Wen | Qian Mu
I think some places talk about China culture, thoughts and philosophy, so it is better to talk about literature. China's literature already contains Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and even the writer's whole personality is in it. A writer worships Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, truly integrates his knowledge and temperament into his life, and then writes his life in detail in his works. In this way, reading the complete works of a writer is equivalent to reading a biography or novel, or a living movie or drama. Throughout his life, scenes have appeared in poetry. The most interesting thing is that we can read their poems in this way.
Literature is the kindest to us and a good friend in our life. There must be a person behind literature. This person may be a Buddhist, a Taoist or a Confucian.
Westerners focus on intelligence, emotion and meaning, while western philosophy focuses on intelligence, while China literature focuses on emotion and meaning. Love comes to love, meaning adults. If you just read poetry according to Tang Poetry, and like to read other people's comments, the word is good, and the sentence is good, then you can appreciate some skills of writing poetry at most, but you will never reach the highest level of poetry.
Once upon a time, people thought about every word in their poems. But you know, we must have the remaining six words in the sentence before we can consider this word. But to have the general idea of this poem, there is this sentence. This sentence is decided first, and you just think about how to use this word. You can't accumulate a word into a sentence and a sentence into a poem. This poem should have been written before and must be written, so this poem is what you want to say in your heart. With what you have to say, then there is the so-called job and no job.
Therefore, to write poetry, we must first have intention. If you make a decision, nine times out of ten this poem will be six or seven. Intention comes from the heart, so the most important thing is to decide yourself, your whole personality, your inner cultivation and your will. Only with people can there be so-called poetry. So when we talk about poetry, we must talk about the interest and artistic conception in this poem. You must have interest and artistic conception to have poetry.
We should learn to write an article, read a work and understand his thoughts from his pen and ink. We don't need to think of ourselves as writers, as long as we can get in touch with a higher life in literature and a higher life that suits me. For example, I feel pain, but there is something more painful than me. I have encountered difficulties, but there are more difficult ones than me. I am such a character, and I can always find higher-level characters in my poems that meet my preferences. I cried, and the poem has cried for me. I smiled, and the poem has smiled for me. Reading poetry is an infinite comfort in our life. There are some places I can't have at all, but there are some in the poem. Reading his poems took my heart to another level. We can see people we have never met in the poem. Nowhere to go, as you can imagine in the poem.
The greatness of China literature lies in the fact that all the people there are real. Read Du Gongbu's poems, he is a real person, and there are no lies. There is another problem that deserves our attention. Most of China's great poets began to write poems when they were young, until they were old, such as Du Like Ministry of Industry, Han Changli and Su Dongpo. I once said that there must be this person, but this poem can be made. Accordingly, you must be a perfect person, but you can have a complete episode. However, it seems that great poets have this realm pattern from the beginning. This proves China's theory that the ancients were endowed with human nature. So literature and art are geniuses.
Western literature is mainly popular and has won the love of the masses. China's literature attaches importance to self-expression so that people who understand can understand it, which is also different. Therefore, China's study of literature is actually a straight way to learn to be a man.
The ancients in China once said, "Poetry expresses aspiration". This means that poetry is about what is in our hearts. If our hearts are broken, how can we make clean poems? If our hearts are mean, how can we make bright poems? Therefore, learning poetry will make people embark on another realm of life. It is precisely because literature is the most intimate thing in life, and China literature is the truest portrayal of life, so learning poetry has become a straight way to learn to be a man.
Culture must start from the whole life. When a bright era comes, we must start with literature. The era of decline has come, and we must also start with literature. But we should only like literature, and we don't have to be writers ourselves. Don't dream of becoming a poet. You should write poetry only when you have to. If you don't feel this requirement in your heart, reading other people's poems is enough. We don't have to be writers ourselves, but we have to be ignorant of literature, which is always a great pity. This shortcoming seems to be greater than ignorance of history and philosophy.
To put it another way, learning literature is not necessarily learning. It can only be said that we are seeking recreation and putting some spare time and spirit in our lives on that side. I suggest you devote your spare time to literature, especially China's poems. We can read poetry, which is very valuable. If we have a year's time, we will copy one hundred poems by Du Gongbu and one hundred poems by Li Taibai by hand. There are not many poems by Tao Yuanming and Wang Wei, so we will copy dozens of them and read them frequently. In a few years, take these poems and copy them again. Add new ones and replace old ones. I think it is enough to study these four poems. Otherwise, it is enough to read Ceng Wenzheng's eighteen poems. If you read the complete works of Tang poetry, it is equivalent to running into as many conference halls as possible for one person, but you don't know anyone. What's the point? You might as well talk to one or two people. To learn poetry, we should learn his highest artistic conception.
Occupation is not free. In addition to your career, you must be able to put your heart in another place, which can reduce a lot of unhappiness. When the unhappy mood is reduced, things will be simple. If you are not interested in something, the more painful it is, the worse it is. If we could put our heart elsewhere, we would have done it long ago. This is because your spirit is happy. Thinking about the future of China, I always feel that each of us should have a place to live first. Only with spiritual strength can we undertake a major mission. Where is this spiritual power? Nothing can inject new blood like literature.
Therefore, I hope you can understand the true spirit of China literature. People in China add life to literature, and these lives have a high standard. How many years of practice does this high state require? But these great writers seem to be great writers from the beginning. I didn't know from the beginning that his mind would be different from others!
Fortunately, we don't want to be great writers ourselves, as long as we appreciate them. Some people say that this will not lead to nothing? In fact, the highest state of a poet's mind is not always what he wants to achieve. A great man, a great cause, a great poet and a great writer should all have a source, and we should appreciate its source. A person's mind will get better and better, and if he is satisfied with the present, he will not be able to talk about his achievements or anything else. Let me end my speech by quoting two sentences from the Book of Songs. The Book of Songs says, "If you don't want it, why not?" Don't be dissatisfied, don't forget others to express yourself, at least it should be the poet's mind!