Liu Yuxi’s love poems are also unique. These love poems have a typical folk song style, but they also write the most heart-pounding love. They are famous love poems in Tang poetry.
Let’s take a look:
The willows are green and the Qingjiang River is level, and I can hear the sound of people stepping on the Langjiang River.
The sun rises in the east and rains in the west. There is no sunshine but there is sunshine.
Liu Yuxi·Zhuzhici
The title of this poem is "Zhuzhici", which is Liu Yuxi's classic poem describing love. Its theme expresses a girl's first love in Yangliu Qingqing and Jiang Ping. In the clear and beautiful spring day like a mirror, I heard the inner activities caused by my lover's singing.
"The Yangliuqing Qingjiang River is level, and I can hear the sound of the lover stepping on the river and singing." It means that the water of the Yangliuqingqing River is wide and flat, and I can hear the sound of the lover stepping on the river singing.
The willows are green and the Qingjiang River is level, and I hear the singing on the Langjiang River
"The sun rises in the east and rains in the west. The road is not clear but there is sunshine." It means that the sun rises in the east and rain starts in the west. It is said that there is no sunshine but there is still sunshine.
The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, the road is not sunny but sunny
The beginning of this poem is "The willows are green and the river is level", which is often used in general poetry. In the Qixing technique, you first write about the scenery you see, and then introduce emotional expression. The first thing I wrote about was the willows on the Spring River. Obviously, in spring, when the spring breeze blows through the willow banks, it can arouse people's emotions the most. This is the background.
Liu Yuxi's most famous love poem
So the next step is natural: "Hearing the singing on the Langjiang River". The charming scenery is not enough, the singing is the most moving. This sentence is about a girl in Huaichun who hears her lover's singing, and her heart is filled with ups and downs.
The last two sentences: "The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, and the road is not sunny but sunny." They set up two clever metaphors and also use semantic puns. "Sunrise in the east" means "sunny", and "rain in the west" means "no sunshine". "Qing" and "qing" are homophonic, and "youqing" and "wuqing" are code words for "affectionate" and "ruthless". So after hearing this, this girl felt elusive at first. I wonder if the other person has true feelings for me? The mood is ups and downs, uneasy and uneasy.
Love Poems
However, the last sentence, "There is no clear sky but there is sunshine", confirmed that her lover was in love with her, so she couldn't help but feel happy in her heart. Therefore, the most exquisite thing about this poem lies in its use of semantic puns, which not only describes the rainy weather on the river, but also cleverly depicts the girl's confusion, attachment and hope, a series of psychological activities.
Zhuzhi Ci
In ancient Chinese poetry, implicitness has always been the beauty. In order to express implicitness, homophony is also commonly used. Clearly, this poem provides a good example. This poem uses the changeable spring weather to create a pun, and uses "clear" to express "emotion". It has implicit beauty and is very appropriate and natural for expressing a woman's shy inner feelings.
Liu Yuxi·Love Poems
The title of this poem, Zhuzhi Ci, is itself a form of folk song, which mainly existed in the ancient Bashu region. However, when Liu Yuxi came here, he turned it into a poetry style for literati, which had a great influence on future generations.