Jia Qian’s poems lead to controversy: is it partial to sum up a few poems?

  Jia Qian, a poet, is an associate professor at the College of Literature of Northwest University and a tutor for master students. He is also the executive deputy curator of Jia Pingwa Literature Museum.

  On January 28th, the WeChat official "Talk about Literary Freedom" published an article by critic Tang Xiaolin, "Jia Shallow Bursts Red, Highlighting the Chaos in Poetry", which stirred up a thousand waves with one stone. The article criticizes Jia Shallow’s poems as "Enter-line writing" and "dirty and disgusting junk words", and holds that Jia Shallow’s poems are not commensurate with the honors he has won, but more praised by his father — — Jia Pingwa, Vice Chairman of Chinese Writers Association and Chairman of Shaanxi Writers Association.

  "Domestic poetry has not been so lively for a long time." On February 1st, the client of Henan Daily published a commentary saying that, embarrassedly speaking, although most of the domestic poetry circles are silent, they can always cause a strong crowd with the sound of breaking the earth, which is quite shocking in silence. After the popularity of "pear style" and "nonsense style", "foul language style" was born, and "founder" Jia Shallow was the daughter of writer Jia Pingwa.

  According to the author Zhao Zhijiang, among all Chinese characters, poetry is undoubtedly the most "poetic" because it satisfies people’s imagination of all beautiful things. People are not only happy with the picturesque scenery, but also can’t help looking forward to a poetic life. Poetry can not only convey feelings, but also chant aspirations and enjoy all kinds of situations and tastes. From "vernacular" to "nonsense" to "foul language", the technical threshold of poetry creation seems to be getting lower and lower. What is even more embarrassing is that the style seems to be falling all the way, and even people can’t bear to look straight.

  According to the article, if "vernacular" and "nonsense" still belong to the problem of expression, then "foul language" is undoubtedly a problem of ideological quality. Surprisingly, although the threshold of poetry creation has been falling all the way, the threshold of poetry evaluation seems to be high all the way, so that no matter what kind of poetry is rolling, there are always people who criticize it in the name of "you don’t know art" After Jia Shallow’s unexpected popularity, similar voices sounded again. Apart from the habitual conceit of "you don’t know poetry", there is also a voice that "generalizes everything by partiality". The implication is that Jia’s shallow collection of poems contains many works, but the "busybodies" just take out a few to talk about things. Since it is included in the album, every poem must have been carefully selected. No poet can be meticulous, but he will be responsible for every word he writes. This is not a literary aesthetic, but a poet’s bottom line. Why can’t it be disputed?

  Zhao Zhijiang pointed out that frankly speaking, poetry appreciation needs a certain literary background. However, this does not mean that the public aesthetics can be directly ignored, and it does not mean that everyone must chew the poetry of the spring snow from the narrative of the Xialiba people. In real life, some people seem to stubbornly believe that if you want to evaluate an egg, you must be a hen first. This logic of "you do what you do" seems to be full of professional power, but in fact it is just a defender of "circle culture", which is undoubtedly a sign that elegant fields such as literature and art are drifting away from the public aesthetics.

  Regarding the controversy caused by Jia Qian’s poems, Xin ‘an Evening News reporter interviewed a famous domestic poet. The poet said that he could neither kill with a bang nor kill with a stick. "Personally, I think her poems can’t be as useless as what Tang Xiaolin said. I remember that when she was in Luyuan, some of the works she took in her class were good, but the ones pointed out by Tang Xiaolin were really unreadable. They weren’t poems. They were definitely not poems, non-poems, or spoken things. " Poet X believes that these poems attacked by the Internet are, to some extent, an indulgence of Jia Shallow’s own writing, or an unrestrained retrogression. "Poetry brings beauty to people. When these things are taken out, I think this is a manifestation of a poet’s least promise. But China’s poetry, after the emergence of the lower half of writing, and saliva poetry writing, including ‘ Qing Wu style ’ After these poems came out, they brought a negative impact on our poetry circle, and it is not excluded that there are so-called poems in the poetry circle that don’t talk nonsense. It is indeed problematic. "

  According to the report, when talking about Jia Shallow, the poet thinks that although her father Jia Pingwa brought her a lot of "welfare", her works were distributed everywhere and attended the youth poetry meeting. "But we don’t deny that Jia Shallow has her inner things, because after all, some of her poems, essays and essays are still well written. As for an author, I personally think that young writers, in particular, should give priority to support, and we can’t completely deny just one part or two or three poems. I think this may be detrimental to the growth of young writers and the poetry circles in China. We can’t kill either, and we can’t kill with a stick, which may be what we should always insist on. We should be alert to some ‘ The second generation of Wen ’ Poets who have become popular should be vigilant and rational in their analysis. They should not be killed with a stick just because there are some problems in their poetry practice or poetry experiment. I think this is all wrong. I think Jia shallow this matter, my personal opinion is that we can’t completely deny her a few poems, nor can we completely deny her poems because she has a big father in the literary world, because she can’t choose her own father. It still depends on her individual literary creation itself. "

  In addition, the Beijing News published a commentary on February 2 nd, "Jia Pingwa’s daughter’s poems can be approved, but don’t presuppose a position because of her identity", pointing out that it is not impossible to play as "Jia Pingwa’s daughter", but it cannot be without boundaries. At present, many netizens’ doubts about Jia Shallow are based on the imaginary "tricky theory" and "insider theory". However, it is difficult to support the conclusion of brain supplement by taking a stand first, and it is more like being black and black.

  The article believes that, yes, there are many subjective evaluation criteria for poetry. But in any case, the evaluation standard should be "on poetry" — — At least, poetry itself is evaluated by the standards of poetry. That kind of out-of-context evaluation is really "shallow".