How do traditional poems do a good job in contemporary articles?

According to CCTV news, the third season of Chinese Poetry Conference will land on CCTV during the Spring Festival this year. In recent years, this program has repeatedly attracted ratings. Looking back over the past few years, turning on the TV, a number of variety shows such as "Chinese Poetry Conference", "Chinese Poetry Ode" and "Tang Poetry Storm" have led the trend of poetry; Entering the bookstore, a number of poetry books, such as A Dictionary of Appreciation of Tang Poetry and Tales on Earth, are selling well. Turn on the mobile phone, and there are videos of Mr. Ye Jiaying and others explaining poems on the Internet; Across the country, the life of the poetry club has become a new social and cultural phenomenon ... Let us see all the possibilities for China traditional poetry to take root and sprout in the contemporary era.

China is a big country with a long history of poetry. From The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Yuefu of Han Dynasty to the poems of Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been passed down for thousands of years, leaving us with a splendid treasure house of poetry. In the new era, material life is becoming more and more abundant, and people's demand for a better life has gradually become the "just need" for poetic spiritual enjoyment. Among them, traditional poetry is like a golden key, which opens a window to the public. The popularity of "traditional poetry fever" in recent years also reflects people's desire and expectation for a higher level of spiritual life in social life.

In fact, the contemporary value of traditional poetry is not only the spiritual nourishment of personal meaning. In China's traditional poetics, the social function of poetry has always attracted people's attention. Confucius once pointed out that poetry has a profound social education function: "Poetry can inspire, examine, group and complain." Wandering in the long river of poetry, "How does the Yellow River water move into the sea and never return" describes the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, "Who has never died since ancient times, leaving a heart to shine in history" reflects the patriotic feelings of boxing, "regarding mountains as peaks and different distances" contains philosophical thoughts and China wisdom ... China's traditional poetry hides our China wisdom, China style and China soul. Through aesthetic imagination and artistic imagination,

Nowadays, various variety shows and new media classes have promoted the contemporary dissemination, interpretation and creation of classical poetry. However, in this booming situation, there are several basic issues that need to be clarified, so that we can better become faithful inheritors and promoters of China traditional culture.

First of all, from the perspective of appreciation, we should deeply understand the relationship between tradition and modernity of poetry.

What is the old-style poetry in the new era? This is undoubtedly an urgent question. There is also a view in society that "classical poetry belongs to the past era, not to this era". Of course, generations of literature, such as Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuanqu, Ming and Qing novels and other different literary styles, dominated at that time, but in a dazzling array of literary gardens, China's traditional poetry still has the elegance of penetrating time, becoming an endless cultural spirit, bearing the character that China culture can not be ignored.

Coming from ancient times and entering a new era, China's traditional poems have timeless classics. First of all, as far as appreciation is concerned, it has a national spirit that runs through ancient and modern times, such as Li Bai's heroic and broad-minded personal mind, Du Fu's depressed feelings about home and country, frontier poets' patriotic thoughts and lofty aspirations ... These excellent traditional thoughts are not only out of date, but also of great benefit to our contemporary life. Secondly, in terms of creation, the creation of China's traditional poems has always been the carrier of observing real life. The poems written by Li Bai, Du Fu and Su Shi all reflected the real life at that time. This artistic pursuit reflecting the times and people's life will be the eternal law of artistic creation.

Secondly, from the aspect of creation, we should keep pace with the times and think about the dialectical relationship between the form and content of traditional poetry.

Some people think that the rigid form of traditional poetry restricts the expression of contemporary life and thoughts. It is true that after the May 4th Movement, the popularity of vernacular poetry was born. In the past century, Xu Zhimo, Dai Wangshu and other new poets have been to the ancient city, North Island and Haizi. Their creation made China's poetry break through the restrictions of five words, seven words and epigrams, and made his writing free and unrestrained. So, how should we treat the limitations of classical poetry? Mr. Zhu Guangqian, the master of aesthetics, once reminded that "the alternation of four characters, five characters, seven characters, ancient, rhyme, unique and ci is a change, while the meter is constant in change." What he said is an eternal proposition in artistic creation. Since it is China's traditional poetry, it must abide by certain rules of poetry and cannot be divorced from the prescribed framework of old-style poetry. Today, traditional poetry still has its indelible rhythmic beauty. This kind of formal beauty comes from the unique meaning of Chinese characters and is irreplaceable. "I write by hand, how can I stay in ancient times" has its merits, but we should also see that the plan is the foundation that cannot be abandoned. Now some people want to write old-style poems step by step without mastering the balance and antithesis in traditional poems, and often "draw a tiger according to a cat", which is not a real inheritance.

Now many of us love to imitate ancient poems, but we still haven't got rid of the stereotypes of romance, spring hatred and autumn sadness. There is no new interest in reading them and nothing new in watching them. How to solve this problem by injecting a contemporary perspective on the basis of respecting metrical rules will help traditional poetry creation go further and better in the contemporary era.

Thirdly, from the perspective of inheritance, we should pay attention to "live transmission" and avoid the misunderstanding of "rigid inheritance".

Once upon a time, many babbling children began to learn to read from "Goose Goose, Goose Goose, Think of Xiang Tiange". It can be said that this is a natural cultural gene deposited in the blood of the Chinese nation, and they are constantly giving up. How to activate these cultural genes more effectively in the wave of traditional poetry fever in China? It is worth noting that in various competitions and programs now, most of the time we are looking back and memorizing knowledge, and we are stuck in rigidity and narrowness. In fact, we inherit classical poetry, not only by simple and rigid recitation and memory, but also by deeply popularizing the formal beauty, emotional beauty and ideological beauty of ancient poetry. All literary classics and historical classics should be "handed down" so that they can truly enter the society, life and soul. Just like our traditional poetry, its true mysterious artistic conception, just like "the antelope hangs on the horn and there is no trace to be found", can not be mastered by mechanical recitation, but should cultivate the ability to understand traditional aesthetics, taste and value from it.

What is worth looking forward to is that the newly revised curriculum standard for senior high schools by the Ministry of Education has increased the recommendation of reciting ancient poems. Let the younger generation soak in classical poetry earlier, and let poetry become a wise elder who leads them to grow up and a bosom friend who accompanies them to grow up, not just a homework and test paper that must be handled, but a systematic and organic project. Traditional culture education is not a simple course, but also needs more subjective initiative from all walks of life in practice.

In the literary and artistic work in the new period, how to carry forward, transform and make good use of Chinese excellent traditional culture is a key work, and it is also a constantly challenging work. In this work, we should not only maintain a high-spirited and enthusiastic attitude, but also maintain the rationality of active exploration, explore more new paths to inherit Chinese excellent traditional culture and introduce more good inheritance methods. (Gu Xingxin)

Source: Xinhua Daily