From: Huanxisha by Liu Yong in Song Dynasty
Original text:
Half dreaming, half waking and half floating, smiling and thinking of old friends.
Translation:
Half my life has passed between waking and dreaming, and I still miss your smile.
Extended data:
Creative background:
During the Tang and Five Dynasties, the style of ci was mainly Xiao Ling, and there were only a dozen slow words. In the early Song Dynasty, it was a poem that poets were good at and used to. Zhang Xian, Yan Shu and Ouyang Xiu, who were a little later than Liu Yong, only tried to write 17, 3 and 13 respectively, and the proportion of slow words in their total words was very small.
Liu Yong wrote 87 slow words, 125 songs, and was the first person to write a large number of slow words. Liu Yong's efforts to create slow ci fundamentally changed the pattern of the world dominated by poetry since the Tang and Five Dynasties, and made the two styles of slow ci and slow poetry keep pace.
Liu Yong was also the poet who wrote and used the most tunes in Song Dynasty. According to statistics, among more than 880 songs in Song Dynasty, more than 100 was written or used by Liu Yong for the first time. From Ci to Liu Yong, the system began to prepare, and the long and short tones such as sequence, introduction, proximity, slowness, monotony, disyllabic, triple and quadruple are increasingly abundant. The perfection of the formal system provides a premise for the development of Song Ci and the development of its successors in content.
Five pronouns in the late Tang Dynasty, except for Wei Zhuang and Li Yu's later works, mostly expressed the feelings of parting from sorrow and loving men and women, and mainly adopted the lyric mode of "endorsement"; Liu Yong's ci pays attention to expressing his unique life experience and mentality, adopts the lyric mode of "endorsement" and pays attention to emotional experience.
The word "He Jinbang" is a typical example of this kind of works, which expresses his resentment after his fame fell to Sun Shan, and also shows his rebellious spirit and uninhibited personality.