Among them, Entertainment, the masterpiece, achieved the three beauties advocated by Wen Yiduo-the beauty of music, painting and architecture.
Zhu Xiang is a poet with unique personality and artistic dedication. His six-year student life in Tsinghua was not smooth. He was ordered to leave school because he remembered three major mistakes. 1926 repeat reading, and read for another year before graduating. However, this does not mean that Zhu Xiang's academic performance is not good. His Chinese and English are always excellent. All objective moral barriers such as whoring, gambling, alcohol and tobacco have never been crossed. Because I like reading literature books, I often skip classes and am expelled from school, so I can only travel to the United States for half a year. In a letter to Gu of Tsinghua Literature Society, he said that the reason why he left school was to declare war on disappointment. This disappointment is manifold, but he has infinite nostalgia for Tsinghua campus: there are many things I can't give up in Tsinghua. This dilemma is the most embarrassing. On the contrary, it is better to have no nostalgia in Tsinghua. His dissatisfaction with Tsinghua lies in: life is a struggle, while Tsinghua only has a drilling score; Life is changing, but Tsinghua is just monotonous; Life is hot and spicy, and Tsinghua is just scratching his boots. Strict campus life, for a romantic poet, can not help but feel constrained; However, Tsinghua's natural and humanistic environment, after all, influenced and cultivated him and made his later creative path more solid.
It has been more than 70 years since the birth of new literature, and as one of its important components, new poetry has made great contributions. Among the dozens of outstanding poets in the early period of new poetry, four are indispensable. They are Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo and Zhu Xiang. As far as the style of poetry is concerned, I have compared Guo Moruo's poems to unruly fire (but Guo's poems are rare and mostly limited to early works). Xu Zhimo's poems have bright gems, Zhu Xiang is like flawless jade, and Wen Yiduo is a surging river. As far as the achievements of Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo and Wen Yiduo are concerned, most people have heard of them, if not all. But no one knows about Zhu Xiang. This is an important poet who perfectly combines the form and content of new poetry with nationality and creativity. For this poet who has made many creative contributions to the development of new poetry, isn't it the greatest sorrow to be born at an untimely time and die at an untimely time? Perhaps this is also the echo of the poet's suffering.
Poplar rustles when there is wind,
When there is no wind, poplars rustle,
I can't hear anything but rustling.
Wildflowers bloom quietly,
The wild flowers quietly thanked,
There is nothing in the garden quietly.
It seems that this poem is a complete description of the scenery. However, the scenery contains love words: "In the lifeless abandoned garden, nothing can be heard or seen except the rustling poplars. In silence, years pass and youth passes. This is actually a symbol of the lifeless campus in the poet's mind. Implicit form reveals dissatisfaction and depression. Of course, this kind of dissatisfaction is still hazy. Unlike this song "Winter Night Song", the subtitle "Production Materials and Reform Process of Beijing Cotton Weekly" is bluntly stated:
The purple western hills in the evening sky,
The top of the mountain is wearing a snow crown;
Tsinghua's flag flutters in the mountains,
But how dim the color of Tsinghua's national flag is!
Sunset is the soul of Tsinghua.
Dark clouds in the sky swallowed him up;
Leave the body,
There is a hall as the tomb of Iraq.
Xuan Bing seems to be studying,
Hold down the lively river,
The moonlight only reflected his gloomy face,
There is no more laughter in the wind.
Poets use symbolic metaphors to describe the campus filled with material atmosphere, which devours aura like a grave and lacks independent consciousness and rigid dogma like a stone statue. In fact, it does not lack a beautiful environment, just as it does not lack lively teenagers. However, dark clouds suppress the beautiful scenery, and homework kills the students' nature. The poet couldn't help shouting: Drive away the winter nights and let the spring scenery return to the campus.
Zhu Xiang's independent and uninhibited thoughts are also reflected in the papers of this period. Zhu Xiang proposed in "If you drive forward in the course" that you should advocate free development, reduce class hours, change to self-study and replace the traditional examination mode with experience. In the article "Spiritual Education", it is even suggested that the innate education, that is, spiritual education, can improve the aesthetic taste of teenagers, instead of always immersed in the secular world.
Zhu Xiang's personality has been eccentric and anxious since he was a student, but his poems are rarely calm and harmonious. It seems that he washed away all his troubles inside and outside before he started writing, leaving a sacred and harmonious garden for his poems. From the beginning of his creation, he paid great attention to tempering the emotion and form of poetry. His heart is noisy, but his poems are quiet and gentle:
The flowers in spring are really intoxicating,
A warm breeze blows on people,
Look at how slowly the sun moves,
Listen to the buzz of bees outside the window:
Go to sleep,
Baby,
Bees fly so lightly.
There is not a star in the sky,
There is not a red light on the ground;
I can't hear anything,
Only earthworms sing in the courtyard;
Go to sleep,
Baby,
Earthworms have stopped.
A white cloud rose into the sky,
Like a boat floating on the lake,
One moment, another moment, heavy,
Shake up the people lying in the cabin;
Go to sleep,
Baby,
You came with those clouds.
Not afraid of its north wind singing in the branches,
Put down the window and close the door;
Not afraid of freezing, very cold,
Charcoal fire was born in that copper basin;
Go to sleep,
Baby,
The temperature beside the charcoal fire.
The soothing melody, melodious rhythm, scattered poems and lively and fresh images inadvertently create a harmonious world, giving people the double aesthetic feeling of reading and listening. Zhu Xiang tirelessly explores the new metrical style, especially pursues the aesthetic principle with oriental charm of rationally controlling emotions. From the emotion of poetry to the composition and wording of poetry, he has been practicing tirelessly, paying attention to the neatness and symmetry of form and the integration of poetic rhyme and content emotion. These efforts left a deep impression on Zhu Xiang in the history of new poetry creation.