Chapter 16: Enlightenment

"Which is more important, the scriptures and the poems?"

"The shallowness of the ministers, if they were before, neither of them was important, and it would be of no benefit to the country and the world; However, the scriptures are conducive to the elaboration of the avenue, and the poems are conducive to the expression of the heart; The two are not superior, but the text is standing, the more important the poem is, the poetry is easier to get the resonance of the aura of heaven and earth than the article, it is not that the article is bad, but the good text is hard to find, and the poem is easy to get......"

Wen refers to words with strong feelings, warmth and soul, and a high degree of organization; It is at the upper end of the language pyramid, that is, the so-called article rhetoric of traditional culture - prose, pun, eight-strand essay, essays, etc., compared with the text, the Jingyi article has very high requirements for writing, and its text should be very beautiful, concise, with a strong appeal, often implying a sense of rhythm echo and rhythm, the arrangement and combination of words with a unique sense of beauty, pleasing to the eye, can give readers a pleasant enjoyment of the whole body, and also have the pursuit of the beauty of the ethereal artistic conception.

At this time, the language is basically a highly organized and close to poetic language, and the author's feelings are permeated between the lines, and such words have a soul and are very easy to move people's hearts.

This kind of text naturally carries the inquiry of heaven and earth, the ultimate care for humanity, a kind of innate compassion, which is really permeated with the author's strong feelings, and the temperature instantly touches people's hearts.

And the poetic language, at the top, there is already a very clear pursuit of the three beauties, the beauty of sound, the beauty of meaning, and the beauty of it.

Highly refined, very aesthetic, extremely high text strength and density, exquisite and beautiful, strong sense of rhythm, catchy and catchy, the beauty of recitation, rich in the beauty of clear imagery and the beauty of ethereal artistic conception, with a strong appeal, can move people's hearts in an instant, if a poem is like a glass of boiled water after reading can not leave any impression on the reader, indicating that the author's writing skills are still at the bottom and middle.

Many people think that poetry is my handwriting of my heart, and poetry is a kind of self-expression of inner feelings, but it is not difficult to become an amateur poet who entertains himself, the problem is that if you want to become a real poet, such an attitude is absolutely not advisable.

At least you have to reach the top of the writing skills, be able to skillfully control the article - prose essays, rhetoric, with a minimum of poetic language writing ability, after the poems you write are truly readable, the real top of the text divine language can withstand people to read thousands of times to become the best of the best, with the bottom of the text skills, forced to write poems, written is just a joke.

And to write articles and even poems with the writing skills that have not even reached the mid-end literary style, people will lose such words after reading, and they will not leave any traces in the world, and countless poems are born every year, but after countless years, they can still be circulated and remembered, and there may only be hundreds.

Yang Yi nodded, she agreed with Qu Yuan's opinion, based on the meaning of the article, focusing on poetry and songs, which requires talent, and if talent is not good, there is naturally a way, after all, at this time, the world is not open, and those who are literate are considered talents.

In this regard, Yang Yi is naturally prepared, before the paper production has a little gain, and now it is still purifying the process, and the paper obtained is not good, but with the number of craftsmen, it will naturally get better and better, and this will also become a source of wealth.

There is also printing, and then there are several books that Yang Yi has been revising during this time.

"Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text", "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" and "Rhyme", these enlightenment books are the foundation of Wendao; Of course, some of these books are not suitable for appearing, so I will revise them, in order to lay the foundation of the following Dao and make this Mianzhu City a holy place of Wendao, Yang Yi has worked hard!

"The Three Character Classic" is a traditional enlightenment textbook, and among the classics, the "Three Character Classic" is one of the most simple and easy-to-understand readings; The "Three Character Classic" draws on models, including literature, history, philosophy, astronomy and geography, human ethics and righteousness, loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, etc., and the core idea includes "benevolence, righteousness, sincerity, respect, and filial piety." ”

While reciting the "Three Character Classic", I learned about common sense, Chinese culture and historical stories, as well as the principles of life and work in the connotation of the story.

Its content, short and concise, catchy, for thousands of years, well-known, its content covers history, astronomy, geography, morality and some folklore, the so-called "familiar with the "Three Character Classic", you can know the eternal things.

In terms of format, the three characters and one sentence are catchy, because of the characteristics of popular, smooth and easy to remember, so that it is called the three major readings of traditional Mongolian studies together with "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text", collectively known as "Three Hundred Thousand".

"Hundred Family Names" is a work about surnames; About a thousand years later, the book was written, and the original collection of 411 surnames was later added to 504, of which 444 were single surnames and 60 were compound surnames.

