Reading Sense is two seven-character quatrains written by Zhu, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. Two poems describe his vivid feeling of "reading". The first song is particularly popular.
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Thoughts on reading by roll call
Southern Song Dynasty
Author Zhu,
Genre seven-character quatrains
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Reflections on reading.
( 1)
When the half-acre square pond is opened,
The sky is full of clouds and shadows.
Ask the canal to be so clear?
Because there is inexhaustible living water for it.
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Last night, the river was full of springs.
This huge ship is insignificant.
Always in vain,
This is a day of freedom. [ 1]
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① Tang Fang: also known as Banmu Pond, located in Zhengfu (later called Nanxi Academy) in the south of Youxi City, Fujian Province. Song, the father of Zhu, made friends with Zheng, so he tasted the poem "Drunk in Zheng Villa": "Open up the territory. The sheep are flying, and they are willing to be satisfied with the spring breeze. " Jane: The mirror. The ancients took copper as the boundary, wrapped it in a mirror and opened it when needed.
The light in the sky and the shadow of clouds are reflected in the pool water, constantly changing, just like people wandering.
Canal: He refers to Tang Fang. Then (n m) had to: no way. As clear as this: very clear. I see.
(4) Meng Chong, also known as Rainbow, is an ancient warship. As light as a feather.
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( 1)
The pond, half an acre square, looks like a mirror.
The brilliance of the sky and the shadow of floating clouds entered the pond together and kept shaking.
Why is the water in that square pond so clear?
Because no dry water ever flows from the source and becomes living water!
(2)
Last night, the river was in high tide.
This ship is as light as a feather.
It takes a lot of push and pull to keep driving.
Today, I can drift freely in the middle of the river.
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This is a famous poem that takes scenery as a metaphor. Compared with the square pond, the whole poem vividly expresses a subtle and unspeakable reading feeling. The pond is not a pool of stagnant water, but often full of living water, so it is as clear as a mirror, reflecting the sky and clouds. This situation is quite similar when the same person gets through the problem, gains new knowledge and gains a lot of benefits in reading, and raises awareness. The aura, clear thinking, fresh and lively spirit and self-satisfaction of this poem are the author's personal reading feelings as a university scholar. Although this feeling expressed in the poem is only for reading, it has profound implications and rich connotations, which can be widely understood. In particular, the phrase "ask how clear the canal is, and there is flowing water from the source" means that the clarity of water is due to the continuous injection of flowing water from the source, which means that if people want to be clear-headed, they must study hard and constantly supplement new knowledge. Therefore, people often use it as a metaphor to constantly learn new knowledge in order to reach a new realm. People also use these two poems to praise a person's achievements in study or art, which has its deep roots. Readers can also get inspiration from this poem. Only when their thoughts are always active, open-minded, broad-minded, receptive to different ideas and fresh knowledge, and inclusive, can they keep thinking and keep new water flowing out. These two poems are condensed into a common idiom "the source of living water", which is used to describe the source and motive force of the development of things.
This is an artistic and philosophical poem. When people taste calligraphy, they often have an artistic feeling of flying high. In poetry, this inner feeling is transformed into a tangible image through symbolic means, so that readers can understand the mystery themselves. The so-called "flowing water from the source" refers to the inexhaustible artistic inspiration in the writer's heart.
Poetry has profound meaning. The vivid metaphor of the rich inspiration of calligraphy art from the source is the inexhaustible source of calligraphy works, which clarifies the author's unique reading experience, conforms to the characteristics of calligraphy art creation and embodies the essence of general art creation.
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This is also a poem with the help of images. It takes boating as an example to let readers know the truth related to learning. The poem says that when the boat was shallow, it was futile for everyone to push the boat hard. When the spring water surges, even the huge ship is as light as a feather and floats freely in the water. Highlighting the importance of spring water in poetry is intended to emphasize the generation of artistic inspiration, which is enough to make artistic creation smooth and comfortable. It can also be understood that artistic creation needs basic skills, and then practice makes perfect, so you can control it freely. This poem is probably written by the author after thinking hard about a certain problem and suddenly having an experience after studying.
Judging from the metaphor of "a great ship", it may be the creation of Zhu's big man in the comment list. The moral of this poem is also profound. A rising tide lifts all boats, and you can travel freely. It is a vivid metaphor that once the artistic creation of calligraphy is inspired, the style of writing can become smooth at once. This is not only an essential process of calligraphy art, but also an important essence of general artistic creation. Of course, this poem can also be understood from another angle, that is, Zhu saw the concise and vivid skills of calligraphy works and tasted the artistic truth that practice makes perfect.
Some people think that poetry is the product of thinking in images, so it is only suitable for writing scenery and expressing feelings, but not for reasoning. There is some truth in this statement, but it cannot be absolute. Because reason can be expressed by visual means, it is as attractive as scenery and emotion. At the same time, the speculative nature of reason itself is often very fascinating. (Meicheng's "Seven Hairs" just proves this point. Therefore, there are many successful philosophical poems in ancient and modern poetry. Zhu is a student of Liu Zikai, and he is also very close to his father Zhu. Perhaps influenced by his father and teachers, his evaluation of literature in Taoism is relatively fair, and he has also written some good poems full of life flavor. For example, these two songs are, of course, works of reasoning. In the first song, the pond needs to be continuously injected with living water to be clear, and the metaphorical thinking needs to be continuously developed and improved to be active and avoid stagnation and rigidity. The completion of the latter song often has a stage from quantitative change to qualitative change. Once the water comes naturally, it is clear inside and outside, free and free. These two poems express the truth they have learned in their study with vivid images, which are both enlightening and poetic, so Chen Yan rated them as "reasoning with things without corruption".
The truth contained in the two poems "Reading Comprehension" belongs to the category of aesthetic principles. The reasoning angle of one poem is to appreciate beauty, and the reasoning angle of the other two poems is to create beauty. This aesthetic principle has certain universality. For example, if the reader abandons the description object of the poem itself, this truth can be extended completely. For example, if "book" is understood as "book", the contents of books generally do not include medical books, philosophy books, history books, science books and so on. , but only in poetry, music, prose and other literary content to reflect the beauty of literature and art, then you can also think that "The Source of Living Water" expresses "inexhaustible literary thoughts" and "One Night of Spring Tide" expresses "erupting literary thoughts" [2] wealth value.