also died down. I have to bury myself in that pile of old documents and continue my academic career. Alas, "literati" is not worthy, what a nuisance.
It is worth comforting myself that I have never been completely institutionalized, and there is still a trace of "bookish spirit" and "literary popularity" that has not disappeared. Besides, my interests in reading, swimming in the sea of books and enjoying myself are mixed. In recent years, when we talk about classics and Confucius, we often talk about the topic of "poetry teaching". According to my shallow understanding, "poetry teaching", as the "first teaching" of Confucius and the Confucian Six Classics, should naturally conform to the purpose of "cultivating people and educating people", including "self-education" and "educating people", and the former should be the first task. The so-called "self-education" is to enhance the ability of self-perception of life and cognition of the world through the reading and creation of "poetry", "being interested in poetry" and "wandering in art", and to give play to the function of expressing emotions and wishes, so as to realize the "unity of reason, beauty and goodness" of self-life. The more traditional poetry teaching goes to later generations, the more it deviates from the master's purpose, and the more it loses its vitality. As Mr. Xu pointed out, China people's "artistic world" is more shrouded and infiltrated by Zhuangzi spirit, while the Confucian tradition of "integrating poetry, ceremony and music" is gradually declining. "Expressing ambition" and "leisure" are gradually separated and even opposed. Orthodox scholar-officials dismissed poetry as a "small skill" for "details" and "path", but they despised and disdained it; On the other hand, the literati who pursue to express their personal feelings and build their own spiritual home with literature and art do the opposite, and some people even indulge in diction and rhythm. Literati express themselves with the help of "poetry", which may be a kind of "literary liberation" from a certain angle, but from another angle, if they only express their personal feelings without higher "ambition", I am afraid it also means that the pattern of poetry is getting more and more cramped and the realm is sinking. Then, poetry creation will become a word game that binds itself.
Of course, there are few good Taoist poems. However, a really good poem still needs noble benevolence, righteousness and exquisiteness. As for poetry, "skill" is a threshold. Only by mastering the basic rules of poetry creation, such as rhyming and leveling, can we "get started". However, real poetry creation can't stay at the level of "skill", but must be guided by "Tao". "Tao" sounds mysterious, but in fact it only means that the creator should cultivate a large pattern and a high realm of life, among which the most important thing is "the integration of reason and reason, the unity of beauty and goodness" Of course, the cultivation and cultivation of this pattern and realm can not be separated from the admiration, pondering, tasting, imitation and the resulting consciousness of traditional sages and masterpieces. This "learning" process is inevitable, but it is not a technical learning, but the development of the pattern and the sublimation of the realm.
Poetry is, in the final analysis, fun, emotion and ambition. If there is no interest, no true feelings and no ambition, then there is no true spirit, no sincerity and no realm in poetry, so there is no poetry. A groan of disgust, nausea. The old cadres' bodies that are popular in society now belong to this category. Zhang Zongzi tasted in "Tao An Meng Yi": "People can't make friends without addiction because they are heartless; There is no communication between people without shortcomings, so there is no true qi. " Therefore, I also hint to myself that although I lack poetry, as long as my life is poetic!
Therefore, I have tried to "teach myself" poetry myself. I can't write poetry, but I can read poetry freely. Reading 300 Poems, the poems of ancient and modern figures such as Tao, Su, Chen Yinque, Wang Jing 'an, etc., is always touched and excited, not only because of the beauty of rhythm and rhetoric, but also because of the beauty of rhetoric and rhythm. We can meet and communicate with poets all our lives, find that "Germany is not alone, there must be neighbors" and find our own affection.
Because of this mentality, I sang Shi Yang's poems one after another after the tense and tired "scientific examination" (a word I hate, but I like the ancient "learning"). More than 80 poems in this "small manuscript" are really "everything is singing in the eyes" Because the characters and scenery written in the poem, such as Gao Tianxiang, two painters, Li Chuanjun's peer brothers, Zhang and his roommate brothers, and Qu Yuan, where I live, are mostly familiar to me, and naturally they become more and more cordial and unconsciously want to "go back to three places."
My first feeling after reading it is that Shi Yang's poems are works with feelings and genuine feelings. "Preface to Mao Poetry" said: "A poet who has a will is determined in his heart, and his words are poems, and his feelings move in the middle, and his form is in words." This feeling and feeling comes from the poet's poetic heart, from the "trigger" and "feeling" of people, things and things. In China culture, "feeling" is a magical word, which reveals a unique "law" or "realm" in China's philosophy and art. This kind of "people, things and things" can be very large, such as involving the country, nationality and history, or very small, such as one's teachers and friends, flowers and birds in the surrounding gardens, and landscape. No matter how big or small things are, they are all true feelings and can feel the same.
