The representative figure of rational spirit in the poetry of Song Dynasty

Huang Tingjian also slammed Quincy. Quincy poets pay attention to temperament, duality and rhetoric. In order to get rid of the influence of poets in art, Ouyang Xiu and Mei have made new explorations in conception, application, sentence cutting and writing. After the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, the old and new parties fought for peace and risks for more than a hundred years, even though many poets became more and more divorced from reality. At that time, the publication of a large number of books and the upsurge of feudal culture made them not satisfied with the use of ordinary allusions, but strive for novelty. (Note: Ouyang Xiu and Mei's books were dissatisfied with the fact that people at that time wrote poems about the white rabbit "all by the moon palace" and Su Shi's poem "Snow in the Star Hall" was "forbidden to tell stories", all of which showed that poets at that time were striving for novelty, especially in Huang Tingjian's place. )。 In this way, although they tried to learn from poets since Du Fu and Han Yu, they failed to better inherit the realistic spirit of poets since Du Fu and Bai Juyi. They got rid of Quincy formalism and embarked on a new formalism road. This is the Jiangxi Poetry School that gradually formed from the late Northern Song Dynasty. Not all the poets in this school are from Jiangxi. Huang Tingjian is so called because he has a great influence in this school. "Tiaoxi Fishing in Conghua" once said that Huang Tingjian said: "Follow people's plan to end future generations." He also said: "Articles are the most taboo." It can be seen that he has the ambition to open the way in literary creation. However, his social contacts are far narrower than those of Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi and Su Shi. Long-term study and life and a tendency to be divorced from reality forced him to choose a creative path to win in book knowledge and writing skills. He said: "Poetry wins high, and it must come from learning." (See "Prequel to Tiaoxi Fishing Hidden in Conghua") and said: "Lao Du wrote poetry and retired from writing, and there was no place for a word; Gai's descendants read less, and they made up their own words by talking nonsense. The ability of the ancients to write articles can really cultivate everything. Although ancient characters enter calligraphy, they are like a panacea. " (Answer to the Father of Hong Ju) You can see his tendency. So how to turn stone into gold from what the ancients said? It is based on the poems of predecessors, and it is changed and described in order to bring forth the old and bring forth the new. He called this practice "thoroughly remould oneself", "taking vulgarity as elegance, taking the old as new" and "taking corruption as magic". For example, Wang Bao described the beard of a bearded slave as a "bamboo on the far slope" in the Three Chapters of the Constitution. Huang Tingjian's Poem "The Second Rhyme of Wang Banzhi"