Is Qu Yuan or Li Bai the greatest poet in the history of China?
Qu Yuan, an immortal earlier than Li Bai, was not the first. Before him there was Qu Yuan, who was demoted again and again.
Li Bai "descended from heaven" and still got high marks. Later, he was rejected by Chang 'an to other provinces, and even sentenced to a yelang who had been cured for a long time. Qu Yuan was banished from a big city to the countryside, and he was in the company of Shan Gui. A sad, he was banished from Shan Ye to the water country and became the most famous water ghost. Or daffodils. No matter how big a fairy is, she can't stand this degradation. Even lost the happiness of mortals. He held a stone and lowered the horizon to the level. Below the horizon, below the horizon, he has nothing.
The tradition of degenerate poets began with Qu Yuan. Li Sao is actually an eternal theme, which means "Paradise Lost". There is a similar sense of loss in mourning, walking, thinking beauty and sadness returning to emptiness. The soul returned to his hometown and mourned for the south of the Yangtze River ... Qu Yuan not only called out his own soul, but also called out the soul of his old country, calling for a new beginning and an unchanging face, and dreamed that his old country remained the same and his local accent was lingering.
Hometown is the most beautiful fairyland for exiles, which can only be revisited in dreams. Unfortunately, Qu Yuan's dream went farther and farther, first with dew and then with tears. Become heavy, like a pair of wet wings, and never fly again. At this time, he can only be unwilling to ask the truth because it is out of reach. Even if you keep praying to the sky, the sky can't hear you. Unable to fly high and disdain to crawl on the secular ground, he personally tied stones to useless wings, gave up on himself and sank to the bottom of the water. His feathers were finally completely splashed by the river.
Qu Yuan's choice is decisive, and there is no room for him to become an immortal or a ghost. Either fly like a bird or swim like a fish. After the king was demoted, he continued to be demoted until he was clean.
After Qu Yuan, there was Jia Yi. After Jia Yi, there was Li Bai. After Li Bai, there were more degenerate poets. ...
In Historical Records, why did Sima Qian write Qu Yuan and Jia He as a Biography of Jia Sheng? Because they are all fallen poets. Moreover, Sima Qian himself also suffered from being demoted, especially the non-human palace publication, which simply plunged him into the darkness of non-human and non-ghost, and he was worse than death overnight. Mentally, he actually took the road of Qu Yuan's fall. However, instead of a stone, he took a historical record dripping with ink and tears. No wonder later generations said that Historical Records of Li Sao had no rhyme. Sima Qian's loss and melancholy after loss are not necessarily lighter than Qu Yuan's. When he wrote the Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Yi with tears in his eyes, he was actually secretly painting himself, that is, "in other people's stories, he shed his own tears."
After Qu Yuan, so many fallen poets and so many down-and-out literati unconsciously continued to write Li Sao. Lisao is also a kind of homesickness, not only for the old country separated from Tianshui, but also for my ideal country. Qu Yuan turned back step by step. In his sad recollection, the old country was greatly beautified and poeticized and became an ideal country, which was out of reach and worrying. Alas, he was not only banished to a distant place by the king, but also a marginalized figure, and was expelled from utopia. His so-called American political ideal is doomed to fail. He suffered a double blow: far from home, disillusioned.
All fallen poets are fallen immortals and people with broken dreams.
Who is greater, Qu Yuan or Li Bai? Who can better represent China?
If Li Bai is the father of China poets, then the principle of Qu is the father of Li Bai and the originator of China poets.
If Li Bai is immortal, then the principle of Qu is the father of immortal and the father of immortal poets in China. "If you live in a temple, you will worry about your people; If you are far away in the rivers and lakes, you will worry about your husband. " Qu Yuan had long wanted to do this before Fan Zhongyan wrote The Story of Yueyang Tower. These two sentences are simply the portrayal of Qu Yuan, and also become the spiritual coordinates of China intellectuals. Qu Yuan first made suffering become the lace of poetry and made poetry surpass itself in endless suffering. Yes, suffering can lead to the collapse or even destruction of poets, but poetry is immortal. Immortal poems can revive dead poets and even live forever.
Before Li Bai and Tianmu Mountain dreamed of ascending to heaven, Qu Yuan traveled by flying dragon, driving away the clouds and convincing the gods. Li Sao first shows the poet's sleepwalking. Only poets who sleepwalk can write divine comedy.
Qu Yuan opened the cork of China's extraordinary imagination, released the soul that had been put outside the cloud nine, sucked the wind and drank the dew, and made waves in the cave under the leaves. In this sense, Qu Yuan is definitely the pioneer of Li Bai.