"Hundred Family Names" adopts a four-word style, arranges the surnames, and rhymes, although its content is not literary, but it has played a huge role in the inheritance of surname culture and the understanding of words, which is also an important factor that can be passed down for thousands of years.

Of course, according to the original order, it is naturally not possible, the previous "Zhao Qian Sun Li" became the first four surnames of the "Hundred Family Surnames" because the hundred family surnames were formed in the Song Dynasty, so the Zhao family of the Song Dynasty emperor, the king of Wu Yue, Qian Yu, the concubine Sun and the Southern Tang Dynasty lord Li became the top four of the hundred family surnames.

Now, it is natural to take Liu first, Yang Yisi thinks about it before and after, and then takes Liu Li Han Yang first, Liu is naturally a member of the Liu royal family of the Han Dynasty, and Li is Yang Yi's nominal mother, Li Guiren.

The thousand-character text was originally a rhyme composed of 1,000 Chinese characters compiled by the Liang Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties and Zhou Xingsi in the matter (before the Sui and Tang dynasties, words that did not rhyme and did not fight were called "pen", not "wen"); Emperor Wu of Liang ordered people to select 1,000 non-repetitive Chinese characters from Wang Xizhi's calligraphy works, and ordered Zhou Xingsi, a member of the Wai Scattered Cavalry Lang, to compile a text, the full text is a four-character sentence, the battle is neat, the organization is clear, and the writing is brilliant.

This is also one of the enlightenment literature suitable for this era, and it also has a certain role in learning poetry.

"Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" is the same as "Rhyme", they are the basic reading materials for schoolchildren, "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" is written by literati thousands of years later, "Rhyme" is slightly earlier, but it is also written by literati thousands of years later, the original name is "Liweng Rhyme", the author's name is Li Yuzi Lihong, the number Liweng, hence the title of the book.

The table of contents of these two books is not casual, their catalogs are compiled in the order of "Pingshui Rhyme", there are a total of 30 Pingsheng rhymes in "Pingshui Rhyme", in this era, if you use rhyme, the Pingxuan and the rhyme part of each word are still based on "Pingshui Rhyme" as the standard.

Shangping fifteen parts: one east, two winters, three rivers, four branches, five micro, six fish, seven yu, eight qi, nine jia, ten gray, eleven true, twelve wen, thirteen yuan, fourteen cold, fifteen deleted.

Xiaping fifteen parts: one first, two Xiao, three dishes, four Hao, five songs, six hemp, seven yang, eight Geng, nine green, ten steamed, eleven You, twelve invasions, thirteen Qin, fourteen salt, fifteen salt.

"Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" has played a very big role in writing poetry, first of all, it can make Mengtong familiar with and remember the rhyme

Rhythmic poems are very strict about rhyme, and words must be selected within the same rhyme, and the first sentence must be a neighbor rhyme, otherwise it is a falling rhyme; Through familiarity and recitation, Mengtong can quickly remember commonly used words, and there is no need to turn the rhyme book, for example, when he encounters the word Song, he can remember:

Spring to summer, autumn to winter, dusk drum to morning bell, mountain view to play in water, green bamboo to pine...... This pine is in the second winter rhyme department.

In addition to quatrains, the intermediate couplets of the poems must be opposed, and the sentences of "Sound and Rhythm Enlightenment" are presented in the form of battles, and the forms are diverse:

Spring to summer, autumn to winter, dusk drums to morning bells.

Watching the mountains is to play with the water, and the green bamboo is to the pine.

Feng Nuhu, Ye Gonglong, dancing butterflies against Ming.

Street mud double purple swallow, class dense a few wasps.

The warbler in the garden in spring is just right, and the wild goose is cold in autumn.

The Qinling Mountains are horizontal, and they are eight thousand miles away; Wushan rain washes, Saga twelve dangerous peaks.

In terms of battles, there are many ways to fight in the book, for example, in terms of the number of words, there are three-character pairs, five-character pairs, seven-character pairs, and nine-character pairs; There are also fan faces, flowing water pairs, and so on; In terms of syntax, it is also diverse, subject-verb-object, partial phrases, adverbial plus subject-verb, omitted subject, etc.; 22 structure, 212 structure, 223 structure; And the level is strictly relative.

"Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" is mainly to train Mengtong in the basic skills of battle and syntax.

