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At the beginning, it is clear that Li Qingzhao is a representative figure among the graceful ci poets in the Song Dynasty. Among her many graceful ci poems, Sheng Sheng Man is recognized as a poem that combines the beauty of music and literature, and the poet constructs the beauty of sound and words from multiple dimensions.
Li Qingzhao put the rhythm of the epigraph "Sound Slow" into proper play with talent. The whole article is haunted by a touching and desolate rhyme, which makes this slow word both in form and spirit, natural and touching to read. It can be said that "Sound Slow" is a masterpiece of the artistic level of Li Qingzhao's ci works. The original words of "Sound Slow" are as follows:
Searching, cold and clear, sad and miserable. When it's warm and cold, it's the hardest to stop breathing. Three cups and two light wines, how can you beat him? It's urgent to come late! Yan Guo is sad, but it is an old acquaintance.
Yellow flowers are piled up all over the ground, gaunt and damaged. Who can pick them now? Watching the window, how can you be black alone! Indus is even drizzling, and it is dripping at dusk. This time, what a sad word!
the sound is slow, which was written by Li Qingzhao at the end of his life. The first group weaves natural overlapping words, which brings people the aesthetic feeling of rhyme. If this rhyme is accompanied by the dripping autumn rain, it is a perfect rhythm in the rain.
When people listen to, taste and appreciate this poem, they will be infected by the bleak lyrical effect in the poem, and deeply intoxicated by the beautiful melody and gorgeous words, which is called "we could feel what she was feeling, even before she played".
Li Qingzhao's "Sound Slow" has received rave reviews since it was composed. In Song Dynasty, Zhang Duanyi thought that Li Qingzhao's Slow Voice was like "Gong Sundaniang Sword Dancer". Zhang Duanyi used an appropriate analogy to show Li Qingzhao's skill in using reduplicated words and her natural conception.
The opening sentence of "The Sound is Slow" is "Looking for it, it's cold and lonely, it's sad and miserable", and the poet uses fourteen overlapping words in succession. While expressing his feelings in words, the rhythm of music also appears, and the beauty of words and music are intertwined, which is a unique feature of this word. It is precisely because of these seven groups of overlapping words' natural and free and easy writing skills that they have won the praise of "This is Gong Sundaniang Sword Dancer".
the word "seek" is the origin of the poet's emotion and brushwork. All the emotions in the whole word are centered on the four words and ripple around the origin layer by layer.
Facing the reality and lonely life after crossing the south, the poet searched hard, hoping to find those unforgettable and beautiful memories in life, hoping to find spiritual sustenance and hope in life. However, the reality is "cold and clear, miserable and sad", and cold and clear is also the portrayal of the poet's situation and life at this moment. How can this not make the poet feel sad and sad?
Every time this feeling rises in the poet's mind, her mood takes a turn for the worse, and her sadness deepens to a certain extent. This is the first turning point of her emotion in this word: searching hopefully, but the result is only the sadness and helplessness of reality.
what is she looking for? What she seeks is not wealth, but a warm and stable life without being displaced. What she longs for is peace and stability, a warm home and the company of Zhao Mingcheng. What Li Qingzhao is looking for is very simple, just the most basic and simple demand as a woman.
She may think of the past when she was in love with her husband, Zhao Mingcheng, and cited the case of Qi Mei, and she may think of the wonderful time when she enjoyed and appreciated the artistic treasures such as stone paintings and calligraphy with her husband. The time before Nandu was a happy time in her life and a precious memory.
In the contrast between memory and reality, beauty and loneliness, she had to stop searching and face the real misery in reality. Li Qingzhao just used fourteen simple overlapping words to show her own situation and the tragic turn for the worse at that time, which is another feature of Ci.
The initial impression of art is always much more brilliant than even the most successful memories later. It often reaches the height and beauty that can't be reached later in the first emotional generate, and it will also bring the brilliance that can't be reached later because of the original picture, thus becoming a precedent that affects later generations. The combination of overlapping words at the beginning of Li Qingzhao's "Sound Slow" has such an artistic effect.
At this time, Li Qingzhao was wandering and had no fixed address, which made the poet embarrassed. Under such circumstances, she thought of wine that could temporarily make her forget the painful memory, and the poet's already disappointed mood seemed to find hope, and his feelings surged again. She wants to borrow wine to resist the late wind and escape from the unbearable reality, so as to obtain a short peace.
But the strong wind blew all night last night, which caused the temperature to drop a lot. The damp and cold atmosphere around can be resisted by this "three cups and two light wines", and a few glasses of wine can't melt the cold. The poet wanted to drown his sorrows by drinking, but it was the wine that made him more sad.
The poet suddenly looked up and saw a line of autumn geese passing by the window, which reminded her of the infinite memories of the past. The root of Li Qingzhao's pain lies in her loss of true love on earth.
"The wild goose is sad, but it is an old acquaintance." Seeing the wild goose instinctively aroused Li Qingzhao's feelings of missing her hometown and relatives.
geese travel from south to north every year, shuttling through the sky; Although letters can be written from time to time, there is no one to trust anymore. This seems to be the poet's feeling about the things in front of him, but it is actually a memory of pure love in the past.
The beautiful love is long gone and has become a dusty memory of the poet. The scene of caring for each other with her husband, Zhao Mingcheng, and taking Qi Mei as an example can no longer reappear, perhaps only in a dream.
The sight of geese flying by evokes the poet's memories of the past. The poet is like opening a yellowed photo album. The familiar and vivid pictures make her remember vividly and remind her of the good old days.