For example, remember teachers and friends. Mr. Li Jiping mentioned in Shi Yang's Golden Melody and Teacher Yi Ji is Shi Yang's mentor, my master, and one of the most influential and famous scholars in the history of our school so far. Several of his disciples and their sons are all my teachers. Shi Yang wrote affectionately, "I have understood the taste of the world, counting my life, yellow dust and clear water, white clouds and pale dogs." "I hope that for the rest of my life, heaven will live up to it." Let the younger generation know more about their predecessors and be considerate of looking up. "Young Beauty" wrote "Brother Kun died in" and sang a long song, "Guangling died, Qin died. Who can stay with me? " I finished reading it in tears.
I like to tell my feelings. There is a poem "Partridge Sky" dedicated to the golden wedding, which reads: "At the beginning, small flowers were United, and when they were old, they were moist, and they knew each other well." . Although there is a glorious calm. "It's so real to read! Mr. Zhang Shicheng and his wife are both students of Shandong University, and they also teach in the history department of Qufu Normal University. 1996 When we entered the university at the beginning of this year, we became more and more familiar with "musicians, western union lanterns, and Xingtan string songs", and we were full of envy and respect when we heard the legend of Yang and Zhang Ershi in the department. Later, Shi Yang taught historical geography, and Zhang Shijiao's teaching method was elegant and rigorous. Directed by Shi Yang, my undergraduate thesis was praised by Shi Yang with a nearly 20,000-word essay "An Examination of the Causes of the Movement of Ancient Chinese Characters in Tang Dynasty", which greatly established his self-confidence in learning, so he became an apprentice and decided to take the road of learning. It is a great pity that I failed to become a graduate student under the guidance of Mr. Yang because of my English failure in the entrance examination for the third year of senior high school. The second parent has a lot of encouragement and encouragement. After graduation, I returned to my hometown Xiajin No.1 Middle School to teach, but the postgraduate entrance examination was repeatedly blocked due to registration and other issues. I wrote to Shi Yang to vent my anger, remembering that one of them was afraid of what puffed up in The Analects of Confucius said: "Heaven will lose its grace, and the deceased will not be gentle. "Heaven has not lost its elegance. What do people do! " My parents have been writing back or encouraging me by phone, "Give me strength." At that time, I was bent on being admitted to Tsinghua Institute of Thought and Culture. As Shi Yang said in his poem, "I remember that I was deeply envious of going to Tsinghua" (Linjiang Xian). Later, in the year of SARS, he failed the second test in Tsinghua, transferred back to school, and even stayed in school to teach, which made him closer to his parents. Personally, my parents are like my parents, so they are often called old men and women in private. Sister yaning once sent a circle of friends, in which there was a photo of her parents walking hand in hand, which was particularly touching. My wife says it's real romance. As my favorite song "The Most Romantic Thing" sings, "The most romantic thing I can think of is to grow old with you, collect little laughs along the way, and then sit in a rocking chair and chat slowly." In Yang Shishi's poems, it is said that "the public praises me and I help the public for fifty winters" ("Confessions") is definitely not a fabrication, but a true portrayal. There is only such a long-lasting feeling and confession in the world, gentle but powerful, which can be deeply rooted in people's hearts and cross the ancient and modern times.
For another example, the calf is deeply in love. Shi Yang's daughter and sister Yaning returned to Surabaya, Han Feng. Teacher Han Feng worked as a counselor in my university for four years, and Sister Yaning and I worked together in the Confucius Institute for many years. Teacher Han and her sister have a son named Han Yanchu. As soon as I saw the name, I knew his family was a family of historians. Yang and Zhang are especially fond of their grandson. This is also reflected in the poem. Partridge Sky is about the heavy snow in winter, and Han Yanchu was worried when he came home. "Remember that the knee is the most moist. I lost my mind for a moment. The car slowly left the platform, and my heart wandered with my grandson. " "Bean Leaf Yellow" also sang: "The cold wind is coming and I miss my grandson. Snow hitting red leaves hurts the soul even more. The moon is as silver as the sky. When can I come back from my dream? " This calf is affectionate. Maybe we can really understand it only when we become grandparents ourselves. "Every generation of relatives" is not enough for outsiders.
