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Yesterday, I went to Lintong. A friend said that Hua Qingchi's Song of Eternal Sorrow had several tickets, and no one went. Later, we invited some friends to see it.
Actually, I saw it last year, and I'm going to a friend's invitation again. It's raining and cold, and my boyfriend just went to Lintong to do business and said he couldn't come back. We have been quarreling for two days. Go and make peace with him, so we went. Yes, we are in the central area. Although it rained, people gave everyone raincoats. This eternal love tragedy, artists recorded this history with songs and dances. But what makes me think deeply is that I am not a person who is good at studying history, and I don't know the true feelings between the imperial concubine and Li Longji. But judging from this ballet, their love is worth learning and moving. No matter how beautiful the disaster is, no matter how prosperous the times are. Maybe it's just a secular woman to judge, but I really envy a woman. When I am alive, I can stay by my lover's side, and when I die, I can have my lover's infinite thoughts ... Finally, during the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial concubine was executed by Ghost, and her soul was forgotten. Li Longji was very worried. They danced everywhere in the palace, and there were imperial ladies everywhere. Finally, Li Longji was tired, lying on the ground, dreaming that the imperial concubine became a lovebird ... two people met on the magpie bridge. What does the everlasting regret song "hate"? The Song of Eternal Sorrow by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is a masterpiece that has been read for a long time. Song of Eternal Sorrow is a long narrative poem, which tells the love story between Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei in history. But for such a well-known work, its theme has always been a controversial issue for researchers. Judging from the researchers' comments, there are no more than three opinions. One is that the theme of this article is allegory, "mocking Ming Taizu for being obsessed with color but not understanding it". Those who hold this view think that this poem satirizes the dissoluteness of Emperor Tang Ming. The second is that the theme of this poem is "Love Theory". People who hold this view think that this poem's praise and sympathy for the love between Li Longji and Yang Guifei is "nothing but the memory of the imperial concubine by Ming Chengzu, and there is no other inspiration". The third is the dual theme theory. Those who hold this view believe that the first part of this poem satirizes the dissoluteness of Emperor Tang Ming, and the second part praises the loyal and single-minded love between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. Today, there is still a relatively unified understanding of this issue.
I thought about supporting only one of them, but it has always made me reluctant and difficult to gain a foothold. I think a good work, especially one with strong tragic color, will not have only one theme. If there is only one theme, it will not be so attractive to readers. First of all, with the passage of time, the social background and feelings of the author in his creation have become difficult to study, and the handed down materials about the theme of his works are just a few different opinions, which can not be used as proof of a certain statement at all. In addition, each reader's mood and angle of appreciation of the work are also different from person to person. As Shakespeare said, "There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers", how can we make a final decision? So I think the theme of Song of Eternal Sorrow is not dual, but multiple. Limited by my own ability, I can only list some common expressions for your reference.
First of all, we should know that the idea expressed in Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow is precisely the poem title chosen by the poet for this long song, that is, the word "Song of Eternal Sorrow". Hate is regret, regret, and "endless hate". So what do you hate? As long as this is clear, the theme of the work will be easy to grasp.
Some people say that the author's description of the love between Li and Yang is intended to satirize the rulers at that time and later, and should not commit adultery and make mistakes in the country because of "hanging color" and cause "long hatred" to themselves. Chen Hong, a friend of Bai Juyi, talked about the reasons and circumstances of Bai Juyi's creation of Song of Eternal Sorrow, and also said: "The interested parties not only feel sorry for things, but also want to punish beautiful things, curb chaos and hang on to the future." The "meaning" mentioned by the ancients is roughly equivalent to the theme we are talking about today. The feeling of "feeling things" is not "moving", but "sentimentality" and "exclamation". Why do you say that? Bai Juyi classified his poems into four categories: allegory, sentimentality, leisure and stumbling, and classified the poem "Song of Eternal Sorrow" as "sentimentality", which is proof. "Feeling" means that Bai Juyi and Chen Hong sighed and felt sad when they talked about this matter. "stunner", with outstanding figure, refers to beauty; "Punishing stunners" means taking greed for beauty as a warning; Order, reason and significance; "Disorder" is the root of disaster; Hang down and convey the meaning. Bai Juyi sighed and felt sad about this matter, and wanted to write it down and pass it on to future generations, so that the rulers could take lust as a warning, thus blocking the root of disaster. It can be seen that this poem is narrated through the story that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty favored Yang Guifei because of lust, which made the country in trouble and put himself in a desolate situation, indicating that lust led to the wrong country and wrong body, and asked the rulers to take warning. China has emphasized since ancient times that politicians should abstain from "three greed": First, they should abstain from greed, because greed is unrealistic, they will resort to deceit, they will act arbitrarily, they will attack others to support themselves, and they will lead to disaster; Second, abstain from greed for money, because greed will be unscrupulous, causing public outrage and disaster; The third is to abstain from prostitution, because prostitution is very easy to defeat chaos and eventually lead to political losses. Of the three, lust did not attract enough attention from politicians at that time, or even took it for granted. Therefore, Bai Juyi wrote this poem from the desire to maintain the long-term stability of the Tang Dynasty, demanding that the emperors of later generations take their ancestors, Emperor Tang Ming, as a warning, which is highly targeted and of great significance. The whole poem revolves around this theme and is divided into two parts to describe it. The first part is "that memory, that depression" from beginning to end. Where is her jade-white face? " . This part is about An Lushan and Shi Siming's rebellion in the name of killing Yang, which caused great disaster to the country, the nation and the people, and also brought great pain to themselves. They not only lost the throne, but also suffered from wandering and lovesickness. The second part begins with "Rulers and lords cry on their coats when their eyes meet" and ends. This part describes the bleak life of Tang Xuanzong in his later years and his deep yearning for Yang Guifei, thus further explaining that this cup of bitter wine brewed by Tang Xuanzong should be drunk by himself, further deepening the theme, and warning politicians not to be greedy, otherwise they will suffer the consequences.
