The Significance of Singing Ancient Poems

Reciting is an important means to appreciate classical literary works.

People read classic literary works not only to enrich knowledge and cultivate sentiment, but also to enjoy beauty from appreciation. Reciting is one of the important means to help us achieve this goal.

Classical literary works, especially poems, have been told for a long time, mainly because these works create a beautiful artistic conception with beautiful language and can bring readers into the imagination space. Learning to recite, first of all, can let us fully appreciate the artistic beauty of the works when we appreciate them.

First of all, reciting is not only better than reading silently, but also better than reading aloud in Mandarin in a modern way. It can make us fully feel the emotional atmosphere of classical literary works, because the arrangement of syllables in classical literary works has special rules, so we can't show its beauty without reciting, and we can't "feel from sound to emotion" well without reciting; Chanting is carried out according to a certain tone, and the tone has a special charm; In addition, chanting, as an art with a long history, has accumulated rich skills in long-term practice. For the same classical poem, first read it in Mandarin in a modern way and recite it again. Compared with other poems, although it is skillful to read, the intonation of cadence and cadence can fully reproduce the author's mentality and expression, so it has stronger artistic appeal.

Secondly, chanting itself is a kind of beauty-the enjoyment of the musical beauty of ancient poetry. The language of literary works serves to shape artistic images and express content, but as a form, it is relatively independent.

For example, The Revelation of Melody combines the allusions and intentions of classical poetry. Poetry expresses happiness, spring flowers, autumn moons, cicadas singing, singing, drinking, watching chess, fishing, fishing, farming, Liu Xinghua, high sky, fresh water, beautiful people in the west building, sandstorms at the border ... The beauty of Chinese is the beauty of phonology. At this point, as long as you read it out loud, you will have direct feelings and experiences.