The modern Chinese Poetry Conference mainly examines the players' recitation and understanding of poetry; The ancient poetry contest is mainly about creation. The ancients loved poetry and fu, and the imperial examination can be regarded as the biggest poetry competition. Every poem and fu question is a big competition among students. The life of ancient literati is very fulfilling in itself.
Poetic, they like to compose poems and use poems to communicate their knowledge and feelings, such as Li Bai and Du Fu, Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi, Ouyang Xiu and Wang Anshi, Xin Qiji and Chen Liang. And there are many chanting poems, which is undoubtedly a kind of mutual encouragement and contest. In addition, group organizations and poetry banquets abound, such as the seven sons of Jian 'an and the seven sages of bamboo forest, which have contributed to the development of poetry, literature and prose.
Drink water in the winding canal with a glass floating on it to wash away evil.
In the ninth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353), it happened on the third day of the third lunar month. Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Sun Chuo and other 465,438+0 people held bone-repairing activities in Lanting, Yinshan Scenic Spot in Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), which was an ominous sacrifice ceremony to eliminate diseases on Shangsi Festival. After the ceremony, everyone lined up on both sides of the canal, put the glasses on the upper reaches of the water, and the glasses went down the river. Whoever stops in front of them will drink the wine in the cup and write a poem. It was March, and the weather was sunny, sunny and pleasant in spring. Everyone is in high spirits, enjoying their prime, drinking poems and planning to collect poems. Wang Xizhi was moved by this scene at this time. He improvised a preface to the collection of poems, splashed ink and wrote the preface to Lanting Collection, describing the grand occasion of the elegant collection of literati at that time.
At that time, the author was inspired by generate and had a lot of thoughts under the comprehensive effect of weather, geography and human harmony. It is said that it was rewritten by the queen, and the beauty of calligraphy can no longer be compared with that at that time. There are more than twenty "Zhi" characters in the works, each of which is written in a different way. Mi Fei called it "the best running script in the world" in Song Dynasty.
It can be said that it is a great event in the cultural history of China and a great gathering of literature. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, celebrities came forth in large numbers. Their activities of advocating nature, indulging in mountains and rivers, and wandering around the flowing water are not only their talent competition, but also their attitude of respecting nature and actively integrating, from which we can appreciate the elegant beauty of harmony and unity between man and nature. Later, Qushui, with profound cultural connotation, became a unique garden landscape, and it still sings a thousand-year-old rhyme in today's garden construction.
Qiting poetry
This is a personal competition of frontier poets in Tang Dynasty. According to legend, three poets, Wang Zhihuan, Wang Changling and Gao Shi, played together during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, many of their poems were set to music and sung among the people. When they went to a restaurant (flag pavilion) in Chang 'an city, the capital, for a drink, they saw a group of singers singing. They sat down and enjoyed it quietly. Wang Changling suggested: "We always thought that we were good at poetry, and we couldn't compare it with reciting poetry every time. Today, let's listen to these singers and see who sings more poems and whose works are the best. " A little later, a singer sang Wang Changling's "Breaking Up with Xin Jian at Furong Inn". Wang Changling smiled knowingly and drew a small mark on the wall beside him. After a while, a singer sang the first four sentences of "Crying for a Single Father" by Gao Shi, and Liang Fu and Gao Shi happily drew a sign. Then, the third singer sang Wang Changling's "Long Letter and Autumn Poems" plaintively, and Wang Changling proudly drew the second prize. At this moment, Wang Zhihuan said unhurriedly, "You two are so happy. Just now, they were all vulgar songs sung by poor singers, elegant Chun Xue songs. I dare not sing! Look at the most beautiful singer over there. If she is not my poem when she sings later, I will never compete with you in my life; If she sings my poem, you two will worship me as a teacher. " After saying no, the beautiful woman really sang "Liangzhou Ci" in a generous and tragic tune: "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, and there is a lonely city of Wan Ren. Why bother to complain about the willow, the spring breeze is only Yumenguan. " Wang Zhihuan proudly said, "Look, I'm not bragging, am I?" Three people laughed. This story, also called "the pavilion with painted walls and flags", is recorded in Historical Records. It can be seen that poetry at that time was as popular as pop songs now. Taking poetry as pleasure was a life state of the literati at that time.
