Couldn’t agree more. Don't do porcelain work without diamonds. Before coming to the forum, Yu Dan, Kang Zhen, Li Bo, Meng Man and others seemed to be overconfident. The glory and embarrassment they experienced at the "Hundred Schools Forum" and "Chinese Poetry Conference" actually highlighted the weakness of their knowledge structure. Defects, insufficient knowledge reserves. The deeper reason lurking behind this is the widespread impetuosity in our literature and education, especially the impetuosity of contemporary college intellectuals.
The "academic star" Yu Dan, who had fallen into disgrace, basically bid farewell to the screen and returned to the college classroom. Since then, "academic stars" such as Meng Man, Kang Zhen, and Li Bo have made a shining debut at the "Chinese Poetry Conference". But soon the internet started buzzing with comments. First, he complained about the poor poetry quality of Kang Zhen and other judges, and then thought that Li Bo's self-composed "Jiju" was not good enough. Some people defended Kang Zhen and others, saying that he was a professor but not a poet, and that the conference was about memorizing poems but not composing poems, so there was no need to be demanding on the poetry level of the judges. Little did they know that all famous poetry commentators in the past dynasties were good at poetry. If you are not good at poetry but study poetry and talk eloquently, you will inevitably be ridiculed.
The "Chinese Poetry Conference" will undoubtedly have a positive guiding effect on the popularization of poetry. But what dissatisfied netizens is that the judges invited by the program team, such as Kang Zhen and Li Bo, are laymen who cannot write poetry at all. In the program, Li Bo played "Jiju" and Kang Zhen composed "poems", both of which attracted criticism from insiders. To be honest, the biggest shortcoming of current classical literature is that researchers are amateurs in creation, mainly studying poetry culture, and many are even studying "research on culture." Both Li Bo and Kang Zhen wrote a "poem" on the show. Li Bo collected Su Shi's poems:
"The taste in the world is pure joy, and the water is full of red sweet potatoes and the fragrance is fine. I will always hate this body." It’s not mine, this place of peace is my hometown.”
Kang Zhen’s self-composed poem:
“The sun and the moon are flowing eastward, and the ancient charm and new beauty compete with the beauty of the sky and the earth.” "Guang, a generation of romantics sings of Chunhui."
Both of them are completely unclassified works, which are extremely unbefitting of their status as literature professors. Since the beginning of meter, all quatrains throughout the ages must rhyme if the first sentence does not end in oblique tones. As a judge of a poetry competition, I don’t have such common sense, which is regrettable. This is one of them. Secondly, in the twenty-eight words, in addition to the words that must be repeated, such as "Xixixiang", there are also two "yes", two "I", and two "this". Which poet or lyricist has done this? Unless it is specifically intentional. Poetry is an art that pays attention to condensation. Third, there was a problem with Pingqi. "I always regret that this body is not mine" is not right. The original text is "I always regret that this body is not mine". My character is in flat tone, and my character is in oblique tone. Su Shi's Ping Ze was right, but Li Bo was wrong. Fourth, the word "Huan" does not rhyme. The two rhyming words, one is "香" and the other is "乡". The pronunciation of the two words is exactly the same, there is no change, and it is extremely rigid. Fifth, the four sentences in this poem are not related. Especially the second sentence, which is completely unclear in the whole poem.
In fact, it is not just scholars such as Kang Zhen, Li Bo, and Meng Man. There are many professors who have written many books. Their research subjects range from Li Bai and Du Fu to Li Shangyin and Li Qingzhao, to Yang Shen and Nalan Xingde, but they cannot write a single poem. Poetry that conforms to the rhythm comes. Especially on the CCTV stage, facing many poetry lovers and audiences, Kang Zhen and Li Bo, as university professors and doctoral supervisors, made many mistakes and misled the audience.
Nowadays, the knowledge structure and knowledge reserve of teachers in many colleges and universities are not ideal, not in place, and not solid. The dean of an academy of fine arts only "understands" art theory but does not know how to paint, and is not as good as a third-rate painter today; the person who is a doctoral supervisor in literature cannot write poetry, novels or even prose, and is not as good as a Chinese middle school teacher in the Republic of China. These so-called authorities and big names knew how to link the publication of papers with their degrees and professional titles when they were in college, master's and doctoral studies, so they "quoted from many sources" and "turned to many teachers", but their true knowledge and insights could not be touched, and their sincerity could not be touched. Sincerity.
“One cut with scissors, one stick of paste, one signature, and a long article.” This is how many so-called academic papers are produced, thus spawning a large amount of “academic garbage.”
Looking at the papers published in the so-called core journals today, sometimes the citations, annotations, and reference materials are longer than the main text. I feel that only in this way can they have "academic content" and "no word has a source." Critic Meng Fanhua said:
"There are indeed serious problems in current academic criticism. The rigidity of criticism style has greatly reduced the effectiveness of literary criticism."
Most of the academics mentioned by Meng Fanhua are teachers engaged in literature teaching and theoretical criticism in colleges and universities. I have also come into contact with teachers from some university liberal arts schools. They can talk about other people's novels, prose, poems and scripts with eloquence and eloquence. But if you ask them to write a literary work, even a few lines of poems or a micro-novel , they immediately lost their skills and remained silent! Look at Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Ye Shengtao, Shen Congwen and other intellectuals who were teachers. Even humble primary and secondary school teachers can write various works with pen and ink. This is by no means favoring the past over the present; this is the actual situation.
Mei Yiqi, who became the president of Tsinghua University in 1931, has always advocated that universities "should have two purposes, one is to conduct academic research, and the other is to cultivate talents." Mei Yiqi had two famous sayings at Tsinghua University that have been recited for many years. One is: "A great scholar is not only called a building, but also a master." The other is: "There are no bad students, all bad students." It’s bad teaching.”
If universities in the past succumbed to political pressure, today’s universities are succumbing to the magic of money. Many professors and scholars regard academics as a kind of capital for profit-making, rather than the foundation of preaching, gaining vocations and solving doubts. "Celebrity-making of scholars" and "star-scholarship" will inevitably backfire if they lose moral restraint.
Most of the professors and scholars who traced the history of modern Chinese political literature were well versed in both Chinese and Western knowledge and were proficient in both theory and creation. For example, Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Qian Zhongshu and others not only had extensive and profound theoretical research results, but also Brilliant and impressive achievements in literary creation. In comparison, contemporary university professors and scholars are often eager for quick success and even conduct theoretical research just to get professional titles.
At the same time, many scholars and professors in universities have narrow knowledge and detailed professional division of labor, and they have become "one-armed generals". These people often start their lectures by arranging and quoting scriptures with high spirits, but You ask him/her to write a poem, fill in a line of lyrics, write a novel or an essay, and he/she immediately restrains his/her hands and feet, and before digging into the ground, he or she does not forget to defend himself/herself without hesitation: "I am Why do those who engage in theoretical research need to write works? ”
In fact, it is not necessary for today’s scholars and professors to become cultural figures like Lu Xun, Hu Shi, and Qian Zhongshu, but as doctoral supervisors and professors who teach ancient poetry, For a literary leader who was invited by CCTV to be a judge of classical poetry, he must be able to write a poem that is not only excellent but still acceptable, right? You can't just talk on paper and be afraid to "explain things in person", right? In this way, how can these "academic stars" stand the test of time?