Historical figures should not be slandered. In the "Chinese" textbook for the second grade of high school published by the People's Education Press, there is a lesson that includes Du Fu's poem "Ascend the High", with a bust portrait of Du Fu on the right.

Recently, netizens have started a craze for "recreation" of Du Fu's portraits, posting them on Weibo or other websites.

Among them, Du Fu sometimes carries a machine gun, sometimes rides a white horse, sometimes rides a motorcycle, sometimes sets up a stall to sell watermelons, and sometimes turns into a water worker... A good netizen named this series: " Du Fu was very busy: riding a white horse after driving a motorcycle, selling watermelons after delivering water."

? The portrait of the "Poet Saint" was so spoofed, causing controversy.

Some people are worried: Du Fu had a humble status but worried about the world. For such a poet, making a spoof of his portrait is a manifestation of poor thinking and lack of faith.

A president of the Poetry Association called out: "Pranks cannot be without the national bottom line, and cannot be without the light of the spirit!" Of course, in the face of such a label as "national bottom line", Netizens will be somewhat stunned.

These days, the spoofing and deconstruction of serious culture is no longer a new trend, and Du Shisheng is by no means the first person to be spoofed.

For example, in 2008, there was a "National Confucius Project" that made a lot of noise. In the creations of netizens, Confucius was forced to get married, sold fried chicken, and became a failed broadcaster... a spoof. Also on the celebrity list are: Li Bai, whose "moonlight before bed" became "all his teeth fell out"; Qu Yuan, who was registered as a trademark for pig feed; Sun Wukong, who fell in love with Princess Iron Fan... It is simply "nothing is impossible" , only unexpected."

Hu Ge, who once spoofed the movie "The Promise" into the video "A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun" said, "Spoofing is a new way of joking.

Evil is not bad. "It doesn't mean any malice." Perhaps, in the eyes of those young people who are crazy about scribbling all the saints, pranks are just a game. It has no special malice and no profound purpose - it doesn't care about anything and it doesn't pursue anything. Nothing, no sarcasm or criticism, just focus on the *** of the moment, play and laugh, that's enough.

No wonder some people defend themselves without logic and say that the graffiti on Du Fu's portrait is "completely out of their deep love for Du Fu."

Look, it’s so rambling and careless.

Although "Portrait of Du Fu" itself is the work of figure painter Jiang Zhaohe at his peak, I believe that the young people who added white horses or motorcycles to Du Fu are definitely not the same as the French Duchamp who painted the "Mona Lisa" 》The artistic pursuit when adding a mustache cannot be said to be any deviance from traditional aesthetic values.

Therefore, although there is nothing wrong with using the lack of "bottom line" or "belief" to criticize the "Du Fu is very busy" type of spoof, it is probably like punching cotton in the face, and is "unlike" some young people. A chicken talks to a duck."

In the final analysis, the essence of this kind of prank is a kind of boredom, or as the prankster himself said, "a kind of venting", and I am afraid it has no purpose of opposing mainstream values.

The author believes that such pranks certainly need appropriate criticism and targeted guidance, but as long as there are no bad or vulgar contents and thoughts, you might as well take it easy and don't worry too much. .

Even if the portrait is painted with a few strokes of graffiti, Du Fu will not lose his glory as a "poetic saint", and Chinese traditional culture will not be shamed.

What is worth worrying about is that the popularity of the "spoof" culture in our era to vent one's emotions is the reason for the fading of classics, or is it simply the result? In addition to the meaningless self-creation of young people, do our textbooks, educators and cultural creators provide a variety of accessible ways for them to understand and fall in love with traditional culture? Or create a contemporary classic that touches people's hearts, sing a pioneering voice, transform the style of writing, and resist the dehistoricization and decontextualization popular in contemporary culture.

Du Fu said, "Your body and name will be destroyed, but the eternal flow of rivers will not be destroyed."

He probably doesn’t care about being “pranked”, because he has long concluded that no matter how noisy and beautiful the noise and fragments once were, they will eventually disappear with the wind, and the true spirit of national culture is Light is by no means that fragile.

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