Flying flower order
The "Chinese Poetry Conference" ignited the "Flying Flower Order" poetry solitaire game. In fact, the "flying flower order" is one of the "drinking orders" that people often played in ancient times. The word "flying flowers" comes from "Spring City is full of flying flowers" in Han Yi's Cold Food. The "Flying Flower Order" played in "Chinese Poetry Conference" has no position requirement for restrictive words, as long as the word appears in the poems spoken by the players; However, in ancient times, the restrictions were strict. For example, the last word of a poem is required to be "flowers", such as "Spring City is full of flowers", and the poem that the next person says must also be a quatrain of seven words, and the last word is "flowers", such as "flowers are reflected in front of the continent". You can recite the poems of your predecessors or improvise; When anyone can't write poems, recite poems or make mistakes, the wine official will punish him with a glass of wine. In fact, this is only the basic form of the flying flower order, and there are many more complicated rules for word restriction. For example, some flying flower sheets have higher requirements on the position of words. If the first person says "a pot of wine among flowers", "flower" is in the first position, and the second person says "flower" is in the second position, such as "falling flower independence", and so on. If the "flower" is in the seventh position, one round is completed and the cycle continues. If you can't answer, you will be fined. In addition, there are two words, multiple words, numbers, color words, musical instrument words, overlapping word, words with a certain radical, etc. Which is more "brain-burning" and more fun?
Haitang poetry club
Haitang Poetry Club is the largest poetry creation and competition conference in a Dream of Red Mansions. In the early autumn of one year, Jia Tanchun proposed to form a poetry club, with members including Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun, "Sanchun", Jia Baoyu and Li Wan. When the poetry club was founded, Li Wan volunteered to be the president, commenting on poetry, and Yingchun and Xichun were the vice presidents, responsible for setting rhyme and transcribing the court respectively. The poetry club organized three large gatherings. At the first party, Jia Yungang gave Jia Baoyu two pots of begonia flowers, and everyone wrote poems on begonia flowers. Lin Daiyu was very calm in this seven-character rhythmic poetry creation meeting with Haitang as the theme. While everyone was thinking hard, she was playing and chatting, and finally waved away. At the second poetry meeting hosted by Shi Xiangyun, Xue Baochai expressed her feelings about poetry: the title of the poem should not be too original and eccentric. "If the title is too clever and the rhyme is too dangerous, there will be no good poem. After all, it is petty." At these poetry meetings, the poems of Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai are always better than others. The third rally was the 50th session of A Dream of Red Mansions. Xing Xiuyan, Wen Li, Xue Baoqin and Jia Baoyu each wrote a poem by Yongmei after participating in an impromptu poem competition in the nunnery.
Therefore, the three gatherings of Haitang Poetry Society took Haitang, Chrysanthemum, Crab and Hongmei as the themes respectively, and * * * wrote 25 poems. Although A Dream of Red Mansions contains "propositional poems" written by Yuan Fei when he visited his mother, and there are various opportunities to write poems and write lyrics, such as "Flowers Burying Poems" and "Peach Blossom Club", Haitang Poetry Club is a literary society with strong colors described by Cao Xueqin, including the detailed process of setting chapters, preparing topics, writing poems and commenting on poems. Everyone showed their poetic talents, revealed each other's inner world and highlighted their different personalities.
The ancients wrote poems about their daily life and emotions, leaving us with beautiful poems that can still arouse * * * after thousands of years. "Life has its own poetry", "poetry" and "true meaning". We can experience it quietly by ourselves, or we can gain new surprises and epiphanies in the "confrontation" with our friends.
Originally published in the third issue of Harle 20 17.