My second feeling after reading it is that Shi Yang's poems depict people and things in a true and delicate way. I think this reflects the poet's concern and love for everything in the world. Without care and love, it is impossible to have such sincere and delicate observation and accurate and elegant wording. Modern life nowadays pays attention to the word "fast". Everyone, old and young, is catching up. Everyone suffers from it and suffers from it. Mr. Zhu Guangqian once quoted a western poem in Talking about Beauty-"Walk slowly and enjoy slowly!" It reads like an electric shock! Because of this, I "created" a "slow room" and advocated slow reading, slow thinking and slow life. From this poem, you will feel the author's infinite concern for the motherland and the flowers and trees around him, and devoted his hard work and affection. This is probably due to the author's poetic heart and eyes, so that he can slowly appreciate the scenery of people and things around him.
Buddhism says "a flower, a world, a leaf and a bodhi", and Confucianism says "everything is complacent when it is quiet, and people are happy when it is". All this shows the synaesthesia and synaesthesia of heaven and earth. You see, the poet wrote Clean Lake, "The jade world is clean, the water surface is like silver ... There is a little wind, some birds and people in the scene. ..... distant mountains, layers of smoke forests, covered bridges, a dream to find the soul ". Just like the landscape of the Song people, it is exquisite and interesting. He wrote Qu Yuan, a garden where he has worked and lived for decades, Qu Yuan in spring: "The green calyx is graceful, breaking through the clear clouds. It is charming and beautiful. " ("A Cut of Plum") "Willow silk plays with love, pear blossoms fly with snow, and spring is in Qu Yuan." ("Liu Zaoqing") "A string of beads is round and naturally crisp. It is a tall tree with the same tail as Chun Yan. Flowers bend and sound like young warblers. " Qu Yuan in Autumn: "Autumn is attractive. Autumn clouds break. See you in layers. " Makes me feel ashamed. Wandering around Damei Quyuan every day, indifferent. I even complained about the inconvenience caused by the catkins flying on the willows and the birds on the trees. And these are all poetic and beautiful in the poet's pen! I am determined to follow Yang's example, awaken my poetic mind, open my eyes and look at the vegetation around me. Shi Yang wrote about the lakes and mountains of Quancheng, and wrote about Laoshan, Taishan, Huashan and West Lake. People are in the scenery, and poetry is born in the bottom of my heart.
My third feeling after reading it is that Shi Yang, with the mind of a historian, points out the mountains and rivers, cherishing the past and cherishing the present, and behind his chivalrous heart. China people's historical consciousness is unparalleled in the world. Sages, heroes and scholars in history, stories, allusions and legends in tradition have been talked about by Chinese people and passed down from mouth to mouth until now. In the history of poetry, chanting epic poems is an important part of traditional poetry. With the help of the feelings of old friends, express personal feelings, reflect their own pursuits, and open up the gap between ancient and modern times. The so-called "borrow other people's glasses and water your own block" is nothing more than that. There are many such works in Shi Yang's poems.
For example, after reading the old and new biographies of Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty, I wrote Yan's "Iron Clashing" of "Mastering Heaven and the Meaning of Heaven and Earth". Can the dolls who linger in online games understand all kinds of small fresh meat today? Reading history and poetry and paying attention to oneself is an inner spiritual strength. Without this power, people are easy to sink and humble. It is precisely because the author has been wandering in the ocean of history for many years that he will cultivate a real sense of awe. He wrote in "Jin Lu Qu" and "Poem Title of Mr. Baishi": "Soft-hearted and proud push the monarch the most. Boil fragrant tea, pour out with a pen and express heroism. Are you willing to bow to the villain and walk wildly in the dust and fog? " In Jin Lu Qu, he and Mr. Wang Junlin wrote a poem about "thinking with God". There is a sentence in the poem called "There is no difference between being open-minded and being open-minded". Only green eyes, closed rivers, white clouds open and close. Bachelor of Green Money is really British, and he cherishes articles. "You see, is this the same pen that writes flowers, trees and birds? Of course it is. Because "softhearted" and "arrogant" are two sides of an organic whole. Without tenderness, it is difficult to have pride? What's the use of being soft-hearted without pride?
Reading Shi Yang's poems, although "with a task", is not stressful, but it is quite beneficial to teaching poetry and enjoying singing! I don't understand, ask for instructions at once. After a little sorting, please ask my senior brother to print 200 copies and distribute them to teachers, friends, relatives and friends by Teacher Yang. The inscription signature-Zhi, the fine print is elegant and gratifying, quite in line with the temperament of poetry. Elegant people, elegant poems and elegant words, beauty and * * *. Disciples are duty-bound to edit and publish two poems.
Shi Yang's orders have never been violated. He talked about his thoughts after reading, so he couldn't comment on poetry. He can only circle around, for fear that the Buddha's head is covered with dung, and he dare not say the order. Fortunately, he did it and was qualified to make a postscript.
Unscrupulous disciple Song Lilin? Wash your hands and write boxer in the summer of early autumn, in the slow night.