Another point is that poems generally use allusions, "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" lists many common allusions, if you memorize books such as "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" and "Liweng Rhyme", you will know a lot of historical knowledge, and also know which allusions can be opposed to each other; Like what:

Uncle Bao is divided into gold, and Feng Bi Lin is similar. Throwing the golden sound of Sun Xuanfu, palindrome brocade character Dou Tao book. did not meet Yin Zong, Xu Mi trapped Fu Yan's building; After the week, the Taigong House Weishui fishing.

Learning this kind of book is to lay the foundation for doing a good job in poetry, from the beginning of the establishment of Wendao, reading must learn poetry, in order to facilitate learning, these enlightenment books are essential, and there is a lot of work to be done in the follow-up, such as compiling a large number of books, poems, words, etc.

To learn poetry, you must learn to write poetry, you must learn to make poetry, poetry is very strict, and the poetry is also very strict, Yang Yi for the future, the requirements of the literary and Taoist scientific examinations are intended to be so, for example, the poems to be tested must be the rhythm, and the fu to be tested must also be the rhythm, both of which require rhyme, battle, and basically have to use classics.

Because with the development of literature and Taoism, poetry will play a greater role, such as asking for rain, driving away water, etc., and poems with regular rhyme are also easier to spread, thus arousing humanitarian resonance, and a poem will also spread over time, from famous all over the world, as for the poetry to spread all over the world, this is not impossible, but extremely difficult!

Ordinary literati or unsuccessful geniuses of the literary palace are either unable to produce such poems that have been passed down to the world, or they have done it, and they do not have the strength to spread it.

At the beginning of Wendao, there are still a lot of things that need to be done, Yang Yi probably explained some, and the rest needs Qu Yuan to realize himself.

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"Hurry up, get this cart of rocks over!"

"Be careful, be careful, don't hit people."

"Dig up all this silt...... Oh, it's out of the water again. ”

In front of the site of a mansion in the original city, a large group of people are very enthusiastic about building a new mansion, cleaning up the ruins, and digging an ancient well again, because this is where the school palace is located. Of course, Yang Yi did not say that there is a small exam in three years, and a major exam in nine years, and only if the major exam is passed, can he be awarded an official.

Of course, at this time, it is not so strict, it is basically literacy first, and after studying for a year and a half, you have to do things.

……

A few days later

"See Your Highness!" Qu Yuan, who was commanding at this time, was reminded by others to find Yang Yi who came on horseback, and Yang Yi also brought four people with him on this trip, and he didn't make a big fuss, and hurriedly trotted over and saluted.

"I'll come over and see what's going on." Yang Yi looked at the people around there and asked, "It seems that it was built quickly, well, this is digging a well?" ”

"Yes, Your Highness, you see, the foundation of this house is still very good, there are enough manpower, and it will not be a problem to build it in three days, by the way, this well, the well water is sweet, and it seems that it has not been abolished." Qu Yuan said respectfully and very satisfied.

"Really? Come, give me a bowl too, and I'll drink it and see how it goes. Hearing what the other party said, Yang Yi suddenly became interested, turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the well.

Zhang Ning and a few people in the back had to get off the horse, following her, Yang Yi traveled, now he generally only takes two female guards and two Jin Wuwei, and now the inside and outside of the city are gradually controlled, safety is no longer a problem, and inside and outside the Mianzhu, there are more than 1,000 soldiers trained now, plus Yang Yi called to work, it is ten times as much, this is a safety problem, even more people can not succeed.

Hearing that Yang Yi wanted to drink water, Qu Yuan was busy asking people to make a bucket of water and fill a bowl of water for Yang Yi to taste.

"Well, it's really sweet, it's good." Yang Yi was not hypocritical, he took the bowl directly, took a sip, and praised again and again, this water is very sweet and clear, and the water temperature is also suitable in winter, this is the water has not been polluted.

After that, he asked with some doubts: "This ancient well can still be used, and the well water is also very sweet, why was it abandoned later?" ”

"Your Royal Highness, after carefully inquiring about the ministers, asked some old people, only to learn that this water had become bitter decades ago, and then abandoned, the ministers wanted to give it a try, and ordered someone to dig it again, only to find that this water has been restored to sweetness, which is thought to be caused by the grace of His Highness!"

Yang Yi shook her head and smiled, she understood the problem of water suffering, before Mianzhu City was the center of Shudi, because the sewage treatment was unreasonable, the water quality was polluted, but since the relocation of Jinguan City, the number of people living in Mianzhu has gradually decreased, with the war of the past hundred years, the population has been greatly reduced, and there are fewer people in Mianzhu, so that the water quality has recovered!