However, recalling the past will only make her more sad and empty, and only add helpless emotions, so the poet closed the photo album of memories and went to the courtyard, where she saw the withered yellow flowers.
"Yellow flowers are piled up all over the ground", and "yellow flowers" refers to chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemum is a traditional image in ancient Chinese literature, which can be a representative of leisure and seclusion, such as "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely" in Tao Yuanming's poem; It can also be an endorsement of hardship, such as Li Bai's "Chrysanthemum is too bitter, and it is double ninth".
However, in Li Qingzhao's works, the yellow flowers all over the ground are a portrayal of their own situation, which is a portrayal of falling and being neglected by others and not concerned by the world.
at this time, Li Qingzhao has gone through the world and experienced many vicissitudes. She no longer has the former carefree worries of only lovesickness, but is as sad and sad as this yellow flower falling on the ground. At this time, her sadness, which had gradually calmed down, was hooked up again. Facing the scattered yellow flowers and the lost time, she then asked, "Who can pick it now?"
Li Qingzhao loves flowers, and she loves plum blossoms. She once said that "plum blossoms are often drunk in the snow every year"; She likes sweet-scented osmanthus, and once said, "Why should it be light blue and deep red? It is the first among flowers"; She also likes arranging flowers. She once put flowers on her temples to surprise her husband. But all this is the good old days.
In this late autumn, what the poet saw, heard and felt was that chrysanthemums withered and fell, and their petals piled up all over the floor, and the flowers were gaunt. Can't bear to see the flowers fall. But now who can pick flowers for themselves?
In this sad autumn season in Leng Qingqiu, my husband is gone, and I can only watch the withered chrysanthemums fall one by one.
when the petals leave the flowers, the faint fragrance remains and disappears after the wind and rain. How much this scene looks like your own lonely and wandering situation. Here, the poet's feelings gradually melted into the fallen flowers. She touched the scene, compared herself with the flowers, and felt sorry for them, which made her feel dejected.
for Li Qingzhao, nothing scares her more than dark. "Watching the window, how can you be black alone?" Her emotions fell again, which became the second pole of Li Qingzhao's emotional decline. The sadness here is a link between the preceding and the following, which is a reflection on the fate of flowers and the source of the emotion contained in the next scene outside the window.
"Watching the window, how can you be black alone?" This is the most real life experience of Li Qingzhao. A word "black" implicitly and accurately expresses the suffering of the poet who lived and fell. How many nights, the poet was lonely and sleepless, and how many nights, the poet woke up in his dream, and loneliness became the poet's lingering nightmare. At the same time, the word "black" naturally leads to the following melancholy "how to get a sad word", a sigh, take care of the beginning.
The rain of the phoenix tree has already aroused the poet's sense of bitterness. Coupled with "dusk" and "dribs and drabs of drizzle", Li Qingzhao's emotions have experienced twists and turns again from a slightly calm state and completely returned to a state of extreme sadness.
Li Qingzhao mainly writes sounds here, which set off feelings with sounds, especially the reduplication of "dribs and drabs", which is full of rhythmic sense in the rain. When Li Qingzhao was sorry for the fallen flowers and worried about herself, it happened that it rained again; The raindrops pattered on the plane leaves, and they kept ticking until dusk.
The word "Geng" reflects another sharp turning point of her emotions. Although everything in front of her is just a little drizzle, it will last forever because of it, and I don't know when it will stop. Intermittent light rain often makes people more upset and can cause people's sadness.
The poet only wrote about raindrops hitting the plane leaves, but the sound of raindrops hitting the plane leaves was like hitting the poet's heart. A drop, a sound, it wrapped around the poet's heart and struck the poet's heart. The rhythm and melody in the rain is so sad and strong that she can't help it.
Finally, the poet shouted "This time, how can I get a sad word?", which made the sadness of the whole word reach its peak. In literary works, people often use metaphors to express their worries. Li Bai uses "three thousand feet of white hair" to describe his worries, and Li Yu also uses "just like a river flowing eastward" to describe his worries.
Thousands of emotions, sorrows and nights can't be summed up in one word. A word "sorrow" contains the poet's life experience and situation, and also summarizes the bitterness and suffering he suffered in the wandering years.
"What a sad word!" In Li Qingzhao's almost desperate cry, the meaning of the word came to an abrupt end, but it left people unlimited room for imagination. Words are endless, and Li Qingzhao's unspeakable sadness and mood, the sadness and sadness that can't be resolved and almost desperate, have actually been poured out.
It can be said that the word "Sound Slow" reflects Li Qingzhao's complicated life experience and contains her rich emotional experience, which is a true portrayal of the poet when he lived in the twilight of his life and the bleak evening scene.
The beauty of the rhythm and the beauty of the words between the lines of "The Sound is Slow" is just like listening to a sad Singin' in the Rain, with a tearful and touching melody.
The Sound Slow also vividly expresses Li Qingzhao's feelings of living in the wandering years. The emotion in words is not only personal sadness, but also the voice of that era. This kind of emotion is not achieved overnight, but gradually deepened step by step. The unique writing structure and arrangement make the poet's emotion more full and rich, and at the same time it is easier to trigger the reader's emotion.
Li Qingzhao's "The Sound is Slow" relates personal sorrow with the times, laments one's life experience and misses one's hometown, and the feelings contained in the words are not achieved overnight, but are composed of different levels of sadness.
The Sound is Slow, which is the heartfelt transmission and literary expression of Li Qingzhao's miserable situation, and expresses the helplessness of the poet living in a wandering place and the sadness of the passage of time. Such feelings are progressive in his ci works, forming a changing main line of sadness, which makes the ci full of artistry.