The core is the national mind and soul.
The core of China's poetry is the national mind, and its expression form is Chinese characters. The writing of Chinese characters is strokes, the pronunciation is tones, and the form is harmonious and symmetrical architectural beauty. Four or five thousand years ago, the germination of China's poetry in the second-word poetry stage not only showed the embryonic form of poetry, but also laid the basic style of poetry. Such as "Playing Songs": "Broken Bamboo. Diptera bamboo flying soil One meat and one meat. " "Guimei" in Zhouyi: "It's not real for a woman to carry a basket. A sheep, no blood. " In this poem "Poetry" and "Ci", we notice that the writing and tone of Chinese characters, as well as the rhythm and antithesis of sentences, have not changed much today. Writing is still a stroke, the pronunciation is even and harmonious, and the rhetoric is still so particular about meaning and form.
Later, China's poems went through the stages of The Book of Songs, Songs of the South and Yuefu of Han Dynasty, with four words, five words and seven words as the main sentence patterns. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, mature metrical poems (modern poems) came into being, and metrical words and metrical songs came into being in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. For more than a thousand years after the Tang Dynasty, people loved and cherished China's poems. Mr. Yu Dafu even said that he didn't know how people who don't read or write poems (old style) live and how boring they will be.
The appearance of metrical poems has pushed the beauty of Chinese language to the extreme. Why does the sentence pattern of metrical poetry stop at seven words, without eight words, nine words and ten words? The author found in the creative practice of Nanyuan Ci that it is because people say seven words in one sentence, and then they will take a breath. If poetry is done in one breath instead of at one go, then the meaning of poetry will be diluted. Later, in order to write more freely and express more easily, the sentence pattern was lengthened, and two or three or four short sentences formed a complete sentence, resulting in words and songs, but the basic form and rhythm of the language did not change much. This is the Chinese language law presented by the old-style poems, which is rigorous, scientific, simple and beautiful.
In poetry creation, we will also find that this kind of Chinese language and literature creation controlled by metrical constraints can not only reflect all aspects of the world and human society, but also its ambiguity and pictographic writing function can help the author, or promote and inspire the author's thinking and consciousness to complete the creation, and even play an unexpected role. This is the sacred feature of Chinese itself, an important aspect that distinguishes it from other languages, and the written reason why people like poetry so much.
The beauty of China's language and poetry is endless. Today's poetry creation and research, the first thing is to honestly inherit the tradition, bring home the spiritual wealth left by the ancients, study it, and learn in place. According to the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we should be faithful inheritors of Chinese excellent traditional culture and poetry. We should not be hypocritical, half-hearted, or just dabble. This should be our position and attitude towards poetry.
Three Breakthroughs in Creation
Drawing nutrition from tradition is to create a better today. How to carry forward China's poems? It is also a major issue in the new era. Looking back at history, we find that economy, culture and politics have promoted the development of poetry. The Book of Songs and Songs of the South reflect the political and cultural characteristics of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, while the popularity of Yuefu and Wuyan's poems in the Han Dynasty reflects the social and cultural life of the Han Dynasty. With the appearance of the imperial examination system in Sui and Tang Dynasties, common people and hereditary gentry competed for positions at the same starting line, which greatly liberated social productive forces. Tang poetry reflects the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics's new era comes from the farming society, from the national humiliation of being poor and weak in modern times, from the people being the masters of the country, the country's reform and opening up and economic development. In short, the new era is an era of realizing the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and it should also be an era of prosperity and rejuvenation of China's poetry.
The great changes of the times have created brand-new observation horizons and development conditions for China's poems. More importantly, the Chinese nation has gained economic confidence and cultural confidence, and China's poetry is likely to reach a new height after the Tang and Song Dynasties. Because in the soil of farming civilization, there have been two peaks of Tang poetry and Song poetry. We have reason to believe that poetry can reach a new height in the new era of industrial and commercial civilization, urban civilization and information civilization. To achieve this goal, we must achieve three breakthroughs in the understanding and practice of poetry creation.
First of all, we should break through the "language" barrier from classical Chinese to vernacular Chinese and realize the contemporary context writing of China's poems. As for poetic language, it inherits the tradition of classical Chinese writing. After the May 4th Movement, the vernacular Chinese covered classical Chinese in an all-round way, and the vernacular Chinese ecology has been formed. If the writing of old-style poems is still inseparable from classical Chinese, it will not only make me feel uncomfortable, but also cause language barriers to today's reading. Today's poetry should still adhere to the contemporary context writing. The use of vernacular Chinese will make poetry more contemporary and contemporary.
The second is to break through the theoretical limitations of poetry creation and realize the theoretical consciousness that China's traditional literary theory and western modern literary theory share and complement each other. Today's old-style poetry creation mainly absorbs the nutrition and guidance of China's traditional literary theory. There are mainly Poems about the Huai, Poems, Wen Xin Diao Long, Cang Hua, Hui Feng, Ren Jian and so on. Today's western literary theories, such as realism, structuralism, modernism and impressionism, can also be used by me. Objectively speaking, both eastern and western literary theories are the fruits of human civilization and deserve respect. It is a desirable attitude to advocate the old-style poetry to absorb more nutrients from western literature and art, and to form a theoretical consciousness of sharing the theoretical achievements and complementing each other's advantages between the East and the West.
Third, break through the imbalance brought by the rapid changes of production mode and lifestyle to realize the modernization of poetry. It only took more than 30 years for China society to move from a farming society to an industrial and commercial society and an information society. A fact that cannot be ignored is that although many poets are today, their thoughts are still yesterday. That is to say, although the human body has entered the modern society, many ideas still remain in the agricultural society, especially poets born before the 1970s, and poetic images such as Bridges and Flowing Water and Mei Zhu Lan Ju still exist. Scientific and technological innovation and social development are dazzling. The "fixed concept" left in the human body by farming society is not easy to get rid of, and even accompanies it for life. Everyone has nostalgia, especially poets, which actually hinders the poetry creation in the new era.
The new era needs our poets to look at poetry from a new perspective. Today, people's demand and yearning for a better life are growing day by day, which has better promoted the all-round development of people and the all-round progress of society, and the new era has therefore given the nation strong vitality and vitality. In fact, writing poetry is not only about a person's mental state, but also about the mental state of an era, which is to test the role of poetry in the era. There will be many things, new things and new themes different from traditional poetry in the new era, which will give birth to new expression techniques and artistic skills. The tentacles of our poetry should extend to the details of social life, which is where our poetry is strong and promising. In such a new era, China's poetry is bound to release new great energy. It is important for poets to enhance their confidence in writing and write poems worthy of their predecessors and the new era.
Culture should take its essence and discard its dross.