A few days ago, I read Guo Moruo's book "Li Bai and Du Fu", and saw a scholar's different attitude towards the two most important poets in my country, and also understood that there should be different ways of interpreting ancient poets, and different research strategies can be given from self-understanding.
In fact, those ancient poets have become a thing of the past, and the only resources we can use to understand them are their poems and the records they left in history, so we should give our own thoughts and reading experiences under the results of our previous research.
In fact, this is the philosophy that all scholars uphold, and it is also the philosophy that they are committed to passing on to those who come after us, and it should be understood by more of us, and under the guidance of this philosophy, we should start our own reading of ancient poetry.
He is one of the representative figures of the Crescent School of poets, and his poems bring shocking power and wonderful feelings to our readers, and the "Song of the Seven Sons" that we are very familiar with is from him.
But in fact, Wen Yiduo is still a scholar, and his research achievements in classical Chinese literature are extraordinary, and Guo Moruo sighed that "there is no one before and no one after him". So what are Wen Yiduo's academic achievements?
For example, the book we are reading, "Wen Yiduo Talks about Tang Poetry", does not actually belong to Wen Yiduo's complete academic achievements, but only Wen Yiduo's lecture notes on the course when he was at Southwest Associated University, but such lecture notes have also become classics, and have also been sought after by countless descendants, and have become a primer for studying Tang poetry.
Why is this book so successful? In fact, we can feel its charm from the writing of this book, this book does not continue the past method of talking about Tang poetry "on poetry", nor is it the method of "poetry theory" in the past, but from the perspective of modern people, with a historical perspective, breaking the tradition, drawing inferences from one another, making Tang poetry a systematic poetic context, forming a natural logic with its internal development law, and the author follows this logic, in accordance with the order of the poets of the Tang Dynasty, in a simple and easy-to-understand way to present us with their poetic style, their achievements.
In this book, the author not only explains the poetic context of the Tang Dynasty, but also makes a detailed analysis of some key poems. For example, about Du Fu, in Guo Moruo's eyes, Du Fu's achievements are debatable, but in Wen Yiduo, the admiration for Du Fu is unattached, and he discusses Du Fu's poems while completely combing Du Fu's chronology.
And the longest article in this book is to take us to understand Du Fu's complete poetic life according to the horizontal order of Du Fu's life. When we understand Du Fu's life and then read his works, it will be more convenient to understand the different poetic meanings presented by Du Fu in different periods.
Of course, the Tang Dynasty was not only Du Fu, but also other famous poets.
Here also involves the four heroes of the early Tang Dynasty, Meng Haoran, Jia Dao, Chen Ziang, etc., Wen Yiduo gave a detailed explanation of the characteristics of their poems. This book includes the rhythm of poetry, poetry criticism and other related content, which has become the best reading material for us to read and study Tang poetry, so that we can continuously improve our consciousness on the basis of Wen Yiduo's research, and can better know and understand Tang poetry. Read a book