"I give my heart to the moon, but the moon shines on the ditch" means: I am good to you, but you are cold and ungrateful. My sincere efforts have not been rewarded and respected.
"I compare my heart to the bright moon, and the bright moon shines on the ditch" is a sentence in the southern opera "Pipa Story" written by a brilliant opera writer at the end of Yuan Dynasty. Pipa Story tells the love story between Cai Bojie and Zhao Wuniang, a scholar in Han Dynasty.
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Pipa Story was adapted from Zhao Zhennv (Zhao Zhennv Cai Erlang), a folk southern opera, and there was a Jin and Yuan version of Cai Bojie earlier. According to records, the plot of Cai Erlang, the daughter of Zhao Zhen, a drama in the Song Dynasty, is roughly described as Cai Erlang taking the exam and winning the first place in the exam. He was greedy for fame and fortune, abandoned his parents and wife and became a married woman.
In the famine years, his wife Zhao Zhennv supported her family independently, supported her in-laws and tried her best to be filial. After her in-laws' death, she wrapped her skirt in the soil, built a grave, and then carried the pipa on her back to Beijing to find her husband. But Cai Erlang not only refused to recognize each other, but also released his horse and kicked it, which made the immortals angry. Finally, Cai Erlang was killed by a thunderstorm.
Cai Erlang, also known as Cai Zhonglang, was written in the drama of the Song Dynasty and was also a famous scholar of the Han Dynasty, Cai Yong, whose name was Uncle. What is written in the play is only out of folklore. Lu You said in the poem "Walking home by boat near the thatched cottage": "Zuo Zheng, a blind man in ancient Liu Cun in the setting sun. Who cares after death? Mancun heard about Cai Zhonglang.
"This story is very widespread. Similar to this kind of theme, in the Song Dynasty, such as talking, drums, tunes and zaju, there are also Wang Kui's negative feelings, Chen's three negative feelings, Wang Zongdao's negative feelings and so on. This shows that the phenomenon of cheating on marriage by scholars was quite common at that time, and the behavior of scholars greedy for the new and abandoning the old and clinging to dragons and phoenixes was particularly concerned by the public.
It retains her daughter's chastity and fierceness, but completely transforms Cai's image, making her a "loyal and filial" scholar. In order to support his elderly parents, he was not keen on fame and fortune, but refused to try, resigned and resigned from his marriage. This "three disobedience" led to a series of misfortunes. Unfortunately, both parents starved to death and won the fame and fortune of their children.
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