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A few words of advice from Yuan Gaoming's Pipa Story to his father-"This tit is rude, but he wants to collide with me. My words are not in the right place, son. My husband's words are contrary to my father's, and I hate my children's knowledge. " I entrusted my heart to the moon, but the moon shone on the ditch. "
And "I turned my heart to the bright moon, and the bright moon shines on the ditch, and the falling flowers intentionally follow the flowing water, and the flowing water has no love for falling flowers." Excerpted from Chronology of Qing Poetry (Volume 2 1)
Interpretation of poetry
"I shine on the moon with all my heart, and the moon shines on the ditch", which means that I am kind to you, but you are indifferent and ungrateful. My sincere efforts have not been rewarded and respected.
Creation background
The phenomenon that a scholar abandoned his wife after making a fortune in Thailand described in Pipa Story is closely related to the imperial examination system in Yuan Dynasty. The imperial examination in Yuan Dynasty was interrupted for more than 70 years. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, the imperial examination system was good and bad. Scholars lost their position in society, and their social status declined sharply, so the saying of "nine sons and ten beggars" appeared. The tragic works that led to the condemnation of the scholar's ungrateful marriage lost their realistic pertinence. Scholars with low status have become the object of sympathy. The works praising the sincerity of literati have gradually become the mainstream of traditional operas in China.
Correlation extension
1, The Story of Pipa is a southern drama adapted and created by Gao Ming from the folk drama Zhao Zhennv Cai Erlang, which tells the story of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cai Bojie, a scholar, left his parents and wife to travel in Beijing, and never returned after years, which led to a family tragedy and finally glorified his ancestors. The play is forty-two.
2. The play Zhao Zhen's Daughter Cai Erlang in Song Dynasty was written by Cai Erlang, and he was admitted to the top prize. He was greedy for fame and fortune, abandoned his parents and wife, and entered the family by adoption. In the famine years, his wife Zhao Zhennv supported her family independently, supported her in-laws and tried her best to be filial. After her in-laws' death, she wrapped her skirt in the soil, built a grave, and then carried the pipa on her back to Beijing to find her husband. But Cai Erlang not only refused to recognize each other, but also released his horse and kicked it, which made the immortals angry. Finally, Cai Erlang was killed by a thunderstorm.
3. Gao Ming (about 1307—— about 137 1 year) was a drama writer in Yuan Dynasty. The word "sincere" is called "Taoist Caigen". Represented by the southern opera Pipa. There are 20 volumes of poetry anthology "Rukezhai Collection", which has been lost.
4. Qian Zhongshu's Chronicle of Qing Poetry. Chronicle of Poetry in Qing Dynasty is a large-scale chronicle document of poetry in Qing Dynasty, which contains the works of more than 7,000 poets, with about 65,438+200,000 words. The book is divided into the following volumes: adherents of Ming dynasty, Shunzhi dynasty, Kangxi dynasty, Yongzheng dynasty, Qianlong dynasty, Jiaqing dynasty, Daoguang dynasty, Xianfeng dynasty, Tongzhi dynasty, Guangxu dynasty, and female Xia, Buddhism and Taoism, ghost poems and dreams, folk songs and proverbs, etc.