Source: "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty: "The jade face is lonely and full of tears, and a pear blossom brings rain in spring."
Appreciation is as follows:
These two sentences The painful mood of Concubine Yang is described through visual images. Her lonely face and tears are all the inner pain shown on her face. But this sentence alone is not clear enough, so I added a sentence below: "A pear blossom brings spring rain."
Concubine Yang is a famous beauty. Li Bai once compared her to a gorgeous peony in "Qingping Diao"; now that she is in a very painful situation, Bai Juyi compared her to a pear blossom with rain. she.
It comes from a long narrative poem "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
Excerpts from the original text are as follows:
Hearing about the emperor’s emissary from the Han family, the dream soul in Jiuhua tent was frightened.
Wandering around while holding clothes and pushing pillows, the bead foil silver screen meanders open.
I went to bed with my temples half fresh, and came out of the hall with my corolla untidy.
The wind blows and the fairy's sleeves flutter, just like the dancing of colorful clothes and feathers.
The jade face is lonely and full of tears, and a branch of pear blossom brings rain in spring.
The translation is as follows:
Taizhen woke up from his tent when he heard that the king's messenger had arrived. Putting on clothes, he pushed aside the pillow and left the sleeping tent. Open the screen and lower the bead curtain one by one.
Having just woken up from her sleep with her hair half combed, she walked out of the altar before she had time to dress up, with her flower crown crookedly on her head.
The gentle fairy wind blows and the sleeves flutter slightly, just like the dancing posture of colorful feathers, curling and tingling. She has a lonely and sad face, with tears flowing down her face, like pear blossoms with rain in spring.
Extended information:
In the first year of Yuanhe (806) of Emperor Xianzong of Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi was appointed as the county captain of Yuxi (now Zhouzhi County, Xi'an City). One day, I visited Xianyou Temple near Maweiyi with my friends Chen Hong and Wang Zhifu, and talked about Li Longji and Yang Guifei. Wang Zhifu believes that outstanding things like this will disappear over time if they are not heavily processed and polished.
He encouraged Bai Juyi: "For those who love the world more deeply than poetry and more than love, how about singing it?" So Bai Juyi wrote this long poem. Because the last two sentences of the long poem are "Eternity will eventually end, and this hatred will last forever", so they called this poem "Song of Everlasting Sorrow". Chen Hong also wrote a legendary novel "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow".