First, the original:
A vain desire
One is Xianpa in Yuen Long, and the other is flawless jade.
If there is no strange fate, I will meet him again in this life;
If you say there is a strange fate, how does your mind eventually become empty?
One is futile, and the other is alarmist.
One is the moon in the water, and the other is the flower in the mirror.
I wonder how many tears I can have in my eyes.
How can it be forbidden to flow from autumn to winter and from spring to summer?
Second, the vernacular translation
One is a beautiful flower that grows in a fairyland, and the other is pure jade without shortcomings.
If there is no magic marriage, why did you meet him in this life?
If it is a magical marriage, why does full love finally become an empty talk?
A person sighs alone in vain, and a person dreams in vain.
One is the moon reflected in the water, and the other is the flower reflected in the mirror.
Think about how many tears there are in her eyes. How can she afford to flow from autumn to winter and from winter to summer?
3. Appreciation: The emotional entanglement of Bao, Dai and Chai is a main thread running through A Dream of Red Mansions. In the verdict of Twelve Women in Jinling, the fate of two women is summarized by only one verdict. However, in this set of A Dream of Red Mansions, two songs, Lifelong Mistake and Blinking Eyebrows, are used one after another, which are very colorful.
The two capitals are written around the love and marriage relationship of Bao, Dai and Chai, with some different tones but different emphases.
"A lifelong mistake" wrote that Baoyu faced Baochai after marriage and missed Daiyu. The heroine should be Baochai, because songs always write Baochai first and then Daiyu. There is no doubt that the heroine of Woningmei is Daiyu, and Baoyu shows sympathy for Baochai while loving Daiyu.
The meaning of "life mistake" is quite clear, and Baoyu clearly expressed his regret and melancholy about Daiyu's lack of married life in a melancholy tone. While "Bridled Eyebrows" goes deeper into the inner world of the characters, with a vague and implicit meaning and a more sad and moving tone. There are different interpretations about the specific meaning of the song "Curse the Eyebrows".
Extended data:
I. Notes on words
1, Yuen Long: the legendary place where immortals live. Also known as Langfengyuan and Langfengyuan, it is said that at the top of Kunlun Mountain, it is the place where the Queen Mother of the West lives. In poetry, it is often used to refer to the place where immortals live, and sometimes to the palace.
2. Xianpa (pā): Hua Xian. "Yuen Long Xianpa" naturally refers to Lin Daiyu, a crimson pearl fairy.
3. Defects: Defects of jade. "Beautiful jade is flawless" is Jia Baoyu.
4, fuzzy: empty, disappear. The preface of Qi is mistaken as "empty flower", and the verb is changed into a noun; Scheme b was changed to "empty talk" and the mind was turned into words; JOE has been changed; Start with today's Geng.
5, vain sigh (jiē yā), idle worry: one person often tears because of Baoyu (referring to Daiyu), and one person often sighs because of Daiyu (referring to Baoyu). Obviously, what I am talking about here is the text, which is what Baoyu said to Daiyu. Oh, sigh sadly. Attention, when the situation is unknown, gives people suspense.
It has the same meaning as "attachment" in Qingwen's judgment and "attachment" in Tanchun's separation of flesh and blood.
6, the moon in the water, flowers in the mirror: all are illusory scenes.
7. The sentence "I miss my eyes": In Cao Xueqin's manuscript after the eighties, there is a chapter on "the frontier of evidence" (the seventy-ninth edition of Beijing-Tibet edition), saying that Daiyu "died with tears".
Second, the influence of A Dream of Red Mansions
In the development of China literature, the outstanding realistic creation achievements of A Dream of Red Mansions provide rich artistic experience for future writers. Until China's modern literature, there were also works that were obviously influenced by A Dream of Red Mansions and made some achievements. There are countless poems, songs, operas, novels and movies with the theme of A Dream of Red Mansions.
In the past two hundred years, the study of A Dream of Red Mansions has never stopped, and a large number of research works have been produced, which has become a special knowledge-A Dream of Red Mansions, which is a rare phenomenon in the history of China literature.
Third, the eyebrows are bent.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-vanity eyebrows
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Dream of Red Mansions