(Qing) Zhao Yi

The poems of Li Bai and Du Fu have been read by thousands of people, and it is nothing new to read them now.

There are many talented people in the country, and their poems and popularity will be handed down for hundreds of years.

The poems of Li Bai and Du Fu have been praised by thousands of people, but now they are nothing new to read. Every generation of our great rivers and mountains has talents, and their poems, articles and popularity will be circulated for hundreds of years.

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Zhao Yi advocates innovation and opposes mechanical simulation, which is reflected in this poem. In order to explain the change of poetic style from generation to generation, the poet quoted two great poets in the history of poetry, Li Bai and Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty, as examples. People think that even great poets like Li and Du Fu, whose poems have been circulated for thousands of years, no longer give people a sense of freshness. From the perspective of historical development, every era has its leading figures, and it is not necessary to follow the ancients. It is well known that "talented people have come out of the country for hundreds of years."

It is reasonable to appreciate the first two sentences of the two poems, taking the poems of Li Bai and Du Fu as examples: "Du Li's poems have been passed down from mouth to mouth, and they are not new so far." The poems of Li Bai and Du Fu have been passed down through the ages, and no one can compare them. However, even such a great poem is still not new. It can be seen that "talented people come forth in large numbers, each leading the way for hundreds of years", and affectionate people appear from generation to generation in the country, and their respective influences are only a few hundred years. The author believes that poetry should keep pace with the times, and poets should be innovative in their creation, not deliberately imitating, but following in the footsteps of the ancients.

In the Qing dynasty, because of the Daxing literary inquisition, scholars did not dare to praise or criticize current politics, so they began to study ancient culture in large numbers. Therefore, it is a common practice for literati to write poems retro. In view of this situation, Zhao Yi, a famous historian and theorist of poetry theory, expressed his own views: poetry should keep pace with the times, and poets should demand innovation in their creation, rather than deliberately imitating and following the ancients. If you persist in the disabled, cherish the past and cherish the present, then you will always be stuck.

This poem embodies his point of view. To illustrate this truth, the poet quoted two great poets in the history of poetry, Li Bai and Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty, as examples. Poets believe that even great poets like Li and Du Fu, whose poems have been circulated for thousands of years and spread to the public, no longer give people a sense of freshness. From the perspective of historical development, every era has its leading figures, and there is no need to praise the ancients blindly. It is well known that "talented people have come out of the country for hundreds of years."

Zhao Yi 1727- 18 14 Poet and Historian of Qing Dynasty. Yun Song and Yun Song were born in Oubei and Yanghu (now Changzhou, Jiangsu). In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong (176 1), he was a scholar and was awarded editing by the Hanlin Academy. He used to be the magistrate of Zhen 'an and Guangzhou, and the official went to the west. In thirty-eight years, Gan Long resigned and gave lectures at Yangzhou Anding College. His poems are as famous as those of Yuan Mei and Jiang Shiquan, and are called "Three Masters of Jiang Zuo". Poetry is clear and fluent, which advocates "originality" and opposes imitation. He is the author of Poems of Oubei and Poems of Oubei. Zhao Yi is good at historiography, and his masterpiece Notes on Twenty-two Histories is as famous as Qian Daxin's Textual Research on Twenty-two Histories and Wang Mingsheng's On Seventeen Histories.