Both Qu Yuan and Li Bai are affectionate. In order to forget their troubles, they send their feelings to the world and draw inferences from others. Speaking of fantasy, Li Bai is not inferior to Qu Yuan, but he is still inferior to Qu Yuan in the quality of suffering, so he can't surpass the height of Qu Yuan's thought.
Both Qu Yuan's and Li Bai's poems are self-portraits. Qu Yuan created an image of a poet who was concerned about his country and people. Although Li Bai's melancholy thought turned the tide, it was generally called for personal grievances.
"For too long, I can't take a long breath to hide my tears and mourn the hardships of people's lives." With this tear of old Qu Yuan, Li Bai's love for heaven and hate for the sea became frivolous. One is the sorrow of the ego, and the other is the sorrow of the ego. Qu Yuan certainly has more in his heart than Li Bai. Although Qu Yuan's tears are as intoxicating as Li Bai's wine.
Fortunately, Heaven pays off his poems, and Qu Yuan's lacrimal glands are concerned about the country and the people, which was later inherited from Du Fu. Du Fu's "hut was broken by autumn wind", the wine and meat in Zhumen stink and the bones on the road are frozen, which is virtually inheriting Qu Yuan's spiritual heritage. Du Fu also shed tears for all beings, and many poets in later generations also shed tears for all beings. The source of this kind of tears is Qu Yuan.
Qu Yuan first established the poet's position as the spokesman of "Heaven and Earth", and gained the uncrowned lofty feeling and sacred mission with extensive sympathy, not only for heaven and earth, but also for all beings.
Even a down-and-out poet, a poor poet, a down-and-out poet who is excluded from the upper class, as long as he looks at the world and loves the whole world, he can write touching poems to defend his special right to speak as a poet.
Do you understand what I said? I mean, both Li Bai and Du Fu have the shadow of Qu Yuan. When Li Bai and Du Fu are combined, they are a complete Qu Yuan.
Qu Yuan was born into the world, which has both Li Bai's immortal spirit and Du Fu's humanity. Qu Yuan integrated ideal with reality. You can play his front, side or back to the extreme, which is a great success, but it is difficult to achieve all of him.
Qu Yuan was the first great poet in the history of China. As soon as he appeared, he created a comprehensive and perfect poet image. That is the twin peaks of emotion and thought, which no one can surpass so far. Looking up to him can make us grow taller.
Qu Yuan, the Motive Force of China's Poetry History. Both Li Bai and Du Fu, and even later poets, drew strength from Qu Yuan and shaped their own image. The image of China poet Qu Yuan is the first edition! No matter how hard we try, or reprint, reprint, it just strengthens the impression that Qu Yuan left on the world, and it is difficult to break through his spiritual height and refresh the record he broke.
Qu Yuan's great realm comes from his great feelings, and Qu Yuan's imagination comes from his vitality. He didn't imagine it out of thin air, but climbed to the top of the mountain at the cost of life like fire.
Ideal and reality, in Qu Yuan's life and poems, appear as intense heat and severe cold. Very patient. If you haven't been to hell or heaven, you don't know how the Divine Comedy was made. And the principle of flexion breaks through heaven and hell and becomes one.
"Qu Ping's Ci and Fu hangs on the sun and the moon, and the King of Chu stands empty." This is Li Bai's evaluation of Qu Yuan in Song on the River. I'm afraid that only Qu Yuan can make the arrogant Li Bai admire this degree. This Li Bai, even in the face of Confucius, would not be so awed: "I am a madman in the state of Chu and sang a crazy song about Confucius." Qu Yuan's poems persuaded Li Bai. Confucius is not a poet. His fate with poetry is to compile The Book of Songs, which belongs to the category of poetry editor or publisher. Between Confucius and Qu Yuan, Li Bai naturally felt closer to Qu Yuan. He hoped that his poems would follow in Qu Yuan's footsteps and win glory with the sun and the moon.
There is also a famous degenerate poet Su Dongpo, who even claimed that he worshipped only one idol: "Qu Zi is the only one who can't achieve my wish in the end."
Su, a modern scholar, went further: "A person who didn't read Li Sao thirty years ago should have died long ago and lost his vitality. Reading Li Sao after the age of 30, you can't die for your country, and you are lifeless. "
Compared with Qu Yuan, we poets really lived in vain. We paraded through the streets in the cloak of a poet and were moved by the light of Qu Yuan's giant era. The only good thing is that Qu Yuan is still in my heart, so I won't be infinitely small.