Mr. Ye Jiaying is using the spirituality of life to talk about poetry. She will never throw the whole piece of allusion to you, so that you can't swallow it, like a fish in your throat, but she is clever and simple, so that the listener is extremely useful. For example, "late days of the country", the general interpretation is "the language of 'spring is late'" and other intellectual interpretations; Mr. Ye uses language that children can understand, so that readers can understand its relationship with the change of seasons and the changes in nature, which triggers your deep heart. Her experience of teaching poetry to kindergarten children and teaching them to write poetry will also touch the hearts of parents.
Ye Jiaying as a child (middle).
Not only do I give lectures to college students and graduate students in the school, but I also give lectures to kindergarten children. When I was talking to the kindergarten children, I also chose some classical poems and some allusions. When my friend saw me choosing such a poem, he said to me, "How can children understand such a classical classic?"
I said that this is your preconceived preconception, as soon as you see the classics, as soon as you see the Book of Songs, as soon as you see "Fu Bixing", you feel that this is really difficult and distant. Actually, it's not that far away at all. The so-called classicists are ancient stories and allusions. Therefore, I told them classical poems, one ancient story after another, and the children listened to them with great interest.
I really don't understand why some people don't like poetry, because I think that if I like poetry, not to mention creating poetry, it is to appreciate and read poetry, which is also a very happy thing in life, and it is a kind of spiritual and emotional enjoyment that everyone should have.
I tell poems to children, the first one is a five-character quatrain by Du Fu:
Quatrains. Tang Dufu.
In the late days, the rivers and mountains are beautiful, and the spring breeze is fragrant with flowers and plants.
The mud melts and flies the swallows, and the sand warms the mandarin ducks.
This poem was also included in Mr. Ye's "Ancient Poems for Children".
Jiang Shanli"It's easy to say, the rivers and green mountains are all beautiful;
What is called".Late"Huh? How can the sun be late?
I said".Late"It means slow, it means late.
My family lives in Vancouver, Canada, and if spring comes in Vancouver, the sky is already bright at five o'clock in the morning, and the sky is still bright at nine o'clock in the evening, and the day becomes very long. But what about in the winter? At nine o'clock in the morning, the sky slowly brightened, and at four o'clock in the evening it was dark.
When I was teaching them, when spring came, I said, "Why do you think the sun is moving so slowly?" You see, in winter, the sun runs down at four o'clock, why is it still there at seven o'clock? The sun is really moving slowly, isn't it? This is "late". "Late" means "slow", "late". When the sun goes slowly, spring is coming, and when spring comes, it seems that "the northern branch plum is cold and open, and the Nanpu ripples are like wine green".
The snow clouds suddenly turn into spring clouds, and gradually feel that the years are beautiful.
The north branch plum is cold open, and the south is like wine green.
Fang Fei is the first to look like a continuation, and there is nowhere to be satisfied.
Respect the front of the hundred plans to see the spring return, don't hurt the spring eyebrows.
Mr. Yip is in the backyard of his home in Vancouver.
So, "the late days are beautiful, the spring breeze is fragrant with flowers and plants", a gust of wind blows, in my home Vancouver, from February to March and April, it is not that you happen to have a garden, you happen to see one or two flower trees, no, Vancouver that place is the whole street, the street is full of flowers, this street is planted with cherry blossoms, that street is planted with begonias, you look at it, the whole long street is really "spring city everywhere flying flowers". Therefore, when the spring breeze blows, of course, it is "fragrant with flowers and plants".
Spring City is full of flying flowers, cold food east wind and willow slope. Candles were passed in the Han Palace at dusk, and light smoke dispersed into the house of the five marquis.
In winter, the snow and ice on the ground are very hard. When spring comes, the ice and snow will melt, the soil will be soft, and the little swallows will fly back to make nests, which is the "mud melting swallows". There is a tree in my yard, and every year two birds come to make a nest, and every day you see the little swallows flying around, holding a branch and a little dirt.
On the sandy shore of the water's edge, under the sun, pairs of mandarin ducks sleep there. There's a Stanley Park in Vancouver, and the shore of the Stanley Park is full of waterfowl, so the children I said can understand it, and he can see it.
91-year-old Mr. Ye Jiaying (Zhao Hanmo photography).
I asked the children, and I said
You see, it's not hard to compose poetry at all, is it? Say whatever you see. When you see the country, you say the country, when you see the flowers, you say the flowers, when you see the swallow, you say the swallow, and when you see the mandarin duck, you say the mandarin duck. ”
I asked them, "What do you see?" One of the young children was very brave, and he said, "I see a little squirrel." Not bad at all, there are a lot of little squirrels running around on the ground in North America, and I said, "Are you afraid of baby squirrels?" He said he wasn't afraid at all. I said, "The little squirrel can also write poetry, and I will give you two sentences: 'The little squirrel in front of the door is not amazing.' 'Well, you've got two sentences, you can come home and make up two, and you'll already be able to compose poetry.' "The child said yes.
The next Saturday morning, I asked, "Have you written a poem?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Bring it to me and see it." He said, "I can't write." I said, "It's okay if you can't write, just recite it to me." He said, "The little squirrel in front of the door is not amazing." "That's my sentence. He later went on to say "squirrels love pine cones", and then jumped out of the sentence "Komatsu Baiyun". I said, "What is Komatsu?" Is Komatsu a pine tree? He said, "No, Komatsu is the name of the squirrel." I said, "What is Komatsu's white cloud?" He said, "I saw it running into the sky." ”
You see, these children, as soon as you encourage them, they feel that it is not difficult to compose poetry at all, so everyone has poetry in their hearts.
The Book of Rites once said:
The movement of the human heart is also made by things. ”
What is it about you that moves you?
Lu Ji's "Wenfu" says that "looking at all things and thinking about them" is that you see the image of all things and cause you to be moved by the emotions in your heart. What kind of emotion is it? You are "sad that the leaves fall in the autumn, and the joy and softness are in the spring" (Lu Ji's "Wenfu"). When you see the yellow fall of the grass and trees, your heart is sad, and when you see the spring plants and trees flourishing, your heart rejoices. You're really moved in your heart.
Follow the four o'clock to sigh and pass, look at all things and think. Sad leaves in the autumn, happy and soft in the spring. The heart is afraid of the frost, and the ambition is close to the clouds. Yongshide's martyrdom, reciting the ancestors' Qingfen. The forest of the tour article, the politeness of the Jializao. Write with a lot of support, and talk about the propaganda.
When we talk about the method of writing, we have a whole set of theories about poetry. In fact, what "Fu Bixing" talks about is a very simple relationship between "mind" and "matter". "The Preface to Poems" says: "Poets, where their aspirations are, are aspirations in their hearts, and their speeches are poems." "You're just moved in your heart, that's not poetry. You are a poet, you have poetry in your heart, you have poetry feelings. But you didn't write it, that's not poetry.
Some of my students in Tianjin made me a **, which had a column for discussing poetry. A netizen raised a question in this column and said:
I want to learn how to compose poetry, how should I learn it?
The person who presided over the ** for me is an alumnus of the Chinese Department of Nankai University, who now teaches at Nankai Middle School, and he has loved poetry since he was a child, and can write poems and recite them. He told the netizen: Learning poetry is very simple, it is necessary to memorize more, and it is best to learn to recite, because the ancients said, "If you are familiar with 300 Tang poems, you will not be able to compose poems and chant"! When you can groan, you will be done. Because as you chant, you naturally grasp the tone and rhythm of the poem.