Chapter 45 Du Fu Qi

Du Fu lived five or nine years old, but he seemed to live two hundred years old.His life experience condensed almost all the suffering that an individual life can endure.Fortunately, he lived a happy life before the age of thirty-three, plus the intermittent good times afterwards, there must be two or three years.He suffered for more than twenty years.He is a symbol of suffering, reminiscent of Jesus crucified.He enjoys the title of poet sage, and he is a saint who does not bow his head in the face of suffering. No one understands his inner world.All the effort is just to get close to him. There are so many emperors in the Tang Dynasty, compared with him, the weight will be reduced.His great compassion, his eternal tenacity, and his talent shining like the sun and the moon make him the common wealth of all mankind. In 1962, the 1250th anniversary of his birth was solemnly commemorated in many countries around the world.This reminds me of Hugo's birthday and Cervantes' birthday in the past two years, hundreds of cities in Europe have held various activities to commemorate the great man.And we seem to have forgotten about Du Fu.I hope that on his 1300th birthday (2012), the whole country will commemorate it.

Remember Du Fu, remember suffering. Mr. Feng Zhi said it well, Du Fu was homeless for half his life, but he never stopped singing.My impression of reading Du's poems is: Every time I go to a gloomy place, there is a force that makes people hold their heads up.This power comes from Confucius, Qu Yuan, Sima Qian... It also comes from the vast land, the vigorous mountains and rivers, and the indomitable people. ——The old man who resolutely joined the army, the old woman who left home in the middle of the night, and the newly married woman who sent her husband to the front line all gave him strength.

Great poets on earth... Think about his feet, no less than a hundred thousand miles on foot. Think about how many villages and bloody cities his eyes turned towards. The French love Hugo because the French understand Hugo.Hugo wrote, wrote, and wrote "Sea Laborers", devoting his heart and soul to the working people.On Hugo's 80th birthday, millions of Parisians walked past his windows to pay tribute to him and wish him well.The French are of high quality and can fully understand their cultural giants, which is beyond the reach of the Chinese today.Watching movies and TV dramas alone, the emperor is like a revolving lantern, with dragon robes, dragon chairs and dragon beds, eunuchs and concubines, imperial decrees and kneeling... for the sake of commercial interests, some national psychology that has been diluted has been stimulated.Li Bai and Du Fu, we can't see it.

Literary biographies are also worrisome: a well-known publishing house has released a set of biographies of world celebrities for teenagers, with more than ten Chinese and foreign books, which are spectacular.I have a young friend who loves to read, but complains that he can't read any more, and would rather be bored than sleep!This thing shocked me.Celebrities and great people are treated as lukewarm by those writers who are stable and stable, and their fresh lives are packed into rules and regulations, which spoils the appetite of readers year after year.Traditional cultural celebrities, apart from a label, are a bunch of boring words.I found a few books and flipped through them. The authors have different names, and the language styles are surprisingly similar, and they are irreversibly moving towards the average.

Bringing tradition into the present is a huge subject.There is a lot of pioneering work to be done... Most of Du Fu's poems have been lost, and there are more than 1,400 poems in existence today.There are nearly a hundred famous articles, most of which are simple and unpretentious.He was not very famous during his lifetime, not as good as Li Bai.He himself said: "Hundreds of years of poetry has been suffering, and I have never seen a bosom friend." He wrote poems with painstaking efforts, deliberating on words and sentences, arranging allusions, and paying attention to rhythm.Late Tang poet Jia Dao Mengjiao imitated his appearance, deliberating over a word for a long time, hard work is commendable, and good sentences are limited.Du Fu's good poems are like fountains, "Boundless fallen trees are rustling, and the endless Yangtze River is rolling."

Li Du's poems were controversial at the time, and those who opposed them prevailed.The poet is still alive, people would rather belittle than praise, but Du Fu praised Li Bai very much.Du Fu's praise also implied a premise: Li Bai's works were also not favored by people at the time. Li Bai's great fame mainly came from his three-year career as a consecratory to the Imperial Academy, as well as his abnormal behavior and actions.Later, Han Yu said about this: "Li Bai's article is here, and the brilliance is endless. I don't know a group of fools, how can I slander you? It's ridiculous to shake a big tree."

After forty years, Bai Juyi said emotionally: "The king of heaven must know it, and the world needs good poetry."——Du Fu understood the will of heaven and left good poems for the world. Bai Juyi paid attention to the bottom all his life and obviously benefited from Du Fu. Wang Fuzhi's evaluation of Du's poems may be representative: "Whether poetry or long-line writing, all focus on meaning. Meaning is also handsome. There is no handsome soldier, which is called Wuhe. The reason why Li and Du are called masters is that unintentional poems are not one or two." This is to say that a good poem is only when the implication penetrates, and if it does not penetrate, it is a mob.

All artistic creations are listed here. Du Shi's artistic conception is broad, and he himself is like a giant blender parked in mid-air. The national crisis and family crisis are mixed in, as well as his great talent from heaven.I read "Northern Expedition" and "Five Hundred Characters of Yonghuai", and this feeling is particularly prominent.And to describe this feeling, he still has to use his poems: Stratus clouds are born when the chest is blown; "Gift to the Eighth Priests of the Guard" says: Life does not meet each other, and action is like participating in business.Tonight, when will we share this candlelight?How long will you be young and strong, and your temples will be gray.Visiting the old half is a ghost, exclaiming hotly.How can I know that after twenty years, I will return to the gentleman's hall.In the past, Mr. Bie was unmarried, and his children suddenly took a trip... Tomorrow will be separated by mountains, and the world will be boundless!

