Chapter 64 It's too late tonight, so I'll post a book review

Where to find poetry in the world ——Read Ding Qizhen's "Poetic World" Kong Qingdong Ding Qizhen's "Poetic World" has been given to me for a long time.I promised to write a book review, but it has been delayed.One of the reasons is that this book is so well written, it is its own best book review, you will be delighted and amazed at the beginning of the first reading, but you will be reluctant to finish reading halfway through, and you want to save the joy for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.After finishing reading, I hope there will be a sequel, just like Zhao Benshan was a guest on CCTV and said to the host Zhu Jun at the end of the program: "This is the end? Do two more episodes."

But another and more important reason why I can't write a book review is that there is too little poetry in my life.The book I want to review is in great contrast to the world I live in.The first article in the book, "Sima Xiangru: Defrauding Love for Lifetime Happiness", makes us envious and have to admit that there is basically no place for love and happiness in the current world, and there is only one key word left: defrauding.Most of my readers think that I am living a chic and happy life, but in fact, I am just a rough-skinned and thick-skinned person who is cheated by others.Not only that, the scammers must also take a bite back, saying that I have failed them, and only then will they be satisfied.

The second part of the book, "Cao Cao: The Geometry of Life When Drinking and Singing", makes us lament how small we live, and we have to misinterpret and slander those great figures from generation to generation, so as to cover up our own shallowness and humbleness petty.The third article, "Characters in Wei and Jin Dynasties: The Real Famous Scholars Are Merry", let us understand that there are so many poetic flavors in life, but why can't we see them?The fourth, fifth, ... and finally the fourteenth chapter "Six Chapters of a Floating Life": The Peace and Joy of a Loving Couple, let us think about what is affection and what is the happiness of husband and wife.In today's era where shrews who yell about gender equality and women's independence are rampant, how many families are really loving?

Ding Qizhen is a friend I met in South Korea. He is introverted, elegant and humorous. We can say that we hit it off at first sight, but we basically have no contact after returning home.Our mutual appreciation is irresistible without meeting each other.We all advocate that literary research must be implemented in the "human world". In addition to strict material training, rigorous analysis and judgment, literary research must also have a transcendent spirit of "understanding life with life".This kind of transcendent spirit is extremely rare in today's cold and rigid academic world. Many of our scholars have poor life knowledge and low appreciation ability. They can only use their mediocre lives to ruin the exquisite creations of the predecessors. Just like many middle school teachers can’t give lectures if they don’t prepare collectively in the district. We If many scholars do not refer to the literary theory of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, they will not be able to write any articles.Basic words such as poetry, world, life, and happiness have long been thrown into the "non-recyclable" trash can by them, and the value of life represented by these words has also abandoned them in turn.

It was in this kind of academic environment pollution that Ding Qizhen calmly started from Du Fu's research, wrote "Sorrowful Tang Yin", and later wrote "As if Yesterday", and had solid dialogues with literary sages one by one.This kind of dialogue is not a "set of words" like "a date with Luyu" or a "focus interview" style of pressing questions. Drink the spring wine" and "talk the wine with mulberry", so those masters and sages came to us one by one.The author puts effort into "analysis of doubts and doubts", and readers get "appreciation of strange writings".

What is real learning?The real learning is not to bring chicken, duck, fish, scallions, ginger, garlic, and kitchen knives and spoons to the table to show people how profound and rich you are. No matter how hard the work that should be done in the kitchen is, you don’t need to tell readers in the form of 500 comments.What is brought to the table should be delicious delicacies full of poetry. Readers don’t need to know how the knife is or what the raw materials are.Confucius said, "Learn and learn from time to time", what theory did you use?How much material was cited?It seems that there is no, but who said there is really no?The 3,000-year history of civilization before Confucius is reflected in every stroke of these big characters.

It's a pity that after enjoying the delicious food, diners may not know who is the real chef.Just as Ding Qizhen said: "History is really unfair sometimes. Fan Zhongyan, a Song Dynasty man, said, 'worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joy later', and he won a lot of praise lightly. , but Cao Cao prepared for hardships, did so many things for the unification of the country, and wrote so many poems concerned with the suffering of the people, but what he got was infamy forever!" In all fairness, it is not easy to be Fan Zhongyan, but it is not easy to be Cao Cao. The boldness of "Thousands of people, I will go" is unimaginable.I don't dare to think about it, and Ding Qizhen doesn't dare to think about it, so we can only taste and call for some poetry.But poetry and painting are rare in today's China. Every year, we only see the selection of the top ten economic figures-often, some of them have been imprisoned in the next year. Have you ever seen the selection of the top ten poetic figures?Fortunately, there are literary veterans like Ding Qizhen who keep smuggling us some fine wines.No, I just finished reading his "Poetic World" and received his "Beijing and Tokyo Essays".Well, although the night is long, the heart is drunk, why do you call me love?Dull wine and pottery.

("Poetic World", Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, July 2005)