That’s right: poor poetry leads to poor craftsmanship, right? Ouyang Xiu said in "Preface to the Collected Poems of Mei Shengyu": "The poorer you are, the better you are at work. However, it is not poetry that can make you poor, but those who are extremely poor can only work." Therefore, people always think that only poor people can write good poems. ; In other words, if you are not poor, you are not a good poet. Even the "Guwen Guanzhi" published by Yuelu Publishing House explains this sentence as: "The poorer the poet is, the more skillful the poems he writes. In this case, it is not poetry that can make people poor. It turns out that the poet is poor. Only then can we write poems with superb skills. "If we say that poets must be poor before they can write good poems, then I think that many people who are interested in poetry are not willing to enter the door of poetry, but most of my friends will still pay attention. The two civilizations developed simultaneously. In fact, the idea that "poems are poor before work" is correct in itself, but it is not good to interpret the word "poor" as "poverty". In "Ci Yuan", there are six interpretations of the word "poverty": one is the ultimate, the second is cessation and end, the third is distress, the fourth is poverty, the fifth is searching for the origin, and the sixth is the name of an ancient country. ; f In the preface of Ouyang Repairman, General Manager used the word "poor". None of it seems to me to be construed as "poverty." Mei Shengyu "little used Yinbu as an official", will he still be poor when he becomes an official? Even if he is not full of ten men, he will not be poor after all. Mei Shengyu's "I don't know how long he will be poor and he will grow old" is because he was stingy with his talents and could not become a higher official. And "there is worry and anger inside", which affects his mind to the extreme, and "when he sees insects, fish, plants, trees, wind, clouds, birds and beasts, he often explores their strangeness", it means "he is motivated by resentment", "and this poor person "Poems about human feelings that are difficult to describe" - this is a good poem. "The poorer you are, the more you work" was put forward based on the example of Mei Shengyu. Since Mei Shengyu was not poor, the word "poor" can no longer be regarded as "poverty". I think it is closer to Ouyang Xiu's original intention to understand the word "poverty" as "to stop" and to add a layer of "searching for the origin". It is easy to understand. For example, it is said in "The Book of Changes": "If you are poor, you will change, if you are poor, you will be general, and if you are general, you will be long-lasting." Zong Baihua said in "A Walk in Aesthetics": "Because of the poor study of physics, the pursuit of reason, and the academic realm." This is what he said. It makes sense, but no matter how you say it, the word "poor" cannot explain "poverty". The word "poor" has been discussed above, but there is another word in Ouyang Xiu's article. "There are few poets but many are poor" and "There are many words about the poor in ancient times". The word "poor" has the same understanding as "poor" in "poor one's ambition". Literary works emphasize the value of human nature. Only by going deep into life can we write Good works are the same in ancient and modern times. "However, it is not poetry that can make the poor, and those who are almost poor can then work." This "poverty" is the solution to find the root cause. Understood in this way, the meaning can be complete when the whole article is integrated. Most people who study poetry have rich emotions. When many people say that "poetry is poor, then work", many people feel sorry for themselves because their current living standards are limited. Compared with Mei Shengyu, they mistakenly think that they must be poor to be poets. This is How wrong. We might as well change this sentence into "poetry is rich before work". Similarly, the word "rich" cannot be understood as monetary wealth, but the wealth of "learning to be rich in five things". Of course, it is impossible to achieve academic wealth without a certain financial foundation. How many people can study safely without the prerequisite of RMB. But it doesn’t mean that having money means you will have knowledge and be able to write good poems. There will also be a learning process and you will encounter problems and let people explore their roots. In this way, it is the same reason to say that "poems are poor before work" and "poems are rich before work".