The hazy beauty in the Book of Songs —— The so-called Iraqis are on the water side.

The Millennium is frost.

The so-called Iraqis are on the water side.

Tracing back and forth, the road is blocked and long.

Swim back from it, in the middle of the water

It's been a long time, and it hasn't changed for thousands of years.

The so-called Iraqis are in the water.

Tracing back and forth from it, the road is blocked and broken.

Swim back from the inside and swim in the water.

Jia Cai, peace and prosperity have not passed.

The so-called Iraqis are in the water.

Go back and follow, the road is blocked and turn right.

Swim out of it and swim in the water.

How many flavors can a person's tongue taste? Don't think about it: sweet, sour, spicy and salty.

So how many flavors does poetry have? I guess no one knows. If you insist on answering this question, I'm afraid there are only two flavors: good and bad.

But in the Tang Dynasty, there was a poet critic named Si Kongtu, who tasted twenty-four flavors in his twenty-four poems. It really scares us, which also shows that our human evolution does not mean that people's abilities have been comprehensively improved. We think that people today are better than the ancients, but it's just the feeling brought by scientific and technological progress. On the spiritual and aesthetic levels, we are not as elegant as the ancients at all.

Go into the museum and have a closer look at the bronzes and jade articles of the Zhou Dynasty. These cultural relics have a history of nearly 3000 years from today, but their workmanship and creativity are far better than today. After careful comparison, I find myself living in an infinitely vulgar era.

Many things today are weaker than in ancient times. Although we have a car, our ability to travel long distances is not as good as that of our ancestors. With air conditioning, our ability to resist cold and heat is not as good as that of our ancestors; With machines, our hands-on ability is not as good as that of our ancestors.

When we record beauty with a mobile phone camera, our inner ability to feel beauty is not even as good as that of our ancestors. The more foreign objects are used, the more our own abilities are weakened and lowered. Therefore, the ancients can taste the taste of twenty-four poems, but we can only distinguish between good and bad.

The decline of aesthetic ability has a great relationship with the changes of our language environment today. The ancients spoke vernacular in their daily lives, and literary creation used classical Chinese, but today we only have vernacular. It should be noted that classical Chinese is an aesthetic need, while vernacular Chinese is a daily practical language.

Mr. Hu Shi is a master who advocates vernacular Chinese. Once, when he was giving a class to his students, he came up with such a topic: "A friend asked you to be an official, but you didn't want to, and asked to draw up a simple telegram in classical Chinese." A classmate drew up: "I just don't know how to learn, and I'm afraid I can do it. Most people don't do it." Mr. Hu Shi laughed and said that it is better to use vernacular, just three words: "No."

Young people who once cheered for Mr. Hu Shi never imagined that this seemingly simple and clear vernacular made China people's language beautiful, elegant and tactful, and implicitly lost.

When we can only appreciate poetry in such simple language as good and bad, beauty and ugliness, a lot of beauty will slip away from this wide net, because we can't capture the details of beauty.

After talking about the taste of poetry, let's look at The Sword House. From the title of the poem, it is not difficult to see that this is a folk song of Qin in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The sword armor in the poem refers to reeds, which are densely planted by the river and extend into the distance, such as curtains and fog swaying in the wind.

The Millennium is frost. The so-called Iraqis are on the water side. In the first sentence of the poem, this is an exciting structure, like Guan Ju, but from here on, I feel a little cold. In the early morning of autumn, the depression is bleak, and the phrase "white dew is frost" has painted a cool color on the whole poem. We can feel her feelings, making people tremble even before she plays.

The tone, artistic conception and tone of the whole poem are properly grasped by these four words, and the frost condensed on the reed has not melted, just like a knot that a teenager can never open.

The sun rises slowly, and the frost on the reed changes slowly, from frost to frost, and finally disappears without a trace. This process is like the lyrics of a folk song: "Do you know the taste of missing someone is like drinking a glass of cold water and then turning it into tears one by one for a long time?"

If it is two of a kind's love, these two people can always find a kind of happiness and dignity in each other's appreciation, but if it is unrequited love, it will be difficult. A cold expression on the other side may make you abandon your helmet and surrender. There is no equality between you.

In this unrequited love game, the woman you love will always be Faye Wong. Her unusual beauty is an unforgivable sin, and you are a guard at best. You can get close to her, but you will never get to her secret garden.

"The so-called Iraqis are on the water side", the geographical distance can be measured by your steps, but what about the spiritual distance? Whether you go upstream from it or downstream from it, it should be in vain. The shadow you secretly love is always erratic, appearing in the water that you can never reach.

The more you talk, the sadder it gets. Let's talk about beauty. If you were asked to say ten words or sentences about beauty, what would you say? Don't care: beauty, beauty, goddess, rich beauty ... It is estimated that these are all our words, but in China's classical poems, there are too many sentences describing female beauty.

Zhuang Jiang, a woman in Wei Zhuanggong, is described in The Book of Songs, Feng Wei tells people, and her smile is described in this way: "Smile skillfully and look forward to beautiful eyes". Throughout the ages, sentences about girls smiling should not exceed these eight words.

During the Western Han Dynasty, musician Li Yannian described his sister to Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty and said, "There are beautiful women in the north, who are peerless and independent. When you smile, you will fall into the city, and then you will fall into the country. " The beauty of Li Furen is so powerful.

During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi described Yang Guifei in a Song of Eternal Sorrow. "If she just turned and smiled, there would be hundreds of charms cast, and the powder of the sixth palace would fade into nothing." So it is no wonder that the imperial concubine would be spoiled into such a beauty.

These words are the best in China's writing about beautiful women in ancient times. To this day, they still feel dizzy and suffocated. However, compared with "the so-called Iraqis are on the water side", they are all eclipsed. These eight words have no adjectives, and none of them mention the girl's appearance, but people on the water side can be worshipped by everyone at one stop.

Si Kongtu once said: "There is no word, it is romantic." Without saying a word, all the good things are silently presented.

It is Zhuang Jiang's beauty that makes her smile, and the beauty is beauty. If she just turns her head and smiles, it is Yang Guifei's beauty, but all the beauty has nothing to do with us. However, when the phrase "the so-called Iraqis are on the water side" appears, no matter the ancients or the present, we will imagine a most beautiful shadow. Will put once unattainable on the other side of the river. This beautiful fantasy is rich and belongs to us.

Poetry is the flower of language, and the beauty of Jian Peijun does not stop there. There are several words in the poem: Cang, and Cai, and we can translate them into lush looks. Reed leaves rub against each other and make sounds in autumn morning: gray, green, gathering. Such a voice, in a lonely autumn, is a perfect match with a sad teenager.

Then the rhyme of the first sentence, pale, frost, square, long and medium, when reading these words, we will unconsciously extend the end, and in the process of this extension, our thoughts will drift away.