Li Bai’s acrostic poem “The Sinking of the Yangtze River” became popular on WeChat. The reporter randomly checked 5 public accounts yesterday and found that the number of views of this article "Li Bai is so awesome, he has predicted that something will happen to the Eastern Star" has exceeded 17 million times. The original poem is as follows:
Two dragons stirred up the wind and swirled the clouds on the river,
The remaining souls of life and death were scattered in chaos,
The ship turned over in a wild spin,
I threw myself on the ground and rolled around,
Sixty-sixty-year-olds obeyed the fate of heaven,
Under the moon, the water in the river was hard for duckweeds,
For a time, I sighed day and night for my whole life,
At sunset, disaster is doomed.
The waves are flat in the east, west, north and south.
Only when we encounter a dragon whirlwind,
thunder breaks out in the middle reaches of the river,
< p>The starry night and the moon are missing in the sky,Sinking into the vicissitudes of the river,
Yes, hundreds of lives will be spent on this trip.
Long sleep in the sand makes people clear,
The river flows into the sea and the sky is filled with tears.
The first words of this poem are connected, which is "The Eastern Star sank in the Yangtze River on June 1, 2015." In addition, there are quite a few acrostic prophetic poems by Li Bai on the Internet, such as "Teng Yun" which predicts the crash of Malaysia Airlines, "Zheng Sail" which predicts the earthquake in Japan, "Long Island" which predicts the success of Beijing's Olympic bid, and "Teng Yun" which predicts Tencent's victory over 360. "Sang Shang Yang" is simply amazing. Is Li Bai really the "prophetic emperor"?
"Did Li Bai write these poems?" Yesterday, the reporter first asked He Yun'ao, director of the Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Nanjing University. "It's a coincidence that you asked." Professor He, who is currently writing the book "Li Bai Yin Jinling" said, "I will check "All Tang Poems" immediately and get back to you in two hours."
The reporter then called to research Li Bai, a professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing Normal University, mobile phone of Li Bai's poems. He was recording a program on CCTV and told reporters that he often saw so-called prophetic poems by Li Bai widely circulated, which was very worrying. First of all, these poems are not of Li Bai's style and standard, they are just similar to limericks. Secondly, Li Bai was never a prophet. He could not even know his own life and death. How could he predict the fall of the Eastern Star after 1253? If he could have predicted that Yongwang Li Lin would turn against his brother Suzong of Tang Dynasty and be killed, he would not have joined the Li Lin shogunate and been implicated and imprisoned, nor would he have died in Anhui Dangtu at the age of 61.
“Some public accounts are just for eyeballs, talking about politics, or spoofing cultural celebrities, all for the purpose of pursuing click-through rates.” He believes that the reason why the “Poetry Immortal” Li Bai was repeatedly “shot” is mainly because He was a man of literary integrity, "when his pen struck the storm, his poems became weeping ghosts and gods." In addition, his story of not fearing power was widely circulated. Therefore, people deliberately "consume" him because they like him.
At this time, Professor He Yun'ao called to inform him of the search results, "After a rough search of more than 1,000 poems by Li Bai, the titles of these acrostic poems did not exist. Only words such as 'Zhengfan' and 'Tengyun' appeared, and the other words were hidden." The entire sentence of the first poem was not found. These poems are obviously forgeries." He said that even if Li Bai's poems match a certain event in the future, it is not a prophecy, it is just a coincidence of word arrangement.
Like Li Bo, he is also very worried about the entertainment dissemination of "cultural jokes" through the Internet, which will make young people confused, lower the taste of traditional culture, and eliminate the charm of mainstream culture.
So, who wrote the "prophetic poem" for Li Bai? Is there really a software tool for writing acrostics? Yesterday, the reporter contacted Suzhou Shuitian Yise Software Company. The salesperson Xiao Zhang told the reporter that the good luck acrostic poem generator they developed can be downloaded for free, or the software can be purchased for 30 yuan. The former has a limited lexicon, and the quality of the automatically generated acrostic poems is not high; while the latter has a rich lexicon and a wide range of choices. It has 25 acrostic modes of acrostic, middle, and tail, and can also automatically select rhyme patterns. He confirmed, "Li Bai's poem "The Sinking of the Yangtze River" was mainly created manually, supplemented by software generation. It would still work if the name were changed to Du Fu or Bai Juyi, but everyone is already used to Li Bai."
He said that the company can sell more than 30 pieces of acrostic poem generation software every month. It is not trying to make money, but just having fun.
"Are you asking whether it will mislead young people? That is the boss's business!" he said