Personality theory (Zhong Rong's exposition and explanation)

Original text:

The triple meanings of macro-philosophy, used as appropriate, dried by wind and moistened by Cai Dan, make the tasters infinite and the listeners tempted. This is the best poem.

Analysis:

Zhong Rong advocates both style and rhetoric, emphasizing "interest" and immortal artistic charm.

Style is an important aesthetic category in ancient China. The "wind power" in Zhong Rong's Poems also refers to the strength of character.

He believes that poetry creation should be "air-dried by Cai Danrun", that is, style should be given priority, rhetoric should be supplemented, and both style and rhetoric should be paid equal attention to.

When Zhong Rong talked about the development of five-character poems before Qi and Liang Dynasties, Jian 'an literature was the highest model, and Jian 'an literature creation was characterized by vigorous wind. Zhong Rong especially praised Cao Zhi's poetry creation, thinking that he was the most outstanding representative of five-character poems before Qi and Liang Dynasties. He said, "Chen Sizhi is also in the article. For example, there are Kong Zhou in human relations, dragons and phoenixes in scales and feathers, Qin Sheng in music and women workers." And his comments on Cao Zhishi's "extremely high personality, words from Huamao" are based on the wind and Cai Dan. He commented on Serina Liu's poems, "The fighting spirit is strange, and the movement is even more strange." True bone cream, high wind custom. But if you are angry at your words, you will hate less. "That is to say, although Serina Liu's poems are awe-inspiring, they are slightly inadequate in terms of diction and sentence making. At present, there are quite different views on the meaning of Chinese characters. Its significance in different artistic fields and different literary critics is not exactly the same.

Zhong Rong's "Jian 'an style" can be seen from the general remarks in his poems and the specific expositions of various poets.

Mainly has the following characteristics: first, there must be generous and tragic resentment, which is very clear and strong. The second is to express your thoughts directly, naturally and truly, without affectation or affectation. The third is that the image is distinct and prominent, with concise and clear style characteristics. Generally speaking, "wind power" refers to the beauty of spiritual essence of poetic images, and "Cai Dan" refers to the beauty of material expression of poetic images. Only by combining them closely can literary works be vivid and vivid. The combination of "Wind Power" and "Cai Dan" is another important aesthetic standard for Zhong Rong to evaluate poets of past dynasties. In his creation, he criticized the tendency that "soup tastes the same as Zhu Xian".