Han Yu once said that if things are uneven, they will sing , and Ma said that the author felt that

"If it is uneven, it will sound" is from Han Yu's "Preface to Meng Dongye": Everything is not peaceful. ”

The original text of "Ma Said":

There is Bole, and then there is Maxima. Maxima often has, but Bole does not often have. Therefore, although there is a famous horse, it is only humiliated by the hands of slaves, and it is not called a thousand miles.

Those who are thousands of miles away from horses will eat or eat a stone. Horse eaters don't know that they can eat thousands of miles. Is it a horse, although it has the ability of thousands of miles, it is not full of food, and its strength is insufficient, so it is not beautiful, and it is impossible to get it with the usual horse, so it can be thousands of miles away?

The strategy is not its way, the food can not be used to the best of its materials, the sound can not understand its meaning, and the policy is coming, saying: "There is no horse in the world!" "Woohoo! Is it really evil? I really don't know the horse!

In this article, Han Yu compares talented people to "Maxima" and the imperial court to "horse eaters". "Woohoo! Is it really evil?

I really don't know the horse! Exposing the reasons why talented people cannot be reused even though the beauty of "Maxima" is not revealed, so that the broad masses of the people can resonate.

Raise your voice and express your thoughts in unfair situations, and this idea is in line with social morality and can make the majority of people agree. This is Han Yu's "injustice".

There is Bole in the world, and then go Maxima. Maxima often has, but Erbole is not often. Those who have talents but are not willing, and who feel injustice when they are not reused.

Han Yu also put forward the theory of "injustice is resounding" in "Preface to Sending Meng Dongye". He said, "Everything is not peaceful.

The same is true for people's words, there are those who have no choice but to speak, their songs also have thoughts, and their cries also have arms. From the perspective of literary theory criticism, the so-called "injustice is resounding" means that writers and poets will use creative methods to express their thoughts and feelings when they are unwilling, and express their inner feelings. This is in the same vein as Sima Qian's theory of "writing books with anger".

But he also pointed out that only those unambitious literati who have a block in their hearts love "Ming" and are good at "Ming", he said: "The voice of peace is weak, but the voice of sorrow is more beautiful; Words of pleasure are hard to work, but words of poverty are easy to say. This can be said to be the development of Sima Qian's theory of "writing books in anger".

Han Yu put forward a novel point of view in Ma Shuo as follows:

The central thesis of Han Yu's "Ma Said" is: There is Bole in the world, and then there are thousands of horses, and thousands of horses often exist but Bole does not often exist.

Ma Shuo is a reasoning essay, which seems to be an allegory but is not an omen or a pat on the table, using metaphors to explain the reasoning but does not put the arguments held positively, and does not impose personal opinions on the reader.

Through figurative thinking to describe the experience of Maxima, put forward facts, and omit the pen and ink of talking about big truths, the author uses ancient Chinese imaginary words (verbal particles, interjections and conjunctions) to reflect the taste and artistic conception of singing and sighing. Bole's allusions have been quoted by Han Yu several times (see Han Yu's "Letter of Recommendation" and "Sending Wen Tuanhe to Heyang Preface"), which shows the ups and downs of Han Yu's fate.