Gan Long's achievements are remarkable, but why did he fail repeatedly in poetry?

Why does everyone say that Qianlong's poems suck?

Do you remember Zhao Wei and Ruby Lin's version of Princess Zhu Huan?

This drama can be said to accompany my whole youth. I've been watching it with my parents since I can remember. At that time, I would only appreciate beautiful pictures and watch all kinds of farce of swallows and queens. When I grow up, I will care about the fate of Swallow and Wei Zi and their love stories. Now I am deeply impressed by Wei Zi's talent. She is brilliant, witty and eloquent. Her father, Gan Long, is also a historical leader in China, and he loves writing and writing. But when it comes to poetry and literary talent, Wei Zi is slightly better than Gan Long.

Wei Zi read the song "One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven or eight pieces" while enjoying the snow. Nine dollars, ten dollars, eleven dollars, all of which have fallen out. "It is said that it is done by Qianlong. It is precisely because of this poem that Qianlong is called the emperor who can write the worst poem. In fact, there are other reasons why Qianlong's poems are not good. Next, Bian Xiao will tell you why Wei Zi's poem "Emperor Amal" is bad.

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Gan Long has a lot of bad poems, which is the common sense of most literature and history lovers. It's just that his poems are rotten, but there is a long-term lack of positive answers. Most of the popular explanations are difficult to establish, and only Mr. Qian Zhongshu's On the Record of Art has made professional comments.

Qian Zhongshu pointed out that the technical characteristics of Qianlong's poems include "sentence by sentence" and tangled stacking. His fiercest criticism of Gan Long was directed at his abuse of function words: "Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty also used prose as poetry, which encouraged procrastination and made people sick"; "Those who are sour and those who regard literature as the ugliness of poetry are all six episodes of the Qing emperor.

Why does Qian Zhongshu hate Gan Long so much? How does the abuse of function words affect the artistry of his poems?

This should start with the concepts of "language assistance" and "writing like poetry".

In traditional literature, "function words" and "language help" refer to words that have no practical significance and are used to strengthen emotional and logical relations, such as "zhi", "Hu", "zhe", "ye", "qi", "or", "suo" and "yi". Before the Middle Ages, it was most common in prose styles such as historical biography, strategic theory, preface and postscript.

Poetry in the early Tang Dynasty seldom used function words in couplets. After the mid-Tang Dynasty, the theory of "taking prose as poetry" rose and advocated writing poetry in prose sentences, and its application scope gradually expanded. The famous poem "Mountain Rock" adopts the narrative sequence of general landscape travel prose, from walking to the mountain temple, looking around, watching murals at night, making beds, eating, sleeping at night, listening at night, leaving the temple in the morning and writing down the mountain. It makes people feel that they have experienced the scenery. From what I saw and heard from this night to the early morning, I chose some pictures with changing colors, such as "rough rocks and narrow paths, bats are at dusk when I arrive at the temple" to write "darkness" in the dusk; The following two sentences write banana and gardenia, which is another "bright" in dark color; Write murals with torches, indicating that there is darkness in the light; In the dead of night, "Shan Yue came into my door with her pure light" is secretly bright; "I left the mountain at dawn, alone, lost my way, went in and out, up and down, and there was a thick fog", which was the dawn in Shan Lan; Then "let the streams and mountains turn green and purple, illuminate everything", and then suddenly it lights up. In this way, a continuous picture with strong visual sense is left in the reader's mind. The whole poem is fluent and strange, but it is very natural with meticulous carving.

But here in Qianlong, "taking literature as poetry" was completely read as a crooked scripture.

Gan Long loved prose syntax in his poems, and almost all poems in his later years used function words. But the use of this technique has nothing to do with the aesthetic feeling of language, such as the following works in the Collection of Imperial Poems:

Shen Xiu advised me not to write poetry. I know poetry is not poetry.

However, after several banquets, I spent my leisure time.

With a secretary, there is nothing in the past.

There is one person, O, who is only concerned with success?

These things, which only appear in the form of poetry, are either as boring as village cadres' speeches, or as "so much" and "too confident", which makes people see through the embarrassment of forcibly making sentences. No wonder Qian Zhongshu called it "the ugliness of writing like poetry" and hated it.

Because Qianlong doesn't care about creating artistic conception at all, he just writes his feelings into five-word or seven-word sentences, and can only use a large number of function words to organize syntax and rhyme. Such poems are naturally poetic.

China's ancient poems are all poetic. Once he read A Dream of Red Mansions, he deeply agreed with Xue Baochai's experience in talking about poetry. She said that the ancients wrote poems, but they didn't need to read them, as long as they could understand them. This is a good poem.

This is really the knowledge of poetry. Emperor Qianlong talks big in his poems and doesn't know what poetry is. No wonder there are no masterpieces handed down from generation to generation