Flowers fade, flowers fly all over the sky, who pity the red incense?
Soft silk floats in the spring pavilion, and the falling wool touches the embroidered curtain.
The daughter in the boudoir cherishes the spring dusk, full of sorrow and nowhere to complain.
Hoe out the embroidered curtain with your hands and endure falling flowers again and again.
The pods of willows and elms come from wheat straw, regardless of whether peaches float with Li Fei.
Peaches and plums can be delivered next year. Who do you know in the boudoir next year?
When the fragrant nest was first built in March, Liang Jianyan was so heartless!
Although the Ming dynasty can peck flowers and feathers, it is not easy for people to go to Liang's empty nest.
360 days a year, the wind and sword are threatening.
How long will it last? Once adrift, it's hard to find.
Flowers are easy to see but hard to find, and those who bury them suffocate in front of the steps.
I stole the flower hoe and shed tears, but I saw blood stains on the branches in the sky.
The cuckoo was silent at dusk, and the lotus hoe returned to cover the heavy door.
Blue light shines on the wall, and cold rain knocks on the door, which is not warm.
The strange farmer's ass is twice as depressed, half pity and half chagrin.
Flow spring suddenly to bother, and to silence.
Last night, a sad song was played outside the court. Do you know it is a flower soul and a bird soul?
The soul of a flower and a bird is always hard to stay, and the bird is ashamed of itself without words.
May slaves have wings on this day and fly to the end of the sky with flowers.
After all, where is Xiangshan?
Hide the wind without a trick.
It's better to be clean than trapped in a ditch.
I died today and was buried, but when will I be buried?
The man who buried the flowers is laughing today, but who did he know when he buried them?
Let's see the residual flowers of spring gradually falling, which is the time when beauty dies of old age.
No sad songs for me, I don't know what happened!
(Excerpted from the 27th episode of A Dream of Red Mansions by Haiyan Publishing House: Cui Diting, Yang Fei Opera, Butterfly Buried in Fragrant Tomb, Swallow Crying, Reading)
[Edit this paragraph] Comments by famous experts
Song of Burying Flowers is the representative of all the sad songs that Lin Daiyu encountered in her life, and it is also an important work by Cao Xueqin to shape this artistic image and show her personality characteristics. Like The Daughter of the Lotus, it is a text that the author tries to copy. This song, which imitates the style of the early Tang Dynasty, is lyrical and artistically successful.
This poem is not only sad and sorrowful, but also has a feeling of oppression. "Liu Cong Fang Fei is long, no matter whether the peach is floating or Li Fei", there are resentment against the cold world and attachment to human feelings; "360 days a year, the wind, the sword and the frost are pressing each other hard", isn't that an indictment of the ruthless reality that has persecuted her for a long time? "May Nong give birth to wings and fly to the end of the day with flowers. After all, where is Xiangshan? There is no trick, a cup of pure land protects the wind. It is better to be clean than to be trapped in a ditch. " It is the kind of aloof character who is unwilling to be humiliated and defiled and unwilling to bow his head and yield when the fantasy of freedom and happiness cannot be realized. These are its ideological values.
Another value of this poem is that it provides important clues for us to explore the tragedy of Baodai in Cao Xueqin's works. Jia Xu originally had a comment on writing: "I read" Buried Flowers "until three or four o'clock, and its sadness and regret made people forget their life experiences, so I can't approve it any more." There is a guest day:' Mr. Wang is not a treasure owner, how can he write? "It is that every word is double-circled, and the word is immortal, but it is difficult to express each other's meaning. Once you meet Brother Yu, you will be recognized again. Oh, hey! What I want to stop is also from "Stone", so stop writing and wait. "
It is worth noting that it is pointed out in the comment on writing that it is impossible to comment on this poem without reading Yu Xiong Hou Wen; It is precisely the "post-essay" related to this poem that makes the critics "stop writing and wait". There is no doubt that the so-called "post-essay" refers to the writing of Daiyu's death in the second half of the lost manuscript. If this poem only symbolizes the misfortune of a fallen beauty in general, then you don't have to wait for the next one; Only when what is written in the poem is not general, but mostly related to the plot of Daiyu's death later, it is necessary to emphasize that after reading the following words, I will go back and deepen my understanding of this poem. It can be seen that Burying Flowers is actually a poem written by Lin Daiyu. This can be proved by the quatrains in tihongloumeng, which were written by the author's contemporaries and probably by the author's friends. The poem says:
A sad funeral poem seems to come true.
Andrew died for a wisp of love, fan HongLing again?
"It seems to be true" can only be said by people who know the plot of Daiyu's death written by the author.
In the past, we thought that Yi Ming might not be able to read the whole novel like Yan Zhi. Now, it seems very likely that he finished reading the second half of the manuscript, or at least listened to the people in the author's circle who talked about the main plot in the second half in detail. If we say the later things mentioned in Ming Yi's quatrains, such as "gathering like spring dreams and scattering like smoke" and "there is no aura under the stone", we can still speculate; Then, it is impossible to write a poem describing poverty like "Wang Sun is skinny" and a poem describing his conviction like "Shamed on the unfortunate Skillen".
The same is true of the last two sentences in the poem quoted above: He said that he really hoped that the novel "Die for Love", which came back from the dead, would save Daiyu, make Bao and Dai two lovers soul mates, and reconnect the red silk rope cut by the old man at the end of the month. Imagine, as long as the "sink cup" can rise, the "HongLing" can continue, which is different from the reason why the sequel later imagined the tragedy of Bao and Dai because of involuntary marriage! If everything is as written in the sequel by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E, Baoyu already belongs to him. What's the use of "sinking" Daiyu? Does "Continued HongLing" make her aunt Bao Er?
