On Guan Hanqing's Copper Pea

1. The copper pea was originally a hole opened by a brothel in Yuan Dynasty for its old customers. However, the poet skillfully decorated the copper pea with puns and five interlayers describing plant beans, thus giving it the characteristics of perseverance and fighting against the world, reflecting an unbearable anxiety and unyielding, and spraying out an anger and dissatisfaction that collided with traditional norms! When people are destroyed and suppressed by reality, the poet's yearning for himself will inevitably turn into a sad and helpless mood.

2. Because of the poet's strong dissatisfaction with the reality of the dark society and his resolute uncooperative attitude towards the ruling class, Guan Hanqing boasted in extreme language about his talented life as a fully urbanized book club: I can also play chess, cuju, beat encirclement, cut corners, sing and dance, play the bullet, swallow the bullet, recite poetry and play backgammon. In this bold and slightly exaggerated writing, in this talent display, there is actually a deep pride, a confidence in personal wisdom and strength under the suppression of feudal concepts.

3. In art, the biggest feature of this Sanqu is that it adds a lot of interlining, skillfully uses parallelism and string sentences, and creates an artistic appeal.