If Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei lived in modern times and wrote poems in the headlines, would they be popular?

I have to say, this idea is very interesting. Li Bai and Du Fu are household names, and online celebrities are also the characteristics of our times. Will the collision between the two spark different sparks?

I don't think so. Although Li Bai can be called an internet celebrity in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai and Du Fu may not have some characteristics that internet celebrities have now. Because we need to know that they were born in modern times and have lost their former aura, leaving only their own talents.

Internet celebrities are time-sensitive, and most of them become online celebrities inadvertently. Their popularity is due to their own characteristics, which caused the netizens to curse in some aspects under the spread of the network, leading to sudden overnight popularity. In order to maintain this state of popularity, the parties need their own efforts.

Let's take a look at the poet Du Fu.

Although Du Fu, as a poet, became famous in later generations, in the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu did not do well, at least far from Li Bai.

As we all know, his poetic style is a realistic poet, and his works depict the sufferings of the people in the Tang Dynasty at that time, so he enjoys a high reputation in later generations. Apart from writing poems, he seems to have no other specialties, and he is not qualified to be the top scholar in the imperial examination room. The officialdom is also frustrated, which may be related to his inability to cater to the dignitaries, but his ability to be an official is naturally not very prominent.

If he doesn't have the aura of "poet saint" in our present 2 1 century, why does he shine? At this stage of society, there are not so many people whose sufferings Du Fu can lament. Even if there are some social problems, Lao Du is not a reporter, and it is not his turn to tell people what to do.

And with Du Fu's personality, I don't consider being an online celebrity. He can't get on the red dot, and not everyone has the luck of the wandering master Shen Wei, so Du Fu was born in modern times, and I'm afraid nine times out of ten he won't become an online celebrity.

With his literary skills, although Nobel Prize in Literature can't catch up, of course, the biggest possibility is to become a civil servant, a small leader of a local writers' association, serve the broad masses of people and work hard for his ideal world.

What about Li Bai, who is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu?

This is hard to say. You know Li Bai and Du Fu are different. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Baike was a world-famous internet celebrity. He is called "Poet Fairy" and he likes drinking. Most of his poems were written when he was drunk, full of fairy tales. Li Bai has been a genius since childhood. At the age of five, I recited Liu Jia; at the age of ten, I watched a hundred schools of thought contend; at the age of fifteen, I was awarded the excellent Ren Xia. This is simply the idol of thousands of girls, and those poems with a little fairy spirit are also the types sought after by the audience, and they are simply innate online celebrities.

Li Bai lives in modern times. According to his habit of going to caves in those days, if tourist attractions all over the country want to be full of holidays, Li Bai must be asked to write one or two poems and songs, and then send a short story from the media. I guess he can get on the hot search.

However, modern people's hobbies are excellent singers and actors. Li Bai's appearance is not recorded in detail in history, so let's assume that he is handsome for the time being, but he is a little short, which means that he is now 1.6 meters. Although he is very talented, he drinks live. Sorry, misleading teenagers, banning. Write poems on the spot? Sorry, the audience is too small. I can barely be regarded as an expert in the field of culture. Can there be some young artists (especially young women)? ) rewards, I'm afraid that's all.

After all, poetry and songs are too popular in modern times. Everyone's eyes are fixed on the performing stars, and it's too difficult to stand out from their encirclement. These literary writers are just a flash in the pan in certain times, and they are forgotten by us afterwards. So is Mo Yan, who won the prize, and so is Canxue, who was nominated. White popularity? No one can say for sure.

China's network celebrity culture may be a deformed culture. Real talented people and people who really contribute to society are unknown to the world, but entertainment stars occupy our daily life.

But maybe it's also a good thing. Real academic researchers need to be able to sit on the bench, and people's neglect of them just makes them calm down. Whether Li Bai and Du Fu can become online celebrities is anybody's guess, but I don't want them to become online celebrities, away from the hustle and bustle, and at the same time away from the shadow and cold violence that the internet may bring them.