The story is not complicated: at a wedding banquet, the dignified host ordered a group of drummers to beat drums for fun, and Xu Bu, the drummer of "Confucianism, Confucianism and Confucianism", took to the steps to perform. He plays drums skillfully, with different drums, sometimes hitting the shore, sometimes flying like a thunderbolt, impassioned and full of masculinity. The teacher in the class is a terrible traitor. From the drums, he clearly realized the resentment and challenge of the drummer, so he was white and bloodless and wanted to have an attack. However, another overwhelming drum beat like a flood, crushing his anger from embarrassment. At this time, the drums were replaced by lively drums, as if the winner laughed fearlessly, and the master in the class "did not move." The brave and witty drummer fulfilled the mission of punishing traitors.
Although there are twists and turns in this series, all these dramatic twists and turns are not external and action-oriented. When the "Doomsday Light Shines on Zhu Meng", the hall is crowded with friends, and drums burst below the hall. In the end, "the sun is shining around the sculpture", the wedding is still under the hall, and the drums are still bursting under the hall. All changes are psychological, subtle but not. Here, "drum" becomes the center of poetry and is the key to convey this subtle change. Drummers used drums to berate the powerful ministers in court, humiliating the fierce, and the majestic master of "sitting on his back in a high hall" was bloodless because he understood the meaning of drums. Don't leave too many words and don't need a long explanation. Everything is in the melody, in this silent music. In this way, the meaning of drum music is almost mythical by poets, but perhaps it is because of this magical exaggeration that poetry has a mysterious and legendary color.
The main effort of this poem is also used in the rendering of "drums". The poet mobilized a variety of artistic means to pave the way, set off and set off the unique artistic charm of drums from different angles.
It must be pointed out that it is difficult to express this music without words. First of all, because of its "no words", all thoughts and feelings are accepted and understood by our keen sensory ability. It is difficult to feel the music itself, and it is even more difficult to "translate" it into language symbols and pass it on to our readers. The second reason is that drum music is relatively simple after all. Compared with Pipa and Huqin, it obviously changes relatively little, and its meaning seems to be more elusive and expressive. In the poem, there is only one word "Ding Dong" in the description of drums from beginning to end, but what is really meaningful must rely on other artistic forces besides music.
To sum up, these artistic forces are mainly manifested in three aspects.
The first is the layered presentation of drummer's performance. The first thing that appeared in front of us was his static state: "Look at this drummer, he is not like an ordinary person,/he is a scholar, and he must have a poem book in his stomach;" /He should arrange more elegant music./The clumsy drum pestle is not his tool./This pair of drum pestle is not his tool. "The elegance of the drummer shows his uniqueness, and he has the ability to convey more elegant and meaningful tunes. This has secretly cultivated the reader's strong "expectation consciousness", and we naturally believe that his drums have the meaning of "being different"; Then, the poet painstakingly outlined his feelings when he "walked up to the high hall": "I saw a room full of shrinking pigs and sheep,/a tiger was grinding his teeth. /He insisted on licking the tiger. "The drummer's unique feeling shows his ideological pursuit of drum music." This is not a eulogy,/nor a song ",but a brave challenge to power. Soon, the drummer unscrupulously stripped off his clothes in class and mocked the hypocritical moral etiquette of the dignitaries with his naked body, so that "the eyes of the whole room dare not look straight." "Although there is no formal performance here, the drummer's anti-violence spirit has set off a small climax in the poem. When the drummer actually boarded the high hall to perform, the poet wrote: "He lingered at the master's table" and "Wild drums roared in the court". Where is this drumming for fun? It is clear that drums are used as swords, and a quick attack and assassination are launched around the lean man of the national thief. " Drumming and cursing Cao "reached the climax of the whole poem here.
Second, we should pay special attention to the audience, especially the host's reflection. With the increasing display of drummer's personality, the purpose of playing is achieved. You see, the audience in the hall, especially the arrogant "master", have ever-changing expressions. These changes are the best test agent for drummers to play. First, a mediocre drummer was performing. "There was silence in the hall." The guests didn't respond. Then our brave drummer began to perform, but it didn't attract everyone's attention immediately. The hall is still bustling. Soon, the hearty and distinctive drums finally "shocked the audience". When he beat the drums naked, everyone was shocked: "The room was full of horror and surprise", but how can a stupid guest guess the cowardice of the "master" and taste the "samadhi" in the drum? They are just confused: "Are they drunk? /Are you crazy? " As the "master" of the adulterer, after all, there is still some self-knowledge. He has understood the drummer's intention. "Master stopped the jade cup and the elephant, and/Master's face has already turned to ashes." He wanted to have an attack, but failed in a self-effacing way-he was obviously hit in the heart in the spiritual contest with the drums! If the anger of the "master" is the realization of the drummer's bold challenge behavior, then the ultimate failure of the "master" is the victory of his wisdom and superb skills. It is much more difficult to defeat a fierce beast than to hit it where it hurts and arouse its anger. Happily, the drummer achieved these two goals in an orderly manner.
The third is to imitate the rhythm and tune of the drum through language, which is the basic sentence of the whole poem: "Ding Dong, Ding Dong", "Listen, can you understand?" "different, different", "really different", "definitely different" and so on. These sentences usually appear in pairs and appear repeatedly in the whole poem, as if they were drums. Every time they appear or repeat, the drummer takes a step forward, and this difference indicates the change of tune. The overall consistency sets off a special "Yuyang Drum" atmosphere for the whole poem.
"Yuyang Drum Music" itself is an integral part of China folk culture. Wen Yiduo consciously chose this folk theme to create narrative poems, which also showed his new exploration orientation of modern poetry in China. The poet not only followed the thoughts and feelings of folk drama stories, but also boldly borrowed the artistic expression techniques of folk drama, such as repeated use. In addition, the poet deliberately used language to imitate the rhythm of drums, making the whole poem itself a folk song that can accompany drums. In all Wen Yiduo's works, it is rare to draw nutrition from folk culture so boldly. [