This poem "Nong buries flowers and laughs today." Who did he know when he was buried? ”？ ..... "The last few sentences, such as the book repeated several times, with special emphasis, even learned to recite poems by writing parrots. It can be seen that the day when beauty dies of old age is really the time when spring flowers fall, not the comparison of function words. At the same time, what is said here is "he knows who it is when he is buried", and what is said earlier is "who has pity on the fragrance and jade after it has died" and "a wandering is hard to find" and so on. So there is no doubt that Daiyu died in a very miserable and lonely situation like Qingwen. At that time, not everyone was busy holding a wedding for Baoyu, so there was no time to take care of it. On the contrary, Baoyu and Xifeng were both exiled because of avoiding disaster. It was a day when "the family was ruined and everyone died, and each family sought more happiness." In the poem, "both willows and pods come from weeds, regardless of whether peaches float together" still means this.
"In March, the fragrant nest has been built, and Liang Yanyan is too ruthless. Although we can peck flowers next year, it is difficult to grasp the meaning of the sentence "no one can go to the empty nest of Liang", which is between solvable and unsolvable. Now, if you look at it in a prophetic way, it will be more clear. Probably in the spring, Baodai's marriage is basically settled, which is the so-called "fragrant nest has been built." However, in autumn, something happened, just like Liang Zhongyan flew away mercilessly, and Baoyu was forced to run away from home. Therefore, she lamented that "the soul of flowers and birds is always hard to stay" and imagined that she could "give birth to wings" and walk with her. She cried for a day and a night, and finally all her tears ran out. "
From this point of view, it is completely appropriate to compare "Flower Fall" with Daiyu and "Human Death" (exile). Whenever Baoyu encounters the so-called "ugly disaster", someone else will be unlucky. First Jin Chuaner, then Qingwen, and finally sealed Daiyu. Therefore, there is a pun in the poem that "clean and clean is better than being trapped in a ditch", which can be used to dissect and show integrity. When Baoyu returned to Jiafu in the autumn of the following year, Hongyi Courtyard was "red, thin and green" (fat comment), and Xiaoxiang Pavilion was a desolate scene of "rustling leaves and loneliness" (fat comment). Daiyu's boudoir was full of excitement with Baoyu, only to see a "cobweb covered with carved beams" (fat comment refers to Baochai's residence). "Although you can peck flowers next year, you can't go to the empty nest of beams!" Isn't that what it means? The above are just some details that can be confirmed from the clues mentioned in the fat review, and may not be so appropriate. But this poem and Baodai's tragic plot must take this into account, which is probably not subjective; In fact, the poem "seems to come true" doesn't stop there. Daiyu's Autumn Window Farewell and Peach Blossom Walk also have this nature. The former seems to say unfortunately that she left Baoyu later, while the latter seems to be a preview of her "want to cry without tears" (fat comment) ending.
Some people say that "burying flowers" comes from two poems by Tang Yin (A Dream of Red Mansions). Poetry is of course borrowed from others, but the relationship between "source" and "flow" of literary and artistic creation cannot be confused. When it comes to the use of some words, sentences and artistic styles in previous works, it is really unnecessary to look for them in the collections of Ming people. Isn't it enough to borrow and use some well-known poems such as "The colors change this year, who will bloom next year" and "Flowers are similar year after year, and people are different year after year" in Liu Xiyi's "Waiting for the North Pulsatilla" in the early Tang Dynasty? That is, if the plot of burying flowers, it may not follow the story of Tang Yin's peony flower "filling the tip and burying the east bank of the medicine column". Cao Yin, the author's grandfather, wrote a poem "A peach blossom buried in a lonely grave for a hundred years". Isn't that enough to inspire his thoughts? But these are all "streams", only used. They can neither represent the main spirit of poetry nor replace the author's creation divorced from real life. What's more, as mentioned above, the author's ingenious writing in this poem does not lie in the lingering words that hurt spring and cherish flowers on the surface.
The poem "tihongloumeng" in the Qing Dynasty said: "A sad poem seems to be realized unconsciously." This lyric poem by Daiyu is actually a prophecy that reveals her fate. Like a fragrant and delicate flower, she quietly opened, was tortured to death in the storm, and quietly disappeared from the world. To say that this poem is a prophecy does not mean that every word implies the specific experience of Daiyu in terms of its overall thinking.
Of course, the negative depression in Burying Flowers is also extremely strong and can not be ignored. It has a bad influence on readers who lack analytical thinking ability. Although this kind of emotion is completely in line with Lin Daiyu's ideological character formed by her artistic environmental position, after all, because the author consciously expresses his life experience through the mouth of the person he loves, to some extent, it exposes the weakness of his thoughts. We sympathize with Lin Daiyu, but at the same time we also see that this sentimental aristocratic lady is very fragile in thoughts and feelings.
If we think about "funeral poems" in connection with the fate of all young women in Fu Rong, we think it is not only a poem by Daiyu, but also a poem by Daguan Garden. Although their specific experiences in the future are different, there is no difference in "no luck in life", and they are all registered in the "unlucky department". With the decline of the Jia family, all the girls in the Grand View Garden have to get stuck in the dirt and ditches, and there is no good end.