When everyone was aroused to continue the poem by "I have a pot of wine, enough to comfort the wind and dust", some people sneered: "Many people participating in the solitaire knew nothing about the rhyme of poetry, which reflected the public's lack of understanding of true poetry. A layman in traditional culture. In any era, real poets are lonely, and poetry is niche." This has caused many netizens to "want their enthusiasm for poetry."
This view reflects a major shortcoming that some people today have in the inheritance of traditional culture: they always put on airs, deny the basis of the masses, and assume a domineering attitude, which fully demonstrates their narrow-mindedness. . And this is precisely one of the reasons why they are relatively lonely. To carry forward traditional culture, we should have a mind that is "big enough to accommodate the masses" and a tolerance that is "tolerant of all rivers", instead of being solitary and admiring in self-imposed limitations.
Those brilliant and brilliant poems that have been passed down to this day are certainly the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient literati, but we cannot ignore the history that has been weathered and buried just because we only see the dazzling pyramid tips. A large number of works at the base of the pyramid. From a certain perspective, those mediocre works that have been washed away without leaving a trace in the long river of history, don't they reflect the broad mass base of poetry? In fact, when reciting poems and writing poems becomes a way of life for ordinary people, rather than a specific means of showing off for literati, cultural creation can become more dynamic and excellent works can emerge.
From the many works in the "Book of Songs" collected from the folk, to Bai Juyi writing poems but asking "old women to understand", to "anywhere with well water to drink, everyone can sing willow lyrics", poetry The prosperity has never been niche, but has rooted its vigorous life in making ordinary people happy and nourishing. As the saying goes, "it can be prosperous, it can be watched, it can be grouped, and it can be complained." Those masterpieces handed down from generation to generation were precisely created by literati and wise men who drew nourishment from ordinary people and used their own talents to produce them. There are poems about spring and snow, and there are poems about people from lower reaches of the country. Poetry has never excluded ordinary people from singing, chanting, and enjoying it.
As the "mother of opera", Kun Opera has experienced the changes of the times and was once dying. Opera practitioners realized that Kun Opera went from being a household name to declining not because of the death of famous Kun Opera masters, but because Kun Opera could not find a place in the mass market and gradually lost its mass base. So they began to introduce popular elements such as opera and symphony to create a youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" to attract more audiences without being highbrow. When Kun Opera once again entered people's field of vision, it also entered the stage of a new era. In the audience, there were still a group of infatuated opera fans who did not understand "good times and beautiful scenery" and "like the passing of time". On the stage, the masters were performing the essence of tradition. At this time, we understand that no culture can close itself off, and no culture has the capital to filter its audience. Only by being more tolerant and humble can we get a longer life and a more exciting future.
Using elite taste as an excuse to remain complacent will eventually lead to a tragedy of a group of sages mourning alone at the tombstone of culture. Only by opening our minds and accepting the wisdom of different cultural levels can we inherit and develop it and promote cultural prosperity and progress. The times require tolerance, and so does traditional culture. No matter when and where, traditional culture stops traveling alone and flourishes among the masses.