These are political fables.
It is ironic to deny the Song of Eternal Sorrow. Experts who advocate that the Song of Eternal Sorrow sympathizes with and praises the love of Li and Yang put forward the reason why the author compiled the Song of Eternal Sorrow as a "sentimental poem" instead of a "satirical poem". However, the author said: "There are things outside things, and reason moves inside. One hundred poems are made by sighing people according to their feelings, which is called' sentimental poems'." According to this definition, "sentimental poetry" can also have ironic content. Many poems written by the author in the sentimental category, such as "Crossing Zhaojun Village" and "Laughing King", are full of irony. Mosquito Frog even ends with "He Zudao, a worm, a metaphor of human feelings", which is not much different from "satirical poems". It is also said that Bai Juyi likes his Song of Eternal Sorrow very much and is proud of it. He also wrote in a big book: "One Song of Eternal Sorrow has a unique style, and ten Songs of Qin are close to the sound." Some people understand "amorous feelings" as "amorous feelings of children", which is equivalent to today's "love" and does not conform to the original intention. If these reasons are used to explain that Song of Eternal Sorrow is a love poem, it is unconvincing. However, from the content point of view, where are you going by Li and Yang is really a love tragedy. "Forever, ever; One day both will end, and this endless sorrow will last forever "is a sigh and cry of love, which is a lament that love is spread by fate and destroyed by political ethics." This hatred has transcended time and space and entered an infinite realm. In this way, the poet expressed eternal love with "everlasting regret", that is, pointed out the theme of the whole poem. At that time, Bai Juyi, Chen Hong and Wang Zhifu talked about the story of Xuanzong and Yang Fei. Wang Zhifu said, "Lotte is more profound than poetry and more noble than lovers. How about trying to sing? " He expects Bai Juyi to express his love. It can be seen that this work is likely to become a love poem.
Some people think that the first half of Song of Eternal Sorrow criticizes "hanging color" and the second half praises love, that is, duality. This is also questionable. It is hard to imagine a poet like Bai Juyi. The theme of a poem is inconsistent. After careful reading, the first half is the reason of "hate" and the second half is the "long hate" itself. In the poet's mind, that "hate" is the "hate" of "one step away, eternal hatred", and its "irony" is not only the author's creative consciousness, but also an artistic expression to a great extent. Judging from the artistic conception of the works, the author intends to criticize Xuanzong's "heavy color" and mistake the country, and advise the rulers to take Xuanzong as a warning and not to cause "eternal hatred" to themselves. However, because he wrote Li Yang's love so pure and faithful, and he is always tearful, this objectively aroused the sympathy of readers. As for why the author wrote this way, whether it was intentional or a mistake, it is difficult to explain.
There is also a saying that sympathizes with women, similar to the palace resentment poem. It is said that Yang Yuhuan was only twenty-two years old when he entered the palace, while Tang Xuanzong was fifty-six years old, and the age difference between them was thirty-four. This is a typical "old cow eats young grass" phenomenon. Here, I satirized the debauchery, chaos and abandonment of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and sympathized with Yang Guifei's misfortune and regret. According to the practice of the love of imperial concubines, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei will not grow old together, and Yang Guifei will only be an "immature beauty" in the end. This is what Schopenhauer called the real tragedy of life. It can be said that Yang Guifei's death was very timely, and it also solved a life-and-death political disaster for Tang Xuanzong. This is also the key reason why Xuanzong later missed it so much. Bai Juyi's ideological tendency is also reflected in his works, such as Shang Yang's White-haired Man, Silver Bottle at the Bottom of the Well, Bie Zi Ma and so on. ]
Literary creation itself is a very complicated activity, and there are thousands of reasons that affect the theme of the works, which are difficult to determine at all. The reason why Song of Eternal Sorrow has such far-reaching influence and touched so many readers is that its theme has many problems and is thought-provoking. If the theme is really determined and clear at a glance, then the work will completely lose its mystery and its value will be greatly reduced, which many readers do not want to see. So why don't we keep the original charm of the work to the greatest extent and don't do those thankless jobs?
The reason why people can never get tired of seeing Lushan Mountain is that it "looks like a peak on the side of the mountain, with different distances." The same is true of Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow. Just like a radiant and ever-changing queen, different eyes and different hearts will get different enjoyment, and everyone will get their own spiritual wealth from it.