Original text:
Jiang remembers the dream he had on the 20th day of the first month.
Song Dynasty: Su Shi
Ten years of life and death are two boundless, disapproving and unforgettable.
A lonely grave thousands of miles away, desolate and nowhere to talk about.
Even if we don't know each other, our faces are dusty and our temples are frosty.
At night, I suddenly dreamed of going home, and the window of Xiao Xuan was being decorated.
Care for each other without words, only a thousand lines of tears
It is estimated that the annual heartbroken place, moonlit night, short matsuoka.
They have been dead for a lifetime, separated for ten years, but they miss each other but are at a loss and can't meet each other. I don't want to miss myself, but I can't forget it. His wife's lonely grave is thousands of miles away, and there is no place to tell her sadness. Even if we meet, we shouldn't know each other, because I'm running around, dusty and cold.
At night, I suddenly returned to my hometown in a vague dream, only to see my wife dressing up in front of the mirror in the small window. The two men looked at each other, and they didn't know where to start with a thousand words, only tears fell thousands of lines in relative silence. It stands to reason that the grave mountain with the bright moon and small pine trees is where I miss my wife every year.
Extended data
This is Su Shi's mourning for his dead wife, and is known as the first masterpiece of mourning poems throughout the ages. This poem is touching, not because Su Shi is a rare great writer in ancient and modern times, and his writing style is almost unparalleled, but because it is full of touching feelings.
Almost all of this word uses line drawing, extremely ordinary life scenes and extremely popular language, but it is the poet's compassion. Compared with the mourning poems of Pan Yue and Tang Yuanzhen in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi" is probably the most familiar and moving poem. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the first mourning poem in ancient and modern times.
Su Shi had two wives and one concubine in his life, all surnamed Wang, namely Wang Fu, Wang Runzhi and Wang Chaoyun. Wang Fu was only sixteen when he married Su Shi, and Su Shi was nineteen. She is from Qingshen, Sichuan, and her father is Wang Fang from Gongxian. When Su Shi was young, he studied at Zhongyan Temple in Qingshen County, where he probably met Wang Fu.
According to Su Shi's Epitaph of His Dead Wife Wang, Wang Fu didn't say that he had read a book, but when he saw Su Shi reading, he stayed by all day. Later, Su Shi occasionally forgot something, but Wang Fu remembered it. Ask her about other books, and she probably knows.
Su Shi knows that she has read a book. She is smart, but very demure. Unfortunately, Wang Fu entered the official career in Su Shi's senior high school entrance examination, and died at the age of 27. The death of Wang Fu dealt a great blow to Su Shi. For three years, as the first poet in the Song Dynasty, he didn't write a single poem.
After Wang Fu died, he was buried in Meishan ancestral home. Su Shi has been an official outside for a long time, and he rarely has the opportunity to go back. Therefore, he didn't even have a chance to go to the grave to tell the story of lovesickness.
One of the reasons why Su Shi changed so much is that Wang Fu's death hit him so hard that he couldn't get over it for many years. Although he remarried Wang Fu's cousin Wang Runzhi three years later, it did not eliminate his pain of losing Wang Fu.
Another reason is the unsatisfactory official career. From the second year of Xining (1069), Wang Anshi successively promoted new laws. At first, Su Shi stood on the side of the old party headed by Sima Guang and opposed the new laws.
Disagreeing with Wang Anshi's political views, Su Shi was forced to leave Beijing and chose to go abroad. First, I went to Hangzhou to be a judge, and then I changed to Mizhou Prefecture. After leaving the capital of the political center, Su Shi was still unhappy. In the famous "Hunting in Jiangchengzi Mizhou", he said "When will the Phoenix Hall be seen in the clouds", which shows that he still hopes to return to the imperial court and realize his ideal ambition of "holding a bow like a full moon, looking at the northwest and shooting Sirius".