Many people say that Li Yu is a poet who has been delayed for three thousand miles. In fact, it can't be said that Ci is a literary genre for poets to express their feelings, but it is Li Yu's half-life imprisonment experience that has created his position in the history of traditional literature in China today.
Without that experience, how could there be "when are the spring flowers and the autumn moon?" How can there be "how much can I care about, just like a river flowing eastward?"
Li Yu's Ci and Life Li Yu was an emperor in the first half of his life, although when he ascended the throne, his southern Tang Dynasty had become a vassal state of the later Zhou Dynasty, and it was not Li Yu's wish for his stepfather to be emperor. Li Yu prefers to be a poetess without family, luxury and free will, but how many people in life get what they want?
In desperation, he can only inherit his father's footsteps and become the king of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Although Li Yu worked hard, he could not change the general trend at that time. Besides, he is naturally fond of rich words and romantic songs, and he is indulgent. As a result, in his time, he had a life of red sun and gold stove and beautiful women and wine.
He has been a prisoner of the emperor for half his life, enjoying all the glory but also being wronged. Another poet surnamed Li, Li Qingzhao, the first talented woman in the ages, had a very similar experience with him in this respect, and Li Qingzhao was also brilliant and miserable for half her life. First, "I always remember the sunset in Xiting, but I don't know the way home when I am intoxicated", but I can only "look for it, be cold and lonely, and be miserable." Do you need to go through this life to be a generation?
"The jade fence should still exist, but Zhu Yan changed it." It was with these short twelve words that the life of the poet Li Yu was written.
On Li Yu's first half life from a song "Huanxisha"
Perhaps most people have only read Li Yu's sufferings in the second half of his life and his Young Beauty, but they are not familiar with his life in the first half of his life and his Huanxisha.
Huanxisha
The red sun is three feet high, and the golden stove adds fragrance to the beast. Red brocade lichens wrinkle every step.
Beauty dances with golden hairpin, and wine smells bad. Don't listen to the flute and drums in the temple.
Golden stoves, fragrant animals, beautiful women, wine, flute and drums are Li Yu's daily activities. As a poet, he likes this kind of daily life, and as an emperor, he has the ability to enjoy it.
The general meaning of this word: Late in the morning, the sun has climbed to the highest place and can shine into the palace. Even at this time, the carnival that started last night is still not over, and the ladies-in-waiting are still putting sandalwood into the golden stove. Although the ladies-in-waiting stepped on the red brocade laid on the ground, it would not wrinkle, because these ladies-in-waiting were used to it.
After drinking and dancing all night, the beautiful women are a little wobbly. Look at the golden hairpin on the bun. Beautiful dancers pick up flowers and smell them, just to stimulate themselves with flowers, not only to relieve fatigue, but also to sober up. At this time, the sound of flutes and drums came faintly from other palaces.
From this word, we can see how extravagant Li Yu's life was at that time. Of course, we can probably see that as a king, Li Yu is somewhat unqualified.
Hongyan said that perhaps Li Yu was helpless and knew that no matter how hard she tried, nothing could be changed. Maybe Li Yu doesn't want to change anything at all. Or perhaps, his heart only has the romance of the poet, only the love of beauty and wine.
Neither the monarch of national subjugation nor the extravagant wind can hide the light of his eternal Ci emperor, nor can it prevent him from becoming a pronoun, nor can it erase his immortal swan song.