Relationship between modern poetry and classical tradition
Sun Wenbo
The geography of the Poet Festival gave me a big topic, because of the classics or modern, it's not a clear, let alone two people talk together. So, today I may not say something deep, can only talk about how to look at the tradition, and what we are talking about, of course, because it is necessary to implement the writing of modern poetry, then I also talk about modern poems, and finally? Of course, talk about today's lecture: traditional poems and modern poetry relationships, that is, many people are now particularly concerned about: a contemporary poet looks at him for traditional inheritance. People now generally talk about the tradition of Chinese poetry, the first thing that is first reflected in the head is "Book of Songs", Wei Jin, Tang Song poetry, regarding the aesthetics of these poems as the characteristics of our national poems. Such an understanding of this understanding, there is no big mistake, and Chinese poetry is indeed developing from them, and they also represent the highest historical achievements of Chinese poetry. However, in my understanding, tradition is not simple to be these cultural things, nor is the language characteristics that have become a poem that has become a literary classic, and tradition should be a humanistic spirit throughout these this article. That is, we should see what kind of things in the history of Chinese poetry in more than two thousand years have always become the true spirit of poets. Only in this way will we see that it is not surface, a traditional meaning of a poetry this article. We don't actually know that although there has been Confucianism in China, there is a religious color of religious color, and there are many people who look at the main spiritual support of their own life, but China There have never formed a Christianity, Islam, and the national spiritual support. Confucian thinking is very important in China, and is officially established as a national belief, but does not reach this position; Buddhism West came, although it has established "South Dynasty 480 Temple" and did not do this. Therefore, from the perspective of faith, it is difficult to say that the Chinese people have a common tradition from the spirit. And we are all clear that if the belief exists, it is very important as the traditional existence of literature. This is an unanimous attitude of the treatment of things that is common in common beliefs. We can say that this consistent attitude will be largely A conforming to the development of literary development, making writing in the face of historical changes. This is what we see although Western modern literature has experienced a lot of rebellions, there seems to have no problems in our country to betray the traditional accusations in our country, including the poet like Eliot, Pound, despite Their poems such as "Wasteland", "Poetry", actually speaking from the sense of style, is completely subverting the cognition of Western readers to poetry, but the readers there still did not think they as a tradition The poet, instead we see as faith, Aliot's recognition of Christian traditions in spirit, is precisely the most important thing in his literature. Here, there is a problem, that is, when we are in the tradition of Chinese poetry, we need to clarify the tradition, that is, how we demonstrate what is the tradition of Chinese poetry, it is in specific sense, existence What kind of thing that can make us talk about. In my personal understanding, I have always thought that now, when talking about the tradition of Chinese poetry, it is more just to talk about it from the style, or just to know it from the status of writing, that is, talk about ancient poetry. How is the meaning of language usage, but also generate a so-called "folk tradition", saying that Chinese poetry has never been established on the state of the temple, writing is a very independent meaningful Phenomenon, and few people look at it from the perspective of national spirit.
There is a problem that it is difficult to solve, that is, when the entire China's ideology is changed, how do we find the traditional inheritance point for yourself. Because we really have it to find above, you can use the poetry writing samples of our support from all aspects, "The Book of Songs" cannot be, it seems that Tang and Song Dynasty poetry can not. Although some people have to say that the "wind and elegance" in the Book of Songs has the color of the individual's personal consciousness. However, this is a problem that our ancestors are not recognized, like the "Book of Songs" explains the tradition, from "Mao Shi", "the three righteousness of the poem" to descend, this is not the case. It is also a place that many people feel confused. Tang poetry is indeed good, Li Bai, Du Fu is really great. But we are obviously impossible to write poems in the same way today. We must write your own poems. So what do you do? Since the existence of modern poems, some people have discussed these problems from the perspective of Chinese language. Their point of view is a different beauty. It should be discovered from this angle to the traditional inheritance in contemporary poetry writing. Their way is to find a way to be awarded by modern poems. Some people, like a lot, Zhu Ziqing, Lin Ge and others also wrote some squares, commonly known as the new poems of tofu block, although these poems It can be considered to have some meaning, but the final result is very unsatisfactory, can't be called true success. Why is this this? Some people are now summarizing. However, my opinion is: Since they are too mechanically understood that the Chinese poetry tradition, only the surface form of language is similar, so unsuccess is inevitable. In my personal understanding, if we really want to contact the traditional, you must really see Chinese poetry in the history of thousands of years. What kind of thing is what is its inner spirit. And this spiritual existence is in different historical periods, and it is showed through what kind of poetry. Perhaps when we found such something, we can get out of the first step in relationship with traditional establishment. I have said that China does not have a national spiritual belief as a constant support for thousands of years, and we have seen more in different poets is an embodiment of personal life. For example, everyone is very familiar with Tao Yuanming, what are we seen in his poem? In the past, there were more talks about Tao Yuanming's ultra-distant attitude towards complex life, regarding him as a person who is not interested in the people who are not interested, because he gives up the garden life of Pengze County, willing to live in place, in澹 澹 宁 静 中 度 Hook in his career. People are more based on his "Peach Blossom", which is an idealist, and people who dream of Utopia. And think that it is best to reflect the spiritual realm of Chinese poets. But what is the case? In fact, not this. In my opinion, Tao Yuanming can also be identified as a very vivid poet, and he is actually pessimistic about the understanding of life. At this point, let's take a look at the poems of his old age "200". Don't think that I said this is a bad evaluation of Tao Yuanming. I really like his poems, especially "three songs". Through him, it is very important for Chinese poets. Although the Chinese poet does not have the kind of religious belief, most poets in history are always facing. A problem expresss your own understanding, this is the attitude towards time. They always show a very deep thinking when they face time, and eventually tell their understanding of life through this thinking. We can see that the Chinese poet's poetry in China is very big in Chinese classical poetry, like "the nineteen of ancient poems", almost all about time poems. In addition, "Leaving the original grass, one year old and a moon". And "life in life, Bai Hui", and a poem such as "vast world, living,", is more lying. And why is the most concerned about the Chinese poet? This is related to China's understanding of the universe from the ancient times.
Our Chinese have the earliest season reincarnation in nature, and the sun and the moon are constantly unchanged. From the spiritual level, it can even say that from philosophical level, you will experience the shortness of life, and its impermanence, and the earliest feeling eternal The wishes are how much attraction is human. This is in Confucianism, or the Taoism, and the other scholars, we can see very clearly. Although we can't say that these awareness has reached the height of faith. Therefore, from this point, we can say this, from the ancients, our Chinese will develop a set of understanding of the relationship between time and life, and this set of understanding has always dominated most people. View of life. Although we can think that in such a pessimism, we can think that in such a pessimistic, we have seen the most moving poems from which it developed. That's true. If we carefully read, whether Cao Cao is still thank, Li Bai is Du Fu, no matter what Su Shi or other poet, it will find that it is from the understanding of time and life, they wrote the most touching our nation. Psalm. Like Cao Cao's four short songs, Du Fu's "Qiu Xing Eight" and so on. In this regard, Li Bai is an example of very capable of explaining issues. In the awareness of the awareness of a general person, especially in the decades of the understanding of the literary view of a strong ideology color, Li Bai is a positive romantic poet, and his poems, like "will enter the wine", etc., all write enthusiasm. Hao Miao, is superficially above the universe. However, such a poet, although the "天子 不 上 上", "Qianjin is still coming to return", "there is a poem that he is tailing, and he is still in the bones. The impact of the method, in his later years, he still can't help but write the "life of the passengers" such a verse of time. Many people don't pay attention to Li Bai's old poems, and in my understanding, Li Bai, who is in his later years, is more reflected in Li Bai as a Chinese poet. I am willing to remind everyone here, read the poems of Li Bai's old age. Because not reading the poems in his poetry in his old age, we can't see the complete Li Bai. Many people now really do this, I only read a few poems, I dare to say what I know. Speaking of this, there is a little can't say, that is, many people are talking about modern poems, and people don't know what to say, they don't understand, unlike classic poetry, so clearly, even ordinary people are all Can spread. We also saw the children of kindergarten to read classic poetry scenes under the leadership of aunt. In fact, this is misunderstood, and the so-called ordinary people knows that there are not many classical poems. It is generally the "Three Hundreds of Tang Poetry" in the Langantang Shishi. But what kind of choice is this? It is the simplest option. Many of the Tang Dynasty have not appeared in this option. Therefore, I have never believed that the classic poetry song is a poem that the public knows. Can poetry can read or not read it is not that simple, not the standard of poetry evaluation. Now I read ancient poems in professionals. Many works must be able to understand the tool books, and even some don't dare to say completely to grasp the connotation. It is a myth that the public is mean. We can find some ancient poems immediately, such as the "Book of Songs", Qu Yuan's "Jiu Song", "Day", I believe that many people don't understand what the "Book of Songs" and Qu Yuan said. Otherwise, whether it is ancient or today, there are so many poetry to explain the work, and the poetic poems are not remembered. For what? Many accuses of modern poetry are not standing to stand, can't believe in it. It is difficult to persuade people from these accusations about inheriting traditional views. Can't take it asking for contemporary poetry writing. Just said that specific examples. Let us take a look at the head.