There may be no better poem than this to write about the vicissitudes of life and the parting and parting of friends.Chu Shi: A scholar who has never been an official.It is unknown who Wei Ba is.Participants: two-star name, one enters and the other enters, never seeing each other. Du's poems have classic descriptions of many classic moods in life. The so-called joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, Du Fu is better than others, and feels more deeply.So the length of his life is comparable to two hundred years. Emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy alone are not enough to step into the hot zone of art.What activates the feeling?By reading.Du Fu was aware of this and said: "There are thousands of volumes of books that are always undercurrent."

Reading, beyond the level of knowledge, can be "constantly undercurrent".Seeking knowledge is only the first step.The deep appeal of reading is to cultivate and enrich life.In today's China, reading is going from bad to worse. We are really ashamed of Du Fu and all the sages.For a postgraduate and doctoral student, if his knowledge is limited to the professional field and he refuses humanistic cultivation, then he is ignorant. Survival skills and the ability to think about life cannot be neglected. Once neglected, it will lead to a vicious circle of desire and will, which is not conducive to the healthy growth of the whole society.

Du Fu "incorporates events into poems", often with narrative in his poems. Some scholars in ancient times disagreed. Some people said in a mocking tone: "Du Fu's poems are about things, but not literary."These words make people think of Sima Xiangru, who is very talented in literature. He wrote Ci Fu for the emperor to read.Scholars stay in their study, but they like to play bureaucracy, put pressure on art with invisible power, and imitate the rich and powerful to dictate.This kind of people has been around for thousands of years, changing their appearance and doing all kinds of tricks, releasing the energy of mutant viruses, such as the current "red envelope critics".Fortunately, the group of fools disturbed for a while, but could not disturb the long-term.Tao Yuanming and Du Zimei have been neglected for hundreds of years and decades for the other, but they have been passed down, stripping out power, fashion and other additional elements, so that good poetry can stand out.This is the luck of the Chinese people: to have a long list of glorious names. When Du Fu wrote about Qiang Village and about the three officials and the three farewells, he obviously didn't consider the emperor's interest.There is a dividing line between loyalty and art.The so-called conscience of an artist means that he is loyal to his own feelings about life, including the feeling of deformation.How life comes, he will meet it.Thinking at this level, you will find that "realism" seems a bit vague.Du Fu is here and now, he is impression, feeling, memory.It is better to call him Impressionism than Sensationism instead of Realism.The real pictures in his pen are so realistic that they are dreamlike: the written scenes always lead to more scenes.The so-called condensed, high-level generalization of life has already entered the field of abstract art. Du Fu's poems are abstract in the concrete.I read Kafka and Hemingway's novelettes, and I had a similar experience.Take "Shihao Officials" as an example. It uses line description throughout the text, which is simple and clear, but people can't read enough. What is the reason?I thought it was a condensed nightmare with no end in sight. Du Fu's poems are also known as the history of poetry. In the late Tang Dynasty, Meng Qi said: "Du was exiled in Longshu during the Anlu Rebellion. After finishing Chen Yu's poems, he was inferred to the most hidden, and there was nothing left, so it was called the history of poetry at that time." But Du's poems are poetry first, and history second.Poetry is self-sufficient, and there is no need to look for grounds elsewhere.Just as thought is self-sufficient, there is no need to go outside of thought to seek grounds. "Thinking is like a fish, but people measure its value by the length of time it lives on the shore" (Heidegger).What is thought?You might as well read Heidegger, the universally recognized master of philosophy who came from German to Chinese. The great psalms are the neighbors of thought.In Du's poems, we smell the breath of thinking and questioning.He lives stubbornly and resolutely, and his poetry and thinking are naturally connected. What China's feudal society lacked was not historical records, but the light of thought that illuminated life.To read Du Fu's poems as history books is to throw away watermelon and pick up sesame seeds. This article is coming to an end, but I still want to rap a few words about contemporary Chinese writers.The society is in a period of transformation, the gap between rich and poor, laid-off, unemployment, migrant workers suffering, frequent mining accidents, dilapidated villages and homes that do not feel like home... The attention of writers is far from enough, so that two scholars in Shanghai said with emotion: They have painstakingly studied and paid attention to The works at the bottom have little response in the literary world.I don't know what's going on, and I feel bad.Writing about the bottom and suffering has never been the only important task of literature, but it is really unbearable to turn your head away from things that are under your nose.Premier Wen Jiabao shed tears for the victims of the mine accident, and many ordinary people were moved. There are only a handful of writers in the literary world who aim at the bottom and go deep into the folk, such as Han Shaogong and Zhang Wei. "Ugly Behavior or Romance" by Zhang Wei describes Liu Mila, a poor homeless girl in the rural areas of Jiaodong. The passion is overwhelming, the narrative rhythm is ups and downs, and the appeal is very strong. It is one of the best novels I have read in the past 30 years. Ask about domestic literary awards... Art is nothing else, art is to go deep, to stare.Du Fu stared at the people all his life, from the individual to the nation, from the present to the horizon. "Stare" has two meanings, one is to see carefully, and the other is to find out the ins and outs of the object. People's eyes don't look at this, they will look at that.Some people only focus on luxury cars and mansions, but they can't see poor parents.Seeing the poor affects the taste of life-some people say so frankly.In the city where I live, a government official once asked the bus driver to drive the peasants out of the bus.Farmers are dirty and smell bad. Great Du Fu, how does your spirit in heaven feel? 2007.2.17.Meishan's Forgetting Words