As for poetry, as people in China, what we like best is either the elegance and simplicity in the songs of Chu in The Book of Songs or the grandeur in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. If Japanese poetry is mentioned at this time, many people will scoff!
I was so careless when I first got the book Brave Storm by Japanese Kenji Miyazawa published by Houlang Publishing House. Moreover, this thin booklet has actually sold to the "sky-high price" above 52 yuan. There seems to be some hype, right? With casual reading, when I think for a long time, I have some respect for this book!
Only this poem named "Braving the Wind and Breaking the Rain" is included in one book. People who don't know probably think it's a thousand-word poem like Ramayana, but in fact it's only 30 lines, slightly more than Du Fu's Give Eight Chu Shi and much less than Bai Juyi's Pipa Trip. Why is a short poem dedicated to a book? Is it true that, as we treat some domestic poems, a quatrain and seven laws all use hundreds of pages to elaborate the background and enrich its profound connotation? That's not the answer. The text of this book itself is 30 poems, and with Koji Yamamura's paintings, it suddenly has a strong charm. This charm is the poet's calmness in the face of wind and rain.
Before Japanese poetry, it was when I was playing the glorious "Three Kingdoms" as a teenager that the poem Nobunobu, the overlord of the Japanese Warring States, appeared in the opening lines:
I was deeply impressed by this and felt very lonely because "before me, where did those lost times go?" Behind me, are the future generations? " In Chen Ziang. But after reading this book, I found that this calm poem, with little pen and ink and light-colored painting, made it vivid. Even if you don't understand the original rhyme of Japanese, you can feel the calmness and calmness in the face of wind and rain in the author's poems.
20 16 is the 20th anniversary of Kenji Miyazawa's birthday/kloc-0. He was hungry and cold before he died. He wrote this song "Braving the Wind and Breaking the Rain" in the famine disaster in his hometown, and soon died. This poem was discovered after his death, and now it is considered as Kenji Miyazawa's masterpiece. This Japanese poet was versatile before his death and made great achievements in Buddhism, literature, nature, agriculture, music and other fields. He wrote about 800 poems and hundreds of fairy tales in his life, which was highly praised by later generations. He is even known as "a model of serving people with virtue". The so-called "human model" here is quite different from the handsome face value of Di Yong's "human appearance" in the Song Dynasty, but it can be said to be a model for dealing with people. Such a talented person, in contemporary China, I only know one master, Hong Yi. As it happens, Master Hongyi and he are both devout Buddhists and great poets. Kenji Miyazawa ranks fourth among the "most popular Japanese writers in the Millennium", which Master Hongyi may not be able to achieve in China, but this is not because Master Hongyi is less talented than Kenji Miyazawa, but because there are too many China writers in the Millennium.
This is an excellent picture book. The poems in Chinese and English are not meaningful rhymes, but they are better than plain and simple, full of goodwill and firmness. The painting is not exquisite, but it gives people a little warmth in the wind and rain painting of ink and wash, just like the little figure painted by the painter Koji Yamamura in a few strokes on each page, and it also shows unflinching firmness and compassion in the wind and rain. Therefore, you don't have to recite poems. It is most important to feel this artistic conception. Read such a picture book for your child or read it yourself.
Su Dongpo's storm in those days was also about wind and rain:
It shows Sue's heroic and chic.
Du Fu's famous sentence "The hut was blown by the autumn wind" was also ravaged by the autumn wind:
It shows the loneliness and helplessness of a poor man like the old gentleman in the face of wind and rain disasters, as well as his feelings of sympathy and helping others.
Open the first page, only the first sentence of this poem:
The picture is extremely wonderful: in the gray sky, a storm is falling from the sky, and the straw on the left is covered with rain beads. Dragonflies and grasshoppers cling to the leaves of grass to avoid being swept away by the wind and rain, while birds are still spreading their wings in the sky for food, and trees in the distance are still spreading their branches and leaves. Even if you don't carry rain gear, the small figure still moves forward calmly.
What the whole poem shows me is the poet's calmness. I found a translated version of this poem on the Internet, and it feels good:
I feel that this translation is not a poem at all, and I wrote one myself:
At this time, I found that there was no peace in the picture book. This is the gap, so I reread this book with my children and feel the warmth in the wind and rain.