A friend asked: Why is Li Bai's "Mount Emei Moon Song" called a natural and unique tune?
"Eternally unique tune" and "eternally unique song" are actually two different concepts.
An eternal masterpiece refers to a masterpiece that has never been seen before.
Poetry in ancient times was originally used to sing lyrics, and the rap composition can be justified. However, the term "Qianqiu Jue Tune" is more inclined to the music itself and the lyrics that are more attached to the music - when we usually say "minor tune", do we mean the music or the content?
Therefore, "Qianqiu Jue Tiao" is generally used to describe music scores and music, such as "Qian Qiu Jue Tune Guangling San" - which has no words, and Chen Tingzhuo's review of Gu Zhenguan's "Golden Cord Song II" "Part Two", this is also the word card for Hele singing.
Since the Han Dynasty, poetry has begun to appear in "songs", which gradually became independent from lyrics to chanting works, and thus produced a separate phonology of Chinese characters, which standardizes the creation of poetry through four tones and tones. It is precisely because of the norms of recitative style that poetry gradually separated from song, decoupled from music in form, and gradually decoupled from mass entertainment in content, becoming the spiritual style of high-level literati.
Li Bai was in a critical era when Ci Pai was born and poetry gradually moved towards metrical style. Therefore, Li Bai’s works include many ancient-style poems, and many of them are used for singing. Why do we sometimes feel uncomfortable when reading ancient-style poems today? That's because the words will change the tone when the music is attached - we can see from today's pop songs and lyrics that it doesn't matter whether the tone is flat or not, just sing it into that tone.
Li Bai and Wang Changling were important promoters of the standardization of Qijue into a metrical style, but in fact, in Tang Lefang, because Cipai was from a humble background, he may not have entered the upper class at that time, and the mainstream singing was still poetry.
For example, Wang Zhihuan and Wang Han's "Liangzhou Ci", although they are all in the Qijue model, are actually lyrics written for Xiliang music. At that time, poems were still meant to be sung, so there was "Yuefu" - only old and new.
I have told the story of Wang Changling, Gao Shi, Wang Zhihuan and others' "Pavilion Painting on the Wall", that is, everyone bet on whether their works will be sung by the palace people - those works, as far as today is concerned, are all It's a poem, but it was used for singing at the time.
We understand with today's consciousness that although poetry has the same origin, the standard of division is obvious. There are obvious differences between chanting and singing - especially the division between Cipai and ancient poetry.
Although the music of Cipai has been lost today (it has also become a recital style), its rhythm was once solidified and flat by music, and we cannot help but do whatever we want on the basis of recitation like writing ancient poetry.
According to current standards, we can only call music or lyrics "eternal masterpieces", but there is no problem in calling poems "eternal masterpieces".
So, is Li Bai's "Mount Emei Moon Song" a "unique tune for eternity" or a "unique song for eternity"?
Judging from his creative impulse at the time, it was naturally meant for singing. People in the Tang Dynasty could call it "a perfect tune". But from today's perspective, calling it a "swan song" is somewhat inappropriate. Calling it a "swan song" may be more in line with our understanding of this work today.
Because this is a metrical poem, a poem with seven unique qualities. Although it was once used for singing, after being diverted from poetry, now we can only read it aloud and check it with straight and straight words. The result of the verification is that this is a rhythmic poem.
The first sentence "Mount Emei half moon" and "Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping" is a rhythmic sentence with Ping Qi Ping regardless of the third word. Through the principles of relativity and adhesion, the whole poem is drawn. The relationship between equivalence and obliqueness:
The equivalence and obliqueness of the third sentence in "The clear stream flows to the Three Gorges at night" is the "koi fanbo" declension of "任仄平平仄仄", which is a suitable Lawful. After careful inspection, the whole poem is in rhythm, so this is a poem that rhymes with flat water and rhymes with the "Eleven You" part of the flat water rhyme.
Qi Jue is not new when used as a lyrics song. For example, the "Liangzhou Ci" mentioned earlier, there are also lyrics such as "Lang Tao Sha" and "Picking Lotus Seeds", which are actually similar to Qi Jue. There are also " "Yangguan Song" is actually Wang Wei's Qijue "Send Yuan Er Envoy to Anxi" with a bent waist.
In this case, the poems cannot be distinguished, but the music and lyrics can only be distinguished.
We call the music part "Eternal Singing", and the text part we call it "Eternal Singing".
Obviously, it is more appropriate to call Li Bai's "Mount Emei Moon Song" as "eternal masterpiece" rather than "eternal masterpiece".
However, no matter what kind of title it is, it is of great praise. Although this kind of praise has a certain degree of personal preference, it must still be worthy of the word "eternal". Withstand the review and assessment of most people.
Just like many people say that Qi Jue and Qi Lu are the best, and they follow the same opinions after reading some ancient reviews. Have you really compared most of the works of the same period? The ancients were no different from people today when they wrote poetry reviews. Most of them were limited by their own talents and state of mind at the time. They were representative to a certain extent, but they could not represent everyone. This is why there have always been disputes over the status of some works in literature.