The most imaginative world, the essence of Japanese traditional literature.
Haiku is a kind of Japanese classical short poems, short and pithy, with long artistic conception. Different from China's poems, it's just the author's initial idea and an impromptu feeling. China's poems are full of various themes, expressing the author's knowledge, ambition, self-cultivation and even political views. Haiku is the author's capture of the beauty of the nuances of life, and he feels the casualness in nature and the refuge he seeks from his heart. This is also related to the fact that the form of haiku must have seasonal language (referring to the seasonal language used to express spring, summer, autumn and winter and the New Year), so the words used in haiku are mostly natural, and the sentence patterns do not pursue deliberate neatness. There are seasonal haiku and free law haiku.
Some critics say that haiku is an incomplete beauty, which makes the author's feelings unable to be fully expressed, but it leaves room for readers' imagination and creation. It is true that haiku is short and pithy, and some sentences can only describe the scenery, mood or sentiment in an instant. But it is precisely because of the high conciseness of haiku that readers can gradually realize its uniqueness.
The Japanese are sensitive and sensitive, capturing the instantaneous aestheticism and expressing the lonely mood. However, there are also scenes with strong flavor of life in haiku with excellent artistic conception, such as "Shredded pork under the tree, cherry blossom petals falling on vegetable soup" by Matsuo Bashō. In such a beautiful moment of enjoying cherry blossoms, "shredded pork" and "vegetable soup" appeared, which seemed a bit out of place with the scenery of enjoying flowers. Think about it carefully, isn't it a scene of life to sit under the cherry tree and enjoy the flowers while eating, and the cherry petals fall on the food?
Natsume Miki's "Idle to hit flies, kill them all at once" is just twelve words, which reminds people of the scene at that time and is full of fun. I may think flies are a bit indecent, but I can feel the author's anger at hitting flies. There is also the phrase "lazy spring rain, so we don't get up until we come" and so on. These daily scenes sometimes make people feel difficult to beautify into poetry, but in haiku, every move of life is described skillfully, the scene pattern is vivid, the artistic conception is clear, and it is also a unique scene.
Appreciating haiku will naturally associate with the Japanese aesthetic of sadness, mystery and emptiness. "cherry blossoms are scattered, opening early and falling late." It takes seven days for cherry blossoms to bloom and ten days for trees. The cherry blossom line that runs through the whole island of Japan is only one and a half months. This extremely prosperous and short-lived "cherry blossom seven days" is exactly the form of Japanese aesthetics. Cherry blossoms bloom brilliantly, wither sadly, and life dies at its peak. This silence is the ultimate beauty, and the light between disillusionment is the most dazzling, which conforms to the Japanese national aesthetics. The beauty of haiku lies in "grasping the sparkling scenery of nature, corresponding to the poet's metaphysical dream, creating a lonely feeling and a unique Zen flavor, which will be fixed forever from that moment on."
The beauty of mourning is to perceive the sadness of life and nature; The mysterious beauty is the impermanence of life and death and the mystery of Leng Yan; The beauty of emptiness is the embodiment and understanding of Zen. The seasonal language in haiku is an indispensable part, and the appreciation of haiku plays a key role. Therefore, Zen is often revealed in haiku. For example, Matsuo Bashō's famous "Quiet Ancient Pond, Frog Leaping Water" can appreciate the quiet artistic conception between static and dynamic. Li Huabei Branch's "Fireflies intermittent light, one bright and one extinguished, how can loneliness be compared", Zen runs through Japanese aesthetics, and the scene of creating artistic conception is particularly deep and long.
The author of Haiku is famous for his promise, and Matsuo Bashō is the most famous. His painting style is calm and fresh, and his Zen is far away. After that, Xiaolin Yicha with personal characteristics and Xiewu Village, which is good at painting, appeared. Reading their sentences is like enjoying flowers and tea. Feel what they saw and heard at that time, imagine those beautiful artistic conception, and feel what they thought at that time in their hearts. Poems that perceive the sadness of life and nature and tell their inner feelings are the best sentences in their eyes. They seldom use sentences to reason, but just use haiku to reveal Zen like Li Xiu's tea ceremony.
The name of the month in Japan is also beautiful. 1-1February are Muyue, Ruyue, Yayoi, Uzuki, Gaoyue, Shuiwuyue, Wen Yue, Ye Yue, Changyue, Shenwuyue, Frosty Moon, respectively.
Finally, it ends with a haiku that many people like:
I'll go and you stay, two autumns-Masaoka Shiki.