Tao Yuanming (about 365-427), a famous poet, lyricist and essayist at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Liu Song Dynasty, lived privately in into mirror. He is the first pastoral poet in China, and is called "the Sect of Hermit Poets in Ancient and Modern Times".
"Appreciating strange articles and analyzing doubts" is a sentence in Ji Yun, a writer in Qing Dynasty, who wrote a summary of the catalogue of Sikuquanshu. Ji Yun (1724- 1805), whose name is Yushan, was a famous literary critic and philologist in Qing Dynasty. His Catalogue Summary of Sikuquanshu is a philological work that systematically sorts out and summarizes the important bibliographies of Sikuquanshu, and is regarded as one of the important works of ancient philology in China.
It contains many opinions and opinions about literature, culture and books, and this famous saying is also an evaluation in his book. The meaning of this sentence is that strange literary works are worth appreciating, and doubtful points can be discussed and analyzed in depth.
Curious writing, appreciation, doubt and analysis refer to meeting excellent articles, reading and thinking, savoring the wonder and significance, and discussing and analyzing different viewpoints. It comes from two movements of Tao Yuanming.
The original poem is as follows:
I wanted to live in Nancun yesterday, not for the house. I'm glad to hear more people and enjoy the morning and evening.
I have been pregnant with this for several years, and today I am our service. Why is it wide? We should put enough seats on the bed.
Neighboring songs come from time to time, and the word resistance is a thing of the past. Appreciation of strange pens.
There are many beautiful days in spring and autumn, and new poems are written on the mountain. It's better to call each other after crossing the door, so there's wine to consider.
Farming goes back to hometown, and leisure needs acacia. Acacia put on her clothes and laughed endlessly.
This truth is invincible, and inaction will come to this place at once. Food and clothing should be disciplined, and efforts should not be bullied.
These two sentences were later handed down and evolved into idioms "learning from strangeness and dispelling doubts" and "learning from strangeness and writing strangeness". "Appreciating the strangeness and analyzing the doubts" has the same meaning as the original poem, which describes appreciating a good poem and analyzing difficult problems. However, the meaning of "paying for strange writing * * *" is different from that of the original poem, which contains a sarcastic tone. Anyone who deliberately exposes unreasonable and ridiculous words to the public for everyone to denounce and satirize is regarded as "writing strangely and rewarding * * *".
The background of Tao Yuanming's creation and the feelings he expressed.
In the fifth year of Yixi (AD 409), Tao Yuanming wrote two migration poems. In the fourth year of Yixi, Tao Yuanming's residence in Beijing caught fire and he had to live on a boat. More than a year later, I moved to Nancun, a suburb of Xunyang, and wrote these two poems. He used the joy of emigration to express his simple life ideal.
As a hermit, Tao Yuanming's material conditions are not good. His description of his new house is "enough bad mattresses", which is extremely simple; At the same time, however, his spiritual life is very rich, with "appreciating strange writing and analyzing doubtful points". Here, it is not difficult to see that the poet is open-minded, his character is high but not high, and he escapes without saying high.