Comparison of Lu You’s The Hairpin-headed Phoenix and Tang Wan’s The Hairpin-headed Phoenix
These two poems about "chai" are written by different people, but they are filled with the same resentment and helplessness, because they *** also tells a sad love story, that is, Tang Wan and Lu You fall in love in the garden.
Lu You's first wife was a noble lady from the Tang family in the same county. After their marriage, they "got along well with each other" and were a loving couple who were in love with each other.
Unexpectedly, Lu's mother, one of the marriage arrangers, became disgusted with her daughter-in-law and forced Lu You to abandon the Tang family. After Lu You tried to persuade and plead to no avail, the two were finally forced to separate. Tang remarried Zhao Shicheng, the "eldest son of the same county", and there was no news about them.
On a spring day a few years later, Lu You met Tang, who was traveling with his husband, in Shenyuan near Yuji Temple in his hometown of Shanyin today in the south of Shaoxing City. Mrs. Tang arranged wine and food to show her comfort to Lu You. When Lu You saw that someone was touching something, he felt deeply in his heart, so he recited this poem while drunk and wrote it on the wall of the garden.
The whole poem describes the encounter between the poet and the Tang family, expressing their deep attachment and longing for each other. It also expresses the poet's resentment, sorrow and indescribable sadness.
Although the two poems "The Hairpin-headed Phoenix" are similar in writing, they both read with different flavors. Lu You's lyrics are fresher and more atmospheric, while Tang Wan's lyrics are more melancholy and pathos. Lu Ci seemed more open-minded. Although he had regrets, he felt relieved. But Tang Ci is trapped in the heart and cannot be let go.