The poem is written about the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. These two poems mean that on the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month last year, the lights in the flower market were as bright as daytime. The moon rises above the willow trees, and he invites me to chat with him after dusk.
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Xu Shijun of the Ming Dynasty believed that the "unparalleled" works in Yuan Opera were all imitated from this work. It can be seen that he highly praised the song "Shengchazi". This poem has simple language and a sad mood. It uses two Lantern Night scenes of "Last Year's Night" and "This Year's Night" to show different emotions during the same festival. It is like a montage effect in movies and TV shows, connecting scenes from different time and space, and writing It tells a woman's sad love story.
Shang Que depicts the happy scene of the heroine and her lover visiting the lantern market "on the Lantern Festival last year". "On Lantern Festival last year, the lights in the flower market were as bright as day." The first two sentences describe the grandeur and beauty of Lantern Festival last year. The streets were bustling with activity, and the lanterns at night were as bright as day. "The moon is above the willow branches, and the appointment is after dusk." The heroine recalls the sweet scene of the appointment with her lover under the moon, and the warm happiness of lovers expressing their love to each other overflows on the paper. From the daytime lantern market to the willow tops on the moon, the light changes from bright to dark, and the time agreed upon by the two is "dusk", a time when the sun sets in the west and has always caused melancholy. All these imply that the heroine's emotional story will move towards Tragedy develops.
The next column writes about the scene of the heroine facing the full moon and lanterns alone on the Lantern Festival this year. "On Yuan Ye this year, the moon and the lanterns are still the same." One year has passed, and the scene before us is the same as last year. The full moon still hangs high in the night sky, and the lanterns are still as bright as day. But the sweet and happy time last year is no longer there, and the heroine's heart There is only the pain of infinite lovesickness.
The reason why it is sad is that "I don't see the person I was last year with". The old vows of friendship have long been forgotten by lovers. Now things have changed and people have changed, and I can't help but feel sad. The heartbreaking lovesickness turned into tears and soaked clothes. "Tears fill the sleeves of the spring shirt" is the title sentence, which completely vents the heroine's emotions, full of bitterness, helplessness, and boundless pain.
The artistic conception of this word is similar to the poem "Inscribed on Nanzhuang of the Capital City" by Cui Hu of the Tang Dynasty, but it has more intricate beauty of language and more folk song flavor than Cui's poem. The whole word is symmetrical and consistent in terms of words and sentences, and is deliberately interspersed. It uses upper columns to write about the past and lower columns to write about the present. The upper four sentences and the lower four sentences provide different images to create a strong contrast.
The first sentence of Shangxiaque is "last year's Lantern Festival" and "this year's Lantern Festival", and the second sentence is "the lights in the flower market are like day" and "the moon and lights are still the same". They are opposite each other, and " "Yuan night" and "deng" are emphasized; and "people make appointments after dusk" and "I don't see the person from last year" are the fourth sentence of the upper column and the third sentence of the lower column. Although they overlap the word "人", they are From the unevenness, it shows the presence or absence of "people", the vast difference between staying and leaving, and the ups and downs of emotions from happiness to sadness, thus showing the ups and downs of the lyrical protagonist's heart.
The lyrics express the feeling of things being right and people changing through the protagonist’s memories of today’s past last year. It not only describes the beauty of the beloved and the warmth and sweetness of falling in love that day, but also writes about the loss and sadness of missing the beloved today. The language of the words is popular and the conception is clever. The first part is about last year and the second part is about today. There are overlapping correspondences and convoluted chants, which have a bright and natural folk song flavor. At the end, the sentence "tears fill the sleeves of the spring shirt" fully expresses the sentimentality of things and people changing, and the difficulty of continuing old love through description.
With a unique artistic conception, the whole poem uses the techniques of contrasting the past and present, recalling the present and recalling the past, thus cleverly expressing the feeling that things are different and people are different, and it is unbearable to be depressed. The language is plain and the meaning is meaningful. It effectively expresses the sad and painful experience of love that the poet wants to express, and embodies the unity of truth, simplicity and beauty. The words are short but the sentiments are long, the images are vivid, and it is suitable for memorization, so it has been widely circulated.
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