The rest of my life-Ma Liang, Sun Qianru
For Li Shangyin, people always talk about his untitled love poems. In his obscure and illusory "untitled" poems, people are intoxicated, sad and moving. However, who knows, Li Shangyin, like most writers from poor backgrounds, has never dreamed of unforgettable love, but of being the number one scholar and honoring his ancestors.
However, when fame and love can't have both, he didn't give up the latter because of the former. On the contrary, he firmly chose the latter, and paid a heavy price for it: his career was bumpy and he was repeatedly frustrated. In Li Shangyin, we see the true nature of love, that is, even if I am the enemy of the whole world, I only want you.
As the most outstanding poet in the late Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin is like the sunset glow in the sky of Tang poetry, gorgeous and mysterious, with a tragic and tragic life. Although his life has been very difficult, his spirit is always upward, and his heart is always the most sincere and pure. He is a poor man from humble origins, but he is also a spiritual royal aristocrat.
Although Li Shangyin was born in poverty, he always thought that he was the same clan as the Tang royal family. In many of his early poems, he tried his best to explain this relationship to the world. However, in the historical documents of past dynasties, people have not found favorable evidence to illustrate this matter. But this does not hinder Li Shangyin's inner affirmation of his noble birth.
To outsiders, Li Shangyin tried his best to prove his relationship with the Tang royal family, but only to gain political capital so as to gain some political benefits in his future career. However, I would like to believe that Li Shangyin did this because his heart is pure and selfless and truly noble. It is this inner nobility and purity that makes Li Shangyin's unparalleled talent and loyalty and persistence in love.
In 837 AD, 24-year-old Li Shangyin arranged the funeral of his teacher Ling Huchu, and went to Gansu as his staff at the invitation of Wang Maoyuan, the envoy of Jingyuan. In the late Tang Dynasty, scholars from poor families wanted to get ahead. In addition to taking the imperial examinations, they also served as aides to senior officials. Therefore, in the case of the death of the mentor and the hopeless promotion, as a young man with ideals and ambitions, Li Shangyin's move is understandable.
In fact, Li Shangyin not only had his first official position in life under Wang Maoyuan's account, but also gained a beautiful and pure love. At that time, Li Shangyin was in his prime, and his good looks were exactly his appearance. Besides, he is brilliant and naturally attracts the attention of many young women. However, fate is predestined, and marriage depends on fate. A beautiful garden encounter made him know his wife Wang. They fell in love at first sight and fell in love.
For this beautiful encounter, Li Shangyin had a vivid description in the poem Untitled: "The star last night, the wind last night, is in the west of the studio and the east of the cinnamon room. Without Cai Feng's wings, it is impossible to be Qi Fei in fly with me; The heart is like a spirit, and the feelings are the same. " Although later generations ridiculed Li Shangyin as an ungrateful villain because Rebecca was the daughter of our time. However, from this poem, what we feel is a sincere feeling between Li Shangyin and Wang. Because true love never has anything to do with status.
Modern people often say that "marriage is the grave of love. However, for Li Shangyin, the marriage with Wang Yanyan has not become his love grave, but has become a stumbling block to his career, which has kept him trapped in political disputes between the two parties. From the beginning of politics at the age of 24 to his death at the age of 45, Li Shangyin lived in Guanhai for decades. At the highest, he only served as secretary of the provincial school from Qipin.
This is undoubtedly extremely cruel to Li Shangyin, who is talented and arrogant. Not only that, he was also accused of ingratitude, clinging to the powerful, hated by his friends and criticized by the world. In fact, however, in Li Shangyin's later career, his father-in-law Wang Maoyuan did not bring him any political benefits. He didn't get any substantial benefits from his father-in-law.
In the following decades, in order to realize his life ambition, he has been wandering outside, facing his wife and children. However, when he was frustrated by various political forces because of his marriage, he still did not regret his choice, but fell in love with his wife and stayed with her for life. Perhaps this is the important reason why he can write so many "untitled" love poems. Because only affectionate people can write such affectionate poems!
Today, a thousand years later, we can't guess Li Shangyin's true attitude towards this marriage. Because Li Shangyin is such an ambitious person, in the face of fierce party struggle in the late Tang Dynasty, he can't help but know what "preserving our sanity" means. But he made an unusual decision: he was a disciple of Ling Huchu, the core figure of the Niu Party, but married the daughter of Wang Maoyuan, a figure of the Li Party. This kind of behavior will definitely disgust both Niu and Li.
However, he still chose Wang as his wife, ruined his future and got a bad reputation. Why on earth is this? I think this abnormality just shows that the love expressed by Li Shangyin in the poem Untitled is what he really looks like in his heart: sincerity, purity and selflessness. Only in this way can we explain everything and find a reasonable explanation for the tragic fate of Li Shangyin's life.
So, does Li Shangyin really have no regrets about the marriage that caused him to be frustrated all his life? From this poem, we may find the answer. In 85 1 year, his wife Wang died of illness, while Li shangyin was far away in Sichuan. When he got home, his wife had been buried and he didn't even see her for the last time. This is undoubtedly a huge and heavy blow to Li Shangyin, who has always been puzzled by the world.
After his wife died, Li Shangyin aged a lot overnight. When I was young, I had little ambition, only a tired and sad body. In memory of his wife, Li Shangyin wrote many poems to recall the past. This "note to a friend in the north on a rainy night" "You ask the date of return, and the rain rises in the autumn pool at night. When * * * cut candles at the west window, the words "Rain at Night" are one of the most famous songs.
The first sentence "When do you ask me to go back to China": You ask me when to go home, and I really don't know when. Li Shangyin spent all his life in various shogunates and spent a lot of time with his wife. I didn't even see my wife when she died. He is full of guilt for his wife. Therefore, after his wife died, he still often thought of her, fantasizing that his wife was still alive and expecting him to come home as soon as possible.
It rained heavily in Sichuan this evening, and the pond water rose. Li Shangyin imagined that his wife would ask him when he would go home, because the autumn rain was too heavy to determine the return date, and he was disappointed. Necklace How to Cut the Candles in the West Window: When can I go home to light candles with you and have a heart-to-heart talk with the window? Tail couplet: Talking about Late Rain: At that time, I'll talk to you about Late Rain.
The tone of the whole poem is dull, with no obvious emotional fluctuation and no obscure historical allusions. The whole poem is clear and easy to understand, which is completely different from Li Shangyin's untitled love poem series. If we feel it carefully, we will feel the author's deep yearning for his wife in the poem and the deep sadness and loneliness in his heart after his wife's death. He seems to be talking to someone and talking to himself.
Anyway, I think if Li Shangyin can see his wife for the last time, the last thing he wants to say to her is: I have no regrets in this life and walk with you.
Throughout Li Shangyin's life, it was an unfortunate life: because of his marriage, Li Shangyin was frustrated all his life, deeply involved in party struggle, excluded, humiliated and wandering around. However, Li Shangyin's life is also a lucky life: because he has the truest and most beautiful love in the world, "even if he is the enemy of the whole world, I only want you!" " "
Between love and career, many people can't make the right choice. Li Shangyin told us the answer with his life and his poems. No matter how future generations evaluate it, the lyrics in Qi Fei, a Shaoxing opera, should best represent the aspirations of most people: "Disdain party struggle, and be willing to keep the right path instead of taking the right path. It's no good trying to save the day. Honor, shame, fame and wealth are all chains. I hate that I can't. I hate that one mountain can't break the prison. I only have compassion, bring disgrace to oneself. "