Source: Zhong Rong's Preface to Poetry
Original sentence:
If it is spring breeze, birds in spring, autumn moon in Qiu Chan, summer rain in Xia Yun and Leng Yue in winter, all poets will feel the four seasons. Jiahui will send poems to relatives, and some will write poems to complain. As for the defected country, Han concubine resigned from the palace. Or the bone is horizontal and the soul is flying. Or negative ge wai garrison, kill the public side. When the guest's clothes are stuffed, the widow's tears will flow out. Or a scholar goes out to the DPRK and never returns. It is good for a woman to have a young moth, and then she looks forward to dumping her country. How can all kinds of responses, the soul of feeling, and non-Chen poems show their meaning? Why not Long song? Therefore, as the saying goes, "Poetry can be resentful." It is nothing more than poetry to let the poor live a comfortable life and make seclusion boring.
Translation:
As for the spring breeze, the birds in spring, the autumn moon in Qiu Chan, the summer rain in Xia Yun and the cold winter moon, people think that the four seasons create the climate and express it in their poems. Poetry is used to express closeness and joy in a beautiful party, and poetry is used to express sadness when leaving the group. As for the courtiers of Chu State who left the capital, the concubines of Han Dynasty saw off the palace, the guests at the border were dressed in thin clothes, and the widows in the boudoir wept. Some scholars took off Peiyin, resigned from the DPRK and never returned.
Women are proud, favored in the palace, and then look around and fall in love with the country; This scene is touching and shocking. If you don't arrange poems, what can you use to express his feelings? If you don't sing loudly, what can you use to stretch his feelings? Therefore, poetry can make friends and complain about others. Nothing can make people in difficult and humble positions feel at ease better than poetry, and let people who live in seclusion and avoid the world eliminate their anguish.
Extended data
The creative background of the poem;
In Zhong Rong's era, the decline of poetic style has been quite serious. According to the Preface to Poetry, there was a fashion trend of writing poems in the gentry society at that time, and even those gentry children who were "able to conquer and just entered primary school" were busy writing poems, which led to the chaotic situation of "different sounds and different people" in the poetry circle.
Princes and nobles talk about poetry, but also "discuss differences with their lust." Catch each other with Pan and Zhu Xi. This is a slap in the face, and there is nothing to rely on. Therefore, Zhong Rong imitated the precedent of Han Dynasty's work of "judging people with nine tastes and judging scholars with seven strategies" and wrote this work to evaluate poets, hoping to correct the chaotic situation in the poetry circle at that time.