Classical Interpretation of Wang Guowei's "Words in the World: Like Viewing Beautiful Landscapes"
Like Viewing Beautiful Landscapes
Three hundred poems and nineteen poems, Both the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty have no titles. It is not without a title. The meaning in the poem cannot be fully expressed by the title. Since "Hua'an" and "Thatched Cottage", each tune has been given a title, and the untitled poems of the ancients have also been used as titles. It's like looking at a beautiful landscape and saying that there is such a mountain and such a river, is that right? The poem has a title, but the poem dies, and the lyrics have a title, but the ci dies. However, few talented people can know this and stand up for themselves.
Wen is like the eyes of a child, as clean and refreshing as water.
Writing is as pure as a heart, as fierce and sincere as fire.
A child's eye and a child's heart are the basis for written writing. Only with these two items can your writing be natural and lifelike.
These are the essence of the beauty of words. And its quality often lies in the tension of words.
If you want the text to have greater tension, you need to release its power and show its authenticity.
Just like a child, if you want him to be more real, natural, lively and lovely, you should not be too restrictive, otherwise he will only become a victim of dogma.
In this article, Wang Guowei emphasized the idea that poetry has no title, and proposed: "The poem has a title and the poem is dead; the word has a title and the word is dead."
Speaking of the title, it seems that This is a topic where benevolence has different opinions.
The title makes the text more central and thematic.
If all the words are put into place under the hint of the title before they are formed, then the title becomes the shackles of the words.
The aura of the text is bound by the title.
Like a range, the charm of words that are limited by the title always seems to be limited to a certain place.
For example, Li Bai's "A Gift to Wang Lun": "Li Bai was about to leave in a boat when he suddenly heard singing on the shore. The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, and it is not as deep as Wang Lun's gift to me."
This The poem couldn't be easier to understand, and the emotion of the entire poem is limited here.
After reading this poem, apart from understanding Wang Lun’s deep friendship for Li Bai, I have no other insights.
In fact, it is very convenient to write those straightforward and revealing poems after fixing the title.
But after the poems have a fixed title, there is no great aesthetic effect in developing the conception and artistic conception.
Yan Yu said in "Canglang Poetry Talk": "The princes in the prosperous Tang Dynasty were only interested in interest. The antelope hung its horns and there was no trace to be found. Therefore, its beauty is so thorough and exquisite that it cannot be ignored. , like the sound in the air, the color in the picture, the moon in the water, the image in the mirror, the words are endless but the meaning is endless."
The words are endless but the meaning is endless. This is not a topic that can be summarized. .
The words are endless but the meaning is endless. I am afraid that it cannot be summarized in one topic.
The artistic conception of poetry is often "a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand viewers". It is more about the artistic conception felt by the readers themselves. If it is only limited to one topic, it will not only be limited to The author's creative expression constrains the author's thinking and imagination, and also constrains the reader's imagination after reading the text.
The title will not only affect the author's creation, but also affect the reader's appreciation. Having a title is like putting a rein on a horse. Before you can gallop freely in the text, you are pointed in the direction of running.
Just like you are admiring a landscape painting, and when you are deeply intoxicated by the artistic conception, someone suddenly tells you proudly: "Do you know? What I painted is Guilin's landscape that is the best in the world."
You are in the artistic conception. This artistic conception may not be given to you by the "Guilin Landscape", the prototype of the painting. You are just moved by this painting, so you are deeply intoxicated.
But at this time, your intoxication has been crudely branded by others. What you are intoxicated with is "Guilin landscape". If your intoxication is related to the so-called "Guilin landscape", you will suddenly find it boring.
Notes
Huang Sheng, also known as Yulin, also known as Hua'an Ci Ke, was a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. He compiled "Selected Poems of Hua'an", which has twenty volumes.
"The Poems of Thatched Cottage" is a collection of poems, originally compiled in two volumes, and the two volumes before and after the current version, two volumes each, compiled by He Shixin, mainly composed of poems by Song people, with some works from Tang and Five Dynasties. .