Pear blossoms bring rain from Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow in Tang Dynasty.
Excerpt from the original:
Tears rolled down her sad and pale face, just like the spring rain on pear flowers. But when she asked him to thank her monarch, her eyes shone with love. Since they separated, her form and voice were unfamiliar to her. Because happiness ends in the courtyard of the sun, the moon and dawn become long in the palace of Xianshan. But when she turned to look down at the earth and tried to see the capital, there was only fog and dust. He expressed his love for the old man and sent him back a shell box and gold hairpin through his special envoy. However, one branch of the hairpin and one side of the box were kept, and the gold of the hairpin and the shell of the box were broken. "Our souls belong to each other," she said, "just like this gold and this shell." Somewhere, at some time, on earth or in heaven, we will be together.
She sent him a message through his messenger, reminding him that only the hearts of the two of them knew the oath. On the seventh day of July, in the Palace of Eternal Life, we secretly told each other in the quiet midnight world. We hope to fly in heaven, two birds become one, grow on the earth, two branches of a tree ... the earth lasts forever, and the sky lasts forever; One day both will end, and this endless sadness will last forever.
Translation:
Lonely and sad, tears are always flowing on my face, like pear flowers with rain in spring. He gazed affectionately at the emperor's envoy and thanked the king deeply. I haven't heard from her since we met at Maweipo. The marriage in Zhaoyang Temple has long been cut off, and the loneliness in Penglai Palace remains for a long time. Looking back on the world, Chang 'an has disappeared, leaving only dust and fog. I can only express my affection with the keepsake of that year. You can take this box of gold hairpin to the king as a souvenir.
One for the gold hairpin, half for the cymbal box, gold for the gold hairpin, and precious cymbals for the cymbal box. I hope our loving hearts are as loyal and hard as Huang Jinbao's. Heaven and earth always have a chance to see each other again. When I left, I kindly asked the alchemist to take a message to the king, saying that only the king and I knew the oath. When the Palace of Eternal Life was empty in the middle of the night on the seventh day of July, we made a pledge of eternal love.
In heaven, I would like to be a bird flying with me. On earth, I would like to grow branches together. Even if it lasts forever, there will always be an end, but this life-and-death feud will never end.
Extended data:
Bai Juyi used romantic methods to go from heaven to earth, and finally let the imperial concubine reappear in the fairyland and on the ethereal fairy mountain with the image of "tears falling on her sad white face, like spring rain falling on pear flowers". The expression of "love" has gone beyond the emotional entanglement between emperors and concubines, adding more subjective and ideal elements to the poet, which has already gone beyond the scope of historical facts.
Express the contradiction and conflict between subjective desire and objective reality. The last sentence "everlasting, everlasting; One day both will end, and this endless sorrow will last forever "is a sigh and cry of love, which is a kind of lament. 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. ?
Appreciate:
The whole poem is sentimental, and the book hates endlessly. The words are sad and touching, and the tone is melodious. It is a masterpiece of past dynasties and is often read and updated. ?
This makes Yi Ding and Fang Chao think that this poem is a lyric work by Bai Juyi through historical figures. The article said that when the poet was young, he fell in love with Xiang Ling, a girl from an ordinary family.
However, due to the obstacles of family values and fashion, the two failed to get married formally. When breaking up, the poet wrote, "Don't cry, sneak away; Silent, dark acacia; Except for two hearts, no one knows ... there is no end to each other. " The article points out that Song of Eternal Sorrow was written a few months before the author got married, and the poet suffered because he lost the possibility of meeting Xiangling.
For this reason, Ding and Fang believe that Song of Eternal Sorrow is not a record and evaluation of history. "We hope to fly in the sky. Two birds grow together on the ground with a new wing. The two branches of a tree ... the earth lives forever, and the sky lives forever; One day, both will end, and this endless sorrow will continue forever. "This is the poet's expression of his pain and feelings through the tragedy of his ex-wife. ".？ From the perspective of "expressing ambition with poetry" and "expressing emotion with poetry", Ding Hefang's statement is not unreasonable.
However, as far as the historical truth and social significance reflected by the works and their influence for thousands of years are concerned, it can not be said to be a historical record or an evaluation of historical events. As far as Bai's own love tragedy experience is concerned, observing and analyzing Li Yang's love tragedy will undoubtedly help his poems to be delicate, sincere and sincere, and be endowed with infinite artistic charm.
Poetry theory:
Bai Juyi's thought integrates Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, mainly Confucianism. Mencius said that "being rich will help the world, and being poor will be immune to it" is the creed he followed all his life. His ambition of "helping the world and the people" is mainly based on Confucian benevolent policies, including the theory of Huang Lao, the technique of treating filial piety and the method of applying Korea; His mind of "being alone" absorbed the concepts of contentment, uniformity and freedom of Laozi and Zhuangzi and the Buddhist thought of "liberation".
The two are roughly bounded by Bai's demotion of Jiangzhou Sima. Bai Juyi not only left nearly 3,000 poems, but also put forward a whole set of poetic theories. He compared poetry to a fruit tree and put forward the viewpoint of "root feeling, Miao character, Watson and true meaning" (nine books are the same). He believes that "emotion" is the fundamental condition for writing poetry, and "those who move people should not care about emotion first" (nine books at the end of Yuan Dynasty). The emergence of emotion is helpful and tied up with current politics.
Therefore, poetry creation cannot be divorced from reality, but must be based on various events in real life and reflect the social and political situation of an era. He inherited the tradition of "beauty and beauty" since the Book of Songs and attached importance to the realistic content and social function of poetry. Emphasize the role of poetry in exposing and criticizing political abuses. He put forward a series of principles in the method of poetry expression.
In "Nine Books with the Same Origin", he put forward the famous realistic creation principle that "articles should be written in time, and songs and poems should be written for things". His poetic theory is of progressive significance for urging poets to face up to reality and care about people's livelihood. It also has an important influence on the poetic style that has gradually emphasized form since Dali (766 ~ 779).
However, overemphasizing the subordination of poetry creation to the needs of real politics will inevitably constrain the artistic creation of poetry and the diversification of poetry styles.
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