Preface to Zhu Zhu puts forward the idea of poetry innovation, advocates the prosperity of style, and requires the combination of strong feelings and temperament to create healthy and beautiful literature.
Appreciation of the works of Preface to Xiuzhu;
As a letter, this article is of great help to understand Chen Ziang's character. Chen Ziang's "good luck" is also derived from predecessors, mainly from the concept of "beauty is better than prosperity" of Han people, and its meaning refers to the comparison and sustenance of poetry. This also accurately hit the drawbacks of the six dynasties poetry, which is characterized by physical objects and exclusive shapes. What's more worth pointing out is that Chen Ziang's combination of "strength of character" and "flourishing age" also laid a foundation for the future development of Tang poetry, such as realizing the "strategic shift" from strength of character to flourishing age. ?
Chen Ziang's contemporaries, such as Lu Zangyong, already knew the meaning of Chen Ziang. In the Preface to Chen Ziang's Collected Works, he gave a high evaluation to Chen Ziang, thinking that he was "mourning for Chen Jun after 500 years" and fully affirmed his masterpiece "Feeling". However, the starting point of Lu Zang's utilization is not the aesthetic characteristics of poetry, but the Confucian concept of politics and religion, so there is still a certain distance between the true value of Chen Ziang in the history of poetry and the true significance of Chen Ziang's theory to Tang poetics.
But on the whole, his evaluation is objective and pertinent and has been recognized by future generations. Du Fu praised Chen Ziang for his "fame and fortune", and The Biography of Chen Ziang in the New Tang Dynasty affirmed that he "began to become elegant". Of course, some people have questioned the evaluation of Lu Zangyong, such as Yan Zhenqing and Jiao Ran. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Hu Zhenheng's "Tang Yin Gui Qian" still thinks that Chen Ziang "made a great contribution to Tang poetry" on the basis of synthesizing various opinions.