Wu Qiao, a critic of poetry in Qing Dynasty, made an incisive exposition on "the distinction between poetry and prose" in Answering Wild Poems: "Or ask: the distinction between poetry and prose? Answer: Do they have different meanings? It's just that genre words have different ears. It means metaphorical rice, metaphorical cooking of rice, and poetry brewing of wine. Rice does not change the shape of rice, but the shape and quality of wine have changed. "

It means that there is no difference between the meaning of poetry and prose, that is, the content, but the form is different. If the content is rice, prose is to cook rice, and poetry is to make rice into wine. Rice did not change the shape of rice, but changed the shape and properties of rice.

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Poetry on the Furnace is a poetic work in Qing Dynasty. The author is Wu Qiao, a scholar in Qing Dynasty. * * * Six volumes.

This book advocates "Bi Xing" and opposes the shallowness and tasteless of poets in the Song Dynasty mainly through comments on the poems of the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Emphasize "intention" and oppose the "lust-only worship" of the seven sons of Ming Dynasty.

Think that "the metaphor of rice, rice and wine come out together;" The metaphor is rice cooking and poetry is wine brewing. " There must be someone in the poem. The book clearly expresses dissatisfaction with Jiao Ran and Yan Yu's poetics, but it also absorbs many of them.

In the preface made in the 25th year of Kangxi (1686), the author said: "Xin Youdong, with a handsome man in the East China Sea, warmed himself around the stove, vomited chestnuts, brewed bitter tea, and lifted it with a smile, and there was no more cup. Those who have chanting methods are recorded in the mini history. After a long time, they have six volumes, and their life is called "poetry around the stove". "

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