Poetry of dialectical materialism

Painting Bamboo in the Weixian County Administration (Zheng Xie, Qing Dynasty)

Original text of the poem Lying in the Yazhai and listening to the rustling bamboo, it is suspected to be the sound of folk suffering. These little officials in Caozhou County are always concerned about each branch and leaf.

Philosophical materialism believes that consciousness is the reflection of objective things in the human brain. However, when people think about the same objective things, they often form different understandings and conclusions. From the perspective of human subjective factors, it is mainly caused by factors such as people’s different positions, different worldviews, and different knowledge structures. The scene of praying for rain described in the poem tells us very clearly that in a class society, because people belong to different classes and have different class positions, their views (reflections) on many issues are very different. If we want to understand things correctly, we must first look at issues from the standpoint of the fundamental interests of the people.

“All the birds are flying high, and the lonely cloud is alone.

"Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty