Chinese Context: Appreciation of Chinese Poetry and Literary Classics, a series of six books, officially published by Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, are on the shelves together.
It took ten years from the preparation to the writing, to the final review, revision, and shelving of this set of books.
The most precious ten years of my life were given to this set of books.
No regrets, really no regrets!
This is the author's mission!
Here's an encyclopedia introduction:
The Chinese context is a series of poetry and literature books written by the son of King Wen, and the full name of this set of books is:
Chinese Context: Appreciation of Chinese Poetry and Literary Classics.
There are six books in total, namely:
Living in the Book of Poetry", "Living in Yuefu", "Living in Tang Feng".
Living in Song Yun", "Living in Vowels", "Living in Kunqu Opera".
The reason why it is named Chinese culture is because:
The Chinese culture is broad and profound, the smoke and waves are vast, and the content is very extensive. "I can't learn from it in many years, and I can't investigate it back then. ”
However, if we delve into the essence, we will find that the characteristics of Chinese culture are the civilization of etiquette and music.
There are two core contexts of Chinese culture:
One isThe philosophical context extended by the ritual culture is the Taoist context。Some people call it Taoism, but it's not true. Because the Tao is not unified, it cannot be monopolized.
The other one, that isThe poetic context extended by music culture
These two contexts are the core content of Chinese culture.
After ten years, the son of King Wen sorted out the context of Chinese poetry and achieved the series of books "Chinese Context: Appreciation of Chinese Poetry and Literary Classics". Another context: "Dao Ke Dao: The Context of Chinese Philosophy" (tentative) is being written.
The combing of these two contexts can make it very easy for the people to grasp the essence of traditional culture.
The author has been precipitating for ten years and sorting out a complete and clear context of Chinese poetry. Divided by era, it is divided into six books: Book of Poetry, Yuefu, Tang Feng, Song Yun, Vowel, and Kunqu Opera.
(1) Cultural intervention: Rather than appreciating poetry as a simple "literary work", it is placed at the historical scene where the poem took place, and examined in the cultural trend of the entire era, so that readers can understand: what historical events have happened in this era, what is the trend of artistic aesthetics, what is the poet's concept of poetry aesthetics, and what are the emotions and thoughts expressed in this poem.
(2) Situational intervention: Poetry is created in a specific context. Starting from the poet's creative theme, let the reader understand: the poet's situation, state of mind, environment, writing tendency, and the emotions and concepts he wants to express when writing this poem.
(3) Panoramic intervention: In addition to the introduction of the cultural background, the text of the poem is also interpreted in detail. The phonetic explanation of rare words, the full sentence of the poem is explained and translated in detail, so that readers can understand the poem through interpretation without barriers. In the last part, vernacular poetry translations are added, which have more poetic connotations.
(4) Theoretical interventionInterpret and appreciate poetry from a cultural and theoretical level, not only analyze the artistic style of poetry, but also infuse traditional literary and theoretical thoughts, moisturizing things silently and infiltrating them. Let readers unconsciously improve the level of poetic appreciation.
Four major disruptions:
(1) Subvert our perception of the function of poetry
Poetry first appeared in the Book of Shang, which is the product of the education of ritual music. Poetry carries the Tao, poetry records history, the Book of Poetry and Yuefu are the presentation of ritual and music civilization, and the poems of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties are also the products of cultural trends and aesthetic fashions. For example, the simplest of the poems, "Herbs", is today used as an agricultural poem, describing the labor scene of a group of women picking plantain. From the perspective of Zhou Dynasty culture, the author pointed out that this is a sacrificial poem of "praying for a son". This height subverts our traditional perception of poetry and goes straight to the essence of poetry.
(2) Subvert our understanding of poetry
"Kik Song" everyone knows. "The sun rises, and the sun rests. Dig wells for drinking, plough fields for food. Dili is nothing to me", but the author starts from the political concept of "I don't know what I don't know, and I follow the emperor's rules", pointing out that this is a political poem of "ruling by inaction". Such cultural interpretations abound in this set of books, refreshing our understanding of poetry and greatly subversive the interpretation of traditional poetry.
(3) Solve the "unsolved mysteries" of some poems:
Some famous poems that have been handed down, the theme and connotation have not been resolved. The ancient "Qingyun Song" has no solution; The Southern Dynasty's "Xizhou Song" is known as the "Gothic ** conjecture" in the history of poetry; Han Yuefu's "Battle City South" has not been solved so far; There are also some metaphysical poems and science poems involving ideological theories, all of which are interpreted to solve these "unsolvable" poetry puzzles.
(4) Fill the "gap" in poetry appreciation
Many poems in the history of Chinese literature, such as the ancient "Song of Qingyun", are still blank in interpretation and appreciation. A large number of poems in the Yuan Dynasty were also ignored for a long time due to historical reasons. The same is true for the interpretation of Kunqu opera lyrics. This series includes all the key poems into the scope of analysis, so that they can enter the reader's field of vision in their entirety.
Background of creation
More than 100 years after the rupture of traditional culture, modern people are deeply estranged from traditional culture.
The interpretation of poetry in the market is frequent, frequent and far-fetched, which seriously hinders modern people's understanding of poetry and literature.
Shangshu": "Kui, the life of the music, teach the son, straight and gentle, wide and chestnut, rigid and no abuse, simple and no pride." ”
There are also "poems and words, songs and words, sound and eternal, and rhythm and harmony." Eight tones are harmonious, incomparable. ”
Poetry is the product of ritual and music culture, and undertakes the mission of "carrying the Tao with literature" and "recording history with literature", which is very different from the poetry of modern interpretation.
The interpretation of poetry must be based on the vision of culture, not the way of understanding poetry under the thinking of modern people.
The author is deeply aware of this error in understanding and interpretation, and reinterprets the poem from a cultural perspective, giving the world a clear and clear new vision.
In the era of the revival of traditional culture, "Chinese Context: Appreciation of Chinese Poetry and Literary Classics" has finally been released and is available on major platforms.
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List of works
Living in the Book of Songs" catalog.
The Voice of Daya: The survival epic of Zhou Guoyun's blue wisps.
Daya Shengmin: The birth myth of Houji, the ancestor of the Zhou Kingdom.
Fenfeng July: Gong Liu Qianfeng, an idyllic song of difficult entrepreneurship.
Daya Xun: Ancient Father: The difficult entrepreneurial song of Zhou Yuan on the bank of Qishan.
Daya Wenwang has a voice: the song of the great cause of moving the capital from Fengyi to Hojing.
Daya Daming: Praise King Wen Mingde, King Wu inherited, and created the Muye war song of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Daya Bel Canto: Wenwang Mingde has success.
Daya King Wen: King Wen inherited the song of the great virtue of the Quartet of the Mandate of Heaven.
Daya Siqi: King Wen's song of "self-cultivation, housekeeping, governing the country and leveling the world".
Daya Yanpu: King Wen can recruit the world's wise men and women's songs.
Daya Hanlu: A sacrificial song that praises King Wen's love for virtue and beauty.
Daya Lingtai: All of them are united in their hearts, following the hymn of King Wen to build the Lingtai.
Daya Juan A: The song of Shangde that summons the king to exhort King Cheng to inherit the ambition of King Wen.
Shengshi vowel: Wenwang Meizheng phoenix sound
Marriage and Family:
Zhou Nan Guan Ju: A marriage love song on the bank of Weishui.
Zhou Nan Ge Tan: The "female virtue" education poem of the mother in the world.
Zhou Nan Curly Ear: A song of nostalgia that expresses the "righteousness of husband and wife".
Zhou Nan 樛木: The song of a beautiful gentleman who is in harmony with his wife and concubine.
Zhou Nan Mantis: The song of blessing for the dragon to give birth to a hundred sons.
Zhou Nan Qianqiu: The song of praying for harmony in the harem.
Zhou Nan Taoyao: The song of Wang Ji's marriage of "Yiqi Family".
Zhou Nan Lin's Toe: The song of the unicorn prince who wants his son to become a dragon.
Live in the Le Fu catalog
1. Ancient songs are far away.
The water of the waves sings ancient sounds.
Composed at sunrise and rested at sunset: the first song of the ancient emperor "Song of Kik".
The south wind is smoky, which can relieve the sorrow of our people: Emperor Shun's virtue and politics are like the south wind "South Wind Song".
The sun and the moon are constant, and the stars are in line: the Zen virtuous song Datong "Qingyun Song".
The river is full of water, and the boat is ruined: people's minds return to the paradise "Summer Song".
Climb Pixi Mountain, say Cai Qiwei: Don't eat Zhou Su's Shouyang Mountain's "Cai Wei Song".
Mai Xiu is gradually dying, and he is oily: who knows the sorrow of Jizi through the ages
Passing old, a body will be old: Hollow Valley Youlan to the piano exercise "Yilan Exercise".
The salary is Laihu, and there is no child: the ploughman risked death to raise the ridge acre "Chu People Song for All Princes".
The water of the waves is clear: the riverbank of life chooses "Song of the Waves".
Jun rides a horse, I wear a hat: the noble and the lowly unswervingly righteous song "Yue Song Song".
II. Long songs are heroic
- The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying
Yanling Jizi does not forget his hometown: a promise and a thousand daughters see the festival "Xu Ren Song".
If the child dies, who will be the heir: the first politician of the Spring and Autumn Period "The Birth of the Child".
Lifting the gong like a cloud, breaking the ditch for rain: human will move the mountains and rivers "Song of Zheng Baiqu".
Chu Xiangsun Shuao, honest and not subject to money: Youmeng's biography "Song of Generosity" through the ages
A snake is ashamed, and he died in Nakano: Geng Jie did not insult Jie's push "Dragon and Snake Song".
Chang Gong returns, eats no fish: Chang Gong sings like a rainbow "Playing Song".
The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, and Weijia is returning to his hometown: the sad and heroic emperor's heart "Song of the Great Wind".
Pull out the mountain to cover the world, and the time will not pass away: the hero's end of Wujiang is sad "Song of the Fall".
The people's sorrow and labor: the sorrow and suffering on the mountain in the north "Five Fathoms".
Lao Ji is in the woods, aiming for thousands of miles: the heroic air of the sea and the sun and the moon "Stepping Out of the Summer Gate".
Appreciation of works
Hollow Valley Youlan to the piano exercise: "Yilan Exercise".
Confucius glanced into the deep ravine beside the road
The grass in the valley is barren, but there is a bright orchid: dignified and elegant, fragrant and clear, open alone.
Orchid, orchid, has a fragrant taste, holy quality, elegant demeanor. Such a dignified and elegant "beautiful thing" should accompany the king. Fate let it grow in the valley, blooming alone, and in the company of the grass and filth.
Is this the sorrow of things? Is this the sorrow of the Magi?
Confucius stopped the car and slowly got out of the car. Holding Yaoqin in his arms, he was depressed.
Yilan is "Youlan". The music composed in sorrow, poverty does not change the temperament, and does not lose the temperament, which is called "".
Yilan Cao", which expresses the sigh of Confucius.
Accustomed to the valley wind, with the rain and the cloud. The son of Yu is home, and he is sent far away in the wilderness", Xixi, the way the wind blows gently. The son, the man, refers to Confucius.
The wind blows gently in the valley, bringing clouds and rain. The man was going back, and his friends were sent far away to the fields.
These two lines of poetry are "collection poems", from the "Book of Songs". People in the time of Confucius were accustomed to using sentences in the Book of Songs to express realistic moods and encounters. "If you don't learn poetry, you can't speak" is the expression of this habit.
This time was 484 BC, and Confucius was already sixty-eight years old.
Since he left the country of Lu and traveled around the world with **, he has experienced a career of 14 years. Hunger, hardship, displacement, and threats to his life were not enough to shake his mind. However, with the ideals of a saint in mind, his ambition to reshape the "liturgical society" could not be carried out, and he was depressed.
When he saw the pandan in the valley, he seemed to see himself.
Between the object and me, I found a spiritual correspondence.
Sad husband! People will grow old, and the way will not work. Confucius embraced an ideal life, like the empty valley pandan, lonely and ownerless. This life is destined to bury the grass with the autumn wind. When also? Fate?
There is no place for the sky. Leisurely Kyushu, there is no fixed place", leisurely, free, here is the meaning of wandering.
Look up to heaven and ask, why can't I get the right position to show my talents? Kyushu is adrift, wandering, and there is no place for me.
When the people are dark, they don't know the sages. When you are old, you will be old", age, years, years. Mai, passing, walking. The people of this world are ignorant and cannot recognize the virtuous, nor do they believe in the royal way. The years passed in a hurry, and I was getting old.
This is a time of bad manners.
The edifice of the glorious Saint King's great cause for hundreds of years is collapsing, and the "hegemony" of quick success is sought after. Confucius's ideal of "royal road" did not meet his time.
He held his ideals and staggered with this time and space. When people reach the twilight of their lives, they are at the end of the road, their ambitions are not expressed, and they are infinitely sad.
In the fourteenth year of mourning, Dr. Lu caught a monster in the wild and killed it. When Confucius heard the news, he recognized it as the Rui Beast Qilin.
When Confucius was born, his mother was on her way to Mount Niqiu to pray, when she encountered a unicorn, and returned with abdominal pain and gave birth to Confucius. Confucius, who believed in the destiny of heaven, had a certain correspondence between his mind and the unicorn. He cried at the unicorn: "I am poor. ”
This is not his time. Tang Yu is prosperous, and the unicorn is a phoenix. Now, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the heroes are competing for the deer, and Confucius, who embraces the ideal of "royal road", is not known to the world, but is hurt by the world.
Tang Yu is a phoenix tour, what is the time to ask for? I'm worried. ”
Born ahead of one's time. Since then, he has put down the pen of writing spring and autumn.
In the sixteenth year of mourning, Confucius died.
"Yilan Cao" is Confucius chanting to Youlan's hugging the qin. The pandan that was born in the valley had already been dyed with a strong subjective color when it entered the poet's field of vision, and began to be "materialized". Its "fragrance" symbolizes the poet's peerless talent, its "seclusion" symbolizes the poet's talent and wandering around without ambition, and its fate of "wilting with the autumn grass" is the poet's life fate sigh when he is about to be old and idealistic.
Between Xianglan and the poet's "object and self", an aesthetic "contemplation" is constructed. A picture of the poet holding the qin and the lonely "deep valley and orchid", with fragrance and color, with the loneliness and frustration of human feelings, is vividly depicted.
Yilan Gymnastics is with a sentimentalist aesthetic taste. It blends the elements of life, such as life, years, sorrow, and pain, with the natural environment of the hollow valley. The sigh of individual life, the sadness of life's fleeting, and the persistence of not changing one's will despite loneliness are all in the "sentimental" mood, gloomy and resentful.
The poet Shelley said, "A beautiful tune is always a little melancholy, and the joy in sorrow is sweeter than the joy in happiness." Sentimentality is also a special "purifier". It makes the background color of the poem hazy and calm, and the poet's life value and personality ideals are more vividly and distinctly reflected in this sentimentality.
Yilan Gymnastics is undoubtedly such a sentimental aesthetic.
Born at the wrong time, Huai Cai is not encountered, is the main tune of "Yilan Cao". This tone is sad and sentimental, and it is closely linked to the circumstances of life. Life is limited, and there are times when there are opportunities, and there are no encounters, and there are advantages and embarrassments, which are the circumstances that scholars have to face throughout their lives. Therefore, the main tone of "Yilan Cao" is full of the sigh of life and has the significance of life aesthetics.
In this sense, is the upright and solitary orchid in the hollow valley lucky or unlucky?
Because of the "side" of Confucius, it has been "materialized" and has become a distinct "image" of swaying and unique elegance in Chinese culture. This image can be put into poetry and painting, poignant and solitary, and the soul of the scholars is reflected in both sides, reflecting their lonely personality temperament, reflecting their collective perception of life and encounters.
It can be said that the strings of Confucius are also plucked in the hearts of scholars, and there are many successors in later generations of scholars. Han Yu rewrote this "Youlan Cao" many times, singing and sighing; Zhang Yan, a royal nobleman at the end of the Song Dynasty, faced with the sudden changes in the country, and cleansed his heart to enter the office. He sighed, "The sound of Yilan stopped, hugged the lonely piano and thought far, and played it through several times." ”
That feeling of "holding the piano and being alone" can be traced back to Confucius, and it can flow to infinity in the future.
After all, the realm of "Yilan Cao" is inexhaustible, and it will never be lonely.
Yilan
Accustomed to the valley wind, with the rain and the cloud. The son is home, and he is sent far away.
A gentle breeze blows through the valley, bringing shade and rain. Those who have traveled far return to their homeland, and their children and friends come to see each other off.
There is no place for the sky. There is no fixed place in Kyushu.
Looking up at the sky and sighing, you can't get your place if you have ambitions. Kyushu is displaced everywhere, and he has been adrift for half his life.
When the people are dark, they don't know the sages. He is old and old.
The world is dim and closed, unable to recognize the sages. The years pass in a hurry, and the ambition is unfulfilling.
Publication Information
Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House.
About the Author
Son of King Wen. His ancestral home is Luoyang, Henan, and he now works in Kunshan, Suzhou. Writer, dramatist, Kunqu opera and traditional culture researcher.
Evaluation of the work. A book that really reads poetry as poetry.
References
1 Good Books, New Books |"Chinese Context: Appreciation of Chinese Poetry and Literature Classics" takes you back to the historical scene of poetry production and appreciates the vowels of the prosperous era of Chinese civilization Shangguan News 2023-11-20 [Citation date: 2023-12-08].
Wenzi Chinese StudiesRebuild ethics and rebuild morality. Revitalize China and move towards great harmony. There are two contexts in the Chinese ritual and music civilization, one is the poetry context, which comes from the music civilization; One is the philosophical context, which comes from the civilization of etiquette. For the sake of the saints, for the sake of eternal peace. **Understand the essence of Chinese culture and tell the true meaning of two contexts.
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