Tell me about your understanding of "Reading thousands of volumes, writing like a god"

Read thousands of volumes, and write as if you have a spirit" is a famous saying by Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. It has been passed down to this day and is often engraved on bookmarks and bamboo curtains as aphorisms to encourage people to study hard and study hard. Many teachers When explaining these two poems, they also translated them as: "If you read thousands of volumes," you will "write like a god." It can be seen that many people have concluded that there is a cause and effect between these two poems. The relationship is: if you read more books, you will write better articles. Let’s not say whether this proposition is wrong or not. Looking back at this poem, the author thinks that these two opinions of Lao Du are fallacious. There is a parallel relationship between the upper and lower lines of the poem, not a causal relationship.

First of all, judging from the source of the poem, the poem "Nanling Farewell Returns to Beijing" completes the upper and lower lines as follows: When I was young, I was a guest of the state. I read thousands of books and wrote poems to praise my enemies. Li Yong wanted to know his friends, and Wang Han wanted to know his neighbors... Judging from these few poems. , the poem is describing his talent and learning. In other words, Lao Du is describing his talent and learning by "reading thousands of volumes and writing like a god". There should be a parallel relationship between these two lines. , and should not be a causal relationship.

Secondly, this is also true from the perspective of poetry creation. Poetry, especially rhymed poetry, pays attention to antithesis, and antithesis itself is a kind of semantic juxtaposition. Du Fu is not only well versed in the rules of writing verses, but also pays more attention to the neatness of the contrasts. From the neatness of the contrasts between these two lines, it is not difficult for us to infer that the two lines "reading/breaking" are in parallel relationship.

Thirdly, judging from the content and writing background of the poem, this poem belongs to Du Fu's early work. It is a description of the poet's economic aspirations when he was striving for an official career. The poem is a description of himself, not an exhortation. Others.

Fourthly, from the perspective of later poets and poets’ use of the poem, Su Shi’s poem “Qinyuan Chun, Guguan Dengqing” in the Song Dynasty used Du’s poem as: “You have. A thousand words on the pen, thousands of volumes in the mind." And the lyrics are also a description of one's own talent and ambition. It can be seen that in the understanding of Song people, these two lines of Du's poems are still descriptions of one's own talents, and they are still in a parallel relationship. You read If you read more books, you will be able to write well when writing. It encourages us to read more!