In ancient China, there was a kind of "literature about immortals", which specifically described fairyland and immortals. Huang Gu (Taoist in the Valley) wrote "Shuidiao Song Tou", which is a poem about immortals.
This word blends two stories. One is the story of Wu Lingren straying into the Peach Blossom Garden in Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden, which is well known and needless to say. Another story can be found in the mysterious novel Youming Road in the Southern Dynasties, which is called "Liu Ruan meets an immortal".
During the Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, two young people from Zhejiang, Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao, went to Tiantai Mountain to collect herbs, lost their way in the mountains and wandered around for more than ten days without finding an exit. Before they went hungry, they suddenly met two beautiful fairies. Two fairy sisters invited him to live in their own abode, not only treated them with good wine and food, but also married them off. Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao lived like immortals for half a year. After all, they were so homesick that they decided to say goodbye to the fairy and go to the village. Unexpectedly, a day in the mountains, a thousand years on earth, their former hometown has undergone vicissitudes of life, no one knows.
In ancient times, there were many stories about "meeting immortals", such as the Goddess of Wushan in the King of Chu, the Goddess of Luoshui in Cao Zhihui, and the Goddess of Hanjiang in Zhengjiao House. If you have heard one or two such stories, you will probably find that there is a * * * pattern in such stories: a man meets a goddess, and the goddess takes the initiative to show her kindness, and both sides are disappointed to say goodbye. The so-called meeting a fairy is actually an affair.
This kind of story was very popular in ancient times, but in today's reception context, it always gives people a feeling of boredom and acid. You see, the story is made up by men, and the protagonist loved by fairies is also a man. This is the male version of Marisol. It happened that ancient poets liked to use such allusions of Su Su. Of course, what they want to express may be serious thoughts and deep feelings. Unfortunately, they were dragged into trouble by Su Su, and many poems smelled stuffy and sour.
From this perspective, the poem "Wandering Immortals" by Huang Gu is really a clean stream.
How to "clear" the law?
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In the first film, "Yao Yi Cao Hebi" described the fairyland scene, and Yao Cao, that is, Cao Xian, was associated with the next film "Lingzhi Cao Xian". The following eight sentences (from "Spring in Wuling Creek" to "Red dew and wet clothes") are all reminiscences, telling the story of this fairyland. Beggars first entered Wuling Creek, met the peach blossom oriole, then found their way through the flowers, and finally found a fairy land surrounded by white clouds. Throughout the first film, we can clearly see the shadow of Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden.
The next movie is about the activities of the lyric hero in fairyland. He sits, lies down, plays the piano or drinks. I had a good time, but I also felt a little lonely. Although it is a fairyland here, there are no fairies. There is neither a fallen fairy nor that beautiful fairy ("red lips and red face"). But it doesn't matter, he didn't come to "meet the immortal". Unlike many people who seek immortality, they really seek fame, officials and things. In the final analysis, they are using the guise of immortality to cover up their desires that cannot be realized in the secular world. He's looking for Ganoderma lucidum Cao Xian. He doesn't like to see Cao Xian. Therefore, from the beginning, I shouted "Yao Yi Cao Hebi", taking the lead and telling readers clearly that the beauty of fairyland is all condensed in the blue of Yao Cao. If your wish comes true, you can go down the hill and go home. You don't have to whistle like an arrogant man. You just need to be drunk and dance freely, and a bright moon will follow you all the way.
I call this poem a "clean stream" in the poems about immortals for three reasons: First, it reveals a powerful gas field that rejects people from thousands of miles away and God, so Miss Fairy should not disturb; Secondly, the lyric hero only sees green grass and white cups, as well as jade and bright moon. Peach blossoms and orioles with slightly brighter colors are all regarded as obstacles on the road to seeking immortality. If you haven't noticed, the "red dew" on the flowers will wet people's clothes and hinder people's walking. Third, he prayed for immortality only to stretch in this fairyland that is not contaminated with secular dust. He is open-minded, simple in purpose and free from distractions.
These three points are enough to be called "Ming".
But this "Qing" is not very popular. Clear water means no fish. "The site is too clear to live long." (Liu Zongyuan's Little Stone Pond) It's too clear, and it may not be interesting enough. I don't believe you. "There was once a big lady who favored a poor young man from behind the screen, and there was once a fairy queen who brought a bride's seat for the comfort of a prince, and then disappeared." (Li Shangyin's poem means that the girl in Jia Jia hid behind the curtain and peeked at her father's subordinate, Han Gongzi. Zhen Fu, the goddess of Luo, gave her jade belt and gold pillow to Cao Zhi. ), "It is said that the Wolf Mountain leads to Yuen Long, but you can't see your home when the building is high" (Ouyang Xiuci, meaning: I heard that there is Yuen Long on the top of Langfeng Mountain in Kunlun Mountain, where the immortals live, but you can't see your home when you climb the high building. ), which of these less "simple" poems is more interesting, or Huang Gu's Water Tune?
However, I still love this song "Water Tune", especially the three sentences: I want to find my way among the flowers, go straight into the depths of white clouds and show my rainbow.
The literal meaning of these three sentences is easy to understand. The Tao is: I want to go through the flowers and find my way up the mountain. I will follow this road until I reach the depths of the white clouds, where my lofty spirit generate emerges and turns into a rainbow all over the sky.
The fairyland of "magnificent rainbow" is wonderful, and to find this fairyland, we must "find our way among the flowers"
You can wear it when you meet flowers, and you can find your way through them-is it easy? It is not easy! How beautiful these flowers are. Who can't love them? Flowers are more and more attractive, not to mention burning a peach blossom forest! If I were you, I would have been drunk and forgotten, and of course I wouldn't go deep into the white clouds.
The edge of the sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold. Wang Guowei said that people who were thirsty for talents in ancient times had to experience the loneliness of "the west wind withered the green trees last night and looked at the horizon alone on a tall building."
All along, we all believe that the so-called ordeal test should be a bitter face, not a bitter one that grinds his mind and starves his skin. I never thought that sometimes what really kills me is the gorgeous scenery. Confused by this, you can't go to the depths of a higher layer of white clouds.
But deep in the white clouds, not everyone is fascinated. "What's in the mountains? There are many white clouds on the ridge. I can only ask for more happiness, and I am reluctant to give it to you. " This situation is so lonely. On the contrary, it is also a kind of happiness to live in Taohua Forest all one's life. But ah, but, people always have to leave a place for themselves, opposite to the green mountains and white clouds, and communicate with the soul of heaven and earth.