Yuan Mei (17 16- 1797) was a poet and poetic critic in Qing dynasty. Zi Zi Cai, named Jian Zhai, was named Cangshan layman and Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in his later years. Yuan Mei was one of the representative poets in Ganjia period. Together with Zhao Yi and Jiang Shiquan, they are called "the three great poets of Qianlong". Jishi Shu, a scholar in Qianlong four years (1739), was awarded to the academician courtyard. After seven years of transfer, he became an official. He used to be a magistrate in Jiangning and Shangyuan, with a good political voice, and was properly appreciated by Governor Yin Jishan. At the age of 33, his father died, resigned and adopted his mother. He bought Sui Abandoned Garden in Jiangning (Nanjing) and renamed it Suiyuan. He built a house and settled down, which was called Suiyuan in history. Since then, he has lived a leisurely life here for nearly 50 years, engaged in poetry and prose creation, compiled "Poetry Talk" to find talents, and won prizes and awards, which was admired by the poetry circles at that time. At the age of 24, Yuan Mei took part in the imperial examination. The exam question is "endowed with jade pendant jingling in the wind". There is a quip in the poem that "if people are in doubt, every other day is like a river." However, the presidents believe that "the language involved is not Zhuang, and they will be placed in Sun Shan". Fortunately, Governor Yin Jishan stepped forward and avoided falling out of the list.
His works include "Xiao Cang Shan Wu Ji"; And Garden Poems (16) and Addendum (10); 24 volumes of New Qi Xie, followed by Qi Xie 10; Suiyuan menu 1 volume; There are more than 30 kinds of essays, letters, and menus accompanying the garden. The masterpiece of prose "Salute to Sister" is sincere and has a long history. Classical Chinese critics compare it with Han Yu's Ode to Twelve Lang in Tang Dynasty.
Advocate "the theory of spiritual nature". He advocates that a person should write his own personality when writing poems, and thinks that "from 300 poems to today, the people who preach poems are spiritual, regardless of piling up". Advocate to express one's mind directly and write one's own "temperament experience". It advocates the combination of "spirit" and "knowledge", takes temperament, intelligence and education as the creative basis, and takes "truth, novelty and liveliness" as the creative pursuit, thus combining innate conditions with acquired efforts to create good products, and holds that "poetry is written with a pen, such as beauty's hair, skin and smile, which are innate; Poetry and fu are used, such as beauty's clothes and jewelry, the day after tomorrow. " It advocates that literature should evolve and have the characteristics of the times, and opposes Tang Zong and Song. He ridiculed the verve school as "poor and arrogant", the style school as "puppet show", the texture school as "bone shop" and the Zongsong school as "begging for people to move". He also opposed Shen Deqian's theory of "gentleness and gentleness" and thought that "Confucius' theory of poetry is credible and" interesting and resentful "; If you don't keep your word, you will be' gentle and honest'. "It is advocated that parallel prose and prose should be paid equal attention to, and parallel prose and prose, like the parity in nature, should not be neglected. The relationship between the same source and different current, the coexistence of two peaks and the diversion of two waters. Poetry is fresh and meaningful, flowing freely. Landscape poetry is elegant and exquisite.
Yuan Mei's literary thought has the viewpoint of development, which has impacted the feudal orthodox literary view and formalism. In addition, he emphasized the existence value of parallel prose as American literature, which has certain positive significance. However, most of his poems are about trivial matters around him, full of romantic ballads and lacking social content, and some of them are often flashy or even superficial.
Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House published the Complete Works of Yuan Mei in eight volumes.
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In the vagina of the wild forest, a little shepherd boy slowly rides on the back of a cow. I don't know what to be happy about. He sang all the way, crisp and loud, and the whole tree was shocked by him.
Suddenly, the song stopped, and the little shepherd boy's back straightened, his mouth closed and his eyes were fixed on the high treetops. "cicada, cicada, cicada ..." In the tree, a cicada is also singing smugly. It is it that attracts the little shepherd boy. He really wants to catch cicada!
This scene was seen by the poet and written into the poem. The poet first wrote about the dynamics of the little shepherd boy, and Gao sitting bull's style of singing loudly on his back was so loose and presumptuous; After writing the little shepherd boy's static state, how intently he held his breath and looked at the cicada! This change from dynamic to static is both sudden and natural, vividly depicting the innocent and busy image of the little shepherd boy. As for the next step, how the little shepherd boy catches cicadas or not, the poet hasn't written it yet, leaving it to readers to imagine.