But today, let's not talk about the Analects of Confucius and Zhouyi, but talk about the pronunciation of traditional poetry. I wonder if some students here are a little dismissive. You think that all our ancient poems are memorized, and the pronunciation will not be taken into account at all, and of course it will not be mispronounced. Don't worry, don't worry, you shouldn't talk big after we read the second half.
Give a simple example first, and then talk about poetry, such as the word "le". As we all know, this word has two pronunciations, one for music and the other for Liao. This word has different meanings in different words. We in China often ask, "Have you eaten?" Obviously, music must be read here, not Liao. But if you still pronounce the word "Qing" as le, it is completely wrong. The word "le" here should be pronounced Liao. I believe it won't be difficult for everyone.
Now let me get to the point. Everyone in junior high school should have learned a poem written by Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The name of this poem is Drinking (Part V).
Building a house is human, and there are no horses and chariots.
What can you do? The heart is far from being self-centered.
Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, you can see Nanshan leisurely.
The mountains are getting better and better, and the birds are back.
That makes sense. I forgot what I wanted to say.
This is Tao Yuanming's most famous poem, and almost everyone has recited it. The great poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, not bowing down for five buckets of rice, expressed his feelings in these seemingly simple poems. Tao Yuanming's drinking poems are numerous so far and have been praised by scholars. The most insatiable thing to read is this sentence, "Pick chrysanthemums under the east fence and see Nanshan leisurely." Picking chrysanthemums alone under the east fence, I inadvertently saw the distant mountains in the south. Appreciating this sentence is a carefree and detached state of mind, and this poem naturally becomes a famous sentence through the ages.
It's this poem. Don't underestimate it. It's simple. Almost everyone mispronounced four words. For example, the "car" in the first sentence of this poem should be read ju instead of che, the first sound; The word "Jian" in "Seeing Nanshan leisurely" is also controversial. Whether it is a fairy or a sword remains to be verified. This is still uncertain, let's not talk about it for the time being, but you can refer to the pronunciation of the word "see" in "Seeing Cattle and Sheep at the Wind" as a sage. The word "Huan" in the next sentence "Birds and the Return" is not pronounced as Huan, and someone should ask questions. If it is not pronounced as Huan, is it pronounced as the sea? Actually, it is not the correct pronunciation. You should read Xuan, the second sound. The reason why it is pronounced as Xuan here is because the author wants to express the way birds hover in the air, so it should be pronounced as Xuan. Having said so much, do you feel that you are just ignorant? Easy, easy, look down. What else is there?
In fact, there is another word in "I want to distinguish and forget words", that is, the word "forget". This is not based on the pronunciation of "forgetting", the correct pronunciation should be Wang. Here is "nothing" and here is a verb. Can't believe your eyes now? Is it necessary to ask questions? Why doesn't the teacher teach like this? In fact, we don't have to pay too much attention to these, because these are ancient sounds, and sometimes we don't read them like this. What we need to pay attention to is the central idea in poetry and what the poet wants to express.