If we really want to find traditional words that can be inherited by themselves, it is clear that traditional classification cannot be made. What does my saying? Mainly there are some people now, repeatedly emphasized the biggest failure of the five-four new cultural movements to abandon the tradition, and they have erected the words on this issue, showing great sense of national culture. But I found that their views on the tradition is very problem, the reason is that they more put a surface cultural achievement as a thing of the later people inherited. It is also said that they still emphasize the sensation of Chinese people to classical text, rather than from the more fundamental essence, what is the meaning of the laster, what is meaningful. Or, for future people, where is the tradition. I think this is quite wrong, it is an obtus and loss, seeking this and discard. I have said this when I chat with my friends: Tradition never looks out. What does it mean? I mean if we look for tradition from the surface, then the result is definitely can't find, there is no way to inherit, because if you write like an ancients, if we also write a happy family, a law poetry, the result is definitely We will not write better than ancient people. why? The reason is that it is that it is almost no space for classical poetry, and the development of social life has changed, and we have changed our basic understanding of many things. In fact, there is a phenomenon in the history of literature, namely: change. Now we all treat classic poetry as a whole piece. It seems that from Qu Yuan, Chinese poets have written under a sample, the actual situation is not the case. Yuan Mei, Zhao Yi specially talked about this issue, and in their point of view, it is considered that poetry is to "new-oriented". Therefore, we will only see the four words and five words, the Sairy is destroyed and the Lefu advocates, the Lefu is ruthless. In this regard, Chinese poetry is actually changing, which has brought rich, bringing prosperity, brought great. Of course, we can also see that there are still many lessons in the history of Chinese poetry. This lesson is: After the Song Dynasty, many poets have seen the writing of the former writing because of the predecessors of learning because of the predecessors of learning. The ancient and uncovered, the result is that there is no more than the predecessor, but also on the way to build a fence, it has become a literary zombie. Of course, we can't just criticize them, saying that they have no evil people. In fact, many clear poets are realized, they are also trying to find a new way to themselves, but as if they Nothing found. I have been wondering in the past: Is they not enough? Later, I found that it was not that. In fact, there are many people who are talented and excellent. Now I think it is, and they have no success, and they have to go to the overall cultural process. Many times, the change of cultural changes is actually part of the historical change. It is naturally changed, not forced to change. In this way, the modern poem is coming again, we can not change whether the poem itself is changed. However, it should be seen that today's poems have become the look of this today, not to give up the tradition, but the result of traditional changes. Among this change, it is actually different from social ideas. In particular, it is: under our social situation, the society's understanding, and the thrust of this understanding, so that we need another form in the language to truly arrive at the problem we want to mention. Core. This is the need to contribute to the development of modern poetry, not something else.
In fact, we will clearly look at it. It will be very clear. The statement of people when I launched the new cultural movement of May 4th, the most important part of the joint point is that the poems become modern in the classical language, the base point is shelved The overall foundation of social change. And some people always emphasize, modern poetry is affected by Western culture. I don't deny the existence of Western culture. The impact is definitely, but if there is no intrinsic tower, that is, if there is no internal need, how can I happen? On this issue, I feel that many people don't understand it. When they look at the problem, it has emphasized an aspect, and it is not seen in another aspect, or it is unclear. Because it is unclear, the understanding of many things is very vague, and even the conclusions who can't compliment. So, if you have to go back to me, what is the problem of us, that is, not from the surface, what is the tradition, modern, but really finds a traditional perspective for yourself, only this, We can find that if the writing of contemporary poets is ultimately effective, then the most direct and fundamental reason for the effectiveness of writing, just like Eliot, it is definitely not a traditional thing on the surface. It is precisely the tradition from the surface, or it is precisely that the traditional part of the traditional surface supports him. In this way, can we say that it is important for contemporary poets under the premise of recognizing the tradition. What does this refund mean? It is another new path. Painting yourself instead of entering the existing circle. One sentence is: Writing of any era must first be a unique writing, rather than the cat's draw, and repeat the writing of the past. If so, what does it mean about writing? It is also necessary to use the poem after the Tang Dynasty. Why is there any saying? The poem is enough to read Tang and Song, there is no need to read the future work, is it a good writing? Among them, there is a good work, mainly there is no freshness. Poetry needs to give people freshness. It is said that I don't think I said that I said that Chinese poetry is in addition to time concept, there is no tradition that can be inherited. The situation is not like this. In fact, we still have a lot of things that can inherit, such as the former, "said to be beautiful", saying that poetry wants to "gentle", say "Xinguan's complaint", these still can still be seen as poetry The principle is that it can be used to support our understanding of poetry. This is the traditional thing we can call it inherent. We can see that these principled things he say here have a basic meaning, namely: poetry should reflect the sense of responsibility to social life. Some people also say that "the poet is a conscience of society." Means the same. In this case, we will find Chinese poetry, we will find that although we don't have a religious tradition, we can say that there is a moral tradition, which is the tradition of the ancients say "poetry needs to be related". Not to mention the Chinese poetry in the past 20 years, from the 1980s to now, in the work of the most creative poet, we can find a significant feature of the change, on the other hand, From the phenomenon to the spiritual relationship of the spirit of the huge changes in social life. Modern poetry is still based on life. And this kind of speaking, whether it is a "small me" pursuit, the interpretation of "freedom", or in the 1990s, the people in the social reality, poetry efforts to show the survival of such a situation The situation should be said to be the requirements of poetry in the ancients. This is the case, we can say that contemporary poems have not given up its relationship with the traditional. Here, it is necessary to explain that there is a relatively definite double importance in the process of recognizing poetry.
