People are often trapped in poetry not liquor, and are always drunk because of angry with thinking of the soul of poetry. Useless people seek the childlike innocence from liquor. No matter you appreciate the poetry “Zhong Lv – Spring Song” by Bai Pu in the Yuan dynasty in any aspects. No matter how we evaluate its artistic style and aesthetic realm, we must admit that it inadvertently involves the profound proposition of Chinese liquor culture and Chinese artistic spirit, it is the pursuit of Childlike innocence in liquor.
For enjoying life, different people have different methods, different people have different ways. But for the literati, the most yearning and respectful enjoyment of life is writing poetry while drinking, the pursuit of childlike innocence in liquor and the proud princes by poetry and liquor. The Chinese ancient art always pays attention to the true nature, to express the real feeling.
The true here first refers to the inner reality, the feelings the writers and artists express is indeed emotions and excitement in his experience, not extremely unnatural and affected, not moan and groan without being ill, but from the bottom of his heart, it secondly refers to the reality and true of the external things and objects used by the writers and artists to express emotions, and the feelings fit for the reality and internal regularity of the object. Among the two, the inner reality is more important sometimes. Because there will be no external reality without inner reality for the literature and art works.
A poem from the heart seemed to be just a simple artist request. But the practice of it is not easy. The real feelings from the heart not only needs appropriate objective environment, but also needs the courage and insight of the writers and artists. On the one hands, the confucian culture in the dominant position for a long time seriously depressed and restricted people’s real emotions. The social cultural life of people changes into a hypocrisy and indifference life performance in a great extent. On the other hand, the feudal autocratic rules for a long time not only seriously destroy the soul & spirit of the writers and artists, but also the slightest mistake will be blamed, and they will be banished and will be killed. Every day they were very careful, as if treading on eggs. They were sorrow for their life, how could they to show feelings from the heart? How could a lot of true feelings come out?
This caused the loss of the writer’s subjective consciousness and the distortion of the true feelings. Even the true is false while the false is true, they has no awareness when they are in false. Therefore, to say the truth, to think of real scenery, to talk about the truth, to express the real feelings, is the scope of the duty of the writers and artists, becomes the rare things to carefully search for, and unusually high difficulty action for the writers and artists. It needs courage and boldness to achieve it.
However, due to the writers consciously drink liquor, and write liquor culture into their poems. Due to the participation and intervention of liquor, they can temporarily get rid of a variety of constraints and forget many unhappy, the feelings in a depressed and distorted state can temporarily be ease and peace. They can forget themselves and objects and entered into a state of real freedom for writing. Making a inappropriate sample, like the brain is equipped with a fireman and a engineer. The anesthetic effect of liquor makes the engineer in the senior nerve center sleepy, but makes fireman excitement to add coal-fired into the furnace. The liquor can make people tour down the veil of hypocrisy, and make people expose their true colors, to achieve the effect that you can see one’s heart after a cup of liquor, and they will tell the truth after drinking liquor.
In this sense, the liquor is the fireman of the brain and is the key to open the hearts of men. People after drinking liquor are easy to expose their true soul. The contemporary Taiwan famous writer Ms. Luo Lan said when people are a little drunk, they will relax of other people and regulations. At that moment, their mood is high, they have a good passion. So they want to talk about what they think of, and the real feelings in the heart. The poem wrote at that moment will be with true feelings completely.
Everybody feels the same about it. The art works with true feelings can cause the strong resonance in the hearts of others. This is why many Chinese poets like drink liquor. It is important reasons for that the poets are good at drinking. ( Auditor: Wang Shouguo)
