Q: Why study poetry? Is it useful to learn poetry?
A: Looking horizontally, the ridge edge becomes a peak, and the distance is different.
Yang Qixin, a Tsinghua scholar, was recommended to give a speech on "The Beauty of Poetry";
What do we usually learn to do with China's poems? Is the college entrance examination right? However, in fact, we ignored its most beautiful part.
What is the first beauty of poetry? It can give all of us an expression system that belongs to our China.
Foreigners don't. Only China people can express their rich feelings implicitly and elegantly through China's ancient poems.
For example, if a girl breaks up with a love rat, she will say what Weibo usually said, "People will always meet a few scum in their lives", right?
What do girls who know ancient poetry say? "From then on, there is no good night, let him go down to the West Building in the bright moon." You see, such an educated ex-boyfriend must regret it, right?
For another example, we often talk about "what you say is so reasonable, but I have nothing to say" on the Internet. What do you say in ancient poetry? "That makes sense. I forgot what I wanted to say." Tao Yuanming is proper and there is nothing wrong with it.
The second beauty of poetry is that it can give us a poetic life in our daily life.
People can't live too materially. Every day, especially in an environment that emphasizes efficiency and speed, how my GPA and KPI are completed, how my house price fluctuates, and how my stock goes up and down are all these.
Some people say that life is not just the present, but also poetry and distance. But pay attention, poetry can take you far.
You don't have to leave home, just in the dormitory and in the office, and you can feel the heroism of the sparkling moon through the "bright moon, the horizon at this time * * *".
You don't have to leave home, just in the house, passing by "Xiling Snow, Wu Dong Wan Li Boating Gate", you can feel the elegance of the white boat wrapped in leaves.
What does poetry give us? It gives us a big picture in our small life.
The beauty of poetry is the third kind of beauty, which has cultivated us in China and our unique national feelings of caring for others in China.
We in China are naturally sympathetic to poverty and oppression.
Faced with the unfairness caused by these gaps, what will Du Fu denounce? "Zhumen wine stinks, and the road has frozen bones." . How would Cao Cao feel if the war caused the destruction of social production and the destruction of his family? "Bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no crows in a thousand miles."
For example, this empty world is very boring. How did Li Shangyin comfort us: Chang 'e should regret stealing the elixir of life.
Therefore, China's ancient poems tell us that we should pay attention to people's livelihood, pay attention to practical things, worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later.
China's ancient poems have built the most solid collective consciousness of all of us, and China's ancient poems have also made the spiritual space of all Chinese sons and daughters the greatest common denominator.
I used to chat with foreigners when I was in England. We can talk about Greek mythology, American Constitution, Plato, big data, Lagrange theorem and so on. The only thing we can't talk about is China's ancient poems.
They are all graduates of Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge, the world's top universities, but they can't understand "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely". How can you pursue life calmly only by picking chrysanthemums?
Outsiders don't understand, but even my grandmother, who graduated from primary school, can say to me every Spring Festival, "I wish people a long time, thousands of miles away."
China's poems, in the most primitive memory of each of us, are branded with a very profound and universal cultural carrier.
No matter where we go in the world, as long as you are from China, when you find yourself wasting food, you will think of the old man's reproach and say, "Who knows every meal is hard".
As long as you are a wanderer and miss your hometown mother, you can certainly understand this sentence: "The thread in the hands of a loving mother makes clothes for her wayward child's body."
As long as I leave my hometown to study and work hard in other places, I am tired and homesick. Looking at the bright moon in the sky, I will definitely think of the sentence: "I lift myself up to see it, and I find it is moonlight, and then I sink, and I suddenly think of home."
When you are old, and Wan Li returns after 30 years, you are no longer that handsome guy, but just an old gentleman. What must be standing at your door to meet you? When children meet strangers, they will smile and ask where the guests are from. And what you think in your heart must be the sentence "People don't know where to go, but peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze".
Therefore, in the face of today's era, I want to say that traditional culture needs to return.
We can say that today's China is right, China has the second largest economy in the world, and our political influence is growing, but without these, we are still not China a thousand years ago. We are.
After a thousand years, it doesn't matter. Are we still from China? Still. What determines that we will always be from China? Culture is an ancient poem of China. As long as you can recite "mow the grass for lunch every day", you won't lose anyone wherever you go, and neither will China people.
I think my mother is not ugly. It doesn't mean that China is stronger today, but we are patriotic. When China was weak, we were unpatriotic. China's culture makes China polite when he is strong and tenacious when he is weak. Because we are all from China who are of China descent and can speak Chinese.
It is because of China culture, not anything else, that our nation is magnificent and our life is full of poetry. It is the backbone and confidence of each of us, and it is also the inexhaustible motive force for each of us to have cultural confidence.
China's poetry has been brilliant for thousands of years, and it has been passed down in Tongji, Kyushu. It is magnificent, breathtaking and beautiful.