This is a popular song in the Tang Dynasty.
Many Tang poems were popular songs at that time. According to literature records, Wang Wei's poem "A Man Leaving Yangkansai for No Reason" spread like wildfire after being composed, and soon became a famous farewell song. Bai Juyi said in a poem, "Play silver characters on a high-pitched instrument, sing the Acropolis with leisurely lyrics", "Don't refuse to get drunk when you meet, and listen to the four tones of Yangguan"-because there are overlapping songs in the song, the four tones are "to advise you to drink more", and its efficiency is self-evident. Liu Yuxi also said in a poem: "The old man only has He Kun, who often sings Fortress Besieged." He Kan was a famous singer in Tang Dynasty, especially good at singing Wei Qu. Today, this ancient song is still charming.
Speaking of Liu Yuxi, when he was demoted to Bashan and Shushui, he wrote a "Zhi Zhu Ci", which was very popular at that time and was sung until the Song Dynasty. There is a record in the Southern Song Dynasty's document "Tiaoxi Fishing in Conghua": "I swam in Tiaoxi at night, and Wenzhou people sang fishing songs. There are these two sentences in the song, and the rest are all slang. Didn't the word dream (Liu Yuxi's word) spread here from August? " From Tang Dynasty to Song Dynasty, from Bashu to wuyue, a bamboo stick lasted for hundreds of years, and its influence was unprecedented in both time and space.
Bai Juyi was a favorite pop poet in the Tang Dynasty, and all geisha knew their names. Bai Juyi told a story in Nine Books with the Same Yuan: "... prostitutes pointed at each other when they saw their servants coming, saying," This is Qin Zhongyin's main ear and everlasting regret. "Visible Bai Juyi's fame. When a geisha bargained, she boasted, "I can sing Bai Xueshi's Song of Eternal Sorrow. Is it equivalent to ordinary geisha? "Xuzhou famous prostitute, this song sings very well, and Bai Juyi has a sad story. Song of Eternal Sorrow is a long narrative poem with 120 sentences, which is quite difficult to sing in one breath, so geisha are proud of singing this song. Bai Juyi's poems are easy to understand and are often sung by "scholars, monks, widows and virgins", which has become a common practice for a while.
In the 1970s, a poem was engraved on the Tang Dynasty Tongguan Kiln porcelain unearthed in Changsha: "You were born before me, and I was old when you were born. You hate me for being born late, and I hate you for being born early ... "This poem attracted attention as soon as it was unearthed. It has not only been used in reference books such as Supplement to the Whole Tang Poetry, but what is more intriguing is that it has now been adapted into a popular song. Experts in the history of literature believe that when I was born was probably a ballad in the hutong at that time, so it was carved on porcelain by potters. Interestingly, the popular songs of the Tang Dynasty became popular again after more than a thousand years.
Coincidentally, there is a folk song in the area of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Mongolia, which is similar in content and sings: "I ran away on a mule, my sister was young and my brother was old." I don't think you are old, and you don't think I am young. We have been old friends all our lives. "Although the historical background and cultural context are different, no matter Chang 'an or Changsha, no matter the talented woman in Beijing or the village girl in the northwest, age and age can't be obstacles to love, and the eternal theme really deserves its reputation.
Datang culture is open, and the prosperity of music has reached its peak; Not only Yuefu songs such as "Liangzhou Ci" and "Yang Liuzhi" spread all over the world, but also western songs became popular, and even formed a landscape of "Chicken crows in Chengtou Mountain and every family in Luoyang learns to be a tiger" (Tang Wang bamboo slips). Although the scores of these Tang Dynasty songs have long been lost, they have left us a great imagination space, which is the charm of the Tang Dynasty.