Analysis:
"Poetry is poor and backward" (Chen Linfan)
Ouyang Xiu said in the Preface to the Poems of Mei: "The poorer you are, the more you build, the more you work. However, it is not poetry that can help the poor, and the poor will have to work in the future. " So people always think that only the poor can write good poems; In other words, you are not a poor poet. Even The View of China Ancient Literature published by Yuelu Bookstore interprets this sentence as: "The poorer a poet is, the more skillful his poems are. In this case, it is not poetry that can make people poor. It turns out that the poet is poor and then he can write a skillful poem. "
If we say that a poet must be poor before he can have good poems; Then I thought: many people who are interested in poetry are reluctant to enter the door of poetry, and most friends will still pay attention to the synchronous development of two civilizations. In fact, the view that poetry is poor and backward is correct in itself, but it is not good to interpret the word "poor" as "poor".
There are six interpretations of the word "poverty" in Ci Yuan: ultimate, end, end, hardship, poverty, root and ancient country name. ; 3f
In Ouyang Xiu's Preface to Science and Technology, the word "poor" is always used. In my opinion, none of them can be explained by "poverty" Mei's "enjoying the cool for an official", will she be poor when she becomes an official-even if she is not full of ten men, she will not be poor after all. Mei Yu Sheng's "I don't know how long he will be poor and how long he will be old" is because he is talented and stingy, so he can't be a big official. But "there is sorrow and anger inside", which makes his mind miserable to the extreme, and "seeing insects, fish, plants, birds and animals, and so on, is always strange", which means "it is excited by resentment", "this poor man's poem" and "it is difficult to write human feelings"-this is a good poem.
"The poorer you build, the more you do" is put forward according to Mei's example. Since Mei is not poor, the word "poor" can no longer be regarded as "poor". I think it is closer to Ouyang Xiu's original intention to understand the word "poverty" as "endless" and add a layer of "seeking roots". It's easy to understand. For example, the Book of Changes says, "If you are poor, you will change, and if you change, you will pass, and the general rules will last for a long time." Zong Baihua said in "Walking in Aesthetics": "Because of the poor study of physics and the pursuit of rationality, there is an academic realm." This is also true, but in any case, the word "poor" must not explain "poor".
There are three "poor" words mentioned above, and there are four in Ouyang Xiuwen's works. "Poets are poor when they are young" and "the poor in ancient times talk a lot". The understanding of these two words is the same as "spiritual poverty". Literary works emphasize the value of human nature, and only by going deep into life can we write good works, both in ancient and modern times. "However, it is not poetry that can help the poor. People who are almost poor will have to work in the future." These two "poverty" are the fundamental solutions. In this way, the whole article will be connected and the meaning will be complete.
Most people who study poetry are full of emotion. Many people feel sorry for themselves when they say "poetry is poor and backward" because their living standards are limited now. Compared with Mei, they mistakenly think that poverty is a poet, which is a big mistake. We might as well change this sentence to "poetry is rich and then work." Similarly, the word "rich" can not be understood as money wealth, but as "learning to be rich with five cars" Of course, it is impossible to achieve the goal of learning to be rich without a considerable economic foundation. How many people can study with peace of mind without RMB? But it doesn't mean that with money, with knowledge, you can write good poems, and with the process of learning, you will encounter problems and let people get to the bottom of it. "Poetry is poor and then works" and "Poetry is rich